Chocolate Box 2019
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aurillyThank you for offering one of these! I like to leave a lot of info for those who want it, but please don’t feel boxed in by the prompts. You can twist them around, or do just a little bit of one, or even ignore them entirely to write your own idea with a general like or two thrown in. As long as you’re having fun, I’m sure I’ll love it!
Here are anchor links to the different sections:
• Bucky Barnes Notes (for crossovers)
• Psmith/Mike (Wodehouse)
• Emeth/Tirian & Edmund/Bacchus (Narnia)
• David Blaize Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Game of Thrones Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Lost Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Narnia Crossovers
General Note
I'm just as--often more!--interested in watching characters navigate what comes after a prompted premise than I am in the premise itself, so starting in media res or writing a scene from the middle of an imaginary longer fic are totally great, especially in a lower minimum wordcount exchange like this. Feel free to skip the meet-cute and start at some point after they've become friends. What I care most about is what happens after two characters meet--the dynamics they forge, the adventures they have, the things they learn, etc. If you have the time and inclination to write a longer fic that included the set-up and meetings as well, great; however, fics that end right after the introductions make me sad.
Things I Love
• Devoted Friends & Family: odd couples; enjoying one another's company; laughing at one another; fond exasperation; loyalty; quietly self-sacrificial gestures
• Adventures & Journeys: vacations gone awry; fish out of water; exploring new territory; daring rescues or escapes; espionage
• Competence & Resourcefulness: complementary skill sets; badassery; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
• Friends to Lovers: I like many variations, including, a) friends with benefits or sex before feelings that becomes more; b) fics that start after the first kiss/declaration and focus on how they navigate the relationship transition in the days or weeks that follow, c) adventures that cause people to realize they have more than platonic feelings and decide to make a move.
• Sexy Times: I'd be thrilled to get higher-rated fic for any of the ships I've requested. I've listed out some general likes HERE; for all ships, not just the ones listed there. There's a more egregiously detailed version HERE (but honestly, the other one is enough).
• Forced Proximity or Sex: captured or stranded together; sex pollen where they find out afterwards they were both totally into it and want to date; forced to have sex (by the bad guys, for cultural or initiation rites, to cast a spell, as part of undercover roles, etc) but they eventually realize they’re into each other; marriage of convenience that leads to feelings (but only for a reason with stakes, like espionage or greencards; do not want fake dating because your friends or family nag you about being single); tragic, Steve-Peggy style age mismatches
Do Not Want
• Avengers: Infinity War (diverging any time before that film would be great)
• goofy crack, fusions, alternate setting AUs (ex. space, Hogwarts, modern mundane)
• unrequested romantic pairings; adultery; open relationships; poly
• Things That Upset Me: shovel talks; bleak endings; major character death; the afterlife; "it was all a dream" endings; destiny/fate
• Sex & Relationship-Related: yentas and matchmakers; Dom/sub dynamics; pregnancy; UST that never gets resolved; dark dynamics within my pairings; noncanonical pet names; soulmates
• characters written as ace, aro or demi; gender identity headcanons
• Writing Things: 1st & 2nd person POV; phonetically written dialogue (my brain genuinely struggles to process it)
• Crossover-related: never finding out about one another's backgrounds (the reveal doesn’t have to happen ‘on-screen’, but I need Fandom A's characters to find out about Fandom B's supernatural stuff); letting real-life publication/release dates create age differences (please simply pretend one canon took place a bit later so that requested characters are around the same age)
Bucky Notes (for crossovers)
• Please let Bucky be a fully functional badass with at least a glimmer of a sense of humour. I like stories about him trying to move on and build a new life, not ones that are all about his painful recovery. I like self-help and emotional healing through partnership and activity more than caretaker/woobie hurt-comfort.
• I have a pet peeve about Bucky (and Steve) saying "ain't". Can they please speak as properly as they do in the films? Cursing is fine, though.
• No characters or canon from the TV shows, please, as I'm not familiar with them.
• For the gen requests, I’m cool with Steve/Bucky shippiness (Steve is welcome to come along on the adventure, if you want); however, for ship requests, I don’t want him or Steve to ever have had more than platonic feelings for one another.
Psmith - PG Wodehouse
Pairing: Psmith, Mike
I would like a friends to lovers story! Just... anything where they're unquestionably together by the end (with actual make-outs, or more!). The odd coupling of Mike’s everyman pragmatism and Psmith’s dialogue is endlessly delightful to me. I love their loyalty and what self-sacrificing heroes they both are, while also being total little shits. Who is the forward one here, or do they bumble equally in their own ways? Does either try to hide his nerves/inexperience? Or not? Or maybe one or both is actually experienced? Any take would be fascinating.
It would most likely have to be a secret relationship, per the time period. While a little longing and guilty hesitation are nice (and a touch of quietly understood, low-key forbiddenness does add a certain frisson), I’d prefer to avoid anguished coming outs or serious discussion of social issues. Other kinds of angst are fine, though (ex. pining, hurt/comfort, boarding school bullies, backstory abuse, etc.) as long as it turns out okay by the end and retains a sense of humor. Can they just… get away with their romance without having to discuss at length why they’re being secretive?
— Canon Divergence: What if either or both of their fathers had not gone bankrupt? What if they'd moved to Hollywood after university? What if they'd stayed with the bank? What if the plan for Mike to manage Psmith's estates had happened? What if...? What does a getting-together story look like in this divergence?
— Getting Together: How does it happen? Is it friends with benefits, or does one actually court the other? Does it happen at Sedleigh or when they're at the bank, or at Cambridge? Some other time? What's their first time like?
— Whump with a Happy Ending: Stoic woobies... yum. Maybe something traumatizing happens or has happened to Psmith, who hides his pain behind his effervescent mask... but Mike eventually figures it out and works to make it all better. Or something terrible happens to Mike, and Psmith goes above and beyond to get revenge and/or set things right.
— One (or both?) in a Groundhog Day loop? No need to explain how it starts or why it ends (handwave away!); I care about the things people learn about themselves and each other, and how they deal with the situation
— Playing with that historical/literary theme of romantic boarding school attachments being a thing guys expect to grow out of. Except Psmith and Mike realize... it isn't happening? Could involve pining, doomed set-ups, erroneously assuming the other is over it, or "it's a far far better thing I do..." angst, or whatever you want, before a happy ending.
— Random Acquisition of Superpowers: Mike might be more hilariously aghast, but I don’t actually care which of them gets it or how/why it happens, so feel free to skip that or leave it unexplained. It would be fun to see how they react, in a world where having superpowers is not supposed to be a thing. How does the other help him through it? What uses do they find for the power? How does this premise help them get together? Any superpower would be great, from traditional ones to something super random and seemingly useless.
— WWI: Fighting together, captured together, espionage missions, winning a key battle through impertinent ragging, Mike the accidental war hero, keeping one another warm in their trench, making out in a bombed out Belgian village, the desperation of war causing them to reveal long-secret pining, Psmith goes behind enemy lines to rescue Mike… Lots of whump and hurt/comfort welcome.
