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Thank you so much for writing for me! H/C is my favorite thing, so I'm very excited about this exchange and I really look forward to whatever you create for me.
General Loves:
All h/c tropes that don't infantilize anyone are delicious to me. Injured and stuck without medical care on another planet/behind enemy lines/etc, bedside vigils, tender caretaking, stoic characters pretending they are JUST FINE right up until they collapse, feverish characters babbling truths they'd never admit to sober (or babbling total non-sequiturs) - I love it all. Emotional h/c is also excellent. I am especially fond of characters who have gotten so used to loneliness, unhappiness, lack of love, etc., that it's normal to them, being astonished to find that they've somehow stumbled into joy.
I like worldbuilding, whether it's of literal worlds or exploring the setting/culture of our real world. I love strange, beautiful/deadly, post-apocalyptic, and mysterious landscapes. I have a thing for ancient but still working, poorly understood machinery or magical items. I like any sort of survival narrative. One of my favorite tropes ever is the dangerous trip into an unknown place surrounded by mystery, from which few or none have ever returned.
I love bonding through shared hardship or a shared hard job, through both being outcasts or both having a secret. I love characters who trust each other with their lives. I also love characters who don't trust each other for good reasons, but are forced to work together/depend on each other.
I like characters entering new or dangerous emotional territory, like if they're control freaks or emotionally damaged and have never really relaxed and enjoyed themselves, or let themselves be vulnerable, or depended on another person, or lost control of their emotions.
I like lavish descriptions of things, from food to clothing to scenery to the human body.
I like any kind of writing, from completely straightforward to 5 Things to any sort of odd format that serves the story. I even like second person if there's a reason for it.
General DNWs: Permanent non-canonical death of non-villain canon characters (deaths that get undone via time travel are fine), noncon/sexual trauma, permanent brain damage/dementia (concussions are fine if they don't have permanent consequences), anything toilet-related, pregnancy/babies, genital trauma, very minor illnesses like colds, permanent mutilation like amputation (scars are fine), real-life terminal illnesses like cancer (fantasy terminal illnesses like a super-soldier having a short lifespan are fine), omegaverse, no-powers AUs, Hanahaki, anodyne/dysodyne, radiation sickness, bug infestations, all hurt no comfort.
DNW graphic descriptions or a focus on, but brief/non-detailed mentions are OK: nausea/vomiting, dental trauma.
DNW graphic descriptions: eye trauma (temporary blindness is fine).
Other than those DNWs, anything goes! Feel free to use any other freeform tags in addition to my requested ones - I could have happily requested a good two-thirds of the freeform tags if it had been logistically possible.
The Passage (TV 2019)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (hurt Amy)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (hurt Brad)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (both hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Caretaking in Enemy Territory
Collapsing from exhaustion
Cooking
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Comforting with puppies
Downplaying an Injury
Experiencing Another's Pain Through Psychic Bond
Fever
Field medicine
Forced to watch the other undertaking a dangerous task
Hands too shaky to complete task
Hurt in the wilderness
Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
Imprisoned/locked up with person who needs medical care
Smaller/Weaker Character Tries to Shield Hurt Character With Their Body
Too Sick To Sleep
Wilderness Survival
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “both hurt” they don’t have to both be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
Please stick to TV canon rather than book. It’s an ongoing series so don’t worry at all about whether what you write matches with actual canon beyond whatever you’ve seen at the point when you write the story. I’m fine with them having escaped or still imprisoned, with the vampire apocalypse having already occurred or not, etc.
ETA: The above is still true, but now that I've seen the finale I just wanted to say that I would also adore a post-finale reunion! MAN that's a lot of built-up platonic pining!
I love Amy and Brad and their surrogate father-daughter relationship. It’s sweet and loving without being cloying. They’re very tender with each other, while also sometimes prickly/awkward. I love how Brad respects Amy’s strength and abilities while being careful not to lay on more than she can handle, and how Amy is still believably a kid no matter what sort of abilities she has.
I’d like to see Brad and Amy taking care of each other, whether emotionally or physically or both, ideally while also having a bit of an adventure, whether it’s fighting vampires or trying to escape. I love all the times when Brad makes sure Amy still experiences a bit of childhood fun amidst the apocalypse, and I'd love more of that, whether it's getting her the unicorn, taking her to a bookshop, or comforting her with puppies. (I would also be happy with kittens, an orphaned fawn or raccoon or fox kit, adorable rats, etc. - it doesn't have to literally be puppies.)
