ekevka

Hello! It's my first time participating in this exchange, and I'm really looking forward to it! The ideas (mostly questions, tbh) are below.
Also, all this account is for exchange letters, so browse at your pleasure.
Regarding smut/no smut - I do prefer plot to smut, but it's a preference, and I'm okay with violence.

General DNW:
- generic modern time (unless crack about Romanov ghosts)
- any allusions to modern situation/politics (illnesses that span the globe, countries being torn apart, that kind of thing - mentions is fine, being the centre of the plot is DNW)
- hopeless endings (open endings are fine)
- non-canonical character death (apart from temporarily ones due to timeloops or Hades - see clarification down in relevant section)
- eye trauma described in any kind of detail
- mind-control
- character bashing (as in unreasonable hating without any reason spelled out - if you see a character able to bash another, warn for it and keep it as out of the author's speech as possible)
- non-con

General likes (in addition to specific prompts):
- hurt/comfort (I mean, would I be signing up if that wasn't the case?)
- there was only one _insert object here_ plots
- characters expressing their feelings by actions instead of words
- calm before the storm moments (especially if there's a foreshadowing of important events or such)
- soulmate AUs (but not any kind that impedes one's vision before meeting a soulmate - like, see only the colour of their eyes/no colours other than black and white until you've met, that kind of thing)
- daemon AU
- bodyswap
- timetravel in all shapes and forms (inc. groundhog-day AUs)
- for original fiction: historical, steampunk or magical settings (historical being up to approx. 1920)
- mpreg (where applicable)

This letter is structured in same order as my sign-up, so scroll down to find the section you've matched on!

Fandom: 19th Century CE RPF
Pairings: Charlotte von Preußen/Varvara Nelidova/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I (hurt Varvara)
Charlotte von Preußen/Varvara Nelidova/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I (hurt Nicholas)
Charlotte von Preußen/Varvara Nelidova/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I (all hurt)
Charlotte von Preußen/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I of Russia (hurt Nicholas)
Alexander von Benckendorff/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I of Russia (hurt Nicholas)
Alexander von Benckendorff/Nikolai I Pavlovich | Nicholas I of Russia (both hurt)
Alexander von Benckendorff/Charlotte von Preußen/Nicholas I of Russia (hurt Nicholas)
Alexander von Benckendorff/Charlotte von Preußen/Nicholas I of Russia (hurt Alexander)
Freeforms: Stoic character softly confesses they don't feel well
Normally stoic character grudgingly asks for support & is surprised to receive it
Soulmate AU - being near will heal injuries
Soulmate AU - one soulmate can take the pain and/or injury of another
Soul bond means A can feel B's pain even when B is trying to hide it
Bedside Vigils
Character A more concerned about Character B's injuries than their own
Character has a history of pretending to feel better than they do
Two people grow closer while taking care of a third
Wingfic - Accidental wings reveal when character is hurt/sick & can no longer hide them
king's health linked to kingdom's - okay, this prompt is very good, kudos to whoever nominated it and I do wonder: who actually dominates, is it king's (or emperor in this case) illness that pains the country or the country's mismanagement that manifests as emperor's illness?

Those are my historical OTP/OT3 - anything goes, honestly. Some of the freeforms are prompts in their own right, and I don't really have a preference as to physical or phycological hurt.
Fandom specific DNW: unconsensual infidelity - even a line about either no marriage or spouse being okay is better than the lack of it;
     all hurt no comfort;
     Crimean War described in any detail (you can even lead up or kill Nicholas I outright, just don't focus exclusively on this failure of national politics)
     any theories that Nicholas I killed himself (depression and poor attention to his own health is one thing, actual suicide - no, please)
Historical anecdotes I like, just for inspiration:
1) Nicholas Pavlovich was courting Varvara Nelidova (who was his wife’s maid-in-waiting) and apparently it was the final straw for Alexandra Feodorovna herself – she took Nelidova and went to travel along Italy. Nicholas followed suit, they talked things out and Nelidova was presumably the ‘head’ mistress as well as Alexandra’s friend – close enough to Nicholas that after his death Nelidova wanted to become a nun, close enough to Alexandra that she managed to talk Nelidova out of it.
2) Once Nicholas Pavlovich was travelling along with Benckendorff. Given how bad Russian roads can be, the carriage overturned, and Nicholas had his collarbone broken. Benckendorff went for help (although likely bruised himself) and later on was the liason between Nicholas and the rest of the country while the tsar was being treated in a nearby village (for a couple of weeks, since it’s first half of XIX century!)

