lucymonster | MCU Space Ships 2019

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Dear creator,

Thanks so much for creating for me! hope you'll find me an easy recipient: this letter includes a selection of my favourite things for inspiration, but I also love surprises and am very open to anything you'd like to do.

I love space-related worldbuilding. One of my favourite things about cosmic MCU is all the different worlds and cultures it contains, and how easily those can clash in tragic or enlightening or hilarious ways. I’m interested in whatever the galactic version of globalisation is, and the politics on every scale, from interplanetary down to minutely local. I’m interested in weird, wild landscapes and uncharted wildernesses and the dangers of being out there in a void that’s hostile to every form of life with nothing but the thin shell of your spaceship to protect you.

I also love the fish-out-of-water aspect of alien races trying to muddle their way through life on Earth. For any ship I’ve requested, I’d be interested in seeing them grounded here – on purpose or by horrible accident – and learning to deal with human cultures and lifestyles and technologies.

I’m not too fussed about canonical timelines – it’s the characters I really love, and as long as they’re involved, I’m open to anything from canon-plausible missing scenes through to ‘fuck it, the Infinity Stones were nothing but a fever dream and everyone’s just hanging out’.

My approach to shipping is pretty handwavey. I'm equally happy with tropey, smutty romance or with gennish pre-ship. I also love dark takes on my ships, including noncon, horror, and fic where they downright hate each other. Past ships, background ships, love triangles and poly are all fine by me. If I haven't explicitly DNW'd a thing then I'm open to receiving it in good faith, even if it's something you might consider niche or opt-in.

I’m lucymonster on ao3.

Thanks again, and happy space shipping!

General info

⛔ Do Not Want

explicit under-18 smut (fade-to-black or ageing up OK)
parent-child incest
extreme gore, graphic internal damage, genital bleeding/cutting/tearing
trope AUs such as a/b/o, soulmates, D/s 'verse etc
pure fluff
as kinks: scat, emeto, vore, necro, bestiality, lactation
graphic depictions of needles, injections, transfusions or blood-drinking
issuefic, bashing
poetry
unwarned major character death (tag or author’s note appreciated!).

⭐ Story likes

In general, my favourite stories are the ones where the characters feel like real, live, messy and imperfect people. I love fics that are thought-provoking or uncomfortable to read. I love to relax into well-earned (or not-so-well-earned) moments of happiness for my otherwise beleaguered faves. I love to laugh. Favourite themes include:

anything with a strong character focus
characters who are flawed and abrasive and challenging to love; difficult or dysfunctional relationships
dark/gritty/moody aesthetics
imperfect happiness, bittersweet undertones, unfulfilled yearning
ensemble casts, background characters, outsider POV
mundane details, little moments of human vulnerability
politics, bureaucracy, propaganda
banter, snark, gallows humour, quippiness
guilty pleasures: denying them, suppressing them, and finally giving into temptation and indulging oneself
tropes: hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, fake relationships, bodyswap
descriptions of food, characters eating or sharing food, food as comfort
military kink: uniforms, weapons, ‘sir’
harsh environments, brutal weather, survival/adventure stories
redemption (or failed redemption)
crack treated seriously
non-standard formats: drabbles, non-linear, epistolary, social media, in-universe meta.

💀 Dark likes

Honestly, go as brutal and fucked-up as you like. There's no such thing as too dark. I love my horror both overt and covert - if you're not feeling the in-your-face disasterfest, by all means creep me out with subtle insinuations or dark twists to sweet-seeming premises. Some favourite themes:

noncon/dubcon (see my nonconathon letter for a laundry list of kinks I love)
bad guys win, good guys go bad
grey morality, antiheroes, villain-centred morality
extremist politics, callous bureaucracies, the mundane horrors of life under the jackboot
'ugly' mental illness: violence, paranoia, self-destructiveness, warped thinking
psychological horror
coercion, blackmail, abuse of power
victim blaming
physical torture: flogging, beating, burrning, bone-breaking, electrocuting
psychological/'enhanced interrogation' style torture: sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, extreme noise and temperature, deliberate humiliation.

🍑 Smut likes

Character-driven smut is my jam. I love sex that says something about the people involved, offbeat sex scenes, sex that's awkward and imperfect and humanising, unusual erogenous zones and intimate details about the characters' bodies. Favourite kinks include:

character-driven smut
orgasm delay/denial, sexual frustration, begging
coming too quickly, loss of control, getting overwhelmed
crying after sex
rough sex, hate sex, power imbalances
humiliation, verbal insults, gendered slurs
frottage, dry humping, clothed sex
sex pollen, fuck-or-die
different erogenous zones, being sensitive in non-genital places
anal sex (het or slash), double or multiple penetration
sounding, watersports, forced wetting
public use, gangbangs
loss of virginity, inexperience, clumsy sex
praise kink
scar worship
uncomfortable, consensual-but-unpleasant type sex
under-negotiated kinks; any level of complex, problematic or questionable consent.