How would Amy manage if Brad's seriously injured or sick, and they're being hunted by government operatives and/or vampires, pre- or post-apocalypse? I’d also be interested in a Groundhog Day or time travel story in which they’re trying to fix an apocalypse that’s already happened.
The Punisher (TV 2017)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman (both hurt)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman & Sarah Lieberman (all hurt)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman & Sarah Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle & Leo Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle/David Lieberman/Sarah Lieberman (all hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Being a hyperspace pilot shortens your lifespan and addicts you to a drug
Caretaking in Enemy Territory
Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
Character refuses to stay down despite multiple hits
Collapsing from exhaustion
Cooking
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Downplaying an Injury
Field medicine
Hands too shaky to complete task
Hurt in the wilderness
Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
Imprisoned/locked up with person who needs medical care
Shapeshifting is painful and bloody
Sick/confused character attacks comforter
Unexpected tenderness
Wilderness Survival
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “both/all hurt” they don’t have to both be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
I am still watching S2 but will have finished by the time the exchange opens, so feel free to use or ignore canon from that. I have requested this fandom for various exchanges before; feel free to use any suitable prompts of mine from previous exchanges, including ones for pairings I requested before but did not request here.
ETA: I have now finished S2! I was not crazy about the "three months later" coda and would prefer that you not use anything from it, but otherwise the above still goes. Love Amy, love hot mess Dinah Madani, love Karen and Curtis, would enjoy any of them interacting with Frank and/or the Liebermans if you would enjoy writing that.
I could read infinite reams of Frank getting taken care of after being beaten half to death, or of him caring for someone else, whether physically or emotionally. For a man with such amazingly dysfunctional ways of dealing with his own emotions, he's surprisingly good at handling difficult emotional situations involving other people's feelings. I would enjoy any moment of unexpected tenderness or awakening to unexpected joy/love, and/or any scenario in which Frank and some combination of Liebermans are lost in the wilderness and injured/sick while being chased by bad guys. Or just a wounded Frank banging on the Liebermans' door in the middle of the night.
For the post-apocalyptic prompts, maybe hard-bitten survivor Frank with less-experienced Leo. Or else it's the post-apocalyptic Liebermans taking in wounded loner Frank who hasn't had any contact with anyone not trying to kill him in literally years.
For time-travel, maybe some of them are from a Terminator/X-Men style "the whole future world is fucked" or a more personal but still really disastrous "everyone dies" future, and came back to undo it. (I'm not so interested in trying to undo canon events like the death of Frank's family.) Maybe Frank, or Frank and Billy (at cross purposes), come back from the fucked future/bad timeline and have to deal with living in a world they're trying to save but don't know if they can ever live in. Maybe the Liebermans are from the fucked future and team up with Frank because he can do things they can't and also seems out of time/place, though for a completely different reason.
Hyperspace pilot: Maybe you never know on each flight whether you'll come back, or come back sane; maybe it's so wonderful that you don't like coming back; maybe it's neither wonderful nor terrible, but so much its own thing you no longer fit in anywhere but onboard (shades of returning from war); maybe the ships are going off to fight so far across the galaxy that there's time dilation and the world has literally changed when you return. You could also do any non-space variation on "Frank was experimented on to give him powers and the side effects suck."
You don't have to actually read the book to write this concept, as I'll tell you everything you need to know, but you could do a Gateway AU - it's a book by Frederik Pohl in which people find alien ships that they don't quite understand, so you can fly them, but you have no idea until it's too late where they're going or how long the trip will be or if you'll arrive somewhere you can't survive or somewhere that will make you rich or save the world. Some ships never return at all; some return with the pilots dead; many arrive with the pilots really messed up physically and/or mentally. I could see Frank as a pilot and the Liebermans station personnel or newbie prospective pilots who haven't shipped out yet.
