Fandom: Black Eyes - Philippa Pearce (from her collection "Who's Afraid? And Other Strange Stories") Wanted tropes: The story has a lot of Lucinda getting into Jane's head and planting this overwhelming fear that something awful is about to happen, so any of that kind of psychological horror is great, but there's also the glorious idea of AN EVIL KILLER TEDDY BEAR. I would love to see him (and Lucinda) get more and more powerful and cause utter destruction on whatever scale you want. Do they stick with hurting individual people? Do they eventually progress to flattening the entire world?
Fandom: Spirit - George Roux (Painting 1885) Wanted tropes: I'd be mainly into the creeping atmospheric psychological sort of horror for this than anything gory (although gore and violence are absolutely welcome as well if you want!), traditional Victorian ghost story style. I would love to be really spooked out.
Fandom: The Sea Witch - Adrien Amilhat (Painting 2017) Wanted tropes: Sea peril! Epic storms, sea battles, shipwrecks, marooned sailors, reluctant cannibalism, shark attacks, the kraken or other similar creatures, anything. Unwanted tropes: I feel she's not a malevolent witch so I'd rather not have anything along those lines, I'd prefer the horror to be more about storms and other people and creatures (maybe other sea witches?) and she does what she can to help.
Fandom: The Uninvited Guest pt 1 & 2 - Adolph Menzel (Painting Duology 1844-1845) Wanted tropes: I have a real fondness for the It Follows type trope of something bad relentlessly stalking someone and there's just no escape, although they can put it off for a while. Anything about that sense of mounting inescapable dread would be GREAT. Alternatively: Death isn't a human and therefore probably doesn't think entirely like a human. Is there something different about the way he acts or thinks or where his boundaries are that you could tell an unsettling story about?
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind, whatever serves the story best
Unwanted tropes for all fandoms: Child or animal abuse, noncon, under 16 sex, anything to do with hanging or execution
tl;dr Generally I'm more into unsettling psychological horror and ghost stories than any other Crueltidey tropes, so if you can really spook me out with atmosphere I'll be delighted beyond measure. Any level of gore and destruction is also great, but preferably not as the main point of the story because physical horror without some amount of creepiness around it just isn't really my thing.
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Fandom: Black Eyes - Philippa Pearce (from her collection "Who's Afraid? And Other Strange Stories")
Wanted tropes: The story has a lot of Lucinda getting into Jane's head and planting this overwhelming fear that something awful is about to happen, so any of that kind of psychological horror is great, but there's also the glorious idea of AN EVIL KILLER TEDDY BEAR. I would love to see him (and Lucinda) get more and more powerful and cause utter destruction on whatever scale you want. Do they stick with hurting individual people? Do they eventually progress to flattening the entire world?
Fandom: Spirit - George Roux (Painting 1885)
Wanted tropes: I'd be mainly into the creeping atmospheric psychological sort of horror for this than anything gory (although gore and violence are absolutely welcome as well if you want!), traditional Victorian ghost story style. I would love to be really spooked out.
Fandom: The Sea Witch - Adrien Amilhat (Painting 2017)
Wanted tropes: Sea peril! Epic storms, sea battles, shipwrecks, marooned sailors, reluctant cannibalism, shark attacks, the kraken or other similar creatures, anything.
Unwanted tropes: I feel she's not a malevolent witch so I'd rather not have anything along those lines, I'd prefer the horror to be more about storms and other people and creatures (maybe other sea witches?) and she does what she can to help.
Fandom: The Uninvited Guest pt 1 & 2 - Adolph Menzel (Painting Duology 1844-1845)
Wanted tropes: I have a real fondness for the It Follows type trope of something bad relentlessly stalking someone and there's just no escape, although they can put it off for a while. Anything about that sense of mounting inescapable dread would be GREAT. Alternatively: Death isn't a human and therefore probably doesn't think entirely like a human. Is there something different about the way he acts or thinks or where his boundaries are that you could tell an unsettling story about?
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind, whatever serves the story best
Unwanted tropes for all fandoms: Child or animal abuse, noncon, under 16 sex, anything to do with hanging or execution
tl;dr Generally I'm more into unsettling psychological horror and ghost stories than any other Crueltidey tropes, so if you can really spook me out with atmosphere I'll be delighted beyond measure. Any level of gore and destruction is also great, but preferably not as the main point of the story because physical horror without some amount of creepiness around it just isn't really my thing.