🎨 Art likes

dark colour palettes, black and white, splashes of blood red and bruise purple
moody, gothy or industrial aesthetics
light and shadows
movement: rippling hair, action poses, billowing clothes, etc
almost-but-not-quite touches, little tense moments where the intimacy could easily break and never happen
emotive faces: yearning looks, welling tears, pain, joy, wistfulness, fleeting smiles
fight scenes, violence, visible injuries, little rivers of blood/tears/sweat
holding someone tight (clenching hands, straining arms, fierceness)
comic panels, manga style, chibis (especially darkly cute chibi characters who in canon are all tough and grim).

Requested ships

Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers/Minn-Erva

I love the emotional imbalance in this ship: Vers with her friendliness and eagerness to please, Minn-Erva's cool indifference and dislike.

Pre-canon, I'd love to see them on a mission together. Forced cooperation, huddling for warmth, any and all adventure or missionfic tropes. Maybe one of them gets hurt and the other has to help them back to safety - heroically on Vers' part, or resentfully on Minn-Erva's? Maybe they meet some sort of sex pollen or fuck-or-die predicament? Maybe it's an undercover mission, and they have to pretend to be girlfriends?

Post-canon, I'd love to see them reunited after Minn-Erva's plane crash (which she totally survived thanks to reasons). Does Minn-Erva make it back home, or is she stranded on C-53? Does she blame Carol for what happened to her? Is she out for revenge - or perhaps redemption?

Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau/Minn-Erva

Carol: What happens when her Kree and human lives intersect? I wonder if Minn-Erva was someone that she, in her Vers phase, tried to look to as a Maria replacement - the only other woman on an all-male team except that, unlike Maria, Minn-Erva was never interested in bonding over the fact. Now that Carol has Maria back, surely Minn-Erva shouldn't matter any more. But she does.

Minn-Erva: How might she find herself a new place on Earth? I love fish-out-of-water stories and culture clashes of all kinds, and would love to see something about Minn-Erva adjusting to life away from Kree civilisation with the help of her long-suffering girlfriends. Or of she's still in antagonist mode, how might she feel witnessing Carol and Maria's closeness? Maybe it'll suit her goals to use them against each other?

Maria: Man, she took it like a champ when her long lost best friend showed up in her home, manifesting weird new magic powers and unable to remember any of her past life. How's she going to feel when a whole new Kree expat shows up in her life, cut off from her homeworld with nowhere else to go, vulnerable and maybe still just a little homicidally dangerous?

Maria Rambeau/Minn-Erva

Stuck on Earth after crashing her ship, Minn-Erva goes looking for - what? A place to stay while she figures out her way back home? An indirect way to avenger herself on Carol? Help adjusting to her new, unwanted life on this shithole backwater planet?

Or please feel free to draw from my Carol/Minn-Erva or Carol/Minn-Erva/Maria prompts, as my interests here aren't that different.

Minn-Erva/Yon-Rogg, Carol Danvers/Minn-Erva/Yon-Rogg

So, what’s Starforce life like? These guys are the creme de la creme of the Kree empire, its most elite defenders and champions. But underneath the glamour and their casual camaraderie, there’s a seething mess of secrets and rivalries and clashing agendas. Some things I’d love to see:

Starforce missions going very right (competence porn) or very wrong (stranded together, whump, hurt/comfort).
Yon-Rogg and Minn-Erva’s political machinations and their efforts to win the Supreme Intelligence’s approval and all the attendant high status. Vers being the painfully earnest one who buys all their platitudes hook, line and sinker.
Minn-Erva’s backstory, how she got involved in the Kree military and became the elite warrior she is today.
Post-Captain Marvel, Minn-Erva and Yon-Rogg deal with their failures. Do they make it back to Hala to face the Supreme Intelligence? Do they both end up stranded on C-53? Do they have each other’s backs or are they ready to throw each other under the bus?

Minn-Erva/Kree Supreme Intelligence

I'm here for mindfuck, manipulation, and an all-knowing superior officer who takes just a little too much interest in Minn-Erva's personal life. Who does Minn-Erva see when she visits the Supreme Intelligence? Is it Vers? Maybe she goes back after her failure in battle, and is shocked and enraged to find that the Intelligence has taken on an all-too-familiar and unwelcome new shape. Or maybe it's an OC - a friend, a mentor, a sister or fellow soldier? What's the backstory there?