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
Ben Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves (Klaus hurt)
The Hargreeves Siblings (All Hurt)
Klaus Hargreeves & The Other Hargreeves Siblings (Klaus hurt)
Vanya Hargreeves & The other Hargreeves Siblings (Vanya hurt)
Diego Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves (both hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Caretaking in Secret
Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affectio
Character believes no one is coming to save them
Character needs physical pain or injury to ward off insanity/death/magical corruption
Character Planned to Die but Didn't
Character volunteers to be punished on behalf of other character
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt
Forced to speak truthfully
Live in Happy Alternate Reality or Give it Up to Save the World
Mirrorverse Character Swap
Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee
Prostitution
Provoking someone into hurting them as indirect self injury
Overcome from over-using superpowers
Tentacle Accidents
Time Travel - Character Comforts Their Past Self
Time Travel - Deliberate Time Travel To Comfort Someone Who Suffered Alone In Original Timeline
Time Travel - Older and Younger Versions of the Same Character Swap Places
Unexpected tenderness
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “all/both hurt” they don’t have to all be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
I loved how absolutely batshit insane the canon was while also being very emotionally raw and real-feeling. I love all the Hargreeves siblings – they’re all damaged fuckups in their own ways, all of which are completely plausible given their personalities and fucked-up childhoods. So please no character-bashing or raising any one above the others (ie, no “Vanya is a sociopath and Luther is a pure angel” or “Luther is an abuser and Vanya is a pure angel.”) Bash Reginald Hargreeves all you please though, he is the worst. You can also kill him, permanently and/or repeatedly, if you like. ;)
Canon gave me ALL the wonderful iddy hurt tropes (which doesn’t mean I’ve had enough of them! Lay them on me again please!) but it was short on comfort so I definitely want plenty of that. They all really could use a hug or hug-equivalent.
I love all the “raised as a weapon” and “child soldiers” tropes so please feel free to dwell on that. I love training sequences and would love a glimpse of the siblings as children being trained in inventively abusive ways and trying to comfort each other, whether in a story set in their childhood or as memories in a present-day story. Based on things like Vanya leaving Five sandwiches for years, Allison and Luther's play house, etc, I imagine the siblings did a fair amount of comforting each other in secret, and I'd love to see more of that.
If you use any of the “all Hargreeves siblings,” please include Ben, whether pre-death, as a ghost, post-ghost, or in an AU or time-travel scenario where he doesn’t die. I like him a lot. I haven’t read the comics but I heard (a rumor) that in comics canon is that he has interdimensional Cthulu-esque monsters under his skin. If that’s the case, is he tormented by having monsters in his body? Or tormented by not being able to control their violence once he lets out the tentacles? Worried that he’ll become a monster? Traumatized by all the people he/his tentacles gorily slaughtered? Does it hurt to release the tentacles? Was his death due to an interdimensional tentacle accident? Non-sexual tentacles only (gentacles?) please (though feel free to have Klaus joke about tentacle sex.) sorry.
For Klaus and Ben, I’d love a scenario where Ben is struggling with his tentacle-related problems while also trying to save Klaus from himself, whether in life or as a ghost or resurrected (etc). I would be astonished if Klaus has not resorted to sex work to pay for drugs, no doubt with a complete lack of self-preservation at every step of the way, so maybe some of that. Inventive methods of self-harm is canon for him, so feel free to go for that.
Klaus and Diego were such a fun pair. I loved how they were both damaged in some ways and weirdly functional in others, and how they both tried to reach other to their siblings even if they didn't always succeed.
For any combination, I would also love a story where any one of the siblings switches minds with their younger self and has to try to convince the rest of their siblings to run away/rebel/throw Dad out the window. Or where one or more goes back in time as their adult self and comforts their child self, or comforts one or more of their siblings. Or they go to a different sort of apocalyptic future, like a Terminator or Mad Max one. Or a Groundhog Day or time loop scenario where they keep re-living the same day. Or a powerswap or role reversal – what if it was one of the others who’d had their powers suppressed, or it was Klaus who hears rumors and Allison who sees the dead? Or they get switched with a Mirrorverse counterpart. Or any other weird scenario. Plus h/c, of course.
I love all the supporting characters (and love to hate Reginald Hargreeves) and would be happy to see any of them. Hazel & Cha-Cha, Agnes, Eudora Patch, and Mom were my favorites.