— Crossovers: with Narnia (prompts HERE), or with Penny Dreadful or My Family & Other Animals (prompts HERE)
Narnia
Pairings:
• Edmund/Bacchus
• Emeth/Tirian
General Narnia Notes
Edmund and Tirian were my very first favorite characters, and Narnia's worldbuilding elements formed most of my narrative interests. I love everyone's competency, earnestness and courage when it counts, but also their flaws, fears, and sass. I love Golden Age fics, 'Everybody Lives' AUs, and fics that diverge from canon (as wildly as you like!) at any point before the closing chapters of the Last Battle. The end of Narnia, train crash, and afterlife are my biggest DNWs. Please let it be clear that everyone will get to live out their lives. You don't necessarily need to write a fix-it. It's fine to pretend it just never came up!
Edmund/Bacchus
I love that being redeemed and growing into a badass warrior king didn't entirely cure Edmund of being a cranky, sarcastic little shit. And Bacchus is my favorite got. His whole schtick is delightful. Lifespan incompatibilities depress me, but if you can solve it, I'd be all for happily ever afters! Otherwise, I mostly ship this in a revelrous, casual way, not as a long-term monogamous relationship. But I also don't want to see Edmund unhappy, so I'd prefer them to enjoy when they get to be together, but not be miserably pining or heartbroken when they are apart. A touch of wistfulness is fine, though. Nothing hot and heavy at points when Edmund is younger than 16, please; in these cases, PG13 kissing and cuddles and etc would be lovely. However, hot and heavy when he's older is very welcome!
— Bacchus comes to Narnia for festivities during the Golden Age. One time? Multiple times? And/or they meet again on Earth, when Edmund is grown up again; how does Bacchus appear in the 20th century?
— Edmund is chosen for a traditional Narnian ritual where young rulers bond with the land or pay tribute to Bacchus or whatever. A public (and/or private) sex ceremony? On the Stone Table? Tied down with magic vines? Ceremonial wine pouring? Holy semen? Switching? Pre-bathing by the maenads? It's not over until [your choice]? Make it as iddy as you like!
— The idea of the Pevensies being the only humans in Narnia during their hormonal teenage years has always fascinated me. How did they deal? I'd love something in which Bacchus helps Edmund out, either with direct physicality, instruction, or in other ways. Maybe it happens all at once when Ed goes to his first bacchanal, or maybe it's a slow build over multiple years/visits.
Emeth/Tirian
I would like something where they get together in real life. They’re perfect for one another—brave, noble warriors (and all-around lovely guys) who could come to respect and love one another despite their differences. I also have a love of language and contrasting speech patterns; the differences between their versions of courtly perfection are catnip to me.
I love Tirian SO MUCH. He has such human flaws, and he started off as a hot mess of a king, but he’s such a wonderful guy, and quite resourceful and clever when you rouse him out of his decadence. And Emeth should win a prize for the level of admiration and affection he was able to inspire in so few pages. I loved the conflict he faced between his reason, his duty, his devotion, and his desire to prove himself.
Do the two countries have different views about same-sex romance? It doesn't have to be "Calormen=repressed, Narnia=free love" (though it could); maybe Calormen has a complicated Ancient Greek-style culture, or Narnia's never shaken its Victorian influences. Or some other take? Or don't even tackle that at all; it's not a big deal.
— Enemies to lovers, culture clashes, reluctant allies fall in love, secret forbidden love across enemy lines, brothers in arms, agent falls for mark... I love it all!
— What if the world hadn't ended after Calormen's conquest? Tirian as war prisoner or trophy or slave or sacrifice to Tash, or... Tirian being kingly and stoic while tied up and beaten was very, um, interesting to me as a child; as long as there's a hopeful ending, you can whump him as hard as you like. What makes Emeth decide to help? Or is Tirian given to him as prisoner instead of to someone awful? How do they fall in love?
— What if they had met in Narnia while Emeth was undercover as a merchant, and their love changes the course of the story?
— The scene where Tirian half goes to our world is one of my favorites in the entire series. What if he and Emeth went for real? What if the stable was a portal to another time or realm (either ours or a different one), not the afterlife, and they work together and fall in love during this adventure/quest?
— Tirian in a Groundhog Day loop in which he slowly learns how to be a better king (and possibly prevent the apocalypse), with Emeth's help (and ends up in a romantic relationship with him as a side result)?
David Blaize Crossovers
Pairings:
• Frank & Mike and/or Frank & Psmith (Wodehouse)
• Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
• Frank/Bucky (MCU)
• Frank/Others (Various Crossover Options)
General Frank Notes
Frank/Happiness is my OTP. He's such a fascinating and endearing blend of judgmental, whimsical, bossy, charismatic, and melancholic. While his anguished self-loathing is super compelling, I ultimately want him to get over it (and himself, a little), without anyone explicitly lecturing him. I want him to find happiness and self-acceptance with someone new—with actual kissing, or more! The chapter where he devises the plan to catch the cheaters was such fun; if it fits, something that also showcases his cleverness and snark and take-chargeness in action would be lovely.
Please let him completely get over his tragic fixation on David and be entirely into the new person, without bashing David. And please set it when Frank is anywhere between 18-26 (ie. canon divergence, or shortly post-canon), so he doesn't have to wait long to be happier.
Bonus Crossover Pairing Options!:
There are a ton of people I would equally love to see Frank with, but I get embarrassed about nominating all of them. Feel free to write any of the / pairings HERE instead of the officially requested ones.
Frank&Mike or Frank&Psmith (Wodehouse)
Frank and Mike were obviously teammates on the Cambridge eleven. I'd love a crossover that facilitates an endgame of Frank/a guy (but not Psmith or Mike, since I’m rabidly OTP-ish about them). Does Frank end up with David or Adair or Monty Bodkin? Some other nice Wodehouse guy (not Jeeves, please)? As long as Psmith/Mike remains endgame, Frank hooking up or having hooked up with one or both of them would be fun to include. Perhaps when Marchester's team traveled to Eton, Wrykyn or Sedleigh for cricket matches, or during summer holidays, or some other time? How does that backstory affect my actual ship(s) later on, when they are all at Cambridge together? For example, is there misplaced jealousy or awkwardness that leads to feelings revealed? Something else? Or, they can meet for the first time at Cambridge. Whatever!
Cambridge hijinks facilitating friendship and romance? Teaming up to rag on a professor or defeat a bully? Or maybe it isn’t even set at Cambridge; maybe it’s more of a Wodehouse-style plot where they meet while visiting a country estate, or have gotten to know one another at the clubs. While I don’t want matchmaking or interventions, maybe getting an outsider POV on one character's angst or happiness or whatever inspires someone from the other canon to do something about his feelings. Ex. Maybe Frank reexamines his stance on 'beastliness' when he finds out that Mike, whom he thinks is great, has a thing with Psmith. Or maybe seeing Frank so miserably repressed makes Mike decide to go for things with Psmith. (But Frank must stop being repressed by the end, too!) I will love anything!
Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
Frank coming up with well-reasoned but incorrect theories to explain Edmund’s weirdness before eventually figuring it out? What is post-Narnia life like for Edmund? Is he also frustrated (sexually or otherwise)? Carrying around knowledge or experience that he can’t use? Desperate because he remembers adult relationships but has (until now) been too young/lacked opportunity/hasn’t liked anyone enough/other? Or maybe he’s actually quite inexperienced. What draws them to each other?
My biggest asks are a) for Frank to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) pretend the David Blaize books were set later so that they are around the same age during the story. DNW train crash, end of Narnia, or afterlife! Please make it clear they will live out their lives.
— School or University: Prefects together at Marchester? Edmund being really good at sneaking out/around? Have they always liked one another, or do they start as rivals but end up falling for one another? Wet and full of adrenaline after a sailing race or tennis match at Cambridge?
— Golden Age: Frank finds himself in Narnia (I don’t care how; feel free to skip over that part). What are his reactions to the place? How does Edmund, who probably doesn't have a ton of attractive humans around, react to having this nice, smart, handsome Brit in the castle? Can Frank help Ed and his siblings remember their lives from before?
— Greece: Does Edmund also become an archaeologist? Or does he study something else at Cambridge that allows them to travel to Greece together? Voyages on trains or ships (and possibly stranded when the vehicle breaks down)? Finding ancient magic here on earth? Partying with Bacchus, who's an old acquaintance of Ed's?
— Post-Canon Adventures: I'm obsessed with Edmund using the rings to go adventuring to places other than Narnia instead of dying. Maybe it's Frank's parents' house that Edmund burgles to get the rings, and that's how they meet and go off on adventures together to the Wood Between the Worlds or not-so-dead Charn? Westeros/Essos (I only know the TV show) is another option.
Frank/Bucky (MCU)
I would like a WWII getting together story--no MCU canon other than the first Cap movie needed (unless you want)! Please pretend the books were set later so that they are around the same age. They’d make such a great odd couple. The Brooklyn boy/posh Brit, classical education/street smarts, etc. How do they overcome Frank’s (possibly also Bucky’s?) internalized homophobia and find something good? Is Bucky actually more open-minded or experienced with men than Frank? Or has he always denied himself, and Frank initiates him?
MCU notes/DNW are in the Bucky section above. Feel free to pretend Bucky didn’t fall off the train so they can have a happily ever after. Or maybe Frank encounters his brainwashed old flame and rescues him from Hydra in, like, 1949 (ie. before there’s a major age difference) for a happily ever after. Or you can make it bittersweet, with Bucky still falling, but even though he grieves, their time together has left Frank in a healthier place to live and love again without such self-loathing (and WE know Bucky will eventually be okay, per canon).
Does Frank start out initially jealous of Bucky’s friendship with Steve, because he’s projecting his own experiences with David onto Steve&Bucky? Does Bucky scoff because he and Steve aren't like that at all, or is Frank actually correct in thinking Bucky has been unrequitedly pining (this is my one sort-of exception to the Steve/Bucky DNW)? If the latter, I want Bucky to get over Steve completely as he and Frank fall for one another, without bashing Steve. Or you could not bring up Steve/Bucky as a question or issue at all!
— Soldiers Together: Maybe the 107th is camped alongside Frank’s unit before their capture? Sharing a foxhole together? Exploring or hiding in a bombed out village together? Left behind and forced to trek to safety together? Saving one another? Does the desperation of war get them over their issues enough to act on their feelings?
— Captives Together: Do they huddle together between torture/experimentation sessions, clinging to each other and their identities? Hurt/comfort and desperate “we’ll probably die tomorrow” hookups? Nazis humiliating them or forcing them to do it or confess feelings or watch each other be hurt? Or maybe they only get together after Steve’s rescued them, when they begin to realize something more permanent was done to them.
— Howling Commandoes: Frank as part of the gang? Getting together while using their combined smarts on a mission, either with the whole group, or a side project just for them? I’m thinking stakeouts, disguises, need for quick thinking, getting information at a party, stranded in a snowy cabin, down time at a pub… anything!
— Spies or Missions: Or maybe Frank isn’t a soldier, but rather some sort of archaeologist/explorer civilian who is asked to use his knowledge to help the war effort. Maybe Hitler’s after some Ancient Greek occult blah blah? The SSR partners Frank and Bucky for the mission.
Bucky (MCU) + Game of Thrones Crossovers
Pairings:
• Bucky & Shireen
• Bucky & Team Wight Hunters
General Notes
I really really want Bucky to go to Westeros (I do not want fic want set in our world), have an adventure there, and make friends with people I like. How can his skills or experiences help GoT characters and vice versa? What’s Bucky’s reaction to being in a new world? What do the GoT characters make of Bucky and the idea of other worlds? As usual, I don’t care how Bucky gets to or from Westeros.
I have only seen the TV show, not read the books; however, you can include bits of book canon as long as Bucky learns about it along with me. MCU DNWs are at the top of this letter. GoT DNWs are Ramsay Snow and Jon/Danaerys. While the afterlife is one of my general DNWs, the zombies are also fine. I DNWed major character death, but if you need to keep Thoros’s death for plot reasons, I’ll understand. However, Shireen must live!
Bucky & Shireen
I have a weakness for fics where Bucky randomly acquires a child, and they take care of each other. And Shireen is my FAVORITE child. She would be so nerdily excited about Bucky being from another world, like an angsty knight from her favorite fairy tale. You can write out the fix it, but I would be even more excited by something that assumes she somehow got away (or diverges way before) and instead focuses on their subsequent adventures.
Did Shireen find a spell in the Castle Black library (or an old Valyrian book on Dragonstone) that whisked him to her realm before the whole burning thing came up? Did Bucky rescue her from the pyre—or the night before the pyre—and spirit her away weeks before the story started? If they’re traveling, are they just trying to lay low and get somewhere ‘safe’, or do they have a mission? Or are they looking for a way back to Bucky’s world? Do they team up with other nice people? Or, maybe it’s a canon divergence where her parents left her at Dragonstone and Bucky shows up there? Is she queen once news of her parents' death comes? What happens when Team Danaerys shows up? Do Shireen and Bucky get to ride dragons?
Bucky & Team Wight Hunters
I love everyone in thisbarfrozen wasteland, and the odd couple dynamics between them. I bet things would have gone so much better with Bucky there. Maybe his presence leads them to ditch the original idea and do something entirely different; like, going after the White Walkers, or recruiting help from the Children of the Forest or Bran or something. Or maybe things went as in canon, but the story focuses on Bucky’s involvement in the aftermath. Do they take down the zombie dragon, or defeat the Night King, or find team members who went missing in the avalanche, or…?
There’s so much possibility for badass awesomeness, buddy comedy, stoic courage, huddling for warmth, desperate last stands, and bonding with any/all of these guys. Bucky’s arm functioning as Valyrian steel? Back to back badasses with Beric? Can Thoros’s powers fix Bucky’s amnesia? What dry or hilarious things do the Hound or Tormund have to say about him? Do Bucky and my darling Gendry bond over being the common sense commoners of the group or over the smithing of his arm? Extra bonus points if Bucky tells them all exactly how dumb this plan was.
