» Peter Parker • Marvel Comics AU • lycosa - Just a new idea for an AU I had, where, after Peter's parents were taken out by Red Skull's goons, he was abducted by old enemies of the Parkers and raised as a spy. He's still the super-genius, but he's no hero - he's been raised to be an assassin; he started off by using technology and chemistry to kill, but after he was bitten by a radioactive spider (fate, and all), he used his new superpowers to kill for hire.

» Carswell Thorne • The Lunar Chronicles • captainisking - A deserter from the American military in a far future where people live on the moon and have telepathic abilities. He's the "rogue with a heart of gold," who's really just a self-centered jerk, flirts like crazy, and calls himself "Captain" when he's just a cadet. Underneath it all, though, he knows how much of an ass he is and will rise to a challenge.

» Maragdos Carcosa • Original Character • kryptos - A criminal in the far future who's been given a life sentence in a virtual prison. He's been able to hack through the prison's defenses mentally and he can interact with people through any computers or communication devices they might have. He's definitely more of a crack character, because he can only present himself as a cartoonish avatar. He's there to be the jerk waking your character up in the middle of the night with a Justin Bieber alarm.

» Sarkan "The Dragon" • Uprooted • smok - A wizard out of Naomi Novik's newest book, Uprooted - it takes place in a fantasy version of early/mid-modern Poland, where he's the local lord of a valley under the threat of a dark and mysterious forest that is trying to consume the whole kingdom. He's blunt, abrasive, over a hundred years old, and lonely. Every ten years he chooses a girl from the valley to be his servant and spoiler: use her as a channel into the power that feeds the valley and weaken the forest.

» Peter Quill • Marvel Comics • badlifechoices - A lone wolf space soldier who spent a whole lot of his life looking for revenge against the aliens who killed his mom. He found a higher purpose in saving the downtrodden of the universe until he killed his ship-wife taking down a cosmic threat; did a stint in prison after turning himself in for killing ~300,000 people, helped save the universe from extra-dimensional space bugs, a parasitic techno-virus, and a variety of threats including Lovecraftian demon-gods from a universe without death.

» Kell • A Darker Shade of Magic • antari - A magician from a fantasy version of early 19th Century England. In his world, England's under the rule of a family that's come from somewhere in the East. He's one of only two magicians left who can cross between parallel universes (to other Londons) and deliver messages between their rulers. He can use blood to power his magic and he has an eye that's completely pitch black. He has a sharp tongue and really only cares about his adoptive brother, being willing to murder for him, etc.

» Davy Jones • Original Character • aegir - A former Scottish sailor who was burned at the stake by his best friend for witchcraft and was reborn as a faerie. He just likes sailing along with the breezes nowadays, though he's been a patron to witches and magicians some days, and a slave to enchantments like a jinn other days. He's pretty down to earth for a faerie, enjoying most of the simple things in life, though he has a little sore spot when it comes to noblemen and royals.

» Slow-burn threads. I've gotten really laid back in my RP, which I know isn't up to most people's tastes, but my comfort zone's about a tag a day or every other day. Sometimes I'll do a few replies to a thread in a day if it's really grabbed my interest at the moment.

» Lots of world building. I have a strong love for AUs, but even if we're just mashing our two canons together, I like writing out or plotting lots of detail into worlds and concepts in tags.

» Shipping & smut are both good by me. I have more of a preference for M/M than M/F, but I'm open to everything. Poly ships and unconventional relationships are my absolute favorites in most cases. I've gotten a little burned out on smut recently, so I would very much prefer to build up to it or fade to black than fully play it out in most cases for the time being. My only character-specific stipulations are: 1) I won't ship Carswell and Cress without Carswell suggesting that Cress be open to dating more people; 2) I don't ship Peter Quill/Kitty Pryde, period.

» Like I already said, I love AUs. I like to think I'm pretty basic in my AUs, just starting off with a seed concept like - "X is a mermaid" AU, that sort of thing. Or "They're in college together" AU, but I'm also down with doing more intricate things like "They're in a Lovecraftian/Secret World setting."

» I have two concepts I really want to play out with Peter Quill: 1) after getting out of the Cancerverse, he decided to take his place as heir to the Spartoi Empire and invade Earth to prevent a repeat of the Fault happening again, and 2) anything playing around with the possibility that he might have Celestial ancestry (his grandfather Eson, specifically, maybe tossing in some Black Mirror stuff).

» I'd love to toss Davy, Sarkan, Kell, and Carswell into a Once Upon a Time sort of setting.

» Any and all Marvel would be appreciated for my Peter Parker AU.

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