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Thank you for creating something for me! My username is forsworn. I have gifts enabled and treats are very welcome.

I've tried to add some plottier prompts to give you more to work with, but if you have a more verbose writing style and need smaller ideas to prevent things getting entirely out of hand then the ones in my previous letters might help. (I've requested everything except Kirk/Pike before.) Or I'm very happy to receive 5000 words of PWP or plotless fluff if that's where your interest lies.

Don't feel you have to stick exactly to the prompts I've given either; most of them are formatted "maybe it would go like X or maybe like Y" but for some I've given details for flavour - you don't have to keep those details if you have an idea that would work better. Or you could ignore my prompts entirely and write something based on my general likes, some of which are quite specific but others pretty broad.

I'm happy with ratings from G to Explicit for sexual content and G to T for violence. (Blood is okay, pain is great, but I don't want exposed organs or bones poking out or things like that.) I'd love anything from the softest fluff to the kinkiest smut, from feelsy hurt/comfort to angsty mutual pining. Canon-style plots and adventures are very welcome, but I'm also happy with a focus on tropes or emotional connection instead. Basically: I like a lot of stuff.

Navigation: DNWs | General Likes | Hurt/Comfort Likes | Smut Likes
DCEU: Diana/Steve
Don't Worry Darling: Alice/Frank
DNDHAT: Edgin/Xenk | Simon/Doric | Simon/Doric&Edgin/Xenk&Kira&Holga | Edgin&Holga
Star Trek AOS: Kirk/Pike | Kirk/Bones | Kirk/Chekov

DNWs:

• 1st or 2nd person POV
  
• Cheating
  
• Breakups
  
• Noncon
  
• Major character death
  
• Gore
  
• Vore
  
• Bestiality, sex while in animal form
  
• Scat, watersports, vomit in a sexual context (non-sexual vomiting is fine)
  
• Underage (18+ only)
  
• Requested characters explicitly depicted as aromantic or asexual
  
• For Don't Worry Darling: waiving DNWs for cheating, breakups and noncon. Jack dying also fine.
  
• For DNDHAT: Edgin/Holga, Kira/anyone

General Likes:

• Fluff. Domestic fluff. Hopeful spring vibes. Cosy autumn or winter vibes. Rainy evenings in. Lazy sunny mornings. Cooking together, eating together. The daily routines of travelling together longterm.
  
• Banter. Getting together. Established relationship. Found family. Characters showing affection in their own way. Groups amusing themselves with jokes and stories while spending every day together. Characters trusting in each other's skills. Competence kink.
  
• Holding hands. Cheek touches. Hand on the back of the neck. Hugs and cuddling. Kisses described in loving detail. Cheek kisses. Forehead kisses. Brushing fingers over lips.
  
• Angst. Hurt/comfort. Mutual pining. Repression and self-denial. Intense sense of duty or loyalty.
  
• Dreams and nightmares. Truth spells. Telepathic bonds. Soulbonds, accidental or deliberate. Magical tattoos that show connections: soulmate marks, pistilverse, etc.
  
• Forced proximity: stuck in a prison cell together, only one bed, trapped by a cave-in, hiding in a closet, handcuffed together, magic spell, etc.
  
• Sparring and combat tutoring. Character A defending character B with character B's weapon.

Hurt/Comfort Likes:

• Emotional hurt/comfort. Physical hurt/comfort. Whump. Mild hurt/comfort.
  
• Nightmares. Flashbacks. Crying. Staying with character B as they fall asleep.
  
• Impact bruises. Being manually choked. Twisted ankles.
  
• Stab wounds. Arrow wounds. Pulling the arrow out. Nosebleeds as fight injury. Grazes and abrasions.
  
• Seasickness. Vomiting (not sexualised, not onto anyone). "Oh no, that thing you just ate was poisoned."
  
• Magical torture, psychic torture, and other kinds of pain inflicted without harming the body.
  
• Bedside vigils. Holding injured character close. Carrying or supporting someone who can't walk. Character A catching character B as they collapse (even if character A isn't strong enough to hold them up and just helps slow their descent to the floor). Helping injured character undress, remove armour, etc.
  
• Struggling through sex pollen/an omegaverse heat/etc without having sex, only giving non-sexual comfort for the symptoms.
  
• The awkward vulnerability of comfort requiring a new level of intimacy.
  
• Stern/gruff characters making tiny gestures as a comforter and the comfortee understanding that significance. A comforter understanding when the comfortee only wants tiny gestures, and the comfortee being grateful for that understanding. People who are comfortable with each other giving and accepting large amounts of comfort.
  
• Stoic hurt characters refusing to break down. Stoic hurt characters letting it all out.
  
• I love both the hurt and comfort parts of the equation! Go heavy on one part and less on the other, or have an equal mix of both.

