Dear Extreme Deadline Writer!
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redleaderficHELLO ExD WRITER! :D This letter is very late but I'm so happy you're writing for me and can't wait for there to be more wrestlefic in the world.
This letter is already a LOT so I did not give prompts for every character requested but I am 100% great with gen, so if you want to write Christopher Daniels trying to fight down in nerves on the way to winning the titles or Finn dealing with the Demon during rehab (I love the Demon) or Corey causing trouble, go for it. I am hear for anything.
Likes: Hurt/Comfort, (LOVE h/c!) UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen, getting it on in the locker rooms after matches, dramatic rescues, road trips, spur of the moment bondage, missing scenes/episode tags, wall sex, time travel. Any rating, G rated fluff to explicit more than welcome
DNWs: deathfic (unless undone by magic/time travel/etc! Then bring it on!) non-con, A/B/O, D/s with lots of negotiation. Kayfabe only!
AU: My favorite AU types are superhero, medieval (wrestling maps onto that SURPRISINGLY WELL!) and especially spy aus, but I'm up to try anything as long as the canon dynamics stay the same (Seth's traitorous tendencies, Finn being demon possessed, that kind of thing.) I also really dig canon divergence AUs, whether fix-it or really, really not.
I am very into wrestling soulmates, ESPECIALLY when there's significant effort put into denying and repressing it because being soulmates is nothing but trouble. Helpless sucker for it.
TNA
AJ Styles/Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels/AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels/AJ Styles/Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles
That stretch of 2005-2006 where it seemed like every episode of Impact had some combination of AJ vs Daniels vs Joe is one of my favorite eras of wrestling, period. I would love ANYTHING set then or spinning out of then. I ship AJ/Daniels very hard, they’re one of my longest standing OTPs, and ship Joe with both, especially if he’s playing the other two against each other.
• Post-Genesis fic, with guilty AJ having all kinds of feelings about watching Joe put Daniels in the hospital. Prime opportunity for bedside vigils here, especially with AJ not even sure what it is he’s feeling – he and Daniels weren’t ACTUALLY friends at this point but they’d fought so many times at that point there was that wrestling soulmate bond nonetheless. On Joe’s side, Joe winding AJ up until their title match a month later, using his feelings for Daniels against him – maybe that was the whole reason he’d turned on Daniels in the first place, he’d figured out the perfect way to get under Golden Boy AJ’s skin. (How things change! For AJ, anyway, Joe’s always been Joe.)
• ANYTHING set during AJ and Daniels’ tag team era, a time cruelly cut short by TNA’s grudge against me personally. Everything from sneaking around backstage during tapings to the tension of knowing that this probably wasn’t going to last and someday AJ and Daniels would go back to being at each other’s throats. (A tension they share with #DIY, actually!)
• Joe in general being scheming and traitorous and terrible.
• Fic set during that post-glory days era when AJ’s halo started to slip. Did Daniels ever feel a little regret at pushing AJ to dirty his hands a little when it actually started to happen?
Lucha Underground
Aerostar/Drago
OH MY GOD. Obviously this is ongoing story and we don’t know how things will shake out, but did you see Aerostar’s reaction to Drago turning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBAbpNqhOY&feature=youtu.be
HE WILL SAVE DRAGO EVEN IF IT TAKES ONE THOUSAND YEARS! I love these two beyond reason. Time traveler/Immortal is one of my favorite pairing dynamics and these two have so much possibilities for meeting out of sequence fic with present Aerostar meeting past Drago – characters meeting each other before they’ve met each other is one of my favorite tropes. For present day canon: anything set during the best-of-five series, during the season hiatuses (what DO space men and dragons get up to when their fight club is closed down?), Drago winning the medallion, the Trios titles and of course all the ongoing drama with Kobra Moon. So much hurt/comfort potential going on right now, it’s almost unreal.
Johnny Mundo/Prince Puma
This was my #1 ship in S1. I loved the cagey veteran/hypertalented young babyface vibe they had and it was only helped along by Konnan repeatedly trying to meddle. (As it turned out he wasn’t…exactly wrong about Johnny but still Konnan, don’t you tell Puma who to be friends with.) Anything set S1 would be great for them, from those heady early days where Puma kept running to the rescue and Johnny was clearly flattered by to attention to when things started to fall apart as Puma got more and more success and Johnny could not handle it. Their Iron Man match was practically a ship manifesto all on its own.
