Dear Heart Attack Writer,

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John Wick (Movies)

John Wick/Winston

 

Just when I think the series can't possibly give me any more of what I love – namely, badass fights, fine tailoring, and loyalty kink like you wouldn't believe, John Wick turns around and goes, oh, I'm sorry, did you think you were finished with me? Like seriously, these movies are just filled with all the kinds of things I adore, especially the bond between John and Winston. I just have always had a thing for mentor/protégé ships, especially when it involves classy suits, fine dining, and murder. There's just something about the way Winston and John interact that always made me want more - more tailoring, more teaching, more of the two of them just sitting and talking and ending up in a far too intimate relationship that everyone realizes is a terrible idea, but hey, that's what this series is made of.   

Gifts are enabled; treats welcome!

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine and if you want to refer to past Winston/Charon, I wouldn't say no), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine).

 

Prompts: 

 

I'd love something where Winston really is just faking John's death at the end of the fourth movie, or John survives but it's touch and go, just anything where John survives his death even if it means it's not a tragically poetic ending.

 

I've had so many great stories that have given me cool twists on canon and I'll happily devour more! Maybe John ends up working for the Continental under Winston and he becomes privy to Winston's grand schemes that way. Or maybe something where Helen was the assassin, not John, and after her death, John starts researching her background.

 

I'd still love to see something set during any part of the canon where John get injured and Winston ends up taking care of him, either early in his career which makes Winston catch Deeply Inappropriate Feelings, or later on, when both of them are jaded enough to realize it's a bad idea because hey, they're on the run and having these types of revelations during gunfights is terrible timing. 

 

Squid Game (TV 2021) 

Hwang Inho | Front Man/Hwang Junho (Squid Game)

 

This show hits all the right things for me - the reveal that the enemy you've been fighting all this time is your brother? And he's trying to get you to join him? And he's messed-up and kind of evil and damn it, played by Lee Byong-hun? Well, that's just going to hit all the right buttons. I like Jun-ho, too. In any other show, he'd be the hero, but instead, he's the side plot that sort of just... well, falls off a cliff. But before that, we get to him basically do anything to find his brother and that level of devotion (obsession) is both admirable and in the world of Squid Game, really unfortunate. I'd love something about the two of them and their close relationship – how their connection seems to be their greatest weakness and yet neither one of them really can give it up because it's all tied up in love and loyalty and what you owe to the other person. 

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine).

 

Prompts: 

 

I've gotten a couple of great stories for this, but I'm always up for fic where Junho's fall from the cliff just means he falls into Junho's clutches, which is both the best and worst thing that could have happened to him.

 

Canon divergence is great here – maybe a Junho who entered the games as a participant or Inho just took him along before he could even cause any problems in the first place? 

 

Vampires. You win the game, you become a vampire, in a totally not obvious metaphor for capitalism and Inho would appreciate the political commentary if he wasn't distracted by his brother sucking on his neck. 

 

Casablanca  (1942)

Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo (Casablanca 1942)

 

One's a gruff, secretly noble guy who pretends not to give a damn, but has a history of very much giving a damn about doing the right thing,. The other's the embodiment of hope and truth, beloved by all to the point that even the villains respect him. Together they fight Nazis, most likely get turned on by each other's past heroism, and probably have their biggest quarrels over who gets to sacrifice themselves this time! It's been a while since I've requested this and received a lovely story for it, but I was reminded of how much I adored it recently!

 

Gifts are enabled; treats welcome!

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine). If you do include Ilsa in the story, please have her either never having hooked up with them, or having had an amicable break-up (please don't kill her off or make her into a villain.)

 

Prompts:

 

Alternate meeting: “We'll always have Paris” means a lot to Victor, considering it's where he met Rick. Feel free to fudge timelines here if you need to as well as motivations for why Victor might leave (captured family? Trying to protect Rick?)

 

Victor shows up in Casablanca (one of this scenarios where neither met Ilsa?) and Rick decides that absolutely, he is not getting himself involved in that kind of trouble. Nope.  He doesn't care how attractive Victor is or how much he begrudgingly admires the man for sticking to his ideals.