Bucky (MCU) + Lost Crossovers
Characters/Pairings:
• Bucky & Hurley
• Bucky & Stranded in the 70s Ensemble
General
This will always be my most favorite show. I love the setting, the action/adventure, the humor. I love the theme of broken characters getting over their baggage via self-help and forced proximity friendships/romances. I love how exuberantly bonkers it was, and how the characters mostly rolled with whatever happened. DNW fic set in the sideways universe, 108 Days, or during characters' pre-island flashbacks, please. While the afterlife is a massive nope for me, Miles's superpower and Smokey's projections are cool. MCU notes/DNWs are in the Bucky section above.
Instead of aging Lost characters up to match real life release dates, can you please pretend Lost happened alongside the MCU movies (ex. TWS and the Lost finale happened within a few months of each other, or CW and the S4 finale happened at the same time, or some other intersection)? While I've left some premise prompts below, I don't actually care how Bucky gets to the island. Feel free to start with Bucky already there in order to focus on his deepening friendships with Lost characters.
Bucky & Hurley
Bucky on the island, post-series finale, please! The image of these two together on the beach (or in the foot, or in the lighthouse, or playing golf, etc.) makes me smile SO HARD. Hurley could jolly anyone into a better headspace. Post-finale, Hurley also needs someone to jolly HIM into a better headspace, poor dear; it could be fun to see them working together to overcome. What adventures do they have together? While Ben is welcome as part of the ensemble around Hurley, I'd prefer not to focus on him too much. I love Rose, Bernard and Desmond, though! And Bucky with Vincent!
— Does post-TWS Bucky somehow wind up on the island, just in time to help Hurley settle into his new role and fix things on the island (ie. right after the series finale)? Healing through active projects!
— Maybe there were comics or whatever of Cap (and Bucky?)? If so, I feel like Hurley would be such a fanboy of Bucky's.
— Bucky and Hurley learning about and dealing with more of a conceptual worldbuilding crossover. Are any Lost concepts (ex. time travel, donkey wheel, Constants, gods, etc.) connected to MCU concepts (ex. Infinity Stones, Hydra, Kamar-Taj, inter-realm wormholes, etc.)?
— Have some of Hurley's friends come back for a visit so that Bucky can meet more of the gang?
— Maybe post-TWS, Bucky ended up on that flight to Guam and was the only other passenger to survive Smokey's massacre. He runs into Hurley & Co right after the finale and spends awhile with them?
— Maybe Bucky is involved in how Desmond got home again (background Desmond/Penny and Rose/Bernard are obviously welcome)? Maybe Hurley's new island protector powers can help with Bucky's triggers?
— Maybe Hurley visits his mom post-finale (I love her!), to let her know what's up, and brings his new bestie, Bucky?
Bucky & Stranded in the 70s Ensemble
Basically, I want Bucky on the island, making friends with any/all of: Juliet, Sawyer, Miles, Jin. Experiencing some island mysteries, wearing a jumpsuit, sharing a yellow house with someone nice, getting a Sawyer nickname, maybe the Communists taught him Korean... You get the idea. OR!!! Something set in the regular world post-series with a subset of these characters (Richard included, since I adore him).
Gen is fantastic, but if you want to ship Bucky/Miles or Bucky/Juliet, go right ahead (but only one of those ships, please!). Including background Sawyer/Juliet is fine if you're not going to ship her with Bucky. Feel free to ignore any canon character deaths you want. I also ship Steve/Bucky, if you want to incorporate that somehow.
— Maybe the Winter Soldier was one of the soldiers on the freighter, the only one to survive (I mean, Lost DOES have a Hydra Island! and Widmore WAS on that council with Fury!) and he flashed to the 70s, too? Does the island cure him? Temporarily or permanently?
— Maybe Hydra sent him to the island in the 70s on a mission? Maybe he fell off the train and onto the island, which time-warped him to the 70s, no Winter Soldier stuff happening to him at all.
— Instead of or in addition to, the 70s, you could write something where Bucky befriends Sawyer, Miles, and Richard post-series. (Juliet is also welcome, just pretending she made it off the island, too.) Does he meet up with them post-TWS when he’s on the run? If he knew them before, does he recognize them? Or is he brainwashed? Do they take the escaped Winter Soldier in (or take him in again)?
— Do the Avengers recruit post-series Hurley, Sawyer, Miles, Richard and/or Juliet (you could also include Frank, if you want) for a project that needs their particular skills or island experiences, and that's how Bucky meets them? What's the project and how do they work together and bond?
Bucky (MCU) + Narnia Crossovers
Characters/Pairings:
• Bucky/Tirian
• Bucky/Edmund
General
Notes/DNWs on Edmund and Tirian are in the Narnia section above, and Bucky notes/DNWs are in the Bucky section. My other big asks are a) for Bucky to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) to handwave timeline shenanigans so that they are around the same age during the story (I don’t want age differences or Steve/Peggy age mismatches). As usual, I don’t care how Bucky gets to Narnia or how they meet, so feel free to skip over that and start with him already there!
Bucky/Edmund
This section is shorter than the others, but not because I want it less. It’s the opposite, where I want it so much that I don’t even know. I just very desperately want them to like each other as much as I like them, and to have adventures and be competent and make out. The age thing is more complicated here, because Edmund was a kid in WWII and I don’t want overage/underage stuff; however, the below are some ways to work around it.
— Bucky finds himself in Golden Age Narnia (Narnia time is such that I could even buy post-TWS Bucky going to the Golden Age).
— The story starts after Edmund has returned from going on adventures with the rings (instead of dying!!) and he realizes that because of handwavey time shenanigans he has returned to our present-day… whoops! He meets post-TWS Bucky!
—Edmund somehow rescues Bucky from Hydra in the 1950s/1960s when they are both late 20s. You can even skip over that part and focus on how they then go on adventures with the rings—to Charn? To Westeros? To Middle Earth? To Asgard? Back to Narnia to help Tirian?
— Did young Edmund have a hero worship crush on Captain America's sidekick, from the news? What does he think when they actually meet, both as adults?
Bucky/Tirian
They would be so competent and delightful and hot together. This fairytale young king and Bucky’s common joe practicality. The speech pattern complements would be amazing. I will love anything! I'm okay pretending the Friends had nothing to do with The Last Battle (ie., Jill and Eustace never came), so you can assume Tirian's reign lined up with some earlier or later time in Asgard or Earth. Narnia has so many time shenanigans that I'll roll with anything. How do they get to making out?
— Instead of the Friends of Narnia, it was Bucky that Tirian summoned while he was tied to the tree (or a canon divergence where he got to blow the horn instead of being captured), and together they avert the end of the world. What does Tirian make of this (hot) new hero from our world?
— Secret spy missions to Calormen or tackling difficult domestic policy things?
— You know how Tirian astrally projected to the Friends of Narnia that one time? Well, what if he's been doing it on the regular, with Bucky? They have always secretly thought they had an imaginary friend (or are going nuts), but one day they meet, either in Narnia or on Earth.
— Or, what if, instead of astrally projecting, he actually goes! Tirian was so cutely nerdy about history and hero-worshipping the Friends; what would he make of actually being in our world? Is there something here that could help?