Pentagón Jr./Prince Puma
OH MAN, hatesex ahoy! These two have such fantastic antagonistic chemistry, especially with the added context of Puma still reeling from losing Konnan while Pentagon is on his own weird dark journey with his Master. And how the tables have turned now! I would love anything dealing with how Puma’s changed and Pentagon dealing with having been brought so low. ESPECIALLY now that everyone knows about Puma’s new master. Has Vampiro been leaving Pentagon to recover in peace? Did he feel the disturbance in the Force when Puma was brought back after Graver Consequences? I’d love some magical mindfuckery going on here.
Sexy Star/The Mack
These two are just so cute. I love how supportive Mack has been of Star and her Moth trauma. He looks at her like she’s the greatest thing he’s ever seen and it’s just the best. And Mack being in peril broke her out of PTSD attack! Mack is so supportive and happy for her when she wins the belt! If that’s not true love I don’t know what is. They’re as close to fluff as it gets at the Temple and it’s nice to have something candy coated to balance out all the death and destruction.
Fénix/Catrina
When the man who can’t die meets the woman who controls death. These two fascinate me and I’m thrilled things seem to be picking back up – what is going on with these two aparrent opposite? Why does Fenix keep drifting back to Catrina? What’s the bond that keeps bringing them back together? This looks like it’s due to heat back up considering everything with Jeremiah and the focus on who Catrina does and does not love, so fingers crossed there. Backstory, current day, game for anything.
Fenix, Ivelisse Vélez, Dario Cueto, Pentagón Jr., Matanza Cueto, Angélico (Professional Wrestling), Drago, MCatrina, Prince Puma
*deep breath* OKAY, for non-shippy options: pretty much anything deal with Dario and Matanza’s childhood, that roadtrip of the damned they took with Lotus, basically anything deal with what it’s like to have an Aztec god as a younger brother. I really love their relationship.
Drago, obviously the whole THING with Kobra Moon is right there with all that backstory even without Aerostar time hopping around through it. I’d love to see where his head is at right now. (Don’t worry about being jossed!)
Puma obviously has a lot going on! Him adjusting to life post-resurrection, being trained by Vampiro, him dealing badly with what happened to Konnan, go for it.
I THOUGHT I’d asked for Son of Havoc too but the form was screwy; I love him, Ivelisse and Angelico together or apart. Ivelisse and Angelico both have dealt with injury woes and Ivelisse has this terrible new relationship she’s dealing with – have the three of them crossed paths? Missing scenes stuff would be good here, as would be various people crashing at Mom of Havoc’s house. (I love Mom of Havoc.)
ROH
Christopher Daniels/Frankie Kazarian
I’m really, really interested that whole flirting with the Bullet Club incident right before Daniels won the belt and would really like anything centering on Frankie’s “turn” and who knew what when. What was Frankie thinking, how was he keeping his poker face strong while breaking Daniels’ heart? (You know AJ at least was blowing the poor guy’s phone up, too.) The Bullet Club is a big prize, this was a major bridge Frankie was putting a match too - was he even a little bit tempted? How did that first proposal from Adam go? (I’m very good for Frankie seducing Adam to protect Daniels, go going along with Adam’s attempt to avoid suspicion, as long as everything works out in the end. Which it did!) Was everyone in the Bullet Club as fooled as Adam Cole? (Thinking of Kenny in particularly here, who’s wise and experienced in the area of emotionally fraught betrayals.) There was so much high drama and angst with a happy ending packed into that short period and I’d love a deep dive into it.
Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson/Kenny Omega/Mary Scurll
I’m after is Marty in the Bullet Club fic. Kenny recruiting him and what the Bucks thought about it (was it a straight up proposal? A long courtship?) Did he know he was Bullet Club bound the whole time he was feuding with Adam? Did Adama crawl back begging to be let back in, to Marty or the Bucks or Kenny himself? (obviously to no avail, but Marty at the very least isn’t above taking advantage, the villain.)
Or this prompt from the kinkmeme:
Kenny is still a little peeved at the Bucks after War of the Worlds so he decides the way to clear the slate is to give them to Marty and let him do any villainous thing he wants with them for one night, as a little welcome to the family present. (Kenny skyping in to observe and make comments also optional.)
That. That would be FANTASTIC.
