Hurt/Comfort Exchange Letter

Hello! I'm sombregods over here, on AO3, & on tumblr. Thank you for writing for me! hurt/comfort is one of my hardcore kinks, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to love anything you write. <3

DNWs: infidelity, noncon, extreme underage, permanent major character death unless otherwise indicated.

Narrative Likes:

• loyalty kink — blind devotion; oath-swearing; kneeling; elaborate or subtle shows of trust.
• friends to lovers — especially in the together-against-the-world, codependent, "I would burn the world down for you" sense.
• mutual pining — with good reason for not speaking (the world/era they live in may look down on the relationship for homophobic/classist/racist reasons); as a secret to everybody else.
• second chances — exes reuniting; forced to work together; now enemies; lingering resentment, even cruelty, masking hurt; difficult but well-earned reconciliations.
• soulbonds which force the characters into emotional/sensory intimacy.
• enemies to lovers — forced proximity; hatesex; former friends who fell out; "no one can hurt you but me"; can't live with them, can't live without them, etc.
• competence kink — characters being scarily good at what they do.
• floggings, whippings, corporal punishment, esp. if it's stoically endured and the punished character doesn't let themselves break down until much later, if at all.
• "I thought you were dead" angst; esp. with a great deal of grief/mourning beforehand.
• forced intimacy — sharing a bed, a bath; all the more if there's mutual pining or a heavy history thrown in.
• imprisonments, fairly or unfairly.
• corruption to the dark side, falls from grace.
• fevers, illnesses, wounds that provoke confessions or difficult conversations.
• revenge, resentment, anger issues, trust issues.
• divinity made mortal, or wounded, or killed.
• villains in love.
• stoicism in the face of suffering and/or arousal.
• protectiveness and possessiveness to the point of unhealthy obsession.
• "we can't ever be together because …" angst.
• worlds or societies in which being oneself — gender, sexuality, race, religion — is repressed by the powers that be, and all the internalized shame or complications that might entail, especially internalized homophobia in a historical setting.
• social etiquette respected to the letter but concealing subtler messages of acceptance or rejection.
• costume porn!!!!

Kink Likes:

 

• tenderness, especially if it's completely unexpected either by the character receiving it or from the character giving it.
• kissing — endless make outs are a+; ditto kissing inner thighs, inside of the wrist, bared throats; also kissing so desperately they can't stop.
• frottage, esp. of the frantic"can't get my hands off of you long enough to take off our clothes" variation.
• intercrural.
• violence disguised as gentleness, and gentleness disguised as violence; or gestures that can as easily be interpreted as either, depending on the context/who is involved/who is watching.
• public claimings.
• slavery scenarios in which the slave feels as humiliated and repulsed by their state as they are guiltily aroused by it — I'm not much into pure humiliation, but "I shouldn't want this but I do/I hate it but I love it" = yes yes please.
• religion kink, heresy, sacrilege.
• markings, brandings, tattoos.
• vore, even more so in magical realism.
• dubious consent across the board.
• under-negotiated kink — especially in historical or fantasy settings where our 21st century understanding of consent may not be mirrored exactly; give me characters who have no idea what they're doing but holy shit they're doing it anyway
• body worship.
• in the same vein, bootkissing, bootlicking, boot-blacking.
• sex during a high fever, maybe to the point that the feverish character can't be quite sure it happened afterwards.
• sex rituals related to a hierarchy or a monarchy — ie. fucking a new slave to ensure their obeisance, public consummation of a marriage, etc.
• face-fucking.
• virginity, inexperience vs. experience, esp. if the virginity is ritual, ie. a vow of chastity, a deliberately austere character who keeps themselves from earthly pleasures, etc.
• manhandling, pinning by the wrists/hips, fighting during sex, slapping.
• talking during sex — not just dirty talk but regular conversations that are so important even the sex can't interrupt them, ie. political debates, personal convictions, strong disagreements, etc.

Fandoms

Roswell, New Mexico

The little fandom that can :') I am a sucker for pining and for reunions à la Persuasion, and it's delivering in spades.

