Darkest Night
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allele_apocalypseGeneral likes: Power imbalance, mind control & manipulation, medical kink, pain kink, breeding/pregnancy/lactation, victims who fight back mentally and/or physically, victims getting revenge, victims not getting revenge and remaining eternally frustrated or maddened, pretty people suffering prettily, angst over all of the above, victim POV, non-human reactions and perspectives.
DNWs: Body fluids except mild blood or semen mentions, vore/cannibalism, sexualized death (including necrophilia, getting off on murder sprees, etc), underage sex below 14 or equivalent.
All prompts and comments are mere suggestions; feel free to take the tags as open prompts themselves and go where they call you. Apart from the body fluids/dead body squicks above, I am not easily bothered by dark themes. Sexual or non-sexual stories are both welcome. Happy, sad or ambiguous endings are all fine.
Almost Human – Dorian, Dorian & DRN-494
AU – Cop & Prostitute, Being Tortured Triggers Past Memories, Body horror, Brainwashing, Captured by Slavers, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Fucklibrary, Loss of Soul, Mind Control, Mindwiping, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Sensory Deprivation and Sensory Overload
Androids are the new space aliens to my my mind, creatures that look human but don't necessary think like a human, and are much more prone to mind hacking, glitches and the unexpected consequences of initial programming conditions. The shtick of Almost Human was that the android Dorian (and the other DRNs...perhaps) was supposedly more human than his half-broken cop partner, John Kennex. The show didn't last long enough to explore the contradictions between that notion and the fact that the DRNs were explicitly a slave race killed off once their bugginess outweighed their usefulness. In any case, what we are left with after fourteen frustrating episodes is bare worldbuilding: a rejected line of robots with ambiguous emotions, sentience and free will; legal and encouraged android prostitution; mysterious city-states that exist against a dystopian-authoritarian background; techno-wizardry all over the place; and a central character that's programmed to be a cop and like it, even when that pits him squarely against this society's injustices.
Some ideas for prompts: Dorian's mystery memories – a flaw in his programming, a deliberate hack by criminals/Vaughn/the other DRNs/Rudy. AU in which Dorian is not woken up to be a cop again, or is deactivated after John for some reason, but experiences old memories in his new (horror-filled?) life anyway. In AU Cope and Prostitute and Fucklibrary, the hooker could be Dorian, or Dorian going to see another DRN. Dorian is sent on a mission that requires significant alterations to his mind or body, which he doesn't want to do but is forced to anyway. Dorian becomes aware of some of the “reassignments” of the other DRNs and tries to help them. Dorian loses his Synthetic Soul. An Almost Human-Westworld fusion.
Dark Angel – Max/Alec, Max & Alec
Aftermath of Torture, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Breeding Program, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Experimentation, Forced Bonding, Forced Pregnancy, Mind Control, Mating Cycle/In Heat, Miscarriage/Stillbirth, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges, Sadism/Masochism, Sexual Relationship as Unhealthy Coping Mechanism, Underage Sex, Xenophilia
Here's another short-lived show with interesting worldbuilding and a maddening lack of follow-through on its premises. (Oh FOX, why do you keep ruining perfectly serviceable SF?) This one's got a lot of tasty fake biology to work with, on top of a secret-organization-chases-protagonist plot and child abuse. I will lap up pretty much anything involving genetic engineering weirdness, xeno weirdness, breeding weirdness, medical experimentation weirdness, and good-looking young people forced to do terrible things to each other or the public at large, and the fallout from any of the above. It does not need to follow canon very closely, since canon by and large made no sense with itself. I do like the way Max and Alec complement each other, with Max as the deprogrammed one looking out for people and ethical values beyond herself (season one is the best Max in characterization), and Alec as the heavily manipulated/mindfucked one who at some point at least learned to look out for himself. Both of these are in stark contrast (to each other and the other programmed soldiers) when they actually are at Manticore together, since Manticore's goal is to train slave-soldiers with no interests of their own.
Some possibilities, many along the lines of Max and Alec at Manticore together: Forced sex training for undercover missions. At puberty, some of the kids exhibit sexual “anomalies” like going into heat, and Manticore decides to test their limits for research purposes. Actually, Manticore testing any of their limits for research purposes. After Max is caught (or is caught earlier), Alec is forced to be involved in her “rehabilitation.” Max and Alec secretly hookup for mutual comfort and stress relief, but unfortunately they have no role models for healthy relationships, so things begin to escalate. Manticore tries a lot harder to make that “breeding partner” thing actually happen (feel free to go into disgusting detail on this one). Variation: Due to genetic engineering shenanigans, Alec can get pregnant too, so mpreg or mutual impregnation.
