mayfic | Trick or Treat 2022

Hi Creator, thank you for creating for me! I love all things autumn and all things spooky, so I hope you have a good time. This letter will give you some of my likes and some ideas to jump off of. So I hope it's useful.

Likes:

Hurt/comfort
Smut
Missing scenes
Xeno
Lore
Cold weather trappings like sharp, cold air, rain, fog, wind, clouds and snow
Rain in general, including storms. Also, the sea.
Sensory detail
Atmosphere
Fashion porn
Animals
Food porn
Scenery porn
Casefic
Mysteries
Horror
Worldbuilding

DNWs:

Scat
Watersports
Babies
Pokemon/animal harm (battle related injury obviously fine) or death

1. Pokemon Anime

Characters/Ships: Ash Ketchum

General notes: I love Ash, I think he's adorable and fun and shippable with pretty much everyone (so go ahead and write whatever ship you'd like if you feel so inclined, or go with gen, of course!). I love the canon, too, of course. Lore, worldbuilding, the pokemon themselves, depictions of the places, everything you can think of.

Treat:

Anything cozy and Autumn themed! Ash and Pikachu (and/or with another person, or more of his Pokemon) just cuddled up indoors on a rainy day (maybe there's a nice roaring fireplace?), or going for a walk among fallen leaves. Hot drinks and warm food. Cute halloween fun with ghost-type Pokemon, perhaps.
Forced proximity tropes leading to fluffy/romantic outcomes, like being stranded in the rain or snow in a cabin or an old house or a pokemon centre. Maybe a bed has to be shared if you're going a shippy route.
Going on an adventure, discovering something new. Maybe take Ash to a place or to an event he's never been before but you wish the anime had gone there?

Trick:

I love spooky stuff and horror, and have a whole bunch of anipoke related ideas and things here in my Summer of Horror letter (though if you don't feel like clicking, I really like cosmic horror, folk horror and haunted houses)
Hurt/comfort where Ash gets hurt or sick and somebody else has to help him.
Getting trapped in the rain or the snow.
Ghost type pokemon being spooky or mischeivious in general. I go over that in my SoH letter, but maybe you'd like to do something a little lighter.

Fandom-specific DNWs: aging up to adulthood of Ash or any of his kid friends (aging up to, say, early teens is fine), character bashing, romantic/sexual Ash/Pikachu.

2. The Sandman (2022 TV show)

Characters/ships: Dream, Death, Dream & Death, Dream/Death

General Notes: I really enjoyed this adaptation, and I especially loved these two characters, both separately and their relationship with each other. I love how the universe of this place is so huge, so there's lots of stuff to draw from, even in the TV show. Feel free to bring in any other characters.

Treat:

Dream and Death bonding, her reasurring bubbliness and his general moodiness. How much they mean to each other, and their long, long history they've had as just them. If you're just focusing on one of them, I'd love focus on their great age and history.
The trappings of autumn. Maybe one or both of them is on Earth on a cool Autumn day, there's falling leaves, maybe they've adjusted their fashion to match the season. Maybe they're inside a cozy pub and it's raining outside.
Halloween - maybe Death decides she wants to dress up. Maybe she gets Dream to dress up, too. Maybe somebody else does. Depending on the costume, this could be hilarious.
If you go shippy, I like to imagine some gentle femdom.
Maybe something about how different people might see them differently, depending on the time and place.
Dream's, well, dreams (the nice kind) and the less tragic of Death's job.

Trick:

Death must have been there in the earlier episodes when people died, we just couldn't see her. I'd like to know about some of that stuff from her point of view.
Death in the time when Dream was captured. Did she worry? Did he think about her?
Maybe some hurt/comfort when someone (Lucifer, maybe) does something to Dream and Death is there to pick up the pieces.
Dream's nightmares and the more tragic and horrific of what Death has to deal with.
Ghosts and haunted houses, however you might want to tie those in, I just really like them.
Cosmic horror of some kind. There's a whole bunch of entities in The Sandman universe, perhaps something out there is unknowable even to the Endless.

3. Bluebeard

Characters/Ships: All of the ones nominated

General Notes: I recently read The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and I'd love to see more takes on this story. More about Bluebeard's general deeds, more about the wives, etc. Whichever direction you'd like to take, I'd love to see.

Treat:

I think this one is pretty difficult to do treats for, but perhaps something bittersweet or sadly creepy between either the ghosts of two of Bluebeard's dead wives or his surviving last wife and the ghost of one of his dead wives.
Maybe the last wife is enjoying an Autumn day on his estate before she discovers the horrible truth, so the horror is backgrounded.

Trick:

I love haunted houses, so maybe Bluebeard's last wife finds that the house is actually haunted by his past wives. Lots of creeping horror, spooks in the night, flashes of dead women in the mirror behind her, etc. Just all of the usual fun haunted house stuff.
Orrr, maybe, people come to see the house far in the future and it is haunted and they find out about Bluebeard and his wives (maybe one of them is the descendent of his final wife).
The story of any one of his wives with an intense sense of creeping horror.
General body horror and methods of murder with the various wives. Go really gory if you'd like.
As in The Bloody Chamber, maybe his final wife is very young (perhaps younger than she is, even).

4. Pokemon Video Games

Characters/Ships: All of the ghost types in the tag set (plus Umbreon, my favourite eeveelution, which is a dark type)

General Notes: I love Pokemon. All of it, the lore, the designs, the regions. I'd love to see some lore/worldbuilding here but I'd also love something cute and sweet or scary and creepy.

Treat:

Autumn time cuteness with these pokemon. Maybe they're playing in fallen leaves, maybe they're curled up inside on a rainy day.
Halloween stuff with these fun ghost-type pokemon. Maybe they're enjoying times with their trainers, maybe they're having fun spooking people.
Pokemon bonding with and spending time with each other and/or their trainers. These could be named trainers or original ones.

Trick:

Spookier times with the ghost pokemon.
Some elaboration on their creepier lore (forex, Mimikyu's real appearance, Litwick eating people's souls through its flame)
Haunted houses. Maybe these pokemon live together in a haunted house. Maybe there's a non-pokemon ghost hanging around.
What spooks the ghost-type pokemon?
Worldbuilding in general!

5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Characters/ships: Link, Zelda, Impa, Ruto, Saria, Malon

General Notes: I love this game. I love the feel of it, the world, the characters. Anything in it would be just great.

Treat:

Autumn in Hyrule. Customs, weather, just general coziness as the weather gets sharper and colder.
Anything romantic between any of the characters I've requested.
Depictions of any of the non-spooky places, like the towns (including Hyrule Town and Castle pre-time skip), the Zora's kingdom, Lonlon Ranch, etc.
Character-based stuff for Impa or Saria would be really cool.

Trick:

Anything about the Temple of Shadow or the Well, definitely the creepiest places in the game, especially if you bring some lore and history into it, I'd really love to read about Hyrule's bloody history.
Any of the other temples, like the Forest Temple or the Water Temple or the Spirit Temple, which could be interpreted as kinda creepy.
Stuff happening in the years when Link is busy aging up. Hyrule Town being taken over by Redeads, for example, or Zelda's decision to disguise herself and learning what she did. Or how did Malon cope in general.
Anything about the scarier monsters, like Redeads, Deadhand, Stalfos, etc.
Saria, Impa and Ruto, who all must have died to become sages. How did they die?
Saria's inability to age.