— The world doesn’t end, but they have to deal with Calormen having conquered (or almost conquered) Narnia. How does Bucky help Tirian either get the country back, or spirit the Narnians to a new (and real life!!) place?
— Or, honestly, literally any adventure that sends one to the other’s world, and they have to team up (and end up making out). I’m not picky.
Here are anchor links to the different sections:
• Bucky Barnes Notes (for crossovers)
• Psmith/Mike (Wodehouse)
• Emeth/Tirian & Edmund/Bacchus (Narnia)
• David Blaize Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Game of Thrones Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Lost Crossovers
• Bucky (MCU) + Narnia Crossovers
General Note
I'm just as--often more!--interested in watching characters navigate what comes after a prompted premise than I am in the premise itself, so starting in media res or writing a scene from the middle of an imaginary longer fic are totally great, especially in a lower minimum wordcount exchange like this. Feel free to skip the meet-cute and start at some point after they've become friends. What I care most about is what happens after two characters meet--the dynamics they forge, the adventures they have, the things they learn, etc. If you have the time and inclination to write a longer fic that included the set-up and meetings as well, great; however, fics that end right after the introductions make me sad.
Things I Love
• Devoted Friends & Family: odd couples; enjoying one another's company; laughing at one another; fond exasperation; loyalty; quietly self-sacrificial gestures
• Adventures & Journeys: vacations gone awry; fish out of water; exploring new territory; daring rescues or escapes; espionage
• Competence & Resourcefulness: complementary skill sets; badassery; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
• Friends to Lovers: I like many variations, including, a) friends with benefits or sex before feelings that becomes more; b) fics that start after the first kiss/declaration and focus on how they navigate the relationship transition in the days or weeks that follow, c) adventures that cause people to realize they have more than platonic feelings and decide to make a move.
• Sexy Times: I'd be thrilled to get higher-rated fic for any of the ships I've requested. I've listed out some general likes HERE; for all ships, not just the ones listed there. There's a more egregiously detailed version HERE (but honestly, the other one is enough).
• Forced Proximity or Sex: captured or stranded together; sex pollen where they find out afterwards they were both totally into it and want to date; forced to have sex (by the bad guys, for cultural or initiation rites, to cast a spell, as part of undercover roles, etc) but they eventually realize they’re into each other; marriage of convenience that leads to feelings (but only for a reason with stakes, like espionage or greencards; do not want fake dating because your friends or family nag you about being single); tragic, Steve-Peggy style age mismatches
Do Not Want
• Avengers: Infinity War (diverging any time before that film would be great)
• goofy crack, fusions, alternate setting AUs (ex. space, Hogwarts, modern mundane)
• unrequested romantic pairings; adultery; open relationships; poly
• Things That Upset Me: shovel talks; bleak endings; major character death; the afterlife; "it was all a dream" endings; destiny/fate
• Sex & Relationship-Related: yentas and matchmakers; Dom/sub dynamics; pregnancy; UST that never gets resolved; dark dynamics within my pairings; noncanonical pet names; soulmates
• characters written as ace, aro or demi; gender identity headcanons
• Writing Things: 1st & 2nd person POV; phonetically written dialogue (my brain genuinely struggles to process it)
• Crossover-related: never finding out about one another's backgrounds (the reveal doesn’t have to happen ‘on-screen’, but I need Fandom A's characters to find out about Fandom B's supernatural stuff); letting real-life publication/release dates create age differences (please simply pretend one canon took place a bit later so that requested characters are around the same age)
Bucky Notes (for crossovers)
• Please let Bucky be a fully functional badass with at least a glimmer of a sense of humour. I like stories about him trying to move on and build a new life, not ones that are all about his painful recovery. I like self-help and emotional healing through partnership and activity more than caretaker/woobie hurt-comfort.
• I have a pet peeve about Bucky (and Steve) saying "ain't". Can they please speak as properly as they do in the films? Cursing is fine, though.
• No characters or canon from the TV shows, please, as I'm not familiar with them.
• For the gen requests, I’m cool with Steve/Bucky shippiness (Steve is welcome to come along on the adventure, if you want); however, for ship requests, I don’t want him or Steve to ever have had more than platonic feelings for one another.
Psmith - PG Wodehouse
Pairing: Psmith, Mike
I would like a friends to lovers story! Just... anything where they're unquestionably together by the end (with actual make-outs, or more!). The odd coupling of Mike’s everyman pragmatism and Psmith’s dialogue is endlessly delightful to me. I love their loyalty and what self-sacrificing heroes they both are, while also being total little shits. Who is the forward one here, or do they bumble equally in their own ways? Does either try to hide his nerves/inexperience? Or not? Or maybe one or both is actually experienced? Any take would be fascinating.
It would most likely have to be a secret relationship, per the time period. While a little longing and guilty hesitation are nice (and a touch of quietly understood, low-key forbiddenness does add a certain frisson), I’d prefer to avoid anguished coming outs or serious discussion of social issues. Other kinds of angst are fine, though (ex. pining, hurt/comfort, boarding school bullies, backstory abuse, etc.) as long as it turns out okay by the end and retains a sense of humor. Can they just… get away with their romance without having to discuss at length why they’re being secretive?
— Canon Divergence: What if either or both of their fathers had not gone bankrupt? What if they'd moved to Hollywood after university? What if they'd stayed with the bank? What if the plan for Mike to manage Psmith's estates had happened? What if...? What does a getting-together story look like in this divergence?
— Getting Together: How does it happen? Is it friends with benefits, or does one actually court the other? Does it happen at Sedleigh or when they're at the bank, or at Cambridge? Some other time? What's their first time like?
— Whump with a Happy Ending: Stoic woobies... yum. Maybe something traumatizing happens or has happened to Psmith, who hides his pain behind his effervescent mask... but Mike eventually figures it out and works to make it all better. Or something terrible happens to Mike, and Psmith goes above and beyond to get revenge and/or set things right.
— One (or both?) in a Groundhog Day loop? No need to explain how it starts or why it ends (handwave away!); I care about the things people learn about themselves and each other, and how they deal with the situation
— Playing with that historical/literary theme of romantic boarding school attachments being a thing guys expect to grow out of. Except Psmith and Mike realize... it isn't happening? Could involve pining, doomed set-ups, erroneously assuming the other is over it, or "it's a far far better thing I do..." angst, or whatever you want, before a happy ending.
— Random Acquisition of Superpowers: Mike might be more hilariously aghast, but I don’t actually care which of them gets it or how/why it happens, so feel free to skip that or leave it unexplained. It would be fun to see how they react, in a world where having superpowers is not supposed to be a thing. How does the other help him through it? What uses do they find for the power? How does this premise help them get together? Any superpower would be great, from traditional ones to something super random and seemingly useless.
— WWI: Fighting together, captured together, espionage missions, winning a key battle through impertinent ragging, Mike the accidental war hero, keeping one another warm in their trench, making out in a bombed out Belgian village, the desperation of war causing them to reveal long-secret pining, Psmith goes behind enemy lines to rescue Mike… Lots of whump and hurt/comfort welcome.
