BATTLESHIP 2024

Dear Battleship Creator,

Hello and thank you for creating for me! I hope you enjoy the exchange. This letter contains the information from my sign-up, some short ramblings on the canons/ships involved, and a handful of prompts. I hope you'll find it helpful, but please don't feel bound to any of it! Mix-and-match, disregard, whatever helps. I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with!

If you want to see what kind of things I write, find me on AO3 as Arazsya (make sure to log in as currently all my works are archive-locked).

Non-Exhaustive Selection of Likes: whump and hurt/comfort, angst, protectiveness, horror (gothic horror, folk horror, cozy horror, paranormal & supernatural horror, cosmic horror, found footage, just give me your horror tbh), urban fantasy, romance, pining, yearning, loyalty, trapping characters in a small space for them to not talk about their feelings in, trapping characters in a small space until they talk about their feelings, characters talking about their feelings while bleeding, fluff, werewolves, dogs! and also cats! especially remaining unhurt!, hostage situations, characters thinking they are too late, huddling for warmth, only one bed, fake dating, stargazing, found family, hurting one character physically to hurt another character emotionally, made-to-listen (like made-to-watch except more remote, like over the phone, through a door or in a recording, so there's absolutely nothing the character can do about it), made to watch, beautiful setting descriptions, mutual pining, characters presumed dead turning out to not be dead, pathetic fallacy, strandings.

DNWs: first/second person perspective (except in case of epistolary), infantilisation, lactation, mpreg, non-canon major character death (of canon characters), omegaverse, onscreen animal cruelty, parental death detail, pregnancy, vore, watersports/scat.

Midsomer Murders

Charlie Nelson/Jamie Winter

Fanart/Fanfic

Aftermath of trauma
Autumn
Bedside Vigil
Bruises
Captivity
Codependency
Dreams and Nightmares
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Epistolary
Fairy Tale Retellings
Fake/Pretend Relationship
Horror
Huddling for Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Late Night Conversations
Loneliness
Midnight rendezvous
Mutual Pining
On the Run
Protectiveness
Rain
Sharing a Bed
Soulmate Enforcing Goose
Stargazing
Storms
Summer
Sunrise/Sunset
Tenderness
Trapped together
Vulnerability
Whump
Winter

So admittedly Winter and Nelson have never canonically, you know, met, but I reckon if they did it would be great, and I also enjoy the creative freedom of not having to disregard any canon about it. They have similar interests, compatible personalities, and canonical tendencies to Never Tell That Person How They Feel that could add up to enough mutual pining to construct an entire forest. Nelson's undercover work and Winter's danger magnet status both provide plenty of opportunities for whump, hurt/comfort, angst, all of the good stuff. I'm also extremely soppy about them and would love to see them just being happy and in love. 
- Winter and Nelson meet while Nelson is working undercover and cannot be honest about who he is. 
- They are working together on an ~unnecessarily spooky case~.
- Nelson is visiting for reasons entirely unrelated to work and they fall for each other.

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John Barnaby & Jamie Winter
Sarah Barnaby & Jamie Winter
John Barnaby & Sarah Barnaby & Jamie Winter
John Barnaby & Charlie Nelson

Fanfic

Aftermath of trauma
Alternate Universe
Bedside Vigil
Bruises
Captivity
Dreams and Nightmares
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Epistolary
Found Family
Ghosts
Horror
Hurt/Comfort
Loneliness
Protectiveness
Rain
Storms
Tenderness
Trapped together
Vulnerability
Whump

Found family is stored in Midsomer, apparently. I have a particular fondness for how completely new sergeants are adopted into the Barnaby family, like Barnaby bringing them to meet Sarah in their first cases as if to get her approval to the sheer amount of time that they seem to spend together, to how restrainedly frantic Barnaby becomes whenever one of them seems to be in trouble.
- Midsomer, given the relative ease with which characters can become isolated, the old-fashioned nature of parts of it, the strangeness of the people and the lacks of barriers between people and the wild, is a place where horror would fit very naturally into the landscape. I'd love to see Barnaby and his sergeant take a wrong turning and end up somewhere Wrong, or someone encounter something while looking for a phone signal, or for there to be strange shapes in the nighttime fog. Just *vague gestures* pop some horror in it.
- I'm very fond of the understated-yet-present affection that exists between Winter and Sarah; something focussed on that would be lovely, maybe them defending each other from dangers or supporting one another through difficulty, maybe he's 100% down with helping her hide a body or taking the fall for her from a murder, anything really.
- Nelson returns to Midsomer after something awful happens to him and the Barnabies try to help him through it.

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NCIS: New Orleans

Quentin Carter/Sebastian Lund

Fanfic

Captivity
Caretaking
Class Difference
Crushes
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Eldritch Horror
Fake/Pretend Relationship
Handcuffs
Horror
Hurt/Comfort
Kissing as Camouflage
Music
Oblivious Character
On the Run
Protectiveness
Sharing a Bed
Soulmate Enforcing Goose
Storms
Trapped together
Whump
I only had platonic ships for this show until I was sitting there watching Sebastian complain at length to Loretta about newly-arrived Carter and his fancy suits that fit him perfectly, like he's just got his first queer crush and a) hasn't noticed b) has no idea how to deal with it. Carter, for his part, appearing to be utterly bemused by it all (possibly having noticed both the crush and that Sebastian hasn't noticed it). They're so much fun together in canon, and I'd love to see them being fun together romantically. 
- Fake dating would suit this ship down to the ground and is so possible considering the canon - maybe they're undercover or need to seem like they're not federal agents in a situation that they don't have time to plan, anything's good.
- I think they should get handcuffed together and have to escape villains/solve a case/generally be stuck like that for quite a while.
- Further in the interests of enforcing them being in the same place for an extended period of time, captured together would be great, either by the villains of the week or someone from Carter or Sebastian's past, out for information or revenge etc.