     Fandom: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Pairing: Javert/Jean Valjean (hurt Javert)
Javert/Jean Valjean (both hurt)
Freeforms: Character A more concerned about Character B's injuries than their own
Soulmate AU- being near will heal injuries
Soulmate AU - Soulmates share injuries
Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's pain
Enemies to Lovers - Accidental soulbond between enemies/rivals
Accidental Soulbond - distance and lack of touch causes characters pain and illness
Soul bond means A can feel B's pain even when B is trying to hide it
Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B
Time loop - Forced to watch LI to die repeatedly until they break the loop succeeding in rescuing LI - this prompt clearly is exempt from non-canonical character death DNW
Wingfic - Accidental wings reveal when character is hurt/sick & can no longer hide them

The fandom for this one has made some awesome timeloop fics, so naturally I'd love to seen more, but as usual, anything from the freeforms would be welcome.
I don't really have a preference as to when exactly the whole thing is set, but I would rather see a clear tag.
Oh, I do have one promptish thought - soulmates do have corresponding marks, be it names or whatsnot, and that's how Javert gets on Valjean's trail after whole M. Madeleine thing - Javert's mark changes according to how Valjean styles himself (whether Javert actually tries to show it as evidence is up to you, I would accept any logical explanation for and against such an action)

     Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018)
Pairings: Nyx & Meg (hurt Meg)
Ares/Thanatos (Hades Video Game) (both hurt)
Hades/Nyx/Persephone (Hades Video Game) (hurt Nyx)
Hades/Nyx/Persephone (Hades Video Game) (hurt Persephone)
Hades/Nyx/Persephone (Hades Video Game) (hurt Hades)
Hades/Nyx/Persephone (Hades Video Game) (all hurt)
Ares/Athena (Hades Video Game) (hurt Ares)
Ares & Athena (Hades Video Game) (hurt Ares)
Aphrodite/Ares/Thanatos (Hades Video Game) (hurt Ares)
Nyx/Persephone (Hades Video Game) (hurt Nyx)
Freeforms: aftermath of war
Normally stoic character grudgingly asks for support & is surprised to receive it
Stoic character softly confesses they don't feel well
Character A more concerned about Character B's injuries than their own
Protectiveness - Character A still tries to protect Character B despite A being injured
Faking Recovery So Others Will Stop Worrying About You
hurt character is not used to being touched by someone else
Intoxicated character confesses that actually things are NOT okay
Resurrection after violent death

Okay, Hades pulled me in with pretty visuals and fairly compelling story - pretty much all characters are fun, most are very likeable, conflicts are fairly meaningful (and honestly, it's kind of sad how the whole parents - children conflict repeats itself in generation after generation).
In terms of this exchange, it's fairly interesting to explore just how gods and demigods react to hurt - is there a point where temporary death is a reprieve? Do they heal phycological traumas just as easily as they would a physical wound? (going by canon - very much no, but it's still an interesting question).
What is hurt for god of war anyway - like, does he have a higher pain threshold, does he just not bother about 'small' wounds to horror of his less bloodthirsty relatives, or does he never get any injuries and thus is even more shocked when something gets him?

Regarding character death for this one: given the game mechanics and everyone being at least immortal, I'm waiving non-canonical character death as DNW for this fandom (just tag, please)

Fandom: Original work
Characters: Group: Romanov dynasty as ghosts haunting Winter Palace (all hurt)
Group: Ghosts residing in a building & New Ghost(s) (all hurt)
Freeforms: Ghosts hiding their cause of death to not additionally burden others
Ghosts comforting each other about cause of death
Ghosts still feeling their illnesses/injuries even after death

Okay, this one is pretty self-explanatory - ghosts mingle, exchange stories and tales, bring news (or don't bring some of them, up to you!
Regarding Romanov part - I think my favourite couple is pretty obvious from the prompts above, but anyone would be welcome here, even those of the dynasty who actually never set foot in Saint Petersburg. Also, feel free to use any rumours regarding death here - is Alexander I coming later than his brother because he actually moved to Siberia instead of dying or because he took a very scenic route back home? How many Peter III ghosts come and try to weasel in all claiming they are the real tsar? Is there an Anastasia Romanova or are there several (and when does she arrive)?
(how does Nicholas II explain all his family dying in one day? does he even attempt to or just never answers?)
(are there bastard ghosts wandering the halls?)
Of course, all of it could be turned into original building being a camping ground for ghosts - are they family members? Have they all died there? Is it just a very fancy building, so they just come in to spend eternity? Is it a library, or a museum - some place you can spend an eternity in? (if the last one - does the personnel see or feel the ghosts?)
For this one modern times are okay - it's could be more fun re:first group of ghost, but please, refrain from any recent developments (let's say, anything specific up from 2005 is still a DNW, but mobile phones and widespread wifi can make an appearance).