— Crossovers: with Narnia (prompts HERE), or with Penny Dreadful or My Family & Other Animals (prompts HERE)
Narnia
Pairings:
• Edmund/Bacchus
• Emeth/Tirian
General Narnia Notes
Edmund and Tirian were my very first favorite characters, and Narnia's worldbuilding elements formed most of my narrative interests. I love everyone's competency, earnestness and courage when it counts, but also their flaws, fears, and sass. I love Golden Age fics, 'Everybody Lives' AUs, and fics that diverge from canon (as wildly as you like!) at any point before the closing chapters of the Last Battle. The end of Narnia, train crash, and afterlife are my biggest DNWs. Please let it be clear that everyone will get to live out their lives. You don't necessarily need to write a fix-it. It's fine to pretend it just never came up!
Edmund/Bacchus
I love that being redeemed and growing into a badass warrior king didn't entirely cure Edmund of being a cranky, sarcastic little shit. And Bacchus is my favorite got. His whole schtick is delightful. Lifespan incompatibilities depress me, but if you can solve it, I'd be all for happily ever afters! Otherwise, I mostly ship this in a revelrous, casual way, not as a long-term monogamous relationship. But I also don't want to see Edmund unhappy, so I'd prefer them to enjoy when they get to be together, but not be miserably pining or heartbroken when they are apart. A touch of wistfulness is fine, though. Nothing hot and heavy at points when Edmund is younger than 16, please; in these cases, PG13 kissing and cuddles and etc would be lovely. However, hot and heavy when he's older is very welcome!
— Bacchus comes to Narnia for festivities during the Golden Age. One time? Multiple times? And/or they meet again on Earth, when Edmund is grown up again; how does Bacchus appear in the 20th century?
— Edmund is chosen for a traditional Narnian ritual where young rulers bond with the land or pay tribute to Bacchus or whatever. A public (and/or private) sex ceremony? On the Stone Table? Tied down with magic vines? Ceremonial wine pouring? Holy semen? Switching? Pre-bathing by the maenads? It's not over until [your choice]? Make it as iddy as you like!
— The idea of the Pevensies being the only humans in Narnia during their hormonal teenage years has always fascinated me. How did they deal? I'd love something in which Bacchus helps Edmund out, either with direct physicality, instruction, or in other ways. Maybe it happens all at once when Ed goes to his first bacchanal, or maybe it's a slow build over multiple years/visits.
Emeth/Tirian
I would like something where they get together in real life. They’re perfect for one another—brave, noble warriors (and all-around lovely guys) who could come to respect and love one another despite their differences. I also have a love of language and contrasting speech patterns; the differences between their versions of courtly perfection are catnip to me.
I love Tirian SO MUCH. He has such human flaws, and he started off as a hot mess of a king, but he’s such a wonderful guy, and quite resourceful and clever when you rouse him out of his decadence. And Emeth should win a prize for the level of admiration and affection he was able to inspire in so few pages. I loved the conflict he faced between his reason, his duty, his devotion, and his desire to prove himself.
Do the two countries have different views about same-sex romance? It doesn't have to be "Calormen=repressed, Narnia=free love" (though it could); maybe Calormen has a complicated Ancient Greek-style culture, or Narnia's never shaken its Victorian influences. Or some other take? Or don't even tackle that at all; it's not a big deal.
— Enemies to lovers, culture clashes, reluctant allies fall in love, secret forbidden love across enemy lines, brothers in arms, agent falls for mark... I love it all!
— What if the world hadn't ended after Calormen's conquest? Tirian as war prisoner or trophy or slave or sacrifice to Tash, or... Tirian being kingly and stoic while tied up and beaten was very, um, interesting to me as a child; as long as there's a hopeful ending, you can whump him as hard as you like. What makes Emeth decide to help? Or is Tirian given to him as prisoner instead of to someone awful? How do they fall in love?
— What if they had met in Narnia while Emeth was undercover as a merchant, and their love changes the course of the story?
— The scene where Tirian half goes to our world is one of my favorites in the entire series. What if he and Emeth went for real? What if the stable was a portal to another time or realm (either ours or a different one), not the afterlife, and they work together and fall in love during this adventure/quest?
— Tirian in a Groundhog Day loop in which he slowly learns how to be a better king (and possibly prevent the apocalypse), with Emeth's help (and ends up in a romantic relationship with him as a side result)?
David Blaize Crossovers
Pairings:
• Frank & Mike and/or Frank & Psmith (Wodehouse)
• Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
• Frank/Bucky (MCU)
• Frank/Others (Various Crossover Options)
General Frank Notes
Frank/Happiness is my OTP. He's such a fascinating and endearing blend of judgmental, whimsical, bossy, charismatic, and melancholic. While his anguished self-loathing is super compelling, I ultimately want him to get over it (and himself, a little), without anyone explicitly lecturing him. I want him to find happiness and self-acceptance with someone new—with actual kissing, or more! The chapter where he devises the plan to catch the cheaters was such fun; if it fits, something that also showcases his cleverness and snark and take-chargeness in action would be lovely.
Please let him completely get over his tragic fixation on David and be entirely into the new person, without bashing David. And please set it when Frank is anywhere between 18-26 (ie. canon divergence, or shortly post-canon), so he doesn't have to wait long to be happier.
Bonus Crossover Pairing Options!:
There are a ton of people I would equally love to see Frank with, but I get embarrassed about nominating all of them. Feel free to write any of the / pairings HERE instead of the officially requested ones.
Frank&Mike or Frank&Psmith (Wodehouse)
Frank and Mike were obviously teammates on the Cambridge eleven. I'd love a crossover that facilitates an endgame of Frank/a guy (but not Psmith or Mike, since I’m rabidly OTP-ish about them). Does Frank end up with David or Adair or Monty Bodkin? Some other nice Wodehouse guy (not Jeeves, please)? As long as Psmith/Mike remains endgame, Frank hooking up or having hooked up with one or both of them would be fun to include. Perhaps when Marchester's team traveled to Eton, Wrykyn or Sedleigh for cricket matches, or during summer holidays, or some other time? How does that backstory affect my actual ship(s) later on, when they are all at Cambridge together? For example, is there misplaced jealousy or awkwardness that leads to feelings revealed? Something else? Or, they can meet for the first time at Cambridge. Whatever!
Cambridge hijinks facilitating friendship and romance? Teaming up to rag on a professor or defeat a bully? Or maybe it isn’t even set at Cambridge; maybe it’s more of a Wodehouse-style plot where they meet while visiting a country estate, or have gotten to know one another at the clubs. While I don’t want matchmaking or interventions, maybe getting an outsider POV on one character's angst or happiness or whatever inspires someone from the other canon to do something about his feelings. Ex. Maybe Frank reexamines his stance on 'beastliness' when he finds out that Mike, whom he thinks is great, has a thing with Psmith. Or maybe seeing Frank so miserably repressed makes Mike decide to go for things with Psmith. (But Frank must stop being repressed by the end, too!) I will love anything!
Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
Frank coming up with well-reasoned but incorrect theories to explain Edmund’s weirdness before eventually figuring it out? What is post-Narnia life like for Edmund? Is he also frustrated (sexually or otherwise)? Carrying around knowledge or experience that he can’t use? Desperate because he remembers adult relationships but has (until now) been too young/lacked opportunity/hasn’t liked anyone enough/other? Or maybe he’s actually quite inexperienced. What draws them to each other?
My biggest asks are a) for Frank to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) pretend the David Blaize books were set later so that they are around the same age during the story. DNW train crash, end of Narnia, or afterlife! Please make it clear they will live out their lives.
— School or University: Prefects together at Marchester? Edmund being really good at sneaking out/around? Have they always liked one another, or do they start as rivals but end up falling for one another? Wet and full of adrenaline after a sailing race or tennis match at Cambridge?
— Golden Age: Frank finds himself in Narnia (I don’t care how; feel free to skip over that part). What are his reactions to the place? How does Edmund, who probably doesn't have a ton of attractive humans around, react to having this nice, smart, handsome Brit in the castle? Can Frank help Ed and his siblings remember their lives from before?
— Greece: Does Edmund also become an archaeologist? Or does he study something else at Cambridge that allows them to travel to Greece together? Voyages on trains or ships (and possibly stranded when the vehicle breaks down)? Finding ancient magic here on earth? Partying with Bacchus, who's an old acquaintance of Ed's?
— Post-Canon Adventures: I'm obsessed with Edmund using the rings to go adventuring to places other than Narnia instead of dying. Maybe it's Frank's parents' house that Edmund burgles to get the rings, and that's how they meet and go off on adventures together to the Wood Between the Worlds or not-so-dead Charn? Westeros/Essos (I only know the TV show) is another option.
Frank/Bucky (MCU)
I would like a WWII getting together story--no MCU canon other than the first Cap movie needed (unless you want)! Please pretend the books were set later so that they are around the same age. They’d make such a great odd couple. The Brooklyn boy/posh Brit, classical education/street smarts, etc. How do they overcome Frank’s (possibly also Bucky’s?) internalized homophobia and find something good? Is Bucky actually more open-minded or experienced with men than Frank? Or has he always denied himself, and Frank initiates him?
MCU notes/DNW are in the Bucky section above. Feel free to pretend Bucky didn’t fall off the train so they can have a happily ever after. Or maybe Frank encounters his brainwashed old flame and rescues him from Hydra in, like, 1949 (ie. before there’s a major age difference) for a happily ever after. Or you can make it bittersweet, with Bucky still falling, but even though he grieves, their time together has left Frank in a healthier place to live and love again without such self-loathing (and WE know Bucky will eventually be okay, per canon).
Does Frank start out initially jealous of Bucky’s friendship with Steve, because he’s projecting his own experiences with David onto Steve&Bucky? Does Bucky scoff because he and Steve aren't like that at all, or is Frank actually correct in thinking Bucky has been unrequitedly pining (this is my one sort-of exception to the Steve/Bucky DNW)? If the latter, I want Bucky to get over Steve completely as he and Frank fall for one another, without bashing Steve. Or you could not bring up Steve/Bucky as a question or issue at all!
— Soldiers Together: Maybe the 107th is camped alongside Frank’s unit before their capture? Sharing a foxhole together? Exploring or hiding in a bombed out village together? Left behind and forced to trek to safety together? Saving one another? Does the desperation of war get them over their issues enough to act on their feelings?
— Captives Together: Do they huddle together between torture/experimentation sessions, clinging to each other and their identities? Hurt/comfort and desperate “we’ll probably die tomorrow” hookups? Nazis humiliating them or forcing them to do it or confess feelings or watch each other be hurt? Or maybe they only get together after Steve’s rescued them, when they begin to realize something more permanent was done to them.
— Howling Commandoes: Frank as part of the gang? Getting together while using their combined smarts on a mission, either with the whole group, or a side project just for them? I’m thinking stakeouts, disguises, need for quick thinking, getting information at a party, stranded in a snowy cabin, down time at a pub… anything!
— Spies or Missions: Or maybe Frank isn’t a soldier, but rather some sort of archaeologist/explorer civilian who is asked to use his knowledge to help the war effort. Maybe Hitler’s after some Ancient Greek occult blah blah? The SSR partners Frank and Bucky for the mission.
Bucky (MCU) + Game of Thrones Crossovers
Pairings:
• Bucky & Shireen
• Bucky & Team Wight Hunters
General Notes
I really really want Bucky to go to Westeros (I do not want fic want set in our world), have an adventure there, and make friends with people I like. How can his skills or experiences help GoT characters and vice versa? What’s Bucky’s reaction to being in a new world? What do the GoT characters make of Bucky and the idea of other worlds? As usual, I don’t care how Bucky gets to or from Westeros.
I have only seen the TV show, not read the books; however, you can include bits of book canon as long as Bucky learns about it along with me. MCU DNWs are at the top of this letter. GoT DNWs are Ramsay Snow and Jon/Danaerys. While the afterlife is one of my general DNWs, the zombies are also fine. I DNWed major character death, but if you need to keep Thoros’s death for plot reasons, I’ll understand. However, Shireen must live!
Bucky & Shireen
I have a weakness for fics where Bucky randomly acquires a child, and they take care of each other. And Shireen is my FAVORITE child. She would be so nerdily excited about Bucky being from another world, like an angsty knight from her favorite fairy tale. You can write out the fix it, but I would be even more excited by something that assumes she somehow got away (or diverges way before) and instead focuses on their subsequent adventures.
Did Shireen find a spell in the Castle Black library (or an old Valyrian book on Dragonstone) that whisked him to her realm before the whole burning thing came up? Did Bucky rescue her from the pyre—or the night before the pyre—and spirit her away weeks before the story started? If they’re traveling, are they just trying to lay low and get somewhere ‘safe’, or do they have a mission? Or are they looking for a way back to Bucky’s world? Do they team up with other nice people? Or, maybe it’s a canon divergence where her parents left her at Dragonstone and Bucky shows up there? Is she queen once news of her parents' death comes? What happens when Team Danaerys shows up? Do Shireen and Bucky get to ride dragons?
Bucky & Team Wight Hunters
I love everyone in this
There’s so much possibility for badass awesomeness, buddy comedy, stoic courage, huddling for warmth, desperate last stands, and bonding with any/all of these guys. Bucky’s arm functioning as Valyrian steel? Back to back badasses with Beric? Can Thoros’s powers fix Bucky’s amnesia? What dry or hilarious things do the Hound or Tormund have to say about him? Do Bucky and my darling Gendry bond over being the common sense commoners of the group or over the smithing of his arm? Extra bonus points if Bucky tells them all exactly how dumb this plan was.
Bucky (MCU) + Lost Crossovers
Characters/Pairings:
• Bucky & Hurley
• Bucky & Stranded in the 70s Ensemble
General
This will always be my most favorite show. I love the setting, the action/adventure, the humor. I love the theme of broken characters getting over their baggage via self-help and forced proximity friendships/romances. I love how exuberantly bonkers it was, and how the characters mostly rolled with whatever happened. DNW fic set in the sideways universe, 108 Days, or during characters' pre-island flashbacks, please. While the afterlife is a massive nope for me, Miles's superpower and Smokey's projections are cool. MCU notes/DNWs are in the Bucky section above.