Smut Likes:

• Positions: Missionary, riding and other face-to-face positions, for eye contact and/or lots of kissing. But spooning pairs well with gentle sex, and oral fingering's probably more easily done from behind.
  
• Locations: In bed, in a chair, against a wall, on the floor... In the bedroom, in the living room, in an alley, in a forest, in a dungeon, on a ship, on the victorious battlefield... Basically anywhere? Yeah.
  
• Acts: Anal sex, including het anal. Vaginal sex. Loss of virginity. First time bottoming. Pegging. Strap-ons. Deepthroating. Oral fingering. Kissing during sex.
  
• Moods: Gentle sex. Tender sex. Fluffy sex. Hurt/comfort sex. Sex with lots of feelings. Vulnerability and trust.
  
• BDSM: Dom/sub. Bondage. Pinned down. Kneeling. Collaring. Orgasm delay/edging. BDSM AUs.
  
• Dubcon: Sex pollen. Fuck or die. Sex caused by magic or to perform magic. Pining during dubcon. (Whether they admit their feelings during, after, or not at all.) Having to trust each other with the unexpected intimacy. Worrying about being so vulnerable but being kind to each other and coming out stronger on the other side.
  
• Size kink and stretching: Big cocks. Painful penetration. Lots of foreplay/prep, slow and gentle penetration so it isn't painful. Large object insertions. Sounding.
  
• Omegaverse: Alpha/Omega. Painfully big alpha dicks. Knotting. Sexy pheromones. Pheromones that communicate fear, or anger, or other emotions. Alpha pheromones that make the omega feel safe, or protected, or calm.
  
• An undercover situation requires them to fuck while being watched, but they successfully fake it - except the kisses, the touches, the proximity, and the "is it okay if I..." questions whispered right in each other's ears were all very real. And some of those moans didn't sound fake. Either they're so wound up they fuck for real once they're no longer being watched, or the feelings keep simmering until they boil over later.

Diana Prince/Steve Trevor

I love that they're both competent, but that Diana really got to shine as a badass - and that Steve, despite the attitudes of his time period, was impressed by her. Diana is so determined and forthright, but the culture clash and her mostly-theoretical knowledge means she starts off quite naive and has to learn how to deal with the complexities of the wider world. Steve is trying hard to be a good man and make a difference, but he's clearly seen terrible things during the war and he has to be haunted by them.

They make such a good team, both as adventurers and as a couple, and I'd love to see them in a happy established relationship. (Okay, angst is fine too. Especially if it results in hurt/comfort!) Feel free to do a canon divergence AU where Steve survives the first film, or else find some other way for them to be together and stay together. (Or just not explain how these two are back together, beyond the fact that they ought to be, damnit.)

• Maybe they unknowingly formed a soulbond, and it means Steve can't die. Maybe he lives - but loses his memory? But the soulbond is still there, and draws them back together again. Or maybe he still has his memories, but now they're starting to hear each other's thoughts or feel each other's feelings and they have to learn to deal with that.
  
• Or maybe Steve gets reincarnated and Diana has to find him again. Is he haunted by dreams that feel so real - almost like memories? Is she feeling this strange new pull towards a place she's never been, or a person she's never met - but who feels so familiar, for reasons she doesn't understand?
  
• Steve survived, maybe with injuries that are still healing, but even with the war over there are new enemies and dangers on the horizon. The two of them have to set out to save the world again, while navigating their new relationship. Maybe with Etta along for the ride?
  
• Steve's soul gets stuck in Diana's body with her. Now she can hear his thoughts, see him in her dreams, and has to deal with the intimacy of him being so close at all times. Does she think she's going mad at first? Can he share his memories - or are they leaking into hers? Can she find some magic to recreate his body for him? (What's masturbation like, with him seeing and feeling - and commenting on - everything she's doing? Or what about having sex in those dreams?)
  
• All the tropey and kinky uses of the lasso of truth. Seeing who can last the longest before blurting out "I love you"? Bondage rope to tie Steve up? Just kinking on the weirdly intense feeling caused by the lasso? Yeah.
  
• Show me that night in Veld. Obviously Diana had never been with a man before; had she ever been with anyone? And considering the time period, despite being a flirty spy Steve might not be that experienced either.
  
• Diana absolutely domming the shit out of Steve. Maybe he's initially reluctant to agree, but the idea makes him weak at the knees and he ends up begging for it - in all kinds of ways. Feel free to include bondage, collaring, and/or kneeling, or just show me them kinking on the giving and following of orders.
  
• They hadn't quite perfected suppressants then, so omega Steve has always had to suffer through half-suppressed heats. Maybe the first time alpha Diana sees him have one, they aren't together yet, and she just holds him through it without them fucking. Or maybe it happens when they're a couple, and she gives him what he needs.