The Pretender – Jarod
Brainwashing, Breeding, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Child Abuse, Controlling/Possessive Relationship, Cycle of Escalating Retaliation, Experimentation, Failed Rebellion, Forbidden Love, Forced Drug Addiction, Forced Medical Procedure, Grooming, Insanity, Irresistible Instincts/Urges, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Trauma, Rape as Part of Scientific Research, Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges, Self-Loathing Due to Forbidden Attraction, Shame in Sexual Desires
This old fandom suffers from a shocking lack of dark fic, given the premise of the show. There's plenty of opportunity for Jarod to be abused far more than presented, to be manipulated by Sydney (perhaps evil!Sydney, or even – yes – rapey!Sydney), to be subjected to breeding experiments (practically canon, but not explicit), to snap and go crazy, to lose his core identity in a Pretend, or to suffer all manner of guilt-ridden sexual or behavioral tics as a result of captivity. Both “Cycle of Escalating Retaliation” and “Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges” could be great with Miss Parker.
Supernatural – Amara/Dean; Lucifer/Sam
Aftermath of Violence, Body Horror, Chronic Pain, Cosmic Horror, Eldritch Abomination, Hallucinations, Human Beings Considered Animals, Laws of Reality Continually Changing, Loss of Control, Mind Break, Mind Control, Mindfuck, Mind Rape, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Sadism/Masochism, Sex as a Form of Punishment, Things Beyond Human Comprehension
Both of these pairings involve overpowered demi-gods (essentially) who become obsessed with a lowly human, and who due to circumstances may end up with only that human mind to play with for eons. Supernatural never had the budget (or sadly, creativity, although they at least tried with Hell in the earlier seasons) to properly show some of these apocalypse-busting creatures in full form, so we have to turn to fic to spell it out. Like, what exactly is Amara really, minus the nonsensical human form? Why did she really glom onto Dean, or what does that relationship mean to her? If she ate Dean's soul, what would happen? If she didn't eat Dean's soul, but destroyed everything but him, her and Chuck, what would happen? What's Lucifer getting out of his evil romping – since, as Anna shows, you can be a fallen angel and not be a dick? What's he do to Sam (in the box, or in the alt-apocalypse, or in the other apocalypse), and why does Sam make it through mentally?
Or, alternatively, you can ignore the grand questions and just torture Sam or Dean in new and innovative ways, while they desperately and futilely try to escape. I'd be good with that.
Westworld –
Robert Ford & Bernard Lowe
Abuse of Authority, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Captivity, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Dream Invasion, Mindfuck, Mind Control, Non-Consensual Body Modification
Maeve Millay, Dolores Abernathy/Man in Black
Aftermath of Violence, Aftermath of Torture, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Fucklibrary, Mind Control, Mindwiping, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Pimped Out by the Government, Sexual Slavery
Finally an android show that does try to follow through on some of its fucked-up premises -- free will vs mind control, mindwiping vs repeating the same sentient awakening, behavior prediction in creatures that humans created, the dehumanization of bodies created for unlimited sex and violence, but nevertheless experience it as fully the first time as the ten thousandth. Robert & Bernard is one of the few relationships I have a hard time picturing as overtly sexual (although you're welcome to do it if you want to try and sell it…) so I put the more direct hooker-related freeforms on Maeve and Dolores. It's more of Tesseract-esque power play with Robert: creator vs creation vs. a copy of another creator vs. the creation allowed to become a creator in his own right. The one thing I didn't like in this show was the William as MIB reveal, mostly because even with the time difference I couldn't see much continuity between the reasonably empathetic William and rapey/sociopathic MIB. A better exploration of how William transitioned between thinking of Dolores & Co as things to objects to play with (perhaps with repeated loops in which the android's behavior never changes) would make an excellent story.
Other ideas: How and why Robert created Bernard. Robert mindfucks Bernard (or Dolores or Maeve) to see if he can reliably provoke self-awareness, then erases it. Deep exploration or continuation of what was up with Bernard and Dolores. Maeve's revenge in Westworld, the real world or other Worlds. Any of the androids reprogramming themselves, with unexpected consequences. Enlightened!Dolores confronts MIB. Other character (or early William) tries to snap Maeve or Dolores out of their loop by increasingly pushing boundaries. Other character decides to see how far “anything goes” really goes. Early Robert/Arnold experiments on Dolores.