Pairings: Michael Guerin/Alex Manes & Kyle Valenti (hurt Alex), Michael Guerin/Alex Manes (hurt Michael), Michael Guerin/Alex Manes (hurt Alex)

Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending; breakup angst; Mutual Pining; Traumatic Backstory Revelations; Prophetic Visions; Bar Room Brawl; Character's Secret Feelings Are Exposed Against Their Wishes; Drunkenness; emotional breakdown; Loneliness; Keeping the hurt secret; Fever; Feverish Confessions; Getting Back Together; Difficulty adjusting to prosthetics; Experiencing Another's Pain Through Psychic Bond; Accidental Soul Bond; Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid; Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection

Prompts:

• more casual sex where things remain unsaid! Alex stays and then leaves, and Michael acts out in response! bar brawls, ending up in the drunk tank, drunken confessions that he doesn't remember the next day, longing glances, half-conversations and double meanings, having to act natural in front of everyone else, dismissive cruelty to protect themselves, crushed hopes that get reignited the next time they look at each other … feel free to pull out all the cliché romance tropes inherent in their dynamic; I will love them all. A tentative happy ending, maybe?
• somehow, their relationship is revealed to [insert character here; Kyle would work, but Isobel or Liz & Maria would be perfect as well]. What happens next? Does either of them try to deny it? What is the other's reaction?
• in the same vein, Michael's nature as an alien is revealed to Alex, in some way involving his dad, Kyle, or Max & Isobel. I would love for Michael to shut himself off in self-defence, and for Alex to have to work to understand exactly who he's been in love with for a decade.
• in some fashion related or unrelated to his being an alien, Michael falls ill. Alex is, for [reasons], the one who has to take care of him. Feverish confessions ensue.
• some kind of soul bonding would be excellent. Maybe it happened ten years ago, and they've been feeling each other's emotions all along without quite knowing it; maybe it happens now, and they're hit with the force of their feelings for each other all at once. Feel free to combine this with the previous prompt!
• Alex is hurt — badly; run over, perhaps, or shot. Michael begs Max to heal him; Max refuses; cue furious "you'll save the person you love but not the person I love?" declarations.

Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

e/R is one of my oldest ships, and very dear to my heart. I love them best in canon era, but I can be seduced to the modern AU side if it's set in France!

Pairings: Enjolras/Grantaire (hurt Grantaire), Enjolras/Grantaire (hurt Enjolras), Enjolras/Grantaire (both hurt)

Tags: Bootkissing; Aftermath of Tragedy/Catastrophe; Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape; Drunkenness; Forced to watch other character's trauma; Stoic Suffering; Time Loop; unexpected tenderness; Holding Hands; fuck or die with at least one character still being a virgin; Dysfunctional Relationships; Fever; casual/dismissive cruelty; Character expects to be punished for failure but is shown unexpected concern; Character volunteers to be punished on behalf of other character; Loyalty; Loss of Control; Sharing a Bed; Touch-Starved; Inexperienced Character is Afraid of Not Being Able to Sexually Please Experienced Partner

Prompts:

• I am an absolute sucker for virgin!Enjolras. Priest of the revolution, no self-indulgences, etc. But I would imagine that he would also, for a lack of a better term, want to master the topic absolutely once he had broached it. Therefore: E coming to R before the barricade and asking if he's down to fuck? (Because, you know, bootkissing.) If you include E as tentative, touched-starved and hating it; and R half-drunk still, scared of doing the wrong thing, and yet shown unexpected tenderness — I will love it forever.
• time loop! I'd love it if Enjolras was the one reliving the barricade — Grantaire has known all along that he would die for him, but Enjolras, post permets-tu, would need time to … adjust. So give him time — over and over again, his friends' deaths, Grantaire's death, his own death, in different ways, with no evident way to break the loop, but getting to see R with new eyes throughout.
• say they survive the barricade — what do the National Guard do with them? You might choose to go full id, and have them in a Fuck or Die situation; or they might be thrown in jail, awaiting trial or summary execution and have to work together to escape. Undergoing punishment of some kind; seeing each other undergoing punishment; comforting each other at the end of all things.