Alice Chambers/Frank Carlson

I loved the mindfuckery aspects of this film, and Frank was so compellingly creepy that I both wanted to run away and couldn't take my eyes off him. Their intellectual rivalry and mind games, with Frank daring Alice to work out what's really going on, sparked such good chemistry between them, and I'd love to see more in that vein - or maybe Frank alters Alice's memory to keep her unknowing and compliant. If you want to do smut, I'm happy for it to be anywhere from noncon to dubcon to fully consensual (if maybe conflicted and/or filled with shame).

I'm fine with missing scenes, with canon divergence (Frank lives and Alice gets caught; Shelley escapes instead of Alice; Alice goes for a final showdown with Frank; etc) or with setting change AUs (it's the 1950s for real and Victory is developing a mind serum; Victory is a cult; Frank and Alice are teacher/student in the modern area, or at a magic academy, or in space; etc).

Considering the nature of the relationships in this canon, I have no problem with either Alice or Frank "cheating" on their partners, and I'm fine with both Jack/Alice and Frank/Shelley in the background. Jack can be alive or dead - or you can kill him off again, if you're doing an AU - but if Shelley exists I want her to survive. (Maybe Shelley escapes instead, and Frank decides to claim Alice in her place?)

• The next time Alice breaks through the brainwashing, she realises Frank has been wiping her memory over and over. But the more good memories she builds with him, the harder it is to keep hold of the bad ones.
  
• Frank has found a way to reveal soulmate marks in a world that never had them... or maybe he's actually found a way to forcibly create - or overwrite - a soulbond that didn't exist. Once Jack is gone, Frank tears apart her bond with him and forces Alice to be his soulmate instead.
  
• When Jack encourages Alice to join him on these new personal development courses he's got into, it seems harmless enough. But Frank, the leader of Victory Mindset, singles Alice out and tells her she has real potential. Alice slowly gets drawn into the spider's web, and by the time she realises just how dangerous and unhealthy Frank's methods for "helping" his followers are she's in so deep that getting out won't be easy... Or maybe, despite the unsettling feeling inside her, Alice never manages to see through Frank's mask at all.
  
• Alice was growing tired of Jack, but these days it's hard to remember why - he seems so magnetic now, and it's hard to question things when she's so much more tired than she used to be. She keeps waking up with two strange marks on her neck. And Jack's new friend Frank seems to have a power over him - and her - that she can't really explain. There's something about Frank's hypnotic eyes, and the way he looks at her like he wants to devour her...
  
• Frank is the headmaster of a college that teaches sex magic. Alice gets along with her partner Jack, but she can't help but be flattered by Frank taking a special interest in her - and suspicious about the costs and ultimate goals of the intimate magic he's teaching. Maybe Frank offers some personal tuition, tells Alice she's in danger of failing out, and/or asks for her help with a special spell. Maybe Alice discovers a dark truth at the heart of the college, but has to play along while she collects the evidence to prove it.
  
• A glitch in Victory's software has a sex pollen-like effect. And these two just happen to be in close proximity when it hits them.
  
• Omega Alice goes into heat, and with Jack away (or dead) she needs help from alpha Frank to get her through it. But being knotted by him is way more intimate than she bargained for.
  
• Now that Jack's out of the picture, Frank decides to just take what he wants. Whether he pins her down, ties her up, manhandles her against a wall, or quietly threatens Alice before gently nonconning her, he's going to force her to enjoy it.

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar

I have so many feelings about these two. I love their banter and how they spark off each other, how Edgin sees Xenk as an enemy but then grows to respect him and doesn't want him to leave, how Xenk is frustrated with Edgin's criminal tendencies but fully believes in his goodness and is determined to draw it out... Making Edgin swear on the Harper's seal, then tenderly touching his hand? In fact, all of the hand-holding, and the offers of hand-holding. I'd love to see how their relationship develops after the film, with a softer friendship blossoming into romance. (And more touching. Lots of touching. And banter.)

These two are so good for mutual pining. Maybe Xenk thinks he can't be with anyone because of his duty as a paladin, or because the Beckoning Death has left him cursed, partially undead, lacking part of his soul, etc. Maybe Edgin finds out Xenk is a virgin and assumes the guy isn't interested in sex at all. (I do headcanon Xenk as a virgin.) Or Edgin thinks Xenk's too noble and pure to want a criminal like him, or thinks Xenk wants someone more serious or more intellectual. Xenk thinking Edgin's too charming and sociable to want someone as awkward and unbending as him... I love the angsty possibilities of all this, the two of them keeping their feelings secret even as they're practically bursting with longing. Especially as both of them are so touchy-feely! They must be torturing each other.

• Xenk has recurring nightmares about the Beckoning Death. Edgin comforts him after one, either because he was on watch in camp, because they were forced to share a bed, or because they're already sleeping together.
  
• Oh no, they just touched this magical artifact and now they have a telepathic soulbond! Does Xenk start thinking exclusively in Thayan so Edgin can't hear his pining? Does Edgin have to keep singing a song in his head so he doesn't start thinking about the way Xenk's touching him? Does the bond force Edgin to share Xenk's nightmares, and discover the true depths of his trauma? Do they end up having mindblowing telepathic sex?
  
