kimaracretak | everywoman 2021

Hello friend, it is time for fic about ladies and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also

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I love these shows for the worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/relationships, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.

Likes || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Borgen || Equinox || Jordskott || River || Shetland || The Bletchley Circle || Y Gwyll

Likes

Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality

Canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Aniara, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, Morrowind, and Star Wars Sith AUs

Conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships

Conversations in mundane liminal spaces, conversations in liminal spaces on the border between one world and another

Darkfic

Femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background

Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers

Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #unavailable older women in positions of authority

Nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters (especially when they would like to eat you because they love you), architectural horror

Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic horrors

Feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies)

Epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons

First- and second-person pov, unreliable narrators

Politics, worldbuilding

Philosophical, legal, and academic debates

Relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care

'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships

'Look what I can make you do to me' kinds of emotional manipulation in relationships

'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that

Getting back together after messy breakups

Reunions with former lovers in general, no matter what they look like - casual/platonic over coffee, ill-advised one-night stands, etc

Desire, women who aren't afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods

Porn as character work.

Time loops with both characters trapped, time loops while one character is trapped and the other is there to help or hinder but can leave whenever they want.

Art Likes

Jewel tones, black and white

Pieces that play with light/shadow

Landscapes, forests, oceans

Mist, moonlight, rain

Tiny humans in otherwise-abandoned landscapes

Characters covered in blood and/or plants

Architecture, decaying buildings, abandoned buildings

Dark Likes

Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis

Arousal from killing, sex in the blood of their enemies

Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium

Body horror

Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking

Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time

Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)

Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places

Flowers growing out of people's bodies, flowers growing out of people's empty eye sockets

Folk horror

Ghosts

Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted

Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person

In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore

Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship

Memory loss

Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature

Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy

Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams

Non-fatal and oddly romantic vivisection

One character dressing another up to die

Repeatedly killed and resurrected

Ritual gone wrong

'There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls' trope

Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

Unintended consequences of having your future told

Smut Likes

Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex

Biting, marking

Bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death

Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups)

Consent play

Dressing or undressing each other

First time with each other

Fucked with the hilt of a weapon/barrel of a gun

Hair braiding, hair pulling

Jewellery and clothes kink

Mirror sex, identity porn

Mutual masturbation

Needleplay, sewing pretty patterns into people's skin, sewing a partner to the bed

One person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them

One person trying to read, their partner getting more and more distracting until they put their book away

Oral sex

Overstimulation

Painplay, manipulating broken bones, wound fingering

Praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink

Semi-public sex (especially under-desk cunnilingus), having to stay quiet

Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)

Somnophilia

Spanking, especially as a show of forgiveness or as penance for fucking up at work

Temperature play

Thigh riding, especially if the one riding her partner is wearing a skirt with her underwear pulled aside.

Do Not Want

A/B/O, any type of biologically determined heats/'must fuck now' situations including sex pollen

Bodyswap fic, crackfic

Breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression, ageplay

Characters under 13 unless requested (mentions of childhood happenings are fine), de-aging

Characters magically conjuring themselves dicks/being given dicks/giving other people dicks (sex toys like strap-ons are fine)

Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)

Fictional non-American police forces having the same history/current issues/social norms as real-world American police forces.

Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)

'I am too old to be loved' angst

Issuefic, non-canonical trans or ace interpretations of characters unless requested, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with canon-atypical or anachronistic romantic/sexual/gender identity terms

'It was all a dream' sort of endings

Mentions of/references to Brexit (explicit Remain-won AUs welcome but not necessary, just let me pretend)

'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease, single-target sexuality where the characters have never been and will never be sexually/romantically attracted to anyone else

Unrequested m/m or m/f ships, unless specified.

Rape/noncon (dubcon is fine)

Permanent death of female characters (ghosts fine unless otherwise specified, references to pre-canon dead female characters fine unless otherwise specified).

Safeword/colour checkins, extensive kink/relationship negotiation

Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas

Sex involving under-16s.

Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (exploration of ruins from dead civilisations is fine)

Borgen

General: I want to say something intelligent about this show but I'm extremely 'no thought head Birgitte and Hanne and Katrine' about it. I'm equally happy with shippy or gen for any of these combinations. Feel free to combine them as well - I'd be delighted by, say, Birgitte/Katrine & Hanne.

Note: Referenced/past Birgitte/Phillip and Kasper/Katrine are fine. I'd prefer if you pretended Birgitte/Jeremy never happened.

Fandom-specific DNW: Contemporary European political landscapes in futurefic. I like futurefic, I have some prompts for it, but if you go for something set closer to now than 2013, I'd like a Denmark that was kept more thoughtfully to the left because of Birgitte's politics, a UK that didn't leave the EU, that sort of thing (this does not apply to American politics - keep them as is or go alt-history as you wish).

Birgitte and Katrine: Did I love what season 3 gave me? Yes. Do I want more? Also yes.

AUs where Katrine is Birgitte's ex, instead of Kasper's. Either romantic ex or an Anne-Sophie type figure, depending on the direction you want to take it.

Post-s3, Birgitte back as Staatsminister in a leftist government with Katrine as her spin doctor.

Fic set in one of the between-seasons gaps - Katrine covering an event Birgitte is speaking at, a legislation-of-the-week fic like some of the early s1 episodes.

AUs where Birgitte's ill-advised one night stand is with Katrine instead of her driver.

Birgitte and Hanne: Also known as: the scene early in s1 where someone was like 'no one wants to hire Hanne anymore' and Birgitte responded by giving her the first question made a much bigger impact on me than anyone intended.

They choose the same bathroom/hallway to hide out in during some boring event.

Anything set in the s2-s3 timeskip - Hanne working on a story that Birgitte ends up involved in.

Hanne giving Birgitte advice, whether political or personal, and how Birgitte reacts.

Hanne and Katrine: Their relationship is hands-down the best part of s2, and I love that they both truly need each other and are good friends to each other in a way that transcends their (theoretical) mentor-student positions.

Post-canon, covering the new administration, Katrine readjusting to new journalism after her time with the New Democrats.

Post-canon, Katrine continues working with Birgitte, Hanne stays in news journalism, and what effect that has on their relationship.

Working on a story together in the s1-s2 timeskip.

An exception to my kidfic DNW: the two of them with Gustav post-canon, Katrine offering Hanne the chance to develop some kind of relationship with him the way she didn't get to with her own daughter.

Uncomplicated friends-with-benefits arrangements.

Equinox

General: If you've not come across it on Netflix, Equinox is a small weird piece of Danish folk horror about sisters, seasons, and the question 'what if mothers were the REAL horror?' (Spoilers: It's right.)

Ida and Astrid: Weird questionably-human questionably-related questionably-codependent sisters? Yes. I'd love to see anything during Ida's missing years - dreamsharing, visions, and the like. Attempts Ida made to contact Astrid, AUs where Astrid gets pulled further into Ostara's world earlier. Anything post-canon, what their life(?) looks like after - the Ostara story of the hare and the bird wraps up, more or less, so does the cycle continue, perhaps with Ida as hare and Astrid as the bird?

Ida and Amelia: They're probably the most tragic of the show's relationships, so feel free to lean into that - unrequited love, rejected sacrifices, Amelia in her new life working with others on her commune to try to bring Ida back, dreams that never quite match reality. Or, something happier post-canon, Amelia as a prophet-of-spring to Ida's god-bird.

Jordskott

General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves! This show has so many beautiful things to say about love and care and loss and obsession and it's eaten me as surely as Silverhojd has eaten Josefine. Tell me stories about witches and women and love and life and forests and I will be so, so happy. I would be totally happy with gen, but I ship Eva/Jeanette, Eva/Klara, Eva/Laila, Eva/Zara, Laila/Zara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel beholden to that if you involve him in fics. If you're writing post-s2 fic, I strongly prefer resurrected Klara or canon divergence so that she never died, but you can also just not mention her.

Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romantic/sexual ships involving Ida, Josefine, or Kalem

Bahar: She would not be paid enough for what s2 put her through even if she'd taken that promotion. I love her, I love how she's a little bit of an asshole but just genuine and self-aware enough for it to be a mostly good thing, I love her stubbornness and kindness and her refusal to let her belief in order make her do what she believes to be wrong.

Anything pre-canon, about her life and career pre-Eva.

Eva and Bahar post-s2, developing into a deeper partnership & friendship with fewer secrets between them. Eva takes Bahar to the forest, as part of making amends for her secret-keeping - maybe she even introduces her to Josefine's tree.

Post-s2 casefic, if you're feeling like plotty things.

Anything involving her getting more comfortable with the supernatural, realising that it doesn't necessarily conflict with her worldview as much as she'd thought it might. Whether she seeks out Ylva to better understand how to help Eva, bonds with Ida, or something else.

Ida: Darling girl! I loved her when we thought she was human and I love her now that we know she's a changeling. I love her uncanny ability to make friends, I love her art, I love how much she cares.

Ida and Josefine, because true friendship can absolutely be found between and changeling and a tree. What effect does the changeling!Ida reveal have on her relationship with Josefine/the Josefine-tree in Silverhojd?

Fic between seasons 1 and 2 in Stockholm with Eva and Tom. One of my favourite things about this show is how simply it just accepts the unconventional Eva-Ida-Tom family, without demanding that Eva be A Mother to Ida or anything other than friends with Tom, and I'd love something about their attempts at a normal(ish) life where Ida helps Eva mourn, Eva helps Ida live, Tom tries valiantly to keep up with them.

Ida and Kalem on some kind of adventure in Stockholm or in the woods.

Ida with one or more of Bahar's kids, as she starts to carefully expand her social circle. Bonus for Bahar having at least one wichy/supernatural kid, and Ida helping her figure out what that means.

Klara: Deserved more! The back half of series 2 would've been better with her, honestly, and she is full of so much life that could be explored!

Anything pre-canon. Meeting Ylva, learning what it means to be one of the hulderfolk, meeting other children of the forest (either the ones we've seen, like Muns and the other changelings, or anything/anyone else you want to draw from Scandifolk mythology).

Fic in the s1-s2 timeskip. Building a garden with Esme. Keeping in cautious, careful touch with Eva, providing her a link back to the forest. Tending to Josefine's tree. Studying with Ylva.

Anything with Esme in general, in the timeskip or in an AU where she never died, because witches and mentorships and how Esme grew from the rightfully distrustful lonely girl she was to someone who uncomplicatedly called Klara her foster mother and left that heartbreaking voicemail have my whole heart.

Post-s2 AU where Esme takes Klara to Stockholm to show her why she found the city so important, or maybe Klara has friends/contacts somewhere else in Finland/Norway/Scotland/wherever that she takes Esme to meet.

Shipfic with Eva. They're less different than they'd like to think, and I really, really wish they'd had more time together in canon. I especially like the idea of a season 1 AU where Klara finds Eva before Ylva - how would Eva handle learning about the forest from someone who initially appears much more similar to herself than from someone who slots more easily into the crone-witch archetype.

Speaking of archetypes, Klara-Eva-Esme as crone-mother-maiden is deeply intriguing, as is Ylva-Eva-Klara as crone-mother-maiden, and I love that there's space to play with both. Take advantage of it!

Resurrection fic, with Esme or Ylva bringing Klara back and helping her readjust to life above ground. Whether the forest gives Klara back (slightly wrong?) or someone brings her back, I'd love anything dealing with improbable survival and learning to live again.

Ylva: I was stunned by how much love the show had for Ylva the first time around, she's such a rare, joyful embrace of all the most wonderful things about the crone archetype despite the pain she's gone through.

Historical fic. She's a couple hundred of years old at minimum, so there's loads of time to play with. Anything about the way myth and history have interacted in Sweden throughout the years, women she's loved, supernatural creatures she's mentored, how Silverhojd was founded.

