H/C bingo: back again!

[sholio]

I got my card! Which I'm sure you're all dying to see.

heat stroke	wings	blackmail	lacerations / knife wounds	kidnapping
forced soulbonding	experiments by evil scientists	hunger / starvation	severe / life-threatening illness	forced to participate in illegal / hurtful activity
dystopia	dungeons	WILD CARD	counseling	major illness
job-related trauma	tyranny / rebellion	mistaken identity	culture shock	panic attacks
possession / mind control	caught in a robbery	cuddling for warmth	torture	captivity

... I have to say, considering that I was planning on using this card at least partly to plan out "season two" of the Psychic Neal AU, IT REALLY COULD NOT BE MORE PERFECT FOR IT. I'd say at least half these prompts are ideally suited to the Psychic Neal 'verse (including the prompt that started it all, "experiments by evil scientists", which is what got the whole thing running last summer...). The only problem is deciding between them ...!



ETA: Here's the card with my own personal color-coding!

Purple = prompts for the Psychic Neal AU
Green = prompts that would make nice run-of-the-mill h/c fics
Bluish-purple = prompts that could go either way (psychic AU, or regular h/c)

The few that have no color-coding are the ones I'm not sure about - I just don't have any particular ideas for them. (Although "wings" might be a good opportunity to write that sequel to the Peter-is-Neal's-guardian-angel fic that I kept meaning to sequelize ...)

I MIGHT ACTUALLY MANAGE A BLACKOUT ON THIS CARD, GUYS!

heat stroke	wings	blackmail	lacerations / knife wounds	kidnapping
forced soulbonding	experiments by evil scientists	hunger / starvation	severe / life-threatening illness	forced to participate in illegal / hurtful activity
dystopia	dungeons	WILD CARD head trauma	counseling	major illness
job-related trauma	tyranny / rebellion	mistaken identity	culture shock	panic attacks
possession / mind control	caught in a robbery	cuddling for warmth	torture	captivity

Comments

[magibrain]

Oh, nice!

...if you don't use "tyranny/rebellion" as one of the fills, I'm going to glare really hard in the general direction of Alaska. :P

[sholio]

I am thinking that one might tie VERY nicely into some things I was contemplating for the "season two" finale. :D

[magibrain]

I would totally invite you over into my slavefic sandbox for "dystopia", but I feel like that would require me to write enough of it (in a form suitable for public consumption) to adequately convey world.

...I keep wanting to write a fic where a highschool art teacher from St. Louis comes to New York City and runs into Neal while he and Peter are doing something, and is all "Danny Brooks, is that you?", and then I never have any more ideas as to how that would work out. BUT IF YOU WANTED TO SPIN THAT INTO MISTAKEN IDENTITY, I BET YOU COULD. (Especially if it were earlier in canon, and Neal had to do some fancy "I'm sorry, you must have me mistaken for someone else" footwork before Peter puts on his I-suspect-something face.)

Also, you should totally sequelize the guardian angel fic.

[sholio]

... oh wow, I LOVE that idea! Thank you for the interesting plotbunny! Especially, yeah, pre-reveal on the WitSec thing. It would be fascinating since the audience (and Neal) knows a lot more than Peter does, so Neal would have to be very quick on the uptake. (I have trouble going back and reading fic that was written in early seasons because the dynamic has changed so much, but fic that is set in early seasons with knowledge of later seasons is really a lot of fun -- it's one of those things you can do in fanfic that is very difficult -- though not impossible -- to do in original fiction ...)

/ponders

I also appreciate the sandbox invitation! I think I'm gonna let that square sit and age for a while, though. There are SO many other squares I want to write first. (And what did I do last night? I sat and wrote 4000 words of fic in the Peter-is-a-werewolf 'verse that doesn't fic any bingo squares at all. WHATEVER, BRAIN.)

[magibrain]

I live to braintic! o7

And I know that 4000-words feeling. Because brains are contrary, contrary things.

[schneefink]

That looks very nice indeed! A lot of purple. Good luck with getting a blackout. Maybe "mistaken identity" could be something to do with Peter's amnesia/memory problems? Iirc you did outsider PoV before

[sholio]

I don't think I've ever had an h/c bingo card with this many squares I thought I could write right off the bat! It helps a lot that I have this particular universe that I want to play in, and so many of the squares work very well with that, including ones like "soulbonding" that would normally be difficult to impossible for me.

[sahiya]

Eee! I'm so excited! I've missed your fic of late.

ETA: Because I put the comment in the wrong place.

[sholio]

Thank you so much! \o/ It's such a lovely feeling to want to write the characters again. H/C Bingo for the WIN!

[veleda_k]

Points for both "counseling" and "experiments by evil scientists." This is a very serendipitous card.

I'm sort of ridiculously excited.

[sholio]

I KNOW! IT'S SO PERFECT! I looked at this card and went "... wow", because so many of the squares give me ideas for this 'verse just at a glance, and/or fit very well with things I wanted to do with "season two" of the 'verse. (Tyranny/rebellion! Job-related trauma! Soulbonding!) This card is made of win!