General Loves:
All h/c tropes that don't infantilize anyone are delicious to me. Injured and stuck without medical care on another planet/behind enemy lines/etc, bedside vigils, tender caretaking, stoic characters pretending they are JUST FINE right up until they collapse, feverish characters babbling truths they'd never admit to sober (or babbling total non-sequiturs) - I love it all. Emotional h/c is also excellent. I am especially fond of characters who have gotten so used to loneliness, unhappiness, lack of love, etc., that it's normal to them, being astonished to find that they've somehow stumbled into joy.
I like worldbuilding, whether it's of literal worlds or exploring the setting/culture of our real world. I love strange, beautiful/deadly, post-apocalyptic, and mysterious landscapes. I have a thing for ancient but still working, poorly understood machinery or magical items. I like any sort of survival narrative. One of my favorite tropes ever is the dangerous trip into an unknown place surrounded by mystery, from which few or none have ever returned.
I love bonding through shared hardship or a shared hard job, through both being outcasts or both having a secret. I love characters who trust each other with their lives. I also love characters who don't trust each other for good reasons, but are forced to work together/depend on each other.
I like characters entering new or dangerous emotional territory, like if they're control freaks or emotionally damaged and have never really relaxed and enjoyed themselves, or let themselves be vulnerable, or depended on another person, or lost control of their emotions.
I like lavish descriptions of things, from food to clothing to scenery to the human body.
I like any kind of writing, from completely straightforward to 5 Things to any sort of odd format that serves the story. I even like second person if there's a reason for it.
General DNWs: Permanent non-canonical death of non-villain canon characters (deaths that get undone via time travel are fine), noncon/sexual trauma, permanent brain damage/dementia (concussions are fine if they don't have permanent consequences), anything toilet-related, pregnancy/babies, genital trauma, very minor illnesses like colds, permanent mutilation like amputation (scars are fine), real-life terminal illnesses like cancer (fantasy terminal illnesses like a super-soldier having a short lifespan are fine), omegaverse, no-powers AUs, Hanahaki, anodyne/dysodyne, radiation sickness, bug infestations, all hurt no comfort.
DNW graphic descriptions or a focus on, but brief/non-detailed mentions are OK: nausea/vomiting, dental trauma.
DNW graphic descriptions: eye trauma (temporary blindness is fine).
Other than those DNWs, anything goes! Feel free to use any other freeform tags in addition to my requested ones - I could have happily requested a good two-thirds of the freeform tags if it had been logistically possible.
The Passage (TV 2019)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (hurt Amy)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (hurt Brad)
Amy Bellafonte & Brad Wolgast (both hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Caretaking in Enemy Territory
Collapsing from exhaustion
Cooking
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Comforting with puppies
Downplaying an Injury
Experiencing Another's Pain Through Psychic Bond
Fever
Field medicine
Forced to watch the other undertaking a dangerous task
Hands too shaky to complete task
Hurt in the wilderness
Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
Imprisoned/locked up with person who needs medical care
Smaller/Weaker Character Tries to Shield Hurt Character With Their Body
Too Sick To Sleep
Wilderness Survival
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “both hurt” they don’t have to both be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
Please stick to TV canon rather than book. It’s an ongoing series so don’t worry at all about whether what you write matches with actual canon beyond whatever you’ve seen at the point when you write the story. I’m fine with them having escaped or still imprisoned, with the vampire apocalypse having already occurred or not, etc.
ETA: The above is still true, but now that I've seen the finale I just wanted to say that I would also adore a post-finale reunion! MAN that's a lot of built-up platonic pining!
I love Amy and Brad and their surrogate father-daughter relationship. It’s sweet and loving without being cloying. They’re very tender with each other, while also sometimes prickly/awkward. I love how Brad respects Amy’s strength and abilities while being careful not to lay on more than she can handle, and how Amy is still believably a kid no matter what sort of abilities she has.
I’d like to see Brad and Amy taking care of each other, whether emotionally or physically or both, ideally while also having a bit of an adventure, whether it’s fighting vampires or trying to escape. I love all the times when Brad makes sure Amy still experiences a bit of childhood fun amidst the apocalypse, and I'd love more of that, whether it's getting her the unicorn, taking her to a bookshop, or comforting her with puppies. (I would also be happy with kittens, an orphaned fawn or raccoon or fox kit, adorable rats, etc. - it doesn't have to literally be puppies.)