Mentorship fic with Klara. I will never say no to resurrection fic (especially if Esme is also involved), but pre-canon as well, meetings throughout the years, magic lessons, helping Klara understand who she is.

Ylva and the Josefine tree! Stories of all the times she visits Josefine, stories that she tells Josefine, explorations of what might have happened if she found Josefine during the missing years.

Meeting and mentoring Bahar. Bahar would not be paid enough for what s2 put her through even if she'd taken that promotion, and I would love for her to find Ylva and become more acquainted with the forest.

Ylva and Laila, whether an AU where Ylva finds Laila much earlier and helps her fashion a better life for herself, or whether she helps Laila closer towards a happy ending after s2.

Esmeralda and Eva: Two very different women thrown headfirst into the supernatural with ... well, not even that different of outcomes. They don't get a lot of alone time together - always mediated through Klara or Ylva - and I'd like to see something that centres the two of them together. Esme coming up to the house during the s1-s2 break, writing letters to each other, all of the odd closeness where they care about each other, they could easily fall into a mother-daughter dynamic but they don't and their relationship is better for it.

Ida and Josefine: They understood each other when no one else did, in a way that no one else did, and I'm obsessed with how the forest functions a conduit between them and what affect the Ida-is-a-changeling reveal might have on that. I don't need Josefine to be in human form for this, and honestly it would be super cool if she wasn't. Lean into all the weird wonderful inhuman love and special care these girls have for each other!

I'd love to see something that acknowledges that Josefine is continuing to grow - Ida sneaking off to the forest to sit by Josefine's tree and draw her pictures, maybe.

Dreamsharing! I am super into dreamsharing for them.

Something about Ida's art & activism and how she shares that. I love how Ida acts as voice for Josefine and the forest both, and how Josefine, in human or tree form, might help bring some of Ida's own visions to life in return.

Klara and Ylva: I love them I love them I love them and I'm emotional about cross-generation witch friendships.

Pre-canon fic. Meetings throughout the years, magic lessons, helping Klara understand who she is.

Historical pre-canon fic. Ylva's a couple hundred years old minimum, and while Klara's age is a little more up for debate I'd love to see them watching the town evolve over the centuries.

First meetings! Did Klara always know who she was, or did Ylva teach her the same way they taught Esme together?

Resurrection fic always. Ylva bringing Klara back and helping her readjust to life above ground. Whether the forest gives Klara back (slightly wrong?) or Ylva brings her back, I'd love anything dealing with improbable survival and learning to live again.

The two of them with the Josefine!tree during the s1-s2 timeskip.

Ylva giving Klara relationship advice. If it's current day, I'd like the ship to be Eva/Klara or Klara/Laila, if pre-canon/historical, any woman.

River

General: Gods, this show has so many beautiful things to say about love and loss and grief and I just want to dwell in it a while longer. I interpret Chrissie has having been in love with Stevie but not having recognised/admitted it even to herelf until after she'd died, and my prompts do stem from that interpretation, but if you want to do an AU where there's some element of requited-ness or keep it gen that's also great. Permanent death for Stevie as per canon is fine here.

Chrissie and Rosa: I'd love anything about them finding peace together post-series, especially Rosa helping Chrissie rediscover/reclaim her sexuality (you know that Lesley Manville interview where she talks about how women over 50 should still get to have sex up against a fridge if they want to? Chrissie should get to have sex with Rosa up against a fridge).

Chrissie/Stevie: John's grief over Stevie takes centre stage for most of the show, so if you go for mid- or post-canon, I would really like something that moves the focus over onto Chrissie and her grief here.

Anything where Chrissie sees Stevie like River does. Or not like him - I think Stevie's ghost would mean something very different to Chrissie, and therefore take a very different role in her life.

Pre-canon kisses - the soft, almost-accidental, really-maybe-just-friendly kisses that Chrissie pretends can't mean anything and therefore avoids looking at.

Anything about the pain of being in love with your best friend when you've forgotten how to be in love.