How does the Supreme Intelligence handle Minn-Erva? Does it fuel her Kree pride, or cruelly punish her every weakness, or reward her loyalty with hedonistic failures? Minn-Erva toes the Kree party line so closely, she seems the type to care deeply what the Intelligence thinks of her.

Kree Supreme Intelligence/Yon-Rogg

That Jude Law/Jude Law deleted scene was just too iddy for words. The masturbatory self-obsession! The brutal, humiliating mockery! I’m here for self-obsession, weirdly fragile ego, mindfuck, and the intimacy of knowing someone’s every darkest secret and exactly how to hit them where they live.

I’m also here for Jude Law having rough, degrading, dubconny sex with Jude Law. Because, you know.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Gamora/Nebula (Marvel)

I found that scene in the second GotG movie where Gamora had Nebula chained up deeply inspiring! I’d love any whumpy, angsty badwrong where they work out their family issues through some good old-fashioned hatesex. How does sex work for Nebula, after everything Thanos has done to her body? Can she still feel pleasure in that way? I’d also adore any sisterly(ish) hurt/comfort, or maybe something where Gamora takes pity and finally feeds Nebula a nice ripe yaro root.

I'm also heavily into anything related to the Two Nebulas subplot in Endgame, or the time travel thing in general. The chance for an older, wiser version of one of them to reach out and connect with the other’s dysfunctional younger self. The chance to go back and mend old hurts, to fix old regrets, to say things that were left unsaid. Threesome with two versions of Nebula at once.

Gamora/Mantis, Gamora/Mantis/Nebula, Mantis/Nebula

I'm thinking of maybe a forced-cooperation scenario where a mission or adventure brings these two together? Mantis isn't exactly a 'proper' warrior by the standards of Thanos’s children, but her psychic skills are undeniably powerful and she has a knack for getting past other people's stoic bullshit to what's really going on inside their heads.

Or maybe some telepathic hurt/comfort? Mantis's ability to work with people's feelings meets Nebula or Gamora’s bottomless well of trauma and rage?

Yes please to all the quirky dialogue, empathic whump and general xeno weirdness.

Nebula/Ronan the Accuser

Thanos’s most devoted daughter meets the Kree’s most zealous warlord. I’d love this dark: toxic mutual rivalry as they pursue their parallel agendas under Thanos, or fierce loyalty as they join forces in grinding their enemies’ bones beneath their boots. Cultish extremism either way, or public cultish extremism hiding deeply private doubts and miseries. Fight sex, hate sex or straight up noncon in either direction.

Or on a lighter (?) note, maybe Ronan survives Xandar and they meet again in the future once Thanos’s reign of terror has ended? Have time and experience softened their sharp edges at all or moved them to take a less murderous view of the galaxy?

Minn-Erva/Proxima Midnight, Gamora/Proxima Midnight, Proxima Midnight/Nebula

I love this jolie laide goth with her murderous strength and brutal cultish zealotry. I love the aesthetic of her armour and the alien magic of her horns. I love her weird, husky voice and her savage style of fighting. I love that despite being a perfect specimen of Thanos’s brainwashing, she’s still canonically capable of love – speaking of which, I don’t mind a bit what you do with her husband. Include him or ignore him, break them up or have them still together, pretend he was never born or kill him in front of her for the angst, whatever works best for your story!

My prompts for these ships are similar enough that I’m grouping them together. Proxima is such a rare character that I’m honestly going to relish anything at all you do with her, but here are some ideas that come to mind:

Training with Thanos’s other children: hostility and rivalry, or mutual comfort and cooperation in the shared desperate struggle to survive.
Working together with the Kree – possibly through Ronan the Accuser?
Missions for the Black Order: assassinations, planetary occupations, acquiring or training new soldiers, spooky space adventures, competence porn.
The little moments of need and emotional vulnerability that all her training never quite beat out of her.

Minn-Erva

Gamora/Minn-Erva, Gamora/Minn-Erva/Nebula, Minn-Erva/Nebula

Minn-Erva meets one or more angry, battle-hardened daughters of Thanos in the line of duty - perhaps while Nebula was working with Ronan the Accuser, or while Gamora was sneaking around the galaxy as an assassin for hire. Are they forced to cooperate, to fight together? Are they at odds with each other and forced to fight?