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Tammy Gregorio & Sebastian Lund
Sebastian Lund & Loretta Wade
Quentin Carter & Tammy Gregorio & Hannah Khoury & Sebastian Lund

Fanfic

Bonding
Captivity
Caretaking 
Cuddling & Snuggling
Domesticity
Drinking together
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Eldritch horror
Fake/Pretend Relationship
Found Family
Ghosts
Horror
Hurt/Comfort
Loyalty
On the Run
Protectiveness
Road Trips
Storms
Trapped together
Whump

I adore the platonic relationships in this show, particularly between Sebastian and his friends Loretta and Gregorio, and then between the whole field team in the final season - I would have loved to see so much more of them together. They're such solid, natural friendships, with so much trust and dependability built into them, really going for that found family while Pride was finding biological relations under ambient rocks. I'm particularly interested in Carter for the team prompt, with his initial resistance to being part of the team/family being eroded away, but I do love all of these characters.
- Undercover shenanigans! Characters who love each other platonically having to fake date or be each other's fake family, all strengthening the bonds they really have.
- Mutual support in the aftermath of canon traumatic events.
- A case turning out to be spookier than anticipated. 

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UNIT: The New Series

1: Sam Bishop
Sam Bishop & Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

Fanfic

Aftermath of trauma
Captivity
Caretaking
Dreams and Nightmares
Drinking together
Eerie/Spooky Locales 
Eldritch horror
Epistolary
Exhaustion
Horror 
Hospitals
Hurt/Comfort
Late Night Conversations
Loyalty
Mind Control
Protectiveness
Recovery
Survival
Trauma
Trust

I binged most of Big Finish's new UNIT series last year and really enjoyed it, especially the portrayal of Kate Stewart as a competent and respected leader in her own right, who remembers but is not solely defined by her father, and her relationships with her subordinates. Of those, Sam is a particular favourite and natural whump target since his first appearance head injury.

- It would be great to see Sam affected by what he went through in Cyber-Reality (the capture! the long-term captivity! the time loop simulation, the betrayal, the harvesting of his skills for use in an app released for free (the violation of it!)! the slow cyberconversion! the mind-control!), and maybe Kate making an effort to be there for him as his boss, whether that involves simply being present, making sure that he gets the best care and recovery space possible, working to shut down the app/have it remove the data obtained from Sam's mistreatment, etc.  
- I'm a great enjoyer of horror and it would be well within UNIT's standard operations for them to just be in a horror scenario - maybe they're investigating false lights, or an alleged haunting, or trying to secure a supposedly cursed artefact, anything's good.
- Maybe some kind of situation where UNIT has been taken over by something, and Sam and Kate, unaffected, must flee?

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Wake of Corrosion

Professor Ryan/Elliot Taylor

Fanfic

1.     Accidental Soulbond
Captivity
Caretaking
Cuddling & Snuggling
Dreams and Nightmares
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Fuck or Die
Horror
Huddling for Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Porn with Feelings
Sex Pollen
Sleeping Together
Stargazing
Storms
Survival
Trauma
Trust
Vulnerability
Wound Tending

This show has been doing so well at putting its characters in the trauma microwave and refusing to let them out, and I've been especially into this ship after S3. They've both got this tendency to wander into dangerous situations for Knowledge (TM), and I feel like Ryan to some extent imprinted on the brothers and their story as a way to cope with not just the changed world but the loss of his family. Then Elliot saved his life chasing after one of the monsters that previously the only way to survive had been "run away from Immediately" and hit it with a stick for him. On Elliot's side of things, he'd heard the broadcast - Ryan representing hope and safety and a stable point in a world that had fallen down around him. Then, when they meet, Ryan is the one friendly face in the world, probably the first person who's not actively been a danger to Elliot, let alone kind to him, since he lost Roman. When Elliot fights back against the changed world for the first time, it's for Ryan. Ryan thinks the best of him when he's decided he's a monster. Nothing will convince me they weren't holding hands all through the sequence trapped in the dark room. Naturally, I think they should have angst and pining and every kind of wilderness sex from ill-advised to sex pollened to comforting.

- After or during the events of the S3 finale, a bit of comfort is probably in order.
- During their travels through the wilderness, they encounter some form of apocalypse sex pollen.
- Niyah tries to use Elliot to force Ryan to let her control the broadcast.

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Victoriocity

1: Archibald Fleet 
Clara Entwhistle & Archibald Fleet
Aurelia Bell/Clara Entwhistle 

Fanfic

Aftermath of trauma
Caretaking
Dancing
Dreams and Nightmares
Eerie/Spooky Locales
Epistolary
Fairy Tale Retellings
Fluff
Ghosts
Handcuffs
Horror
Hospitals
Huddling for Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Protectiveness
Rain
Storms
Trauma
Vulnerability
Whump

Victoriocity is a joy to listen to, mystery stories full of humour and friendship and then very occasionally it drops just astronomical amounts of trauma on its characters. Clara and Fleet have this really lovely friendship and I hope they have many murder cases to come. Additionally, we've not had much of her, but I'm quite zoomy over Aurelia Bell's immediate interest in Clara (she wants to show her off!) and would love to see that go somewhere, especially if it means we get more Beth Eyre in the show.

- as director of The London Museum of Other Nations' Antiquities, Aurelia insists that Clara write an article covering one of the Museum's new exhibitions. Which would all be entirely doable, except once she arrives, Aurelia seems far more interested in spending quality time together than in letting Clara have some quiet to write.
- Clara and Fleet investigate a haunting.
- After an injury on a case, Fleet has to go for repairs.

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