Coriolanus - Shakespeare

Options! there are tons of them! I would love both a canon-setting and an AU-setting for these two —apocalypse, post-apocalypse, sometime in the future, totally different historical setting, fantasy? go for it.

Pairings: Tullus Aufidius/Caius Martius (both hurt)

Tags: Accidental Soul Bond; Apocalypse; Arranged Marriage To The Enemy To Cement Ceasefire/Peace Treaty; Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane; Dubious Consent; Character is used to others being afraid of them; Swordfighting; Stabbing; Stitching wounds; Sex Pollen; unexpected tenderness; Betrayal; Forced to Rely on Enemy; Daemon AU - Nonconsensual Daemon Touching; Character's worldview is irreparably shattered; Violence Disguised as Gentleness; Honour stained from halting ritual combat; comforting a berserker; Captivity; whipping/flogging

Prompts:

• a daemon AU would be splendid. How do daemons act on the battlefield? What happens when one of them tries to kill the other by touching/harming his daemon?
• ditto a soulbond/soulmark. I would love both variations on this, honestly—both the "we've always been soulmates and that involves trying to kill each other over and over" option and the "oh FUCK now we're soul bonded and we [feel each other's emotions/can read each other's thoughts/want to fuck our brains out]" option are delicious.
• post-Martius' betrayal (first betrayal, of Rome) and defection to Aufidius' side, some sort of wound care (and maybe flashbacks to their fights)! also, bedsharing, for reasons. I love the idea of these two scarred, traumatized, battle-hardened warriors finding small unexpected comfort in each other, especially if Martius is still reeling from how completely his loyalties and worldview have shifted.
• alternately: instead of killing Martius, Aufidius takes him prisoner. Cue imprisonment, punishment, whipping—both of them still hurting from the betrayal, both of them still remembering what it felt to be together. Or: an eventual arranged marriage to cement peace!

Hannibal - TV

This is the only fandom where Major Character Death would be appreciated — so long as it's either applied to both characters (ie: mutual suicide, going out in a blaze of glory) or committed by one of them unto the other (and maybe consensual, even. Or not! Up to you). It doesn't have to end in death at all, though — give them a murderingly ever after!

Pairings: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter (both hurt), Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal hurt)

Tags: Alone against the rest of the world; Cooking; Assassination Attempt(s); Cleaning/treating wounds; Captivity; Character Lays Waste To Enemies Who Barely Scratch Their Loved One(s) In A Fight; Codependency; Cold bath to bring down fever; Fever sex; Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane; Emotional/Psychological Abuse; Temporary Amnesia; On the Run; fall from grace; Forced to watch other character's trauma; Guiltily Aroused by Loved One's Distress; Knife Wounds; Mistakenly Believes the Other is Dead; Protectiveness

Prompts:

• so, speaking of death. I'd love to see them die infamously — surrounded by police, taking out as many as they can, maybe in an explosion of some kind. Just have them in each other's arms at the end.
• alternately, have one of them believe the other is dead. Maybe Will is shot down and taken into custody while apparently dead, and Hannibal swears bloody revenge upon … well, everyone. Or Hannibal is the one who's captured, and Will goes full murderhusband on the police. Feel free to have the imprisoned character suffer, if it makes the revenging character that much more furious about it.
• an amnesia plot would be awesome, whichever one of them suffers from it. Will is the more obvious choice — what would s1 or s2 Will do, faced with the evidence that he's fled with Hannibal? — but an earlier Hannibal might be hard-pressed to believe he's sacrificed so much for Will, too. It'd be interesting.
• Hannibal falls ill. Will tries to take care of him. Badly. (Or not that badly!) But think cooking for him, putting him in a bath, feverish tenderness, disgusting domesticity. Or, on the darker side, have Will emotionally manipulate him in that state, for a change.
• post-finale fic! so many things are open to interpretation — taking care of their wounds after their fall from the cliff, of course, but also Will adapting to his new life, accepting his fall from grace and corruption, struggling with his morality and how fragile it is.

