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Yuletide letter 2019!
Hello Yuletide author!
I love Yuletide so much!!! I'm so glad you're here, and that you have very excellent taste in fandoms. :D I'm going to include some extra information below. If you're someone who finds that helpful, read on; if you're not, it's all good! Mostly I yell "love" over and over again. I JUST LOVE THINGS A LOT.
Things that I love: Friendships and family (found family and blood-related family), teams coming together, romance, domesticity; people being concerned about, caring for, and protecting each other. I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort and people just really liking each other, and companionable/loving squabbling! I love humor, competence, banter, ridiculous fluffy tropes where appropriate (fake dating/fake married! cuddling for warmth! seasonal or holiday content where appropriate! fic with epistolary elements or that makes use of social media! ok those last few aren't tropes, but I like them anyway), action, and happy or hopeful endings. I'm not into porn without plot, but I'm cool with sex scenes as long as they're part of the larger context of a story! Same goes for violence.
Things that aren't my jam in a Yuletide fic: Incest, rape, infidelity, torture, suicidal ideation, non-canon character death, romantic relationships with big age or power imbalances (ie: boss/employee, teacher/student, a/b/o), cancer, the gay-for-you trope. I actually love alternate-setting AU's, but the canons that I've requested have such tiny fandoms that I'd prefer to read straight-up canon fic for them!
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สามเราต้องรอด | 3 Will Be Free - full series | tumblr tag
Mew; Shin; Neo; Mae
Optional details: Spoilers for the series' ending. I would love post-canon fic about the trio or about Mae! Mew, Shin, and Neo figuring out their relationship now that they're not on the run? Mew and Neo fixing up the bar, and Shin visiting them and doing ... whatever in the heck he is doing with his life (I definitely have questions, see my letter for more!)? As for Mae, her ending broke my heart. I'd love to know more about why she suddenly deus-ex-machina'd and turned up with a gun, or about how she moves forward and what she does with her life once it's all over.
You don't need to include all four of them together -- I'd love either either a Mew/Shin/Neo fic or a Mae fic. Mae jumped from talking sadly with Tur's grandma to showing up as an avenging angel to murder Thana, which, don't get me wrong, was EXTREMELY SATISFYING, but did feel like a bit of a leap. What happened in between? How and why did she get from point A to point B? Or I would love to see what Mae does after the show ends. She's had a pretty freaking traumatic time of it, with Phon and Tur's deaths and with her own involvement (both directly and otherwise) in the murders of multiple other people. How does she go on and make peace with everything? What does she do? If you decide to write post-canon, a hopeful ending for her would be lovely.
For Mew, Shin, and Neo, I LOVE that they're opening a little beachside bungalow bar together. I don't fully understand why Shin is still operating his dead dad's mafia in Bangkok when his whole motivation was that Mew and Neo gave him freedom for the first time in his life, and we know that his dream is to be an artist and have an art exhibition. If you wanted to dig into that, I'd be game! Is he in the process of shutting everything down? Is he only running the legitimate parts of the business? If he is a baby mafioso, I didn't think that the show set that up particularly well, but you could and I would be fascinated! Is he trying to run it out of a sense of duty, but is eventually going to decide that this isn't what he wants or where he needs to be? The world is your post-canon oyster! And if you're leaning more toward writing something set before or during canon, I would love to know more about Mae or her relationship with Phon, or to see more scenes of Mew, Shin, and Neo together on the run!
I know some folks felt the ending was a little ambiguous, but personally I thought the show had gone full throuple and that Mew/Neo/Shin is very much a thing (Shin being like 'I'm gonna buy a house here' and Mew and Neo being like 'u idiot, obviously you're gonna stay with us'), which was just ... chef's kiss!!! I love all three of them and they love each other and I am Here for the long-term romantic and sexual threesome of it all -- the dynamic of Mew and Neo poking at each other and Shin laughing at them and bringing them together was very good for me. I would prefer either a full-on throuple or a three-very-close-friends dynamic over pairing only two of them together; they all just complement each other so well, and the show did such a fabulous job of setting up the relationships between each of them! (They're all my children and I love all three but Mew is my absolute favorite; Mild Wiraporn was mindblowing in this role.)