DNWs: Body fluids except mild blood or semen mentions, vore/cannibalism, sexualized death (including necrophilia, getting off on murder sprees, etc), underage sex below 14 or equivalent.
All prompts and comments are mere suggestions; feel free to take the tags as open prompts themselves and go where they call you. Apart from the body fluids/dead body squicks above, I am not easily bothered by dark themes. Sexual or non-sexual stories are both welcome. Happy, sad or ambiguous endings are all fine.
Almost Human – Dorian, Dorian & DRN-494
AU – Cop & Prostitute, Being Tortured Triggers Past Memories, Body horror, Brainwashing, Captured by Slavers, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Fucklibrary, Loss of Soul, Mind Control, Mindwiping, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Sensory Deprivation and Sensory Overload
Androids are the new space aliens to my my mind, creatures that look human but don't necessary think like a human, and are much more prone to mind hacking, glitches and the unexpected consequences of initial programming conditions. The shtick of Almost Human was that the android Dorian (and the other DRNs...perhaps) was supposedly more human than his half-broken cop partner, John Kennex. The show didn't last long enough to explore the contradictions between that notion and the fact that the DRNs were explicitly a slave race killed off once their bugginess outweighed their usefulness. In any case, what we are left with after fourteen frustrating episodes is bare worldbuilding: a rejected line of robots with ambiguous emotions, sentience and free will; legal and encouraged android prostitution; mysterious city-states that exist against a dystopian-authoritarian background; techno-wizardry all over the place; and a central character that's programmed to be a cop and like it, even when that pits him squarely against this society's injustices.
Some ideas for prompts: Dorian's mystery memories – a flaw in his programming, a deliberate hack by criminals/Vaughn/the other DRNs/Rudy. AU in which Dorian is not woken up to be a cop again, or is deactivated after John for some reason, but experiences old memories in his new (horror-filled?) life anyway. In AU Cope and Prostitute and Fucklibrary, the hooker could be Dorian, or Dorian going to see another DRN. Dorian is sent on a mission that requires significant alterations to his mind or body, which he doesn't want to do but is forced to anyway. Dorian becomes aware of some of the “reassignments” of the other DRNs and tries to help them. Dorian loses his Synthetic Soul. An Almost Human-Westworld fusion.
Dark Angel – Max/Alec, Max & Alec
Aftermath of Torture, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Breeding Program, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Experimentation, Forced Bonding, Forced Pregnancy, Mind Control, Mating Cycle/In Heat, Miscarriage/Stillbirth, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges, Sadism/Masochism, Sexual Relationship as Unhealthy Coping Mechanism, Underage Sex, Xenophilia
Here's another short-lived show with interesting worldbuilding and a maddening lack of follow-through on its premises. (Oh FOX, why do you keep ruining perfectly serviceable SF?) This one's got a lot of tasty fake biology to work with, on top of a secret-organization-chases-protagonist plot and child abuse. I will lap up pretty much anything involving genetic engineering weirdness, xeno weirdness, breeding weirdness, medical experimentation weirdness, and good-looking young people forced to do terrible things to each other or the public at large, and the fallout from any of the above. It does not need to follow canon very closely, since canon by and large made no sense with itself. I do like the way Max and Alec complement each other, with Max as the deprogrammed one looking out for people and ethical values beyond herself (season one is the best Max in characterization), and Alec as the heavily manipulated/mindfucked one who at some point at least learned to look out for himself. Both of these are in stark contrast (to each other and the other programmed soldiers) when they actually are at Manticore together, since Manticore's goal is to train slave-soldiers with no interests of their own.
Some possibilities, many along the lines of Max and Alec at Manticore together: Forced sex training for undercover missions. At puberty, some of the kids exhibit sexual “anomalies” like going into heat, and Manticore decides to test their limits for research purposes. Actually, Manticore testing any of their limits for research purposes. After Max is caught (or is caught earlier), Alec is forced to be involved in her “rehabilitation.” Max and Alec secretly hookup for mutual comfort and stress relief, but unfortunately they have no role models for healthy relationships, so things begin to escalate. Manticore tries a lot harder to make that “breeding partner” thing actually happen (feel free to go into disgusting detail on this one). Variation: Due to genetic engineering shenanigans, Alec can get pregnant too, so mpreg or mutual impregnation.