The Penumbra Podcast

Pairing: Juno Steel/Peter Nureyev (Juno hurt)

Tags: Soulmate AU - Broken Soulbond; breakup angst; Character won't stop getting up no matter how many times they get hit; Temporary Amnesia; Character Lies About What They Remember; Character in Fake Relationship thinks Partner Hates Them; first meeting after a horrible break up; missing the other character; Time Travel - Older and Younger Versions of the Same Character Meet; Undercover as a Couple – mutually pining characters forced to have sex to keep their cover; Miscommunication; Forced to speak truthfully; Collapsing from exhaustion; Enduring Pain to Protect Another; Holding Hands; Pushing through injury; Sharing a Bed; casual/dismissive cruelty; Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid; Rescued character thinks they're hallucinating rescue

Prompts:

• for these two, I want alllllllll the breakup angst; I refuse to believe they'd jump back in bed together without at least some awkwardness, hurt feelings, complicated conversations, and longing glances. Have Peter be angry, have him lash out with exquisite cruelty; show Juno's guilt, how much he's missed him, but also … how much he's changed, over the past season: how much of himself has transformed and become stronger.
• if, in the course of the breakup angst, they have to fake a relationship again — and possibly end in a very compromising position? — I will love you forever. f o r e v e r.
• alternately, while they still haven't dealt with their shit, have Juno fall ill and Peter take care of him, unable to help himself — give me Juno stoically gritting his teeth and carrying on despite his illness, until he eventually breaks down in Peter's arms!
• amnesia, if Peter is the one who suffers from it: either he doesn't know Juno at all (in which case Juno suffers), or he remembers him from before Juno left (in which case Juno also suffers).
• Juno takes a shot meant for Peter. Peter deals badly. Look, I'm a simple gal with simple tastes.

Original Work

I split these requests between the Friends/Loyalty category and the Enemies/Antagonism category, for simplicity's sake; but feel free to use tags from either requests. The tags themselves have ideas and concepts that might not be explicitly addressed in the prompts; pick and choose as you like.

Pairings: Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Adviser and Childhood Friend (hurt Prince); Celebrity/High School Sweetheart they Left Behind to be Famous (both hurt); Disgraced Empress/Her Last Loyal Female Bodyguard (empress hurt); Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Adviser and Childhood Friend (hurt Friend)

Tags: Alone against the rest of the world; Bathing/Washing; Character's worldview is irreparably shattered; Loss of status/authority; Temporary Loss of Divinity; Publicly repudiated by family; aftermath of breakup; Aftermath of Temporary Character Death; Blindness; Casual Sex while Secretly Pining; Codependency; Fever; Exhaustion; Guilt over past actions; Internalized Homophobia; Touch-Starved; Tenderness; Protectiveness; Comfort Sex - Love Is Requited But None Of The Participants Realize It

Prompts:

• Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Adviser and Childhood Friend (hurt Prince): since the Prince is the hurt receivee, I'd rather enjoy some competence kink thrown in there! whether he fall ill, is poisoned, is accused of treason — let his friend take over and completely annihilate the people responsible before taking care of him.
• Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Adviser and Childhood Friend (hurt Friend): the other option! I'd love to see how furiously protective the Prince might be of his hurt friend — maybe he throws his ideals to the wayside to avenge him, or sends for the most famous doctors of the realm to cure his ailment. Bedside vigils are a big big plus.
• Celebrity/High School Sweetheart they Left Behind to be Famous (both hurt): I am such a sucker for reunion fic, and I would love to see how it might turn out here — does the celebrity return to his old town? does the sweetheart move to a different place, only to find out (shock!) that his newest friend is best buds with his own ex? social media fic would be lovely, if you're so inclined.
• Disgraced Empress/Her Last Loyal Female Bodyguard (empress hurt): I am dying to know how the Empress was disgraced, and why; likewise, what her relationship with her bodyguard is like — deferential? intimate? formal? were they friends before the empress became so? why is the bodyguard loyal to her? you can make the hurt emotional ("how dare they depose me!") or physical (assassination attempts, maybe), but I would love some loyalty kink in the comfort section — oath-swearing, fealty, hand-kissing, etc.