How would Amy manage if Brad's seriously injured or sick, and they're being hunted by government operatives and/or vampires, pre- or post-apocalypse? I’d also be interested in a Groundhog Day or time travel story in which they’re trying to fix an apocalypse that’s already happened.
The Punisher (TV 2017)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman (both hurt)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman & Sarah Lieberman (all hurt)
Frank Castle & David Lieberman & Sarah Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle & Leo Lieberman (hurt Frank)
Frank Castle/David Lieberman/Sarah Lieberman (all hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Being a hyperspace pilot shortens your lifespan and addicts you to a drug
Caretaking in Enemy Territory
Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
Character refuses to stay down despite multiple hits
Collapsing from exhaustion
Cooking
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Downplaying an Injury
Field medicine
Hands too shaky to complete task
Hurt in the wilderness
Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
Imprisoned/locked up with person who needs medical care
Shapeshifting is painful and bloody
Sick/confused character attacks comforter
Unexpected tenderness
Wilderness Survival
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “both/all hurt” they don’t have to both be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
I am still watching S2 but will have finished by the time the exchange opens, so feel free to use or ignore canon from that. I have requested this fandom for various exchanges before; feel free to use any suitable prompts of mine from previous exchanges, including ones for pairings I requested before but did not request here.
ETA: I have now finished S2! I was not crazy about the "three months later" coda and would prefer that you not use anything from it, but otherwise the above still goes. Love Amy, love hot mess Dinah Madani, love Karen and Curtis, would enjoy any of them interacting with Frank and/or the Liebermans if you would enjoy writing that.
I could read infinite reams of Frank getting taken care of after being beaten half to death, or of him caring for someone else, whether physically or emotionally. For a man with such amazingly dysfunctional ways of dealing with his own emotions, he's surprisingly good at handling difficult emotional situations involving other people's feelings. I would enjoy any moment of unexpected tenderness or awakening to unexpected joy/love, and/or any scenario in which Frank and some combination of Liebermans are lost in the wilderness and injured/sick while being chased by bad guys. Or just a wounded Frank banging on the Liebermans' door in the middle of the night.
For the post-apocalyptic prompts, maybe hard-bitten survivor Frank with less-experienced Leo. Or else it's the post-apocalyptic Liebermans taking in wounded loner Frank who hasn't had any contact with anyone not trying to kill him in literally years.
For time-travel, maybe some of them are from a Terminator/X-Men style "the whole future world is fucked" or a more personal but still really disastrous "everyone dies" future, and came back to undo it. (I'm not so interested in trying to undo canon events like the death of Frank's family.) Maybe Frank, or Frank and Billy (at cross purposes), come back from the fucked future/bad timeline and have to deal with living in a world they're trying to save but don't know if they can ever live in. Maybe the Liebermans are from the fucked future and team up with Frank because he can do things they can't and also seems out of time/place, though for a completely different reason.
Hyperspace pilot: Maybe you never know on each flight whether you'll come back, or come back sane; maybe it's so wonderful that you don't like coming back; maybe it's neither wonderful nor terrible, but so much its own thing you no longer fit in anywhere but onboard (shades of returning from war); maybe the ships are going off to fight so far across the galaxy that there's time dilation and the world has literally changed when you return. You could also do any non-space variation on "Frank was experimented on to give him powers and the side effects suck."
You don't have to actually read the book to write this concept, as I'll tell you everything you need to know, but you could do a Gateway AU - it's a book by Frederik Pohl in which people find alien ships that they don't quite understand, so you can fly them, but you have no idea until it's too late where they're going or how long the trip will be or if you'll arrive somewhere you can't survive or somewhere that will make you rich or save the world. Some ships never return at all; some return with the pilots dead; many arrive with the pilots really messed up physically and/or mentally. I could see Frank as a pilot and the Liebermans station personnel or newbie prospective pilots who haven't shipped out yet.