Stuff to know about other characters, in case it's helpful: If you include PP, I'd prefer if he really does just work for Shin like Shin was insisting he does, instead of being romantically/sexually involved with Shin (as funny and delightful as Mew and Neo teasing Shin was!). I was really invested in Mae/Phon -- they were lovely, which is not a feeling I was expecting with a ship where one person is a trained killer who dies in the first episode! -- and I wasn't into Mae/Tur as a potential romantic relationship and would prefer if a Mae-fic focused on Mae more than on Mae/Tur as a ship.
HIStory2-越界 | HIStory2: Crossing the Line (2018) - full series (episodes 5-8) | tumblr tag
Xia Yu Hau; Qiu Zi Xuan
Optional details: Yu Hao and Zi Xuan are so charming and they're so charmed by each other! I would love to read about what happens after the series ends. Studying together, going on dates, cooking together again? Meeting families? Big volleyball games or figuring out how to date around all the very practical/real obstacles that Zi Xuan laid out in his big speech at the end of the series?? I LOVE IT ALL. Or: we didn't get nearly as much insight into Zi Xuan's perspective -- what had him so spooked about the feelings he was clearly having (I mean, obviously his sister liking Yu Hao, for one thing), and what changed his mind after that conversation with Cheng En? I just love these two and would love to read about them navigating their new relationship and finding their way together!
Oh fuck this show is the sweetest. Yu Hao with the pining and the TOP TIER HEART EYES, holy hell. I love settling-into-new-relationship stories and am always sad when canon ends with two characters getting together (as lovely and deeply satisfying as this particular get-together was; THAT KISS THO), so post-canon fic would be fantastic. Basically any time you have a piece of media where two kind characters take turns taking care of each other, and take the time to learn about things that are important to each other, and tenderly watch each other sleep and someone gently removes somebody else’s glasses (TWICE), that's going to be my kryptonite, bye!!
I loved that you think he's going to be a bad boy character but it turns out Yu Hao is a big softy and a (mischievous and hotheaded, granted) cinnamon roll who wants to help the volleyball team succeed and make his mom proud, and he's just so goofy (his obnoxious victory dances!). I also really appreciated that he just straight-up accepted his raging crush on Zi Xuan from the get-go. He just so genuinely likes and deeply respects Zi Xuan!! I really love stories where characters figure out new ways to push forward and achieve their dreams after unexpected setbacks, so Zi Xuan's trajectory from 'it doesn't matter if I hurt my injured leg again since I can't play volleyball anymore anyway' to 'I'm going to double major in computer science and sports management and become the best volleyball coach of all time' was just ... a lot. Like, stick a fork in me, I’m done.
The volleyball in the series itself was kind of hilarious, in re: how divorced it was from the story and how low-stakes the one game felt (Zi Xuan literally didn't even teach Yu Hao the rules!!), so it could be interesting to incorporate the volleyball more into a narrative? But I'm also not at all wedded to that as an idea, since, you know, it wasn't particularly important in the show!
Notes about other characters, in case you are someone who likes to know these things: 1) I enjoy Yu Hao's friendship with the WenWu bros but the stepbrothers-in-love thing is not for me. I'm okay with where the show left things between the two of them and would be okay with that continuing in the background in fic, but would prefer not to read about them getting together and/or navigating romance feelings. 2) Zi Xuan's sister complex is hilarious and I like Qian Ru and love their relationship. When Zi Xuan is apologizing about the whole sister-confession scene, Yu Hao says, 'I know, your sister explained it to me' -- did she go find him after the fact and plead her brother's case?! 3) Zi Xuan's friendship with He Cheng En is ridiculous and I love them.