(THIS IS TOTALLY CHEATING but I would also be 100% cool with Kenny/The Bucks on their own, especially post-Dominion putting-Kenny-back-together fic.)
WWE
Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins
MY GUYS! I know there’s so much fic for them out there already but I really love the unhealthy codependence of my favorite wrestling soulmates. I’d love fic set ANY era, from living in each other’s pockets during the Shield to post-betrayal to now where Seth is trying but Dean’s not buying it. I really like Dean not being able to shut off his feelings when it comes to Seth, no matter how much he wants to.
Antonio Cesaro/Sheamus
These two are pure joy. I love the slow burn we got here, with Cesaro going from “Ugh, I hate you” to “Ugh, I hate you but if we have to team I’ll deal with it” to “Well, this isn’t the tag partner I would pick but I guess it’s working out” to “I still don’t like you, really I don’t” and finally to Cesaro being ALL IN and the two of them dressing alike and hanging all over each other. I’d love anything set in that progression, especially Cesaro getting more and more annoyed with the lack of respect Sheamus tends to get. (The New Day literally cut a promo calling him trash!) And of course anything after the turn and the current title win. I love a Sheamus who figured out he was pretty gone on Cesaro much earlier than Cesaro figured out the same for him, so this is the perfect opportunity for some stoic Irish pining. And I love how Cesaro thinks Sheamus’ hair is cool! It’s adorable. Outsider POV is good for them, I’d love Sami or Dean or someone else who’s known Cesaro a long time to watch this whole thing unfold, whether they’re happy for him or “Wait, him? Really?” over it. I shipped Cesaro/Tyson/Natalya pretty hard so I’d love Cesaro bringing Sheamus to meet the family as it were (Nattie would be thrilled for him. All the party decorations would be cat themed, obviously.)
Super Spy AU specific, but I would love ANYTHING with Cesaro going rogue for Sheamus. The spy setting means you can really ramp up the h/c elements too - maybe Sheamus gets hurt on mission and Cesaro is unexpectedly dismayed over it, or he has to stage a big heroic rescue mission against agency orders. I love that stuff.
Noam Dar/Alicia Fox
THEY ARE SO TERRIBLE AND I LOVE THEM! I would love anything set during their weird, face slapping based courtship or that brief period where they were broken up - what made Alicia come back? What was going through her mind that night she pulled Noam out of the way of Cedric's moonsault? I'm not normally for spanking but Alicia putting Noam over her knee is 100% in character for what we've seen from them.
Baron Corbin/Corey Graves
I love these tattooed assholes. I’m good for fic set any time - early NXT where Corey is starting to struggling with the concussion issues, Baron is brand new and there’s no guarantee either of them have a future with NXT, Baron starting to come into his own while Corey watches, Baron having his big triumphant main roster surprise debut while Corey is there watching again (backstage this time!) and the celebrating afterward, all the way to current day with Baron rampaging his way through the Smackdown roster with Corey backstage killing time before 205. Baron brought Corey to the red carpet with him when he got his Most Metal Athlete award! I’m a big fan of secret werewolf!Baron (even though he really isn’t trying very hard to keep that a secret, Mr. “Three shirts, all wolves”) so go for it there. I lean more toward the horror werewolf tropes - dangerous, uncontrollable transformations especially - and don’t really like knotting. LOVE the heightened senses trope though, especially combined with tattoo kink.
Drew Gulak/Mustafa Ali
Drew’s got it BAD. He may not realize he’s got it bad, but it’s got to be getting to a point where everyone else is noticing the campaign is suspiciously Mustafa Ali focused. I’d love more of that, with straight-up hatesex, Drew going full Phantom of the Opera over Mustafa, Drew obsessively watching him, all that good stuff. Has Mustafa started to figure things out and is deliberately antagonizing him? How SUPER into seeing Mustafa tied up would Drew be?
Corey Graves/Adrian Neville
I love the missed opportunities between these two. Corey’s said more than once how he had literally begged Neville to have more edge when they were teaming, how he’s known Neville for ever and never knew he had this in him, how if Neville had been like this when they were teaming they would STILL be the NXT tag team champions, etc. The man could not be more overjoyed to see Neville be the worst person possible. How much does that history have to do with Neville becoming this? Does he hear those words echo? How much fun is it for Neville to have Corey there watching him now? I love a Neville who’d pined after Corey back in the old days (maybe even going back to pre-NXT, when they’d known each other on the indie scene) but never pulled the trigger for whichever reason and is determined to make up for it now, and a Corey Graves who can’t believe his luck.