 

Rick's a member of the Free French and has been tasked with protecting a genuine war hero. If only the war hero would stop trying to protect Rick...

 

Gaslight (1944) 

Paula Alquist/Brian Cameron (Gaslight)

 

I must have rewatched this movie so many times back when when I was younger – just something about the combination of Victorian setting, creepy mood, and an unspoken crush on Joseph Cotten (between him and Peter Cushing, I think I was born a few decades too late). It's such a great, atmospheric movie and I love the implied hints of a romance at the end between Paula and Brian, even if it's probably going to take a while, because you know, gaslighting, murderous husbands are a little hard to get past.  In other words, if you want to take the relationship slow, starting more as a friendship than a “love at first sight,” especially for Paula, that's fine by me. 

 

Gifts are enabled; treats welcome!

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine as is the exception I made in one of my prompts), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine).

 

Prompts:

 

Paula's getting over her douchebag of an ex-husband, but unfortunately that does require court trials, newspaper coverage, and a lot of restarting her life. How does Brian help her out with that and how does Paula show that she's a lot stronger than she looks?

 

Paula figures out early on that Gregory is up to something, instead of just believing his lies (maybe Nancy realizes hey, this guy is an asshole as well) and enlists Brian to help her out. 

 

And I also have this weird crack idea where the characters are reversed – maybe Paula's the one that's connected to Scotland Yard (independent, unrecognized, and damn good at it) and Brian's the one that's getting manipulated (could be something as simple as business partners, but honestly, their chemistry during the final scenes makes me perfectly fine with him having had a relationship with Sergis as well).

 

The Quick and the Dead 

Cort/Ellen

 

I was really delighted to see this in the tag set as it is one of my favorite Westerns – it's just so wonderfully over the top while having some really great dramatic moments. I mean, Ellen's character is amazing and Stone plays the lonesome stranger with a mysterious past that rides into town so well in this movie. And Russell Crowe is so much fun too, as that lovely iddy type of man trying to outrun his past who's dragged back to confront it. Also, the deleted sex scene between the two of them is very hot and without modern technology, I might never have seen it. Thanks, internet!

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine as is Cort/Herod), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine).

  

Prompts: 

 

Ellen set up Cort to take over being sheriff, but what if he runs into a problem he can't handle on his own? Maybe Ellen has to come back and clean up again and hey, Cort's still there, now nicely cleaned up and not suffering (or maybe he is, I'm good either way). 

 

They meet a different way – Herod never murdered Cort's congregation, so he's still a preacher when Ellen stumbles across him on her own personal hunt for Herod. 

 

Cort never left Herod's gang and Ellen's playing the long game by getting close to him and revenge is a dish best served by stealing your nemesis's right-hand man.

 

Vampires (1998) 

Jack Crow/Adam Guiteau (Vampires)

 

I've gotten several wonderful gifts for this but I love this movie just as much as John Carpenter clearly loves vampire westerns, so I'd be thrilled with more! I would adore something with Jack and Adam and their fucked-up dynamic. You have Jack just utterly manhandling Adam all over the place and Adam going like “I feel like I should stop him, but my father figure/cardinal told me to help him out since his last priest died in a room full of sex workers,” and then at some point, Adam's shooting the cardinal with a shotgun before they defeat the big bad and ride off into the sunset together while making sex jokes. So there's a lot to explore there, which would be fantastic. 

 

DNWs: No animal harm, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine), no permanent nominated character death (transformations are fine).

 

Prompts: 

 

Role reversal: Jack's the priest, Adam's the hunter and neither one of them is terribly good at it, which means that when they're forced to work together, it's perfect. Eventually. 

 

Road trip to stop the apocalypse! Someone is trying to end the world and guess who gets called in to clean up the mess? Do they fight over the music on the radio? Junk food? Whether or not Jack can drive a car while Adam's giving him head? 

 

The Church decides to throw a bounty on our heroes' heads because they did kill a Cardinal, after all, and religious corruption and cover-ups are pretty traditional. So while Adam tries to figure out who they can still trust, Jack's just trying to keep them both alive.