How to Be a Werewolf - webcomic | tumblr tag
Vincent Dysangco Walters; Elias Ross
Optional details: I was lucky enough to receive an amazing Malaya-and-Vincent gift last year, so I'm switching it up this year and hoping for MORE FICS in this tiny fandom! Watching Vincent and Elias circle around each other as Eli flails over Vincent and Vincent slowly starts to realize he might be having Feelings, has been such a joy. Theirs has been the slow-burniest of relationships and if you wanted to do your take on the inevitable eventual get-together, that could be fun! I also really dig their relationship the way that it is, if you wanted to do some slice-of-life stuff set in the current comic timeline; I've been delighted by them bringing each other food and talking about queerness over baseball and making each other blush and Eli walking Vincent to class.
Man, Chapter 9 was A Lot, with Eli collapsing and Vincent cradling him and keeping him safe (which was, in turn, a lovely turnabout from Eli doing the same for Vincent after he got kidnapped and clawed earlier in the comic), and then so-sleepy-he's-basically-drunk Eli telling Vincent how he feels and Vincent's soft face as he pets asleep-Eli's hair. A LOT. You know, you were there! Honestly I don't have a ton of specific prompts for this request; I would be so delighted with any fic about the two of them! Eli working in the cafe and making excuses to flirt with Vincent while Vince does homework and Malaya laughs at them? Something set farther down the line -- Eli figuring his life out? Does he enroll at the university and join the baseball team? Vincent and Eli going on an actualfax date, in which Eli does not accidentally invite along a third party? Vincent dealing with some of the fallout (which I think the comic has hinted at, with Joy's comment about Vincent not liking to be alone) of being kidnapped and almost dying? Eli introducing Vincent to his massive werewolf family??
Vincent's flat faces are fucking hilarious; some of his reaction panels have made me legitimately shout with laughter. I love that while he can be stoic, quiet, and a little grumpy, he also doesn't hesitate to tell his sister he loves her and he makes amazing deadpan puns. I tend to read him as demiromantic and pansexual, mostly based on this page, though he definitely doesn't know either of those words at this point in the narrative. And Eli! He's such a puppy of a person -- I love how well-intentioned and kind, if sometimes foolhardy and foolish, he is, and that while he can be clueless as heck, he tries SO HARD to get things right.
Added info on other characters in case it's helpful: I LOVE Vincent's sibling relationship with Malaya and Eli's friendship with her, and the Dysangco Walters parents are lovely; best fam. I love/ship the heck out of MarMar. Charlene is marvelous. I'm not super invested in Connie's crew of werewolves, though Ginger's integration with our crew has been fun, but otherwise, I love everyone and the world is your oyster. I know this is a weekly-updating canon and just for the record, I'm not tied to canon here -- if you want to write stuff that's set in the future or that may be contradicted by the comic, go for it; I'm not a stickler for canon like that!
Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles - tumblr tag
Justin Lazarus; Susan "Sukey" Lazarus; Emma
Optional details: This little grifter fam makes my heart sing! I love how fiercely they love each other and that they built a family all their own. I'd love a story set at any point in time, whether the girls are kids, teens, or adults. I didn't tag Nathaniel but would also enjoy his involvement if you want to include him; Justin, Sukey, and Emma were just my top priorities!
Some spoilers for Gilded Cage here, if you haven't read it yet. God, I've read An Unnatural Vice so many times and Gilded Cage is rapidly climbing the list as well. I love Justin's sharp sneakiness and coming at everything sideways, and how his ruthlessness (Templeton describes the poker face that Susan learned from Justin as reptilian, in Gilded Cage, which is so very good) and prickliness juxtaposes with how deeply and genuinely he loves the girls. Even if he doesn't always know the best way to take care of or support them (I appreciated that it was made clear in Gilded Cage that he didn't always succeed), he tries so hard for them; that Gilded Cage conversation where Susan says she hasn't needed to stand alone since she was eight years old because she's had Justin was A LOT.