• Hurt/comfort, where Xenk can't use his healing for whatever reason. Either one as the hurt party, with the other one looking after them, burning with worry, the pining only getting worse as they give them reassuring touches, or even hold them close...
  
• One of them gets captured and the other (plus the party?) has to break in or go undercover to rescue them. Maybe the intense danger of the rescue results in the blurting out of feelings, or maybe comfort in the aftermath of that imprisonment leads to them opening up.
  
• Maybe they confess their feelings - and then don't have a sex for a while, because Xenk's angst means he's not ready for it. Edgin's happy to wait, and there's lots of kissing and a growing emotional intimacy, before he finally deflowers a nervous but excited Xenk with some gentle and tender sex.
  
• Or maybe they've both been longing so much, driven mad by all the torture of those little touches, that when they discover they're in love with each other they're both desperate to fuck.
  
• Xenk has found a powerful artifact he can use against the Red Wizards. But he needs Edgin's help, because the only way he can attune to it/disable the spell guarding it is via sex magic. (Whether they're an established couple or they haven't gotten together yet.)
  
• Maybe Xenk gets hit by sex pollen and Edgin has to take his virginity to save him. Maybe Edgin is the one affected, and Xenk offers because he's sworn to help others (and because it's an excuse to give in to his pining). Maybe they both get sex pollened, and they have a frantic fuck with accidental declarations of feelings - or they confess nothing during, and talk afterwards when they can think straight again.
  
• If you wanted to do dom/sub, I'm fine whichever way you assign the roles. Maybe Edgin's a soft dom who just wants to encourage and praise his sub while he piles on the pleasure; sub Xenk could be kinking on dutifully obeying, or maybe he wants to escape the stresses of being a noble paladin and let Edgin take the reins. Maybe Xenk is a strict dom who wants to whip Edgin into line, or a soft dom who wants to draw out Edgin's inner goodness; maybe Edgin's a bit of a bratty sub, or maybe he's secretly desperate to please and lives for praise.
  
• For omegaverse, I enjoy both alpha Edgin/omega Xenk and alpha Xenk/omega Edgin. Maybe Xenk's been suppressing his heats for a century and now, oh dear, he's going into heat and it's a big one, so Edgin volunteers to knot him. Maybe they're trapped somewhere and Xenk goes into heat and begs Edgin not to take advantage, and Edgin has to resist. Or omega Edgin goes into heat before confessing his feelings and alpha Xenk nobly resists his advances because he thinks it's just the heat talking. (But perhaps Edgin convinces him eventually!)

Simon Aumar/Doric

I love how soft Simon gets around Doric and I'd love to see her showing a softer side to him in return. (I do love Doric's spikiness though.) And I love that over the course of the film, she was very interested every time Simon's competency was shown or discussed - she was always into him, she just had this one dealbreaker, and then he fixed it! (Well, maybe he didn't entirely fix it: I love Simon having more confidence, but it might be nice to see him struggle a little - with Doric encouraging him, now she's convinced of his capability.) Does Doric have a competency kink?

Both of them have angsty pasts: Doric as a tiefling rejected by her parents, who's visibly an outsider wherever she goes; Simon as a sorcerer trying to live up to his family's long legacy of wizardry. Plus, as a half-elf, wherever he was raised, he was probably too human for the elves and too elven for the humans. As they get to know each other better, it'd be great to see them open up to each other about these things.

Maybe their courting is awkward at first, possibly hampered by Simon's tendency to break things or fall over, but I absolutely believe they're a good match and would love to see a happy relationship grow between them.

I tend to imagine Simon is a virgin, due to all his awkwardness at romance, and considering how disliked tieflings are Doric might be one too. But maybe she has some experience, and confidently reassures a nervous Simon.

• Simon seems to be homeless when Edgin and Holga find him in Triboar. Does he move in with Doric? Is it strange for him, being a half-elf among elves instead of among humans? Is Doric nervous and unsettled about taking this step in their relationship? Or maybe it's comfortable and easy - or they decide to go adventuring (with the party?) and the road becomes their home. Would love some domestic fluff for them too, as they navigate daily life and find happiness together.
  
• They both have family angst; maybe that comes to the fore when Simon runs into his wizard father, or has to work with a cousin - or asks Doric to attend a family reunion with him. I imagine he's not just a descendant of Elminster Aumar, but the sole sorcerer in a whole family of wizards. Does seeing the origins of Simon's lack of confidence help Doric understand (and support) him better? Does it help her open up about her own past more? Would love to see them bond over the experience and have some quiet, tender moments.
  
• Maybe a "five times"-type fic of their dates going hilariously wrong... or very right.
  