And speaking of “we would still be tag champions today” - after Corey’s sudden but inevitable betrayal the who of them had a great feud that ended in a 2 out of three falls match that ended in a victory for Neville and a concussion for Corey. Two months later Corey cut a bitter, angry promo where he told Neville “You tried to end my career and I will NEVER forgive you.” That has to still be lingering in the background, right? If Neville got the chance to go back and change things (it’s not like there’s not enough magic floating around to make it happen) would he?
Tommaso Ciampa/Johnny Gargano
SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED! /o\ I am all for any and all fix-its or fluff set pre-horrible betrayal, from something around the CWC to them winning the title to them being goofs watching movies in their apartment but if you want to wallow in the angst I am totally down for that too. How IS Johnny holding up? In complete denial? Staring at the walls of Tommaso’s empty room? Acting like nothing happened in Chicago to the point it’s really starting to worry people? How did he take Tommaso’s big explanation - did any of it hit home at all? Is he guilty that Tommaso was THAT insecure and Johnny clearly had no idea? Is Tommaso calling him up and playing mind games because that’s how he’s dealing with this? Did Johnny go visit Tommaso in the hospital or stalk him to find out where he’s living now even though both are terrible ideas?
WWE Immortals
Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins
Lunatic Fringe Dean Ambrose, Hound of Justice Roman Reigns, Back Alley Brawler Dean Ambrose, Evolved Seth Rollins
I LOVE me some cyberpunk so Evolved Seth is catnip to me. This is AU central so any mix of the Shield guys is great (I assume the only difference between Back Alley Brawler Dean and Actual Dean is that BAB Dean is from Suplex City and not Cincinatti.) I’m really into Shield AUs where the central conflict – Seth’s sudden but inevitable betrayal - still plays out but in new circumstances. Did Seth become “Evolved” post-betrayal as an award, or in true cyberpunk style were they scraping tech together in the shadow of the Authority? Is Evolved Seth looking for redemption and thinks me might have a chance in whatever new universe he’s found himself in? World build the crap out of this, I love all of that in AUs. The Shield running into other versions of themselves who may have made different choices is one of my favorite things.
Anon commmenting is on! If there's someone missing or you'd like more prompts for something, please ask away.
This letter is already a LOT so I did not give prompts for every character requested but I am 100% great with gen, so if you want to write Christopher Daniels trying to fight down in nerves on the way to winning the titles or Finn dealing with the Demon during rehab (I love the Demon) or Corey causing trouble, go for it. I am hear for anything.
Likes: Hurt/Comfort, (LOVE h/c!) UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen, getting it on in the locker rooms after matches, dramatic rescues, road trips, spur of the moment bondage, missing scenes/episode tags, wall sex, time travel. Any rating, G rated fluff to explicit more than welcome
DNWs: deathfic (unless undone by magic/time travel/etc! Then bring it on!) non-con, A/B/O, D/s with lots of negotiation. Kayfabe only!
AU: My favorite AU types are superhero, medieval (wrestling maps onto that SURPRISINGLY WELL!) and especially spy aus, but I'm up to try anything as long as the canon dynamics stay the same (Seth's traitorous tendencies, Finn being demon possessed, that kind of thing.) I also really dig canon divergence AUs, whether fix-it or really, really not.
I am very into wrestling soulmates, ESPECIALLY when there's significant effort put into denying and repressing it because being soulmates is nothing but trouble. Helpless sucker for it.
TNA
AJ Styles/Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels/AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels/AJ Styles/Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles
That stretch of 2005-2006 where it seemed like every episode of Impact had some combination of AJ vs Daniels vs Joe is one of my favorite eras of wrestling, period. I would love ANYTHING set then or spinning out of then. I ship AJ/Daniels very hard, they’re one of my longest standing OTPs, and ship Joe with both, especially if he’s playing the other two against each other.
• Post-Genesis fic, with guilty AJ having all kinds of feelings about watching Joe put Daniels in the hospital. Prime opportunity for bedside vigils here, especially with AJ not even sure what it is he’s feeling – he and Daniels weren’t ACTUALLY friends at this point but they’d fought so many times at that point there was that wrestling soulmate bond nonetheless. On Joe’s side, Joe winding AJ up until their title match a month later, using his feelings for Daniels against him – maybe that was the whole reason he’d turned on Daniels in the first place, he’d figured out the perfect way to get under Golden Boy AJ’s skin. (How things change! For AJ, anyway, Joe’s always been Joe.)