Pairings: Warlord Brother/Sorcerer Brother (both hurt); Corrupt Edwardian Politician/Working-Class Revolutionary (politician hurt); Deposed Prince Sold Into Slavery/Male Friend Who Betrayed Him (prince hurt); Rich Male Aristocrat/Lower Class Husband Forced into Marrying Him (hurt husband); Rich Male Aristocrat/Lower Class Husband Forced into Marrying Him (hurt aristocrat); Male Serial Killer/Male Cop He's Seducing With Artful Corpses (male cop hurt)

Tags: Soulmate AU - Villain Soulmate; Political Betrayal; Captivity; Character's worldview is irreparably shattered; Corporal Punishment; Dubious Consent; Emotional Manipulation; Loss of political/military power; Only Enemy Knows About Hurt; Protecting a Hated Enemy; Arranged Marriage To The Enemy To Cement Ceasefire/Peace Treaty; fall from grace; Long Overdue Breaking Point; Sensory Deprivation; The Villians Have Won; War Trophy - Tending to Captive's Battle Injuries; Violence Disguised as Gentleness; Forced Loss of Control; Anxiety Or Angst Over Socio-Economic Differences; Enemy taunts friends/partner for not noticing character's injuries/trauma

Prompts:

• Warlord Brother/Sorcerer Brother (both hurt): I am rather seeing these two as enemies, or at least antagonists. You might have them in a war, knowing one of them must kill the other but still remembering their childhood together; or at court, staging elaborate assassination attempts on each other. Or one takes the other prisoner, and punishes him viciously, or treats him as a war trophy. Think physical vs. emotional hurt — maybe they believe they're the only one still caring for the other.
• Corrupt Edwardian Politician/Working-Class Revolutionary (politician hurt): I would love it if the politician and the revolutionary knew each other once. Maybe the politician interferes in a protest and is wounded; maybe he's taken prisoner by the revolutionary group; maybe the revolutionary has to choose between the man he loves and his cause? one way or another, divided loyalties and guilt + class warfare = a+++.
• Deposed Prince Sold Into Slavery/Male Friend Who Betrayed Him (prince hurt): feel free to go slavefic all the way in this. I'd love the prince to go down fighting, and to resent his new status, perhaps even to try and find ways to escape it; if his betrayer chooses to punish him for it, or decides to make a public claim on him, all the better. Dubious consent meets resentment and unwitting desire.
• Rich Male Aristocrat/Lower Class Husband Forced into Marrying Him (hurt husband) & Rich Male Aristocrat/Lower Class Husband Forced into Marrying Him (hurt aristocrat): why was the lower class husband forced into marrying him? meddling relatives? political reasons? were they caught in a compromising situation? I'd rather the aristocrat weren't the one forcing him; make them both trying to grapple, with difficulty, with their new relationship. If you go for emotional hurt, think people looking down on the husband, making him feel the class difference; if physical, the aristocrat might get hurt to protect the man he thinks hates him, or an illness brings them closer together…
• Male Serial Killer/Male Cop He's Seducing With Artful Corpses (male cop hurt): I really, really want the male cop to be hurt on the job somehow — perhaps another criminal shoots him? or a partner fails him at a critical moment? — and the serial killer goes Full Revenge on whoever's responsible. Think also the serial killer leaving the cop little marks of his affections on his corpses, and the cop is drawn to him despite himself but also completely revulsed — go for the angst of wanting to bone a man you really, really shouldn't bone.

Whatever you choose — and whether you decide to go completely off-track from those prompts; they're just ideas, I would love pretty much anything within the tags — I hope you have fun!