Id Pro Quo Letter (WIP)

[rosanicus]

Hello!

I have requested Biggles for this exchange for convenience - if you feel moved to include any characters from the wider WEJLU please feel extremely free to do so.

Requested ship/s: Biggles & EvS, Biggles/EvS
DNW: Permanent character death, rape/non-con, underage, infidelity, WW2 setting

List of requested tags and some general prompt-like thoughts below the cut.

Requested tags: 

• "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse
• "You would never want me and pretending to do so is unnecessarily cruel" (no one is pretending)
• A's concern for B grows deeper the longer B hides what is wrong
• accepting injury to protect someone
• Aftermath of Torture - Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges
• Altered Mental States - flashback to a traumatic event
• Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
• Caring for character's injured hands
• Character is prickly and bad-tempered while recovering from hurt; comforter is chill about it
• Characters deal with trauma from canon events
• Characters Shown Still Happily Together as an Old/Older Couple
• Enemies to Lovers - Villain coerces exhausted hero into getting some rest
• Hurt/Comfort - Rescued from botched execution
• Loyalty Kink - Person A Thought Would Inevitably Betray A Proves To Be Extremely Loyal
• Perils of Being a Double Agent
• Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
• Take a bad thing that happened to a character in canon and make it even worse
• Trans Characters in Historical Settings
• A suppresses their grief over B's presumed death until B is revealed alive and A/B have been reunited
• Longterm Denial of Needs Has Bad Effects; Character Denies Self Anyway

Prompts

General likes without a specific prompt: Trans characters in historical settings, Characters shown happily together as an old/older couple. I hold the trans Biggles headcanon close to my heart and would love to see it incorporated in fic!

Sakhalin Flavour

I love Buries a Hatchet fic an unreasonable amount and feel that we could never ever have enough, so quite a lot of these tags were chosen with that in mind. I think that WEJ leaves a very large gap into which one can insert all sorts of horrible things happening, and that compels me. Some possible tag combos, but please don't feel obligated.

• Presumed death + aftermath of torture + bad thing that happened made even worse (+botched execution) 
• Trauma from canon events + prickly and bad tempered
• Low-key fraying at the edges + A's concern for B (+ You would never want me)
• Accepting injury + injured hands
• Flashback + Low-key fraying at the edges

Early Canon Divergence

Long harboured desire for an AU where EvS becomes a truly independent agent in the interwar period arises here. I think the sort of grey-morality villain he is in those books, especially & Co (<3) is so fun, and there's a window where you can try and push him over to the 'goodies' if you angle it right. Especially if Biggles has anything to say about it.

• Presumed dead - so many ways this could go in a world where the first post-WW1 meeting isn't &Co.
• Bodyswap
• Loyalty kink
• We'll just have sex one time...
• Villain coerces exhausted hero
• Perils of being a double agent - this would be interesting in an AU where EvS is secretly double dealing on the Lucranians in Secret Agent, for ex. And of course there's some delicious possibilities in an earlier Major Sterne reveal in Flies East...

Post-Defection

Two cakes theory in FULL effect when it comes to EvS-settling-in-London fic. Some tags:

• Trauma from canon events
• Longterm denial of needs
• 'You would never want me' + Prickly and bad tempered
• Presumed death. God knows what the context would be but I love presumed dead SO MUCH!!!!!

Fundamentally, I would be happy with any fic which incorporates these tropes, because I am so so so grateful for any id-tastic fic that graces this fandom.