• ANYTHING set during AJ and Daniels’ tag team era, a time cruelly cut short by TNA’s grudge against me personally. Everything from sneaking around backstage during tapings to the tension of knowing that this probably wasn’t going to last and someday AJ and Daniels would go back to being at each other’s throats. (A tension they share with #DIY, actually!)
• Joe in general being scheming and traitorous and terrible.
• Fic set during that post-glory days era when AJ’s halo started to slip. Did Daniels ever feel a little regret at pushing AJ to dirty his hands a little when it actually started to happen?
Lucha Underground
Aerostar/Drago
OH MY GOD. Obviously this is ongoing story and we don’t know how things will shake out, but did you see Aerostar’s reaction to Drago turning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBAbpNqhOY&feature=youtu.be
HE WILL SAVE DRAGO EVEN IF IT TAKES ONE THOUSAND YEARS! I love these two beyond reason. Time traveler/Immortal is one of my favorite pairing dynamics and these two have so much possibilities for meeting out of sequence fic with present Aerostar meeting past Drago – characters meeting each other before they’ve met each other is one of my favorite tropes. For present day canon: anything set during the best-of-five series, during the season hiatuses (what DO space men and dragons get up to when their fight club is closed down?), Drago winning the medallion, the Trios titles and of course all the ongoing drama with Kobra Moon. So much hurt/comfort potential going on right now, it’s almost unreal.
Johnny Mundo/Prince Puma
This was my #1 ship in S1. I loved the cagey veteran/hypertalented young babyface vibe they had and it was only helped along by Konnan repeatedly trying to meddle. (As it turned out he wasn’t…exactly wrong about Johnny but still Konnan, don’t you tell Puma who to be friends with.) Anything set S1 would be great for them, from those heady early days where Puma kept running to the rescue and Johnny was clearly flattered by to attention to when things started to fall apart as Puma got more and more success and Johnny could not handle it. Their Iron Man match was practically a ship manifesto all on its own.
Pentagón Jr./Prince Puma
OH MAN, hatesex ahoy! These two have such fantastic antagonistic chemistry, especially with the added context of Puma still reeling from losing Konnan while Pentagon is on his own weird dark journey with his Master. And how the tables have turned now! I would love anything dealing with how Puma’s changed and Pentagon dealing with having been brought so low. ESPECIALLY now that everyone knows about Puma’s new master. Has Vampiro been leaving Pentagon to recover in peace? Did he feel the disturbance in the Force when Puma was brought back after Graver Consequences? I’d love some magical mindfuckery going on here.
Sexy Star/The Mack
These two are just so cute. I love how supportive Mack has been of Star and her Moth trauma. He looks at her like she’s the greatest thing he’s ever seen and it’s just the best. And Mack being in peril broke her out of PTSD attack! Mack is so supportive and happy for her when she wins the belt! If that’s not true love I don’t know what is. They’re as close to fluff as it gets at the Temple and it’s nice to have something candy coated to balance out all the death and destruction.
Fénix/Catrina
When the man who can’t die meets the woman who controls death. These two fascinate me and I’m thrilled things seem to be picking back up – what is going on with these two aparrent opposite? Why does Fenix keep drifting back to Catrina? What’s the bond that keeps bringing them back together? This looks like it’s due to heat back up considering everything with Jeremiah and the focus on who Catrina does and does not love, so fingers crossed there. Backstory, current day, game for anything.
Fenix, Ivelisse Vélez, Dario Cueto, Pentagón Jr., Matanza Cueto, Angélico (Professional Wrestling), Drago, MCatrina, Prince Puma
*deep breath* OKAY, for non-shippy options: pretty much anything deal with Dario and Matanza’s childhood, that roadtrip of the damned they took with Lotus, basically anything deal with what it’s like to have an Aztec god as a younger brother. I really love their relationship.
Drago, obviously the whole THING with Kobra Moon is right there with all that backstory even without Aerostar time hopping around through it. I’d love to see where his head is at right now. (Don’t worry about being jossed!)
Puma obviously has a lot going on! Him adjusting to life post-resurrection, being trained by Vampiro, him dealing badly with what happened to Konnan, go for it.