• Going undercover as a married couple not only forces them to rely on each other to keep up their story and acquire the artifact/info/thing they came to get, but gets them thinking about the next stage in their relationship.
  
• Simon's wild magic spectacularly misfires and now they've swapped bodies/developed a telepathic soulbond/can't be more than five feet from each other without causing pain. Doric had barely settled into their tentative relationship, and this unexpected intimacy makes her feel very vulnerable - but despite his awkwardness, Simon is still soft and kind with her.
  
• Exploring and discovering each other's bodies and how different they are. Does Simon unsubtly start trying to steal Doric's tiefling warmth when it's cold? Does her tail communicate her feelings? Are her horns sensitive? They both have pointed ears - do the tips wiggle when they're embarrassed, or aroused, or orgasming?
  
• If you wanted to do dom/sub, I'm fine whichever way you assign the roles. Maybe Doric takes the lead because she loves to give Simon the pleasure he feels awkward about asking for, or because she enjoys the power; sub Simon might feel safe with someone else in charge, or have a praise kink and love the encouragement when he obeys. Maybe Simon is an awkward, nervous dom who's worried he's not dominant enough (or that even a bit of dominance is too much) and Doric is enthusiastically encouraging him.
  
• For omegaverse, I imagine Simon as an omega and Doric as either an alpha or some rare fourth designation. Maybe Simon's worried about the intimacy of sharing his heat and Doric is reassuring and practical. Maybe Simon goes into heat before they've had sex for the first time and Doric's concerned about taking his virginity like that. Maybe Doric goes into rut and Simon's nervous but excited about the way she comes onto him.

Simon/Doric & Edgin/Xenk & Kira & Holga

Ah, I have so many feelings about these characters. I love the found family that the party develop over the course of the film, and really want to see Kira and Xenk included in that as they all adventure together. I'm looking for banter, tender feelings, protectiveness, and/or the interplay between everyone's different personalities. Fluff, angst, action-adventure and hurt/comfort are all great!

I nominated this with the romantic pairings included as I didn't want them to be explicitly platonic, but it's totally fine if the shippiness is just implied - this is basically my "found family" group request. Of course, if you want to give some focus to either (or both) of the romantic ships included, that's very welcome! I just want to see all six of them together and how they interact.

• Domestic life when your home is on the road. Sitting around the campfire, eating, joking, telling ghost stories or stories of past adventures, Edgin singing and the others joining in (or not). Exploring the market in a new town, sampling the local food, drinking in a tavern. Banter, comfortable friendship, soft found family feels.
  
• Dungeon delving! The party solve puzzles, overcome obstacles, get hopelessly lost and bicker about it, etc. Maybe they accidentally spring a trap, again. Maybe they reach the end and get their hands on the artifact - and it doesn't do what they expected!
  
• Their next quest requires some or all of them to go undercover - at a fancy party, in a cult, among an order of monks or wizards, in a fort full of soldiers, etc. What backstories do they come up with and who's good at playing the role? Does Simon get nervous and tongue-tied? Is Doric more comfortable infiltrating as an animal? Does Xenk have a vow of honesty and have to be very careful about his phrasing? Does Holga begrudge the whole idea? Maybe Kira turns out to have inherited some of Edgin's bardic skill at performance. Maybe Edgin's role requires him to be very sensible and serious and he struggles to stick to it. (What if he's undercover as a paladin?) Is this a tense and dramatic episode that takes all their skill to pull off, or a comedy of errors that they somehow scrape through?
  
• Or another heist! It's for a good reason so Xenk's on board - but maybe has no idea how to pull it off. Maybe Kira's growing up and wants to be given more responsibility than before. Does Simon's wild magic cause chaos? Maybe they experience one obstacle after another and Edgin's cheerful determination is what pulls them through - or maybe all their skills slot together perfectly and they pull it off with aplomb. I'd love to see everyone getting to be clever and competent (loved that Holga was the one to think of putting the portal on something and sneaking it into Forge's vault!)... but I'd also love a humorous take on them repeatedly almost failing.
  
• They bump into a member of someone's family, either because they're working on the same quest or because that person has sought out their help. What feelings does it stir up: is it awkward, angsty, a second chance at something good? Do the party learn more about their friend because of it? Maybe Simon struggles with working alongside his powerful wizard father or cousin. Maybe Holga's determined to win the Elk Tribe over - or show them she's outgrown them. Or maybe they end up working with the Harpers, and Edgin has to deal with his unresolved issues there.
  
• The party find out what actually happened to Xenk's family during the Beckoning Death - and how traumatic it was for him - when a spell recreates his worst memory in front of them. Or maybe he magically gets de-aged back into that little boy, and the only thing he remembers from the intervening years is how to speak Common.
  
• One of them gets injured, and the others all show their concern in their own way. Maybe Xenk can heal them quickly - or maybe he's run out of spells for the day, and the group has to keep the injured person comfortable until they can be healed. Or Xenk has been cuffed, and they have to protect the injured person while also escaping from danger.
  