Shetland

General: I'm entirely up to date on canon, but any divergences you want are fine. I like selkie!Rhona AUs, fics that explore the challenges of Shetland life vs mainland life, and Scottish mythology. Explicit Remain-won AUs are delightful, but not necessary as long as I can pretend Remain won and there's no Brexit. Fic in Scottish Gaelic super welcome if you speak it. Background/mentioned Jimmy/Duncan welcome.

Fandom-specific DNW: Rhona permanently moving away from Shetland.

Rhona Kelly: Okay, look, I thought about requesting all the Rhona groups possible, but choices are hard, especially for my favourite. Really I just want more of Rhona, with whoever else sparks joy in your heart. I've given some options here, but feel free to completely ignore them if you've other things you want to explore. Also feel free to mix & match - I would be very happy with, for instance, a story about Rhona navigating the beginnings of a new relationship while still sorting out her feelings about how things ended with Phyllis.

For this canon specifically, I also adore selkie!AUs, in addition to the AUs in my general likes. Whether that's selkie!Rhona balancing her life on the island and in the water, or human!Rhona who happens to befriend/love a selkie woman, you cannot go wrong with selkies.

Rhona/Phyllis in whatever form, including breakup fic. I would genuinely love to see these two pepole who care so much about each other coming to the realisation that, actually, they can't move forward together.

If you're wanting happier Rhona/Phyllis things, stories about their reconciliation - the work Phyllis has to do to regain trust, the slow rebuilding of friendship first, maybe something that starts and stops and has steps backward - or anything pre-canon: getting together, travels around Scotland, negotiating Rhona's move, the first time Phyllis visited, meeting Phyllis' family.

Rhona-centric casefic! Whether that's adapting one of the book mysteries or coming up with something else. Case as the main priority or case as scaffolding for the character drama, either is great.

Rhona / or & Anke Strom, the Norwegian detective from season 4. They're both dealing with massive professional fallout and personal betrayals (I definitely saw Lars as as close to a friend as Anke had at work) and I think they could bond over that.

Rhona/OFC, either pre-Phyllis or post-Phyllis. Pre-canon uni girlfriend? Excellent. First time dating someone she works with? Also excellent! A friend-with-benefits after Phyllis is gone forever? Also excellent! Selkie girlfriend in a magic AU? As you may have guessed by now, also exellent!

Rhona & Cassie, over the years pre-canon or sometime during canon. I love that Cassie has Rhona as a friend who's never expected to be a mother or even really a mother figure to her, and I'd love more of them! Nice picnics on the beach, running into each other and birdwatching on the ferry, bonding over heartbreak at the beginning of season 4.

Rhona & Jimmy, because I love their friendship infinitely. Something epistolary would be lots of fun - emails, paperwork, the like. Jimmy teasing her about her relationship with Phyllis in the early days, Jimmy letting her get drunk and cry on his shoulder at the beach after they break up.

Rhona & or / Tosh, in any/all forms - first meetings, mentorship snapshots, helping Tosh feel comfortable in her body again post-s3.

Series 3 AUs where Asha's fling is with Rhona instead of Jimmy. Whether Rhona's cheating on Phyllis or they were never together, I'd love to see what that changes.

Or anything (platonic or romantic) with Asha post-season 3. I think a lot about Asha's 'a life worth living' line and I suspect it would also be at the forefront of Rhona's mind at that time too - so something about them finding that meaning/(re)connecting to Shetland-as-a-place would be nice.

This one is hugely nerdy and I am not sorry: Scots law has something called the right to roam, which gives everyone rights of access over land and inland water throughout Scotland (with a few exceptions, and as long as they behave responsibly). It's something I'm deeply passionate about and it's something that I like to think Rhona cares a lot about as well, being a fiscal and someone who lives in Shetland. I'd love it if this came up - as part of a case, as something Rhona worked on in the past (The Land Reform (Scotland) Act that codified it was from 2003), anything like that.