I THOUGHT I’d asked for Son of Havoc too but the form was screwy; I love him, Ivelisse and Angelico together or apart. Ivelisse and Angelico both have dealt with injury woes and Ivelisse has this terrible new relationship she’s dealing with – have the three of them crossed paths? Missing scenes stuff would be good here, as would be various people crashing at Mom of Havoc’s house. (I love Mom of Havoc.)
ROH
Christopher Daniels/Frankie Kazarian
I’m really, really interested that whole flirting with the Bullet Club incident right before Daniels won the belt and would really like anything centering on Frankie’s “turn” and who knew what when. What was Frankie thinking, how was he keeping his poker face strong while breaking Daniels’ heart? (You know AJ at least was blowing the poor guy’s phone up, too.) The Bullet Club is a big prize, this was a major bridge Frankie was putting a match too - was he even a little bit tempted? How did that first proposal from Adam go? (I’m very good for Frankie seducing Adam to protect Daniels, go going along with Adam’s attempt to avoid suspicion, as long as everything works out in the end. Which it did!) Was everyone in the Bullet Club as fooled as Adam Cole? (Thinking of Kenny in particularly here, who’s wise and experienced in the area of emotionally fraught betrayals.) There was so much high drama and angst with a happy ending packed into that short period and I’d love a deep dive into it.
Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson/Kenny Omega/Mary Scurll
I’m after is Marty in the Bullet Club fic. Kenny recruiting him and what the Bucks thought about it (was it a straight up proposal? A long courtship?) Did he know he was Bullet Club bound the whole time he was feuding with Adam? Did Adama crawl back begging to be let back in, to Marty or the Bucks or Kenny himself? (obviously to no avail, but Marty at the very least isn’t above taking advantage, the villain.)
Or this prompt from the kinkmeme:
Kenny is still a little peeved at the Bucks after War of the Worlds so he decides the way to clear the slate is to give them to Marty and let him do any villainous thing he wants with them for one night, as a little welcome to the family present. (Kenny skyping in to observe and make comments also optional.)
That. That would be FANTASTIC.
(THIS IS TOTALLY CHEATING but I would also be 100% cool with Kenny/The Bucks on their own, especially post-Dominion putting-Kenny-back-together fic.)
WWE
Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins
MY GUYS! I know there’s so much fic for them out there already but I really love the unhealthy codependence of my favorite wrestling soulmates. I’d love fic set ANY era, from living in each other’s pockets during the Shield to post-betrayal to now where Seth is trying but Dean’s not buying it. I really like Dean not being able to shut off his feelings when it comes to Seth, no matter how much he wants to.
Antonio Cesaro/Sheamus
These two are pure joy. I love the slow burn we got here, with Cesaro going from “Ugh, I hate you” to “Ugh, I hate you but if we have to team I’ll deal with it” to “Well, this isn’t the tag partner I would pick but I guess it’s working out” to “I still don’t like you, really I don’t” and finally to Cesaro being ALL IN and the two of them dressing alike and hanging all over each other. I’d love anything set in that progression, especially Cesaro getting more and more annoyed with the lack of respect Sheamus tends to get. (The New Day literally cut a promo calling him trash!) And of course anything after the turn and the current title win. I love a Sheamus who figured out he was pretty gone on Cesaro much earlier than Cesaro figured out the same for him, so this is the perfect opportunity for some stoic Irish pining. And I love how Cesaro thinks Sheamus’ hair is cool! It’s adorable. Outsider POV is good for them, I’d love Sami or Dean or someone else who’s known Cesaro a long time to watch this whole thing unfold, whether they’re happy for him or “Wait, him? Really?” over it. I shipped Cesaro/Tyson/Natalya pretty hard so I’d love Cesaro bringing Sheamus to meet the family as it were (Nattie would be thrilled for him. All the party decorations would be cat themed, obviously.)
Super Spy AU specific, but I would love ANYTHING with Cesaro going rogue for Sheamus. The spy setting means you can really ramp up the h/c elements too - maybe Sheamus gets hurt on mission and Cesaro is unexpectedly dismayed over it, or he has to stage a big heroic rescue mission against agency orders. I love that stuff.
Noam Dar/Alicia Fox
THEY ARE SO TERRIBLE AND I LOVE THEM! I would love anything set during their weird, face slapping based courtship or that brief period where they were broken up - what made Alicia come back? What was going through her mind that night she pulled Noam out of the way of Cedric's moonsault? I'm not normally for spanking but Alicia putting Noam over her knee is 100% in character for what we've seen from them.