• As the end of the film hints, Szass Tam comes after them - or sends a powerful lieutenant to exact revenge. Action, adventure, drama, and/or jokes and emotional moments, as they have to run for their lives, find an artifact that can give them victory, fight to protect each other, hide out in some cold caves, or whatever else you want to show me.

Edgin Darvis & Holga Kilgore

I can't tell you how excited I was to see a canon male-female relationship that will explicitly only ever be platonic, and yet is vitally important to their lives. I love how they clearly care for and respect each other, despite being so different, and how they use their different skills to achieve their goals together.

I would be happy to see anything about the two of them, set at any point from when they first meet to after the events of the film. Fluff, angst, hurt/comfort... All of it. I just want to see them bantering, working together, protecting each other, being best friends and co-parents. I love seeing little hints of affection peeking through Holga's gruffness, and I love Edgin feeling secure enough to drop his cheerful mask. But I also love them being genuinely happy together.

• Take pretty much any common trope that fandom does for romantic ships and shove these two into it, but make it aggressively platonic. They get hit with sex pollen but refuse to fuck! Telepathic soulbond but Edgin's only got a song stuck in his head! Fake relationship but Holga refuses to do more than hold hands! Omega Edgin goes into heat but alpha Holga's immune to his pheromones, and she protects him from all other alphas! etc. etc.
  
• Edgin says they "quickly became like brother and sister"... show me that process. Was it as easy as he makes it sound? Maybe this drunken, grieving widower and gruff, hurting barbarian found things awkward at first. What was the first moment of softness between them? When was the first time Edgin made Holga laugh - or Holga made him laugh? How did Holga react when she first heard Edgin sing? How long was it before Edgin talked about Zia, or Holga about Marlamin? (And were they drunk at the time?)
  
• Them raising Kira together, whether as a baby, a child or a teen. Teaching her to walk, teaching her to speak, teaching her life skills. Kira's milestones. Celebrating Kira's birthday. Did they ever disagree on how to parent her?
  
• Holga gets hurt and Edgin has to try and convince her to let him dress the wound. Maybe she initially tries to hide her injury. Or Edgin gets hurt or sick and Holga is his awkward caretaker, little bits of softness slipping through her usually gruff demeanour.
  
• Anything about their time stuck in Revel's End together. Maybe Edgin tries to entertain Holga through the long boring days. Or it's even colder than normal and they have to cuddle for warmth. Maybe they angst together about missing Kira. Maybe Edgin braids Holga's hair for her. Or maybe Holga has to protect Edgin from the other prisoners - they probably won't be pleased if they discover he was a Harper. Maybe Holga unleashes hell on a group beating Edgin up... or interrupts as they prepare to noncon him.
  
• Edgin has a nightmare about Zia. Maybe they're on the road, and Holga's on guard, and she can't pretend she hasn't just seen him flail awake. Maybe they're at the cottage, and they end up having a late-night discussion by the fire. Maybe it's in Revel's End, and Holga silently holds him as he goes back to sleep.

James T. Kirk/Christopher Pike

I love that Pike was the first one to believe in Kirk - and the one who got Kirk to believe in himself. He finds this young guy losing a bar fight and tells him he can do more, be better, live up to not only his potential but his father's legacy. And Kirk hears that challenge and says no, I'll do even better than that.

But there's a tension between them: Pike encourages Kirk's out-of-the-box thinking and urge for heroics, but also expects him to follow the rules (or at least know which rules to break and when). Kirk wants that approval, wants to excel, but he's used to rebellion and reckless behaviour and is willing to risk more than other people are comfortable with. There's this push and pull where they're trying to find where the line should fall, and maybe that could play into how they are as a couple: not quite sure if their relationship is appropriate or it's going too far, if it's going to make Kirk a better man or screw him up more.

As a captain, Pike seems kind and steady but also willing to make unconventional choices, and he gives Kirk a chance to speak even when he's just stowed away on his ship. Kirk respects him and wants his respect in return but also chafes against the hierarchy of Starfleet. I'd love to see their relationship blossom into more, with Pike being encouraging but maybe also conflicted, and Kirk finding a sense of safety even as he's unsettled by commitment. Or maybe they have to rely on their platonic relationship to get them through a sexual encounter caused by sex pollen or alien demands or an omegaverse heat.

Not looking for daddy kink here but Kirk's daddy issues are welcome. He obviously has some trauma with regards to his father (and presumably his abusive stepfather) and that's part of why he is the way he is. But with everything that happens in space, they probably both have some trauma due to the terrible things they've seen, maybe even PTSD, and that could play into some hurt/comfort.

If you set this during or after Into Darkness please go AU and have Pike live! (No preference for whether you call them Jim/Christopher or Kirk/Pike, use what you prefer.)