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
Ben Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves (Klaus hurt)
The Hargreeves Siblings (All Hurt)
Klaus Hargreeves & The Other Hargreeves Siblings (Klaus hurt)
Vanya Hargreeves & The other Hargreeves Siblings (Vanya hurt)
Diego Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves (both hurt)
Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
Caretaking in Secret
Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affectio
Character believes no one is coming to save them
Character needs physical pain or injury to ward off insanity/death/magical corruption
Character Planned to Die but Didn't
Character volunteers to be punished on behalf of other character
Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up
Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt
Forced to speak truthfully
Live in Happy Alternate Reality or Give it Up to Save the World
Mirrorverse Character Swap
Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee
Prostitution
Provoking someone into hurting them as indirect self injury
Overcome from over-using superpowers
Tentacle Accidents
Time Travel - Character Comforts Their Past Self
Time Travel - Deliberate Time Travel To Comfort Someone Who Suffered Alone In Original Timeline
Time Travel - Older and Younger Versions of the Same Character Swap Places
Unexpected tenderness
You can interpret “hurt” as emotional, physical, or both; for “all/both hurt” they don’t have to all be physically hurt, though that’s fine too.
I loved how absolutely batshit insane the canon was while also being very emotionally raw and real-feeling. I love all the Hargreeves siblings – they’re all damaged fuckups in their own ways, all of which are completely plausible given their personalities and fucked-up childhoods. So please no character-bashing or raising any one above the others (ie, no “Vanya is a sociopath and Luther is a pure angel” or “Luther is an abuser and Vanya is a pure angel.”) Bash Reginald Hargreeves all you please though, he is the worst. You can also kill him, permanently and/or repeatedly, if you like. ;)
Canon gave me ALL the wonderful iddy hurt tropes (which doesn’t mean I’ve had enough of them! Lay them on me again please!) but it was short on comfort so I definitely want plenty of that. They all really could use a hug or hug-equivalent.
I love all the “raised as a weapon” and “child soldiers” tropes so please feel free to dwell on that. I love training sequences and would love a glimpse of the siblings as children being trained in inventively abusive ways and trying to comfort each other, whether in a story set in their childhood or as memories in a present-day story. Based on things like Vanya leaving Five sandwiches for years, Allison and Luther's play house, etc, I imagine the siblings did a fair amount of comforting each other in secret, and I'd love to see more of that.
If you use any of the “all Hargreeves siblings,” please include Ben, whether pre-death, as a ghost, post-ghost, or in an AU or time-travel scenario where he doesn’t die. I like him a lot. I haven’t read the comics but I heard (a rumor) that in comics canon is that he has interdimensional Cthulu-esque monsters under his skin. If that’s the case, is he tormented by having monsters in his body? Or tormented by not being able to control their violence once he lets out the tentacles? Worried that he’ll become a monster? Traumatized by all the people he/his tentacles gorily slaughtered? Does it hurt to release the tentacles? Was his death due to an interdimensional tentacle accident? Non-sexual tentacles only (gentacles?) please (though feel free to have Klaus joke about tentacle sex.) sorry.
For Klaus and Ben, I’d love a scenario where Ben is struggling with his tentacle-related problems while also trying to save Klaus from himself, whether in life or as a ghost or resurrected (etc). I would be astonished if Klaus has not resorted to sex work to pay for drugs, no doubt with a complete lack of self-preservation at every step of the way, so maybe some of that. Inventive methods of self-harm is canon for him, so feel free to go for that.
Klaus and Diego were such a fun pair. I loved how they were both damaged in some ways and weirdly functional in others, and how they both tried to reach other to their siblings even if they didn't always succeed.
For any combination, I would also love a story where any one of the siblings switches minds with their younger self and has to try to convince the rest of their siblings to run away/rebel/throw Dad out the window. Or where one or more goes back in time as their adult self and comforts their child self, or comforts one or more of their siblings. Or they go to a different sort of apocalyptic future, like a Terminator or Mad Max one. Or a Groundhog Day or time loop scenario where they keep re-living the same day. Or a powerswap or role reversal – what if it was one of the others who’d had their powers suppressed, or it was Klaus who hears rumors and Allison who sees the dead? Or they get switched with a Mirrorverse counterpart. Or any other weird scenario. Plus h/c, of course.
I love all the supporting characters (and love to hate Reginald Hargreeves) and would be happy to see any of them. Hazel & Cha-Cha, Agnes, Eudora Patch, and Mom were my favorites.