Justin and Susan are delightfully meticulous and snarky and sly and overwhelmingly competent, and I love that they can be vicious and angry and hold grudges and won't hesitate to go low if necessary. They're both so fiercely loyal to the people they love and so funny -- Susan is delightfully dry and Justin is such a shit. I also really appreciate that they're both their own characters, for all their similarities; I loved Susan feeling like it was time to strike out on her own in Gilded Cage. I feel like we don't get as strong of a sense of Emma as a character, so I'd enjoy learning more about her! She's clearly deeply loyal and thoughtful, and I love how protective she is of Sukey (giving Sukey's landlady a colorful piece of her mind!).
There are so many possibilities for ideas that I'd love! Justin first meeting the girls or training them up as his helpers, Sukey terrorizing boarding schools or learning with Miss Rawling, Justin teaching/training Sukey (either as a clairvoyant's helper or as a detective), Susan first joining Braglewicz & Lazarus, everybody playing with Emma's kids, the family rallying around Emma and getting rid of her first husband or supporting Susan after Cara's death or Justin during one of his depressive spells or Susan founding her own agency after Gilded Cage... Anything! If casefic is more your speed, Mark says that being an enquiry agent is mostly about finding lost dogs and lost letters; Susan and Justin working a case that isn't fog, bigamy, torture, and murder could be fun!
Like I mentioned in my prompt, I also enjoy Nathaniel and if you want to explore how he became part of the family too and became a guvnor to Sukey and Emma, I would be here for that as well! If it's helpful to know my feelings on other characters: I love everyone, and I really enjoy Justin, Mark, and Susan's detective partnership. I ship everybody with their canon partners, including Justin/Nathaniel, Susan/Cara, Susan/James, Pen/Mark, Clem/Rowley, Alec/Jerry, Stan/Christiana, and Greta/Tim. Basically for anyone you might like to include, there's no losing here!
I love Yuletide so much!!! I'm so glad you're here, and that you have very excellent taste in fandoms. :D I'm going to include some extra information below. If you're someone who finds that helpful, read on; if you're not, it's all good! Mostly I yell "love" over and over again. I JUST LOVE THINGS A LOT.
Things that I love: Friendships and family (found family and blood-related family), teams coming together, romance, domesticity; people being concerned about, caring for, and protecting each other. I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort and people just really liking each other, and companionable/loving squabbling! I love humor, competence, banter, ridiculous fluffy tropes where appropriate (fake dating/fake married! cuddling for warmth! seasonal or holiday content where appropriate! fic with epistolary elements or that makes use of social media! ok those last few aren't tropes, but I like them anyway), action, and happy or hopeful endings. I'm not into porn without plot, but I'm cool with sex scenes as long as they're part of the larger context of a story! Same goes for violence.
Things that aren't my jam in a Yuletide fic: Incest, rape, infidelity, torture, suicidal ideation, non-canon character death, romantic relationships with big age or power imbalances (ie: boss/employee, teacher/student, a/b/o), cancer, the gay-for-you trope. I actually love alternate-setting AU's, but the canons that I've requested have such tiny fandoms that I'd prefer to read straight-up canon fic for them!
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สามเราต้องรอด | 3 Will Be Free - full series | tumblr tag
Mew; Shin; Neo; Mae
Optional details: Spoilers for the series' ending. I would love post-canon fic about the trio or about Mae! Mew, Shin, and Neo figuring out their relationship now that they're not on the run? Mew and Neo fixing up the bar, and Shin visiting them and doing ... whatever in the heck he is doing with his life (I definitely have questions, see my letter for more!)? As for Mae, her ending broke my heart. I'd love to know more about why she suddenly deus-ex-machina'd and turned up with a gun, or about how she moves forward and what she does with her life once it's all over.