The Pretender – Jarod
Brainwashing, Breeding, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Child Abuse, Controlling/Possessive Relationship, Cycle of Escalating Retaliation, Experimentation, Failed Rebellion, Forbidden Love, Forced Drug Addiction, Forced Medical Procedure, Grooming, Insanity, Irresistible Instincts/Urges, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Trauma, Rape as Part of Scientific Research, Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges, Self-Loathing Due to Forbidden Attraction, Shame in Sexual Desires
This old fandom suffers from a shocking lack of dark fic, given the premise of the show. There's plenty of opportunity for Jarod to be abused far more than presented, to be manipulated by Sydney (perhaps evil!Sydney, or even – yes – rapey!Sydney), to be subjected to breeding experiments (practically canon, but not explicit), to snap and go crazy, to lose his core identity in a Pretend, or to suffer all manner of guilt-ridden sexual or behavioral tics as a result of captivity. Both “Cycle of Escalating Retaliation” and “Rough Sex to Stave Off More Violent Urges” could be great with Miss Parker.
Supernatural – Amara/Dean; Lucifer/Sam
Aftermath of Violence, Body Horror, Chronic Pain, Cosmic Horror, Eldritch Abomination, Hallucinations, Human Beings Considered Animals, Laws of Reality Continually Changing, Loss of Control, Mind Break, Mind Control, Mindfuck, Mind Rape, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Sadism/Masochism, Sex as a Form of Punishment, Things Beyond Human Comprehension
Both of these pairings involve overpowered demi-gods (essentially) who become obsessed with a lowly human, and who due to circumstances may end up with only that human mind to play with for eons. Supernatural never had the budget (or sadly, creativity, although they at least tried with Hell in the earlier seasons) to properly show some of these apocalypse-busting creatures in full form, so we have to turn to fic to spell it out. Like, what exactly is Amara really, minus the nonsensical human form? Why did she really glom onto Dean, or what does that relationship mean to her? If she ate Dean's soul, what would happen? If she didn't eat Dean's soul, but destroyed everything but him, her and Chuck, what would happen? What's Lucifer getting out of his evil romping – since, as Anna shows, you can be a fallen angel and not be a dick? What's he do to Sam (in the box, or in the alt-apocalypse, or in the other apocalypse), and why does Sam make it through mentally?
Or, alternatively, you can ignore the grand questions and just torture Sam or Dean in new and innovative ways, while they desperately and futilely try to escape. I'd be good with that.
Westworld –
Robert Ford & Bernard Lowe
Abuse of Authority, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Captivity, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Dream Invasion, Mindfuck, Mind Control, Non-Consensual Body Modification
Maeve Millay, Dolores Abernathy/Man in Black
Aftermath of Violence, Aftermath of Torture, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Character's Body is Considered Government Property, Character's Memories Were a Dream/Delusion, Fucklibrary, Mind Control, Mindwiping, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Pimped Out by the Government, Sexual Slavery
Finally an android show that does try to follow through on some of its fucked-up premises -- free will vs mind control, mindwiping vs repeating the same sentient awakening, behavior prediction in creatures that humans created, the dehumanization of bodies created for unlimited sex and violence, but nevertheless experience it as fully the first time as the ten thousandth. Robert & Bernard is one of the few relationships I have a hard time picturing as overtly sexual (although you're welcome to do it if you want to try and sell it…) so I put the more direct hooker-related freeforms on Maeve and Dolores. It's more of Tesseract-esque power play with Robert: creator vs creation vs. a copy of another creator vs. the creation allowed to become a creator in his own right. The one thing I didn't like in this show was the William as MIB reveal, mostly because even with the time difference I couldn't see much continuity between the reasonably empathetic William and rapey/sociopathic MIB. A better exploration of how William transitioned between thinking of Dolores & Co as things to objects to play with (perhaps with repeated loops in which the android's behavior never changes) would make an excellent story.
Other ideas: How and why Robert created Bernard. Robert mindfucks Bernard (or Dolores or Maeve) to see if he can reliably provoke self-awareness, then erases it. Deep exploration or continuation of what was up with Bernard and Dolores. Maeve's revenge in Westworld, the real world or other Worlds. Any of the androids reprogramming themselves, with unexpected consequences. Enlightened!Dolores confronts MIB. Other character (or early William) tries to snap Maeve or Dolores out of their loop by increasingly pushing boundaries. Other character decides to see how far “anything goes” really goes. Early Robert/Arnold experiments on Dolores.
