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forsworn and I requested fic or art for just one platonic ship, Noodle & Wonka from the recent Wonka film. I know the chances anyone's into it are small, but if you're here and thinking about making something - thank you!

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Wonka: Wonka & Noodle

DNWs:

1st or 2nd person POV (epistolary is fine)
Non-canon character death
Gore
Vore
Piss, shit
Non-canon romantic/sexual ships
Sexual content (OCs or background characters kissing is fine; mentions of Noodle experiencing sexual attraction is fine; nothing detailed or graphic please, even as fantasy sequence)

General Likes:

Fluff. Domesticity. Hopeful spring vibes. Cosy autumn or winter vibes. Rainy evenings in. Cooking together, eating together. Playing board games.
Banter. Found family. Mentorship and teaching. Characters showing affection in their own way. Characters trusting in each other's skills.
Cheek touches. Hugs and cuddling. Cheek kisses. Forehead kisses. Holding hands. Dancing together.
Angst with a happy ending. Hurt/comfort. Reassurance and support.
Dreams and nightmares. Shared dreams. Prophetic dreams. Nightmares of past trauma.
Truth spells. Telepathic bonds. Soulbonds, accidental or deliberate.
Kidfic, of the canon character being de-aged type. Accidental (temporary) animal transformation.

Art Likes:

I enjoy a wide variety of styles: fully rendered paintings, clean lineart, loose sketchy lines, Disney, American comics, anime, chibi, art nouveau, stained glass...
Also enjoy most mediums: digital, pencil, ink, markers, watercolours, gouache, charcoal...
And lots of colour palettes: realistic colours, bright colours, pastel colours, monochrome, monochrome plus a splash of colour, earthy tones...
All of which amounts to: show me your style! Create what you're inspired to create, in the style that feels natural to you.

Hurt/Comfort Likes:

Emotional hurt/comfort. Physical hurt/comfort. Mild hurt/comfort.
Nightmares. Crying. Staying with character B as they fall asleep.
Impact bruises. Twisted ankles.
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).
Seasickness. "Oh no, that thing you just ate was poisoned." Vomiting in the context of hurt/comfort - the loss of control, the pain of throwing up, the vulnerability of being seen that way - whether due to nausea, induced by emetic, or induced by fingers (theirs or partner's). Not interested in the vomit itself, though fine to mention it looks/smells/tastes gross.
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.

Noodle & Willy Wonka

Their friendship is adorable. I love the joy and support they bring to each other's lives. And despite the age difference, that exchange is mutual, and I love how that adds to the dynamic. At 22, Wonka is a young man embarking on his career, confident in his chocolatier skills and brimming with optimism - but he's also illiterate, somewhat vulnerable, and very much missing his mother. At 14, Noodle still has a childlike yearning to be mothered - but she's weary beyond her years, resigned to the harsh realities of life, and steadily self-assured. That combination of her teaching him to read as he teaches her to hope is so interesting and so sweet. And then there's the more equitable interactions of them working together to achieve his dream. I love the magical realism of Wonka's chocolates - and the contrast between this calm and practical young girl, and this bonkers and whimsical adult man! Such a cosy and fantastical film.

I get big aroace vibes from Wonka. He's so focused on chocolate and (found) family. Attraction doesn't seem to figure at all, even when helping other people fall in love. He's so confident, optimistic and unashamedly himself that I don't think he'd suppress an interest if he had one, so I can only conclude that he doesn't. All of his most important relationships and emotional moments are platonic ones. And I love his friendship with Noodle! I can see Noodle being arospec and/or acespec too, if you want to include that. (I'm also fine with Noodle having an innocent, unrequited crush on Wonka, as long as she's not angsting about it.)

Several times in the film, Wonka's chocolates help couples get together. Is he deliberately targetting the magical effects to wash away their personal barriers to the relationship, or is he blithely unaware of the romantic possibilities? They're clearly not love potions (and I don't think he'd violate anyone's consent like that)... but maybe one incident has Noodle worried they might be? Or could prompt a discussion between him and Noodle about their own (lack of) hopes in that area?
Or maybe Noodle has to save Wonka when someone kidnaps him so they can force him to make a love potion chocolate for their unrequited obsession. And he's just boggling that someone would go to such extremes, because surely friendships and family and creative passions are all one needs to be content?
I loved the little taste we got of Noodle teaching Wonka to read - though he didn't seem like the best student. But it was a fun dynamic! Maybe to encourage him to work harder, Noodle reads a book to him (or encourages him to read it himself) - but it's a romance novel, and he's baffled by it. Or, alternatively, fascinated and completely invested in this thing he's never experienced himself. (Or maybe this happens post-film, at Noodle's mother's library? Maybe he somehow picks up a smutty novel and is shocked!, shocked I tell you!, by its contents. )
The staff quarters look pretty gloomy and cold, and there's snow on the ground. Maybe on an exceptionally freezing night (or before they manage to fix Wonka's collapsed bed) he and Noodle end up cuddling in the same bed to keep warm? And maybe she's worried that being so close will have unsettling sexual undertones - but he's just so completely practical about it, and entirely platonic in his affection, that Noodle finds it really comfortable and nice actually? (I mean, Wonka spent how many years bunking up on that little boat? Maybe not the first time he's shared a bed with a friend.)
One of Wonka's chocolates (or ingredients) accidentally creates a platonic soulbond between him and Noodle, and now they can hear each other's thoughts/feel each other's feelings. Maybe Noodle initially worries that being linked to an adult man means she'll be exposed to sexual urges (or memories of intimate experiences) that she's only just starting to have/maybe doesn't have at all herself, but no... Turns out Wonka's brain is just chocolate, chocolate, chocolate 24/7.
I would love them to meet again post-canon! Wonka might have reunited Noodle with her mother, but I hope they'll keep up their friendship - and he did promise her a lifetime supply of chocolate. But he seemed very wistful as he watched Noodle walk away. Is he lonely without her - or does she worry that he's lonely? Does she wonder if he's looking for love now he's got the factory going - or even wonder if there's something between him and Lofty? And he explains he's not interested in that. (Even if he does miss her platonically.)
Or something post-canon, or even a missing scene, with Noodle thinking about her own romantic future - and worrying there's something wrong with her, because she doesn't have any of these feelings that other people seem to? But then she discovers that Wonka is the same, and he's perfectly happy, and she realises it's just another way to be. Or maybe they specifically discuss the matter, and he reassures her in his excitable Wonka way!
I'm also fine with works (especially art; I don't know how you'd manage otherwise) where the aroace aspect is more implied than specifically stated. Just show me Wonka and Noodle being their aroace selves and having a great time. Giggling as they eat magical chocolate together? Or Noodle assisting, or looking on in wonder, as Wonka cooks up something new with his travel factory? Noodle confiscating the paper Wonka's fiddling with during a reading lesson? Or Noodle proudly sitting by Wonka as he manages to read a book? Wonka giving Noodle a tour of his new factory? Laughing as they have a snowball fight? A comforting hug in a gloomy moment - or a gleeful one when they reunite post-film? (They already hold hands and dance together in the movie, and that seems fully intended to be platonic, so I'm totally fine with more of that sort of thing for these two.)