You don't need to include all four of them together -- I'd love either either a Mew/Shin/Neo fic or a Mae fic. Mae jumped from talking sadly with Tur's grandma to showing up as an avenging angel to murder Thana, which, don't get me wrong, was EXTREMELY SATISFYING, but did feel like a bit of a leap. What happened in between? How and why did she get from point A to point B? Or I would love to see what Mae does after the show ends. She's had a pretty freaking traumatic time of it, with Phon and Tur's deaths and with her own involvement (both directly and otherwise) in the murders of multiple other people. How does she go on and make peace with everything? What does she do? If you decide to write post-canon, a hopeful ending for her would be lovely.
For Mew, Shin, and Neo, I LOVE that they're opening a little beachside bungalow bar together. I don't fully understand why Shin is still operating his dead dad's mafia in Bangkok when his whole motivation was that Mew and Neo gave him freedom for the first time in his life, and we know that his dream is to be an artist and have an art exhibition. If you wanted to dig into that, I'd be game! Is he in the process of shutting everything down? Is he only running the legitimate parts of the business? If he is a baby mafioso, I didn't think that the show set that up particularly well, but you could and I would be fascinated! Is he trying to run it out of a sense of duty, but is eventually going to decide that this isn't what he wants or where he needs to be? The world is your post-canon oyster! And if you're leaning more toward writing something set before or during canon, I would love to know more about Mae or her relationship with Phon, or to see more scenes of Mew, Shin, and Neo together on the run!
I know some folks felt the ending was a little ambiguous, but personally I thought the show had gone full throuple and that Mew/Neo/Shin is very much a thing (Shin being like 'I'm gonna buy a house here' and Mew and Neo being like 'u idiot, obviously you're gonna stay with us'), which was just ... chef's kiss!!! I love all three of them and they love each other and I am Here for the long-term romantic and sexual threesome of it all -- the dynamic of Mew and Neo poking at each other and Shin laughing at them and bringing them together was very good for me. I would prefer either a full-on throuple or a three-very-close-friends dynamic over pairing only two of them together; they all just complement each other so well, and the show did such a fabulous job of setting up the relationships between each of them! (They're all my children and I love all three but Mew is my absolute favorite; Mild Wiraporn was mindblowing in this role.)
Stuff to know about other characters, in case it's helpful: If you include PP, I'd prefer if he really does just work for Shin like Shin was insisting he does, instead of being romantically/sexually involved with Shin (as funny and delightful as Mew and Neo teasing Shin was!). I was really invested in Mae/Phon -- they were lovely, which is not a feeling I was expecting with a ship where one person is a trained killer who dies in the first episode! -- and I wasn't into Mae/Tur as a potential romantic relationship and would prefer if a Mae-fic focused on Mae more than on Mae/Tur as a ship.
HIStory2-越界 | HIStory2: Crossing the Line (2018) - full series (episodes 5-8) | tumblr tag
Xia Yu Hau; Qiu Zi Xuan
Optional details: Yu Hao and Zi Xuan are so charming and they're so charmed by each other! I would love to read about what happens after the series ends. Studying together, going on dates, cooking together again? Meeting families? Big volleyball games or figuring out how to date around all the very practical/real obstacles that Zi Xuan laid out in his big speech at the end of the series?? I LOVE IT ALL. Or: we didn't get nearly as much insight into Zi Xuan's perspective -- what had him so spooked about the feelings he was clearly having (I mean, obviously his sister liking Yu Hao, for one thing), and what changed his mind after that conversation with Cheng En? I just love these two and would love to read about them navigating their new relationship and finding their way together!
Oh fuck this show is the sweetest. Yu Hao with the pining and the TOP TIER HEART EYES, holy hell. I love settling-into-new-relationship stories and am always sad when canon ends with two characters getting together (as lovely and deeply satisfying as this particular get-together was; THAT KISS THO), so post-canon fic would be fantastic. Basically any time you have a piece of media where two kind characters take turns taking care of each other, and take the time to learn about things that are important to each other, and tenderly watch each other sleep and someone gently removes somebody else’s glasses (TWICE), that's going to be my kryptonite, bye!!