The Bletchley Circle

General: I love this show. I love a few postwar murder mysteries about women being smart and relentlessly competent and very good to each other. It brings me so much joy and if this is what we matched on I hope it brings you so much joy too. I will be finished with Bletchley Circle: San Francisco by the time works are revealed but I've only seen the first two episodes as of now, so my prompts don't take it into account.

Y Gwyll

General: I watched the Welsh version of this on S4C (though I've tried to supply American Netflix episode numbers too), and fic in/incorporating Welsh is welcomed if you speak it! Mentions of/references to any of the canon m/f ships is fine (including past ships), though I'd prefer they not be the focus and DNW present-day or future Mared/John. Character death DNW waived for OFC victims in casefic and canon deaths, though I do have a slight preference for Catrin-survives AUs in post-canon fic.

Agnes and Catrin: File under: illustrations of this show's thesis that trying is important even when it's not enough that absolutely break my heart.

Scenes from Catrin's visits to the hotel over the years.

Agnes visiting Catrin in hospital, helping her recover - maybe even to the point Prosser doesn't manage to push her to suicide.

It's not the most realistic, but: post-canon cottagecore dreams where Catrin survives and they revive the hotel together. Agnes remembering why she loved the place, Catrin reclaiming the old children's home.

Jenny James and Catrin John: Their relationship is the backbone of the whole show, and I would love to see more of it from their perspectives.

Fic during the time between Pontarfynach and Helen's murder. I'm fond of epistolary - including unsent letters and journals - as well as the angst of almost-meetings and missed meetings. Thinking so much of each other that they mistake other people in their lives for them until they turn around, planning to meet but not together enough or brave enough to follow through.

On the happier side, AUs where Catrin survives. They both have so much healing to do, together and separately, and Catrin at least was making a lot of progress before she died. Any steps they're able to take together.

Feel free to combine this with the Agnes & Catrin prompts above! Agnes as unexpected connection-facilitator is something I would love to see.

Mared and Siân: They were the two who immediately caught me from the moment Sian tried to slink in late to the team's first briefing. I'm obsessed with how, despite the very real tensions between them, they're still quite close - the same Siân who makes it obvious repeatedly that she would rather be in Cardiff also chose repeatedly to stay and work specifically with Mared, and looks out for her during the investigation in s3. Despite everything they work well together and are concerned with protecting each other. Things I would love include:

Casefic, especially of the semi-low stakes cases that have almost more to do with the interpersonal dynamics of Aberystwyth communities than anything specifically criminal sort.

Things dealing with Welsh mythology! Whether you want to go full-on mythology AU, or they're just discussing their favourite stories, mythology of any sort will delight me.

Late-night quiet conversations of the friendship- or relationship-building sort — bad office coffee at 11pm, complaining about their colleagues' terrible filing habits, &c.

Also excellent conversations to have if they end up going to Cardiff for reasons. Yes they are some of my favourite characters. Yes I am encouraging you to inflict the particular torture of the A470 on them. Ships & friendships alike need roadtrips, and North-South travel in Wales is a whole Thing. Or, if you want them to have longer conversations, stick them on a train. Average Aber-to-Cardiff train is over four hours (not direct).

Anything about the small town/city dynamic in general. Sian showing Mared her favourite places/things, Mared dealing with her feelings of being displaced/overwhelmed.

Pre-canon fic and first meetings, first case worked together, first times, etc

Post-canon fic where they deal with the fallout from the s3 finale.

I very much like the idea that they were together pre-series, recently broken up as of 1x01, and grow back together over the course of the show. It's far from the only take on their relationship that I like, but it is a super under-explored one, and I'd love to see your take on it!

I know it's a lot to ask to get them to talk about their feelings, but I think a lot about the end of 3x02 (3x01 on the American Netflix version) where Siân asks Mared if they're still a team, and Mared says yes ... and then leaves her alone. The lingering shot on Hannah Daniel's face is an absolute gut-punch, and I'd really like something that builds on that. Mared proving Siân's belonging in words or actions, Siân struggling with her trust in Mared, her lack of trust in Tom, and Mared's trust in Tom.