• An AU where Kirk becomes Pike's first officer, either as canon divergence partway through Into Darkness or for some other reason. I liked the brief bits we saw of them working together in the first film, with Pike listening to Kirk's warning and then taking him off in the shuttle, and Kirk later rescuing Pike. I'd love to see them get to spend more time travelling the universe as direct leader and subordinate, and how their relationship could develop - first professionally, and then romantically. Is there mutual pining, with Pike feeling guilty about the age difference and the potential abuse of power, and Kirk worrying that Pike will never see him that way? Or do they just naturally slide into it? This could be a good opportunity for some hurt/comfort, dramatic action where they protect each other, and/or them showing their respect for each other's intellectual capabilities as they work together on a plan or a diplomatic mission.
  
• Or an AU where Into Darkness never happens and Pike's still around when Kirk is an older, wiser, struggling-with-ennui captain. Does Kirk go to Pike for advice? Do they begin to feel more like equals as Kirk rises up the ranks? Maybe Pike stops thinking of Kirk as too young and starts thinking of himself as too old, and Kirk has to show that his respect for him has only grown. Maybe another meeting in a bar results in a mutual agreement to spend one night together. Maybe a new danger sends Admiral Pike back into space with Kirk, and one of them being injured or having a close call with death results in an admission of feelings?
  
• Kirk somehow time travels back and meets a Pike that's his own age - or maybe a bit younger. They have to work together to prevent some alien plot and/or get Kirk back to his own time, and feelings develop between them. Does Kirk have to hide who he really is, and listen to an oblivious Pike talking about his dissertation? Or does he explain, and then have to deal with everything young Pike projects onto him? It's not clear exactly how old Pike is, so maybe the timeline means that Kirk actually arrives before USS Kelvin is destroyed - and maybe while he's in the past he ropes Pike into preventing it from happening?
  
• Due to sex pollen/omega Kirk going into heat/being captured by aliens who demand they perform some kind of sex ritual, Pike and Kirk have to fuck. Maybe Pike tries to be kind and gentle and protect Kirk through the process, but maybe he also feels guilty about finding pleasure in it. Maybe Kirk thinks he'll be fine because he's slept around so much, but maybe the experience is unsettlingly intimate. Afterwards, maybe they go back to a professional relationship, or maybe having sex stirs up some unexpected feelings and they become a couple - or mutually pine for a romantic relationship.
  
• BDSM AU, either where everyone is innately a dom or sub, or where Starfleet is a D/s hierarchy. Pike takes Kirk on as a sub, at the academy or while serving together on a ship, as part of guiding this rebellious young man towards being a good officer in his own right. Maybe Kirk chafes against the rules of a BDSM world as much as the rules of Starfleet, but secretly longs to be made to submit and enjoys the physical aspects of their arrangement. Maybe Pike tries to stay professional and detached, but can't help becoming emotionally involved - and feeling guilty about it.

James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy

I love Bones and his snarky grumpiness, and how under that he clearly cares (though possibly he wishes he didn't). Kirk starts off rebellious and traumatised, but obviously has a keen mind and an urge to protect people. Really enjoy both Bones despairing at young, reckless, flirty Kirk, and the more tender moments once Kirk mellows into a slightly-more-responsible captain, like when they're sharing the booze that Bones stole from Chekov. I love how strong their bond is even though they're so different.

Do they mutually pine over each other in silence, with Bones maybe believing Kirk isn't even into men? Or does Kirk proposition him while they're still at the academy and they become friends with benefits? How long does it take them to admit they have feelings and they want more? Or maybe it's only after they're already on their five year mission when they start to see each other that way - does a dangerous situation push them to confess?

(No preference for whether you call them Jim/Bones or Kirk/McCoy, use what you prefer.)

• I like to imagine that they were roommates at the academy, and all the possibilities of that. How did they settle in, that first week of sharing a room? Did Bones get grumpy with Kirk for interrupting his studying? Maybe Kirk was too sick to get out of bed one day, and Bones grumpily insisted on looking after him. Maybe Bones once walked in on Kirk brazenly jerking off, resulting in snark - or joining in. (Maybe it happened multiple times and Bones started to suspect it was on purpose.) Or maybe an amused Kirk stumbled on Bones trying to masturbate more furtively and instantly realised what was happening.
  
• An away mission goes wrong and Kirk is injured, but they can't contact the ship. Bones has to treat him without the benefit of proper equipment, and worries about him until they're safe. Or Bones is the one injured, and he has to talk Kirk through treating him.
  
• Kirk's trauma sometimes surfaces as nightmares. Either he goes to Bones for a medical solution, or Bones witnesses a nightmare first hand - while roommates at the academy, or forced to share a bed on an alien planet?
  
• They get captured by baddies and Bones can only watch as Kirk is tortured, and then tries to comfort him once it's over. In his grumpy Bonesy way, of course.
  