Instead of aging Lost characters up to match real life release dates, can you please pretend Lost happened alongside the MCU movies (ex. TWS and the Lost finale happened within a few months of each other, or CW and the S4 finale happened at the same time, or some other intersection)? While I've left some premise prompts below, I don't actually care how Bucky gets to the island. Feel free to start with Bucky already there in order to focus on his deepening friendships with Lost characters.
Bucky & Hurley
Bucky on the island, post-series finale, please! The image of these two together on the beach (or in the foot, or in the lighthouse, or playing golf, etc.) makes me smile SO HARD. Hurley could jolly anyone into a better headspace. Post-finale, Hurley also needs someone to jolly HIM into a better headspace, poor dear; it could be fun to see them working together to overcome. What adventures do they have together? While Ben is welcome as part of the ensemble around Hurley, I'd prefer not to focus on him too much. I love Rose, Bernard and Desmond, though! And Bucky with Vincent!
— Does post-TWS Bucky somehow wind up on the island, just in time to help Hurley settle into his new role and fix things on the island (ie. right after the series finale)? Healing through active projects!
— Maybe there were comics or whatever of Cap (and Bucky?)? If so, I feel like Hurley would be such a fanboy of Bucky's.
— Bucky and Hurley learning about and dealing with more of a conceptual worldbuilding crossover. Are any Lost concepts (ex. time travel, donkey wheel, Constants, gods, etc.) connected to MCU concepts (ex. Infinity Stones, Hydra, Kamar-Taj, inter-realm wormholes, etc.)?
— Have some of Hurley's friends come back for a visit so that Bucky can meet more of the gang?
— Maybe post-TWS, Bucky ended up on that flight to Guam and was the only other passenger to survive Smokey's massacre. He runs into Hurley & Co right after the finale and spends awhile with them?
— Maybe Bucky is involved in how Desmond got home again (background Desmond/Penny and Rose/Bernard are obviously welcome)? Maybe Hurley's new island protector powers can help with Bucky's triggers?
— Maybe Hurley visits his mom post-finale (I love her!), to let her know what's up, and brings his new bestie, Bucky?
Bucky & Stranded in the 70s Ensemble
Basically, I want Bucky on the island, making friends with any/all of: Juliet, Sawyer, Miles, Jin. Experiencing some island mysteries, wearing a jumpsuit, sharing a yellow house with someone nice, getting a Sawyer nickname, maybe the Communists taught him Korean... You get the idea. OR!!! Something set in the regular world post-series with a subset of these characters (Richard included, since I adore him).
Gen is fantastic, but if you want to ship Bucky/Miles or Bucky/Juliet, go right ahead (but only one of those ships, please!). Including background Sawyer/Juliet is fine if you're not going to ship her with Bucky. Feel free to ignore any canon character deaths you want. I also ship Steve/Bucky, if you want to incorporate that somehow.
— Maybe the Winter Soldier was one of the soldiers on the freighter, the only one to survive (I mean, Lost DOES have a Hydra Island! and Widmore WAS on that council with Fury!) and he flashed to the 70s, too? Does the island cure him? Temporarily or permanently?
— Maybe Hydra sent him to the island in the 70s on a mission? Maybe he fell off the train and onto the island, which time-warped him to the 70s, no Winter Soldier stuff happening to him at all.
— Instead of or in addition to, the 70s, you could write something where Bucky befriends Sawyer, Miles, and Richard post-series. (Juliet is also welcome, just pretending she made it off the island, too.) Does he meet up with them post-TWS when he’s on the run? If he knew them before, does he recognize them? Or is he brainwashed? Do they take the escaped Winter Soldier in (or take him in again)?
— Do the Avengers recruit post-series Hurley, Sawyer, Miles, Richard and/or Juliet (you could also include Frank, if you want) for a project that needs their particular skills or island experiences, and that's how Bucky meets them? What's the project and how do they work together and bond?
Bucky (MCU) + Narnia Crossovers
Characters/Pairings:
• Bucky/Tirian
• Bucky/Edmund
General
Notes/DNWs on Edmund and Tirian are in the Narnia section above, and Bucky notes/DNWs are in the Bucky section. My other big asks are a) for Bucky to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) to handwave timeline shenanigans so that they are around the same age during the story (I don’t want age differences or Steve/Peggy age mismatches). As usual, I don’t care how Bucky gets to Narnia or how they meet, so feel free to skip over that and start with him already there!
Bucky/Edmund
This section is shorter than the others, but not because I want it less. It’s the opposite, where I want it so much that I don’t even know. I just very desperately want them to like each other as much as I like them, and to have adventures and be competent and make out. The age thing is more complicated here, because Edmund was a kid in WWII and I don’t want overage/underage stuff; however, the below are some ways to work around it.
— Bucky finds himself in Golden Age Narnia (Narnia time is such that I could even buy post-TWS Bucky going to the Golden Age).
— The story starts after Edmund has returned from going on adventures with the rings (instead of dying!!) and he realizes that because of handwavey time shenanigans he has returned to our present-day… whoops! He meets post-TWS Bucky!
—Edmund somehow rescues Bucky from Hydra in the 1950s/1960s when they are both late 20s. You can even skip over that part and focus on how they then go on adventures with the rings—to Charn? To Westeros? To Middle Earth? To Asgard? Back to Narnia to help Tirian?
— Did young Edmund have a hero worship crush on Captain America's sidekick, from the news? What does he think when they actually meet, both as adults?
Bucky/Tirian
They would be so competent and delightful and hot together. This fairytale young king and Bucky’s common joe practicality. The speech pattern complements would be amazing. I will love anything! I'm okay pretending the Friends had nothing to do with The Last Battle (ie., Jill and Eustace never came), so you can assume Tirian's reign lined up with some earlier or later time in Asgard or Earth. Narnia has so many time shenanigans that I'll roll with anything. How do they get to making out?
— Instead of the Friends of Narnia, it was Bucky that Tirian summoned while he was tied to the tree (or a canon divergence where he got to blow the horn instead of being captured), and together they avert the end of the world. What does Tirian make of this (hot) new hero from our world?
— Secret spy missions to Calormen or tackling difficult domestic policy things?
— You know how Tirian astrally projected to the Friends of Narnia that one time? Well, what if he's been doing it on the regular, with Bucky? They have always secretly thought they had an imaginary friend (or are going nuts), but one day they meet, either in Narnia or on Earth.
— Or, what if, instead of astrally projecting, he actually goes! Tirian was so cutely nerdy about history and hero-worshipping the Friends; what would he make of actually being in our world? Is there something here that could help?
— The world doesn’t end, but they have to deal with Calormen having conquered (or almost conquered) Narnia. How does Bucky help Tirian either get the country back, or spirit the Narnians to a new (and real life!!) place?
— Or, honestly, literally any adventure that sends one to the other’s world, and they have to team up (and end up making out). I’m not picky.