I loved that you think he's going to be a bad boy character but it turns out Yu Hao is a big softy and a (mischievous and hotheaded, granted) cinnamon roll who wants to help the volleyball team succeed and make his mom proud, and he's just so goofy (his obnoxious victory dances!). I also really appreciated that he just straight-up accepted his raging crush on Zi Xuan from the get-go. He just so genuinely likes and deeply respects Zi Xuan!! I really love stories where characters figure out new ways to push forward and achieve their dreams after unexpected setbacks, so Zi Xuan's trajectory from 'it doesn't matter if I hurt my injured leg again since I can't play volleyball anymore anyway' to 'I'm going to double major in computer science and sports management and become the best volleyball coach of all time' was just ... a lot. Like, stick a fork in me, I’m done.
The volleyball in the series itself was kind of hilarious, in re: how divorced it was from the story and how low-stakes the one game felt (Zi Xuan literally didn't even teach Yu Hao the rules!!), so it could be interesting to incorporate the volleyball more into a narrative? But I'm also not at all wedded to that as an idea, since, you know, it wasn't particularly important in the show!
Notes about other characters, in case you are someone who likes to know these things: 1) I enjoy Yu Hao's friendship with the WenWu bros but the stepbrothers-in-love thing is not for me. I'm okay with where the show left things between the two of them and would be okay with that continuing in the background in fic, but would prefer not to read about them getting together and/or navigating romance feelings. 2) Zi Xuan's sister complex is hilarious and I like Qian Ru and love their relationship. When Zi Xuan is apologizing about the whole sister-confession scene, Yu Hao says, 'I know, your sister explained it to me' -- did she go find him after the fact and plead her brother's case?! 3) Zi Xuan's friendship with He Cheng En is ridiculous and I love them.
How to Be a Werewolf - webcomic | tumblr tag
Vincent Dysangco Walters; Elias Ross
Optional details: I was lucky enough to receive an amazing Malaya-and-Vincent gift last year, so I'm switching it up this year and hoping for MORE FICS in this tiny fandom! Watching Vincent and Elias circle around each other as Eli flails over Vincent and Vincent slowly starts to realize he might be having Feelings, has been such a joy. Theirs has been the slow-burniest of relationships and if you wanted to do your take on the inevitable eventual get-together, that could be fun! I also really dig their relationship the way that it is, if you wanted to do some slice-of-life stuff set in the current comic timeline; I've been delighted by them bringing each other food and talking about queerness over baseball and making each other blush and Eli walking Vincent to class.
Man, Chapter 9 was A Lot, with Eli collapsing and Vincent cradling him and keeping him safe (which was, in turn, a lovely turnabout from Eli doing the same for Vincent after he got kidnapped and clawed earlier in the comic), and then so-sleepy-he's-basically-drunk Eli telling Vincent how he feels and Vincent's soft face as he pets asleep-Eli's hair. A LOT. You know, you were there! Honestly I don't have a ton of specific prompts for this request; I would be so delighted with any fic about the two of them! Eli working in the cafe and making excuses to flirt with Vincent while Vince does homework and Malaya laughs at them? Something set farther down the line -- Eli figuring his life out? Does he enroll at the university and join the baseball team? Vincent and Eli going on an actualfax date, in which Eli does not accidentally invite along a third party? Vincent dealing with some of the fallout (which I think the comic has hinted at, with Joy's comment about Vincent not liking to be alone) of being kidnapped and almost dying? Eli introducing Vincent to his massive werewolf family??