• Kirk gets an alien parasite for which the treatment is uncomfortably intimate: needing to be jerked off, or sounded, or have his prostate milked, etc. They both try to remain professional, but the vulnerability of it brings some feelings to the surface. Bones' terrible bedside manner fully welcome. (Not looking for medical kink, in the sense of the characters explicitly kinking on it, but very happy for the narrative to kink on the situation. Basically them finding the medical treatment awkward but being reluctantly aroused by the sexual contact.)
  
• One or both of them gets hit by sex pollen. Maybe they stoically resist giving in and suffer through the symptoms while comforting each other, or maybe they've both been pining so long that they just jump at each other. Or maybe Bones tries to administer an antidote - or maybe it was Kirk having a reaction to some medicine Bones gave him that caused the sex pollen effect to begin with!
  
• Dom/sub, with Kirk either being a bratty sub who wants to be forced to submit or being eager to cede control for a while. Bones as a dom with a stern manner but who treats his sub gently. Kneeling, collaring and aftercare all very welcome.
  
• A transporter malfunction results in two Kirks. Or two Boneses. Before they merge them back into one, obviously they have to investigate sex as a threesome - maybe with the singular one both bottoming and topping, or maybe receiving double anal penetration.
  
• Omega Kirk's suppressants stop working and he goes into heat. Maybe alpha Bones tries various injections but none of them work and the only other thing he can offer is to fuck him. Or maybe they're stuck on a dangerous alien planet together, and the only help Bones can give at all is to knot him. Or Bones just tries to comfort Kirk through it by holding him close so he can inhale his calming alpha scent, maybe kiss him for better pheromone exchange as Kirk suffers through it. (Until Kirk's begging so much Bones has to cave in? Or maybe they both successfully resist.)

Pavel Chekov/James T. Kirk

Chekov is so fucking adorable. I love his earnest enthusiasm, his innocence, and his extreme competency despite his age - and how that fits with Kirk, who's older, more traumatised, and chafes against the rules, but strives to protect his crew. They work so well together, and I really enjoyed how much of Beyond was just the two of them out in the wilds, with a slightly more mature Chekov showing he can handle himself in the field.

Would love to see them as a couple, with Kirk's captainly urges to keep people safe translating into him being soft and tender. Does Chekov's enthusiasm carry over into an excitement to share new experiences, from dates in interesting places, to exploring new sexual possibilities with Kirk? Does Kirk initially try to hide his trauma from his younger partner? Or do they spend ages mutually pining, with both thinking the age gap means the other would never be interested? What finally gets them to confess - a bad injury, dubcon sex, or simply an inability to hold it in any more?

If they're having sex due to a dubcon scenario (e.g. sex pollen, omegaverse heat) you can set it any time after Chekov turns 18, but if they're in a romantic relationship please set it during or after Beyond, i.e. when Chekov is 22 or older.

(No preference for whether you call them Jim/Pavel or Kirk/Chekov, use what you prefer.)

• An away mission goes wrong and Chekov is injured, but they can't contact the ship. Kirk has to look after him until they can get him to safety, and the vulnerable moments stir up feelings for them both.
  
• Or Kirk is the one injured and Chekov has to talk him down when he tries to power through. Or maybe there's no option but to carry on, so Chekov gently worries and does what he can - until Kirk collapses.
  
• They get captured by baddies and Chekov can only watch as Kirk is tortured, and then gently comforts him once it's over. But maybe Kirk is trying to ignore his own pain and make sure Chekov isn't traumatised by the experience.
  
• On a diplomatic mission, the aliens somehow only have one bed for the two of them to share. They can totally be professional about this... Except the planet also gets really cold at night.
  
• Or the bed is fine and they get great sleep - until Kirk has a nightmare.
  
• Is Chekov a virgin? He was such a young cadet that his fellow students probably thought of him as a kid, and that's hard to shake off even now he's an adult because he's still the youngest member of the crew. Maybe Kirk is his first real relationship... and maybe he's Kirk's first real relationship too, as the guy seems to aim for casual. Would love to see Kirk putting that sexual experience to good use when he tenderly takes Chekov's virginity - and is maybe a bit overwhelmed himself at the difference feelings make.
  
• They're stuck on a planet together with no way to beam off, and they get exposed to sex pollen/dragged into ritual sex to appease the aliens/trapped by some forgotten tech that won't let them go until they fuck. Maybe Chekov is nervous or maybe he's trying to be professional about it, and Kirk is gentle as he guides him through it.
  
• Or they get exposed to something that means omega Chekov's suppressants stop working, and now he's going into heat. Do Starfleet regulations allow Chekov to request help from alpha Kirk? Or maybe they frown on it - but when Chekov asks him, Kirk's not going to let him suffer alone. (Or maybe Kirk is the omega, and Chekov is the inexperienced alpha worried he's going to knot him by mistake.)