I don't follow the comics and so don't know much about the Kree, but I'm very interested in worldbuilding about their civilisation in an MCU context. How do they fit into the wider galaxy? What do non-Kree like Gamora and Nebula think of the Kree’s view of themselves as the chosen people? How do the Kree feel about Thanos, and what’s Minn-Erva’s attitude towards his children?

I also ship Gamora and Nebula together, so if you go the triad or threesome route, you're very welcome to write them as a separate or established couple!

Loki/Minn-Erva

Let these two fight for the title of bitchiest blue-skinned goth in all the Nine Realms! I love their snark and cynicism, and the fact that they’re both on the hands-off end of the fighting spectrum: Minn-Erva with her sniper rifle, Loki with his magic and illusions, both of them physically unimposing and both of them absolutely lethal. They’re also intelligent and educated, if you go with the extra-canon tidbit that Minn-Erva has a medical background.

I’d love to see them bond over being (as far as they’re concerned) the smart, strategic ones in a room full of muscular meatheads. I’d love to see Loki on Hala ingratiating himself with the Kree top brass, as he tends to do wherever he goes. Or maybe they’ve both survived their respective canon ordeals and are exiles of a sort, alienated from their homeworlds and floating around space and/or Earth finding shady ways to keep themselves alive. Maybe, having lost their homes, the two of them find a new kind of belonging together.

Minn-Erva/Ronan the Accuser

I’d love to see Ronan’s larger-than-life fanaticism played off against someone a bit more grounded. Minn-Erva is a good loyal Kree on the surface, but I love the idea of her having misgivings or at least a bit of cynicism underneath. Ronan is the type to break off on his own to prosecute a holy war against an enemy species; Minn-Erva is the type to stay out of politics and follow orders and prioritise impressing her superiors over everything else.

Any dark, twisted take on this ship would be amazing. Maybe the Supreme Intelligence is tired of Ronan’s antics and Minn-Erva gets sent to neutralise him. Or maybe as a younger and less hardened recruit, she gets assigned to help him on his anti-Xandar mission and gets hit in the face by the full gory weight of what the Kree are doing to the rest of the galaxy. Maybe he asks more of her than she’s able to give. Maybe she’s forced to give it anyway.

Thor

Actor Who Plays Thor/Actor Who Plays Loki

Please tell me more about the lives of these two great actors bringing the magic of theatre to the people of Asgard. How do they feel their big break on the king's stage is working out for them? Do they have any professional rivalries or artistic differences? How do they make time for romance in their lives, when they're both so clearly married to the craft?

Feel free to ham it up as much as you like - I'm here for high court drama, self-serious love affairs and all the intrigue in the world. Or maybe you'd rather go really cynical? They're just B-list actors who dreamed of greatness but couldn't make it to the top, and now they're grinding away to pay the bills?

Honestly, I'll love anything. I'm just so charmed by this whole concept.

Actor Who Plays Thor/Actor Who Plays Loki/Loki, Actor who Plays Loki/Loki, Actor Who Plays Thor/Loki

Our dashing Thespians meet their royal benefactor! Along with any of the prompts above, I’d also love to see more of the dysfunctional emotional cravings that made Loki commission a play like that in the first place. Please feel free to make it as weird, cracky, angsty, psychosexual and/or selfcesty as you like.

Dark-crack version: noncon/extreme dubcon with one or both actors forced to take their role to increasingly unsettling places as Loki uses them to channel all his family angst and desire to control and dominate.

Gamora/Loki/Nebula/Thor (Marvel)

Double the incest! I’m very into the parallels between Gamora/Nebula and Thor/Loki: both non-biological siblings with Strong Feelings about how they came to be related, both brimming with family angst and plagued by inferiority complexes (Loki and Nebula), both desperate to connect but also willing to kill if it comes to that (Thor and Gamora).

I’d love something angsty and psychological, but I’d equally love a good old-fashioned space romp: all four have fun powers and strong personality and keen senses of humour, and a team-up would be spectacular. I’d love to see Gamora and Nebula on some pre-canon Thanos-related mission to Asgard, or Thor and Loki meeting two mysterious assassin sisters on a journey through their Nine Realms. During or after canon, I’d love to see their paths cross as they’re out there trying to put the pieces of their lives back together and resettle the tumultuous galaxy. Also very open to any kind of canon-divergent AU that gets these four in the same place all at once.

Loki/Nebula, Gamora/Loki/Nebula

Any of the above minus Thor would be awesome! I’d also love to see Loki cross paths with one or both sisters during his Tesseract-era dealings with Thanos.