Vincent's flat faces are fucking hilarious; some of his reaction panels have made me legitimately shout with laughter. I love that while he can be stoic, quiet, and a little grumpy, he also doesn't hesitate to tell his sister he loves her and he makes amazing deadpan puns. I tend to read him as demiromantic and pansexual, mostly based on this page, though he definitely doesn't know either of those words at this point in the narrative. And Eli! He's such a puppy of a person -- I love how well-intentioned and kind, if sometimes foolhardy and foolish, he is, and that while he can be clueless as heck, he tries SO HARD to get things right.
Added info on other characters in case it's helpful: I LOVE Vincent's sibling relationship with Malaya and Eli's friendship with her, and the Dysangco Walters parents are lovely; best fam. I love/ship the heck out of MarMar. Charlene is marvelous. I'm not super invested in Connie's crew of werewolves, though Ginger's integration with our crew has been fun, but otherwise, I love everyone and the world is your oyster. I know this is a weekly-updating canon and just for the record, I'm not tied to canon here -- if you want to write stuff that's set in the future or that may be contradicted by the comic, go for it; I'm not a stickler for canon like that!
Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles - tumblr tag
Justin Lazarus; Susan "Sukey" Lazarus; Emma
Optional details: This little grifter fam makes my heart sing! I love how fiercely they love each other and that they built a family all their own. I'd love a story set at any point in time, whether the girls are kids, teens, or adults. I didn't tag Nathaniel but would also enjoy his involvement if you want to include him; Justin, Sukey, and Emma were just my top priorities!
Some spoilers for Gilded Cage here, if you haven't read it yet. God, I've read An Unnatural Vice so many times and Gilded Cage is rapidly climbing the list as well. I love Justin's sharp sneakiness and coming at everything sideways, and how his ruthlessness (Templeton describes the poker face that Susan learned from Justin as reptilian, in Gilded Cage, which is so very good) and prickliness juxtaposes with how deeply and genuinely he loves the girls. Even if he doesn't always know the best way to take care of or support them (I appreciated that it was made clear in Gilded Cage that he didn't always succeed), he tries so hard for them; that Gilded Cage conversation where Susan says she hasn't needed to stand alone since she was eight years old because she's had Justin was A LOT.
Justin and Susan are delightfully meticulous and snarky and sly and overwhelmingly competent, and I love that they can be vicious and angry and hold grudges and won't hesitate to go low if necessary. They're both so fiercely loyal to the people they love and so funny -- Susan is delightfully dry and Justin is such a shit. I also really appreciate that they're both their own characters, for all their similarities; I loved Susan feeling like it was time to strike out on her own in Gilded Cage. I feel like we don't get as strong of a sense of Emma as a character, so I'd enjoy learning more about her! She's clearly deeply loyal and thoughtful, and I love how protective she is of Sukey (giving Sukey's landlady a colorful piece of her mind!).
There are so many possibilities for ideas that I'd love! Justin first meeting the girls or training them up as his helpers, Sukey terrorizing boarding schools or learning with Miss Rawling, Justin teaching/training Sukey (either as a clairvoyant's helper or as a detective), Susan first joining Braglewicz & Lazarus, everybody playing with Emma's kids, the family rallying around Emma and getting rid of her first husband or supporting Susan after Cara's death or Justin during one of his depressive spells or Susan founding her own agency after Gilded Cage... Anything! If casefic is more your speed, Mark says that being an enquiry agent is mostly about finding lost dogs and lost letters; Susan and Justin working a case that isn't fog, bigamy, torture, and murder could be fun!
Like I mentioned in my prompt, I also enjoy Nathaniel and if you want to explore how he became part of the family too and became a guvnor to Sukey and Emma, I would be here for that as well! If it's helpful to know my feelings on other characters: I love everyone, and I really enjoy Justin, Mark, and Susan's detective partnership. I ship everybody with their canon partners, including Justin/Nathaniel, Susan/Cara, Susan/James, Pen/Mark, Clem/Rowley, Alec/Jerry, Stan/Christiana, and Greta/Tim. Basically for anyone you might like to include, there's no losing here!