Baron Corbin/Corey Graves
I love these tattooed assholes. I’m good for fic set any time - early NXT where Corey is starting to struggling with the concussion issues, Baron is brand new and there’s no guarantee either of them have a future with NXT, Baron starting to come into his own while Corey watches, Baron having his big triumphant main roster surprise debut while Corey is there watching again (backstage this time!) and the celebrating afterward, all the way to current day with Baron rampaging his way through the Smackdown roster with Corey backstage killing time before 205. Baron brought Corey to the red carpet with him when he got his Most Metal Athlete award! I’m a big fan of secret werewolf!Baron (even though he really isn’t trying very hard to keep that a secret, Mr. “Three shirts, all wolves”) so go for it there. I lean more toward the horror werewolf tropes - dangerous, uncontrollable transformations especially - and don’t really like knotting. LOVE the heightened senses trope though, especially combined with tattoo kink.
Drew Gulak/Mustafa Ali
Drew’s got it BAD. He may not realize he’s got it bad, but it’s got to be getting to a point where everyone else is noticing the campaign is suspiciously Mustafa Ali focused. I’d love more of that, with straight-up hatesex, Drew going full Phantom of the Opera over Mustafa, Drew obsessively watching him, all that good stuff. Has Mustafa started to figure things out and is deliberately antagonizing him? How SUPER into seeing Mustafa tied up would Drew be?
Corey Graves/Adrian Neville
I love the missed opportunities between these two. Corey’s said more than once how he had literally begged Neville to have more edge when they were teaming, how he’s known Neville for ever and never knew he had this in him, how if Neville had been like this when they were teaming they would STILL be the NXT tag team champions, etc. The man could not be more overjoyed to see Neville be the worst person possible. How much does that history have to do with Neville becoming this? Does he hear those words echo? How much fun is it for Neville to have Corey there watching him now? I love a Neville who’d pined after Corey back in the old days (maybe even going back to pre-NXT, when they’d known each other on the indie scene) but never pulled the trigger for whichever reason and is determined to make up for it now, and a Corey Graves who can’t believe his luck.
And speaking of “we would still be tag champions today” - after Corey’s sudden but inevitable betrayal the who of them had a great feud that ended in a 2 out of three falls match that ended in a victory for Neville and a concussion for Corey. Two months later Corey cut a bitter, angry promo where he told Neville “You tried to end my career and I will NEVER forgive you.” That has to still be lingering in the background, right? If Neville got the chance to go back and change things (it’s not like there’s not enough magic floating around to make it happen) would he?
Tommaso Ciampa/Johnny Gargano
SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED! /o\ I am all for any and all fix-its or fluff set pre-horrible betrayal, from something around the CWC to them winning the title to them being goofs watching movies in their apartment but if you want to wallow in the angst I am totally down for that too. How IS Johnny holding up? In complete denial? Staring at the walls of Tommaso’s empty room? Acting like nothing happened in Chicago to the point it’s really starting to worry people? How did he take Tommaso’s big explanation - did any of it hit home at all? Is he guilty that Tommaso was THAT insecure and Johnny clearly had no idea? Is Tommaso calling him up and playing mind games because that’s how he’s dealing with this? Did Johnny go visit Tommaso in the hospital or stalk him to find out where he’s living now even though both are terrible ideas?
WWE Immortals
Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins
Lunatic Fringe Dean Ambrose, Hound of Justice Roman Reigns, Back Alley Brawler Dean Ambrose, Evolved Seth Rollins
I LOVE me some cyberpunk so Evolved Seth is catnip to me. This is AU central so any mix of the Shield guys is great (I assume the only difference between Back Alley Brawler Dean and Actual Dean is that BAB Dean is from Suplex City and not Cincinatti.) I’m really into Shield AUs where the central conflict – Seth’s sudden but inevitable betrayal - still plays out but in new circumstances. Did Seth become “Evolved” post-betrayal as an award, or in true cyberpunk style were they scraping tech together in the shadow of the Authority? Is Evolved Seth looking for redemption and thinks me might have a chance in whatever new universe he’s found himself in? World build the crap out of this, I love all of that in AUs. The Shield running into other versions of themselves who may have made different choices is one of my favorite things.
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