Hurt/Comfort 2025 Letter WIP
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Prompts are optional as always, gifts are lovely, I like any POV, tense or fic rating and I like both art and fic. I ramble even longer about some of this stuff in earlier letters, you're welcome to scroll back through if you want.
General Likes:
DNW:
Death Rides a Horse:
Can be watched on Youtube!
Hurt Bill:
Emotional or physical, mess this guy up! He's got so much trauma. What about the aftereffects of being knocked unconscious and tortured in El Viento? (Did Pedro break the whip on him, or just drop it, before he went for the pitchfork??) For movie reasons he doesn't appear to suffer any ill effects after that, but my guy has got head trauma and whip lashes all across his stomach. Or, maybe he doesn't get out of one of those gunfights completely unscathed.
Omegaverse: trauma about his dynamic! Complicated emotions! Was his sister an omega?
Hurt Ryan:
This guy has been on his own so long, I don't know how he would react to being taken care of, but I would like to see it. Maybe after Bill breaks him out of jail, when he's been beaten half to death? Or post-canon, as he grapples with his guilt, relief at being alive but loss of purpose? What if he completely falls apart inside after Bill rides off? Or, as an alternate first (post-timeskip) meeting, what if Ryan was injured during his first encounter with the assassins, and Bill finds and takes care of him (or even helps defend him?)
Hurt Both or either:
They both get injured a lot in this movie! I think they should commiserate with each other, maybe help patch each other up.
Post-canon: Do either of them know what to do with their lives after All That is finally dealt with? Maybe they find each other again because nobody else really understands. Maybe they stay at Bill's farm, or do something else, together.
Ghost/undead/horror AU: what if one or both of them technically died in the fire that night but has unfinished business? Monster hunter Bill?
Religious angst! I love that scene where they're both hanging out in the otherwise empty town while everyone else is at church.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
Whump, Hurt/No Comfort or extremely pragmatic comfort preferred. Then again, what is this movie for if not the occasional, brief, devastating moments of vulnerability and intimacy between men who spend a majority of the movie trying to torture each other to death? Dubcon is fine in any direction between the Trio, Angel Eyes can be responsible for hard noncon.
Tuco and Blondie:
Having to patch each other up. One or the other having to care for the other out of self-interest (but maybe there's a little genuine sympathy in the mix. Maybe. Maybe not.) Maybe one has to break the other out of jail, or rescue them from rival bounty hunters or old enemies. Or, angst about their relationship, torture, excessive noose whump.
Tuco, Blondie, Angel Eyes:
Is Angel Eyes torturing them, or using them to torture each other for his own amusement, or are they all forced to work together in an uneasy truce? The torture dynamics get interesting when you add Angel Eyes, because even if Tuco and Blondie are currently going through one of their breakups, they can agree that Angel Eyes sucks.
Blondie and Angel Eyes:
I can imagine Angel Eyes caring for a sick/severely injured Blondie "because they're old friends :) " and Blondie's mind racing over what Angel Eyes is going to want from him in exchange, because Angel Eyes doesn't have friends, there's no way he's just doing this because he likes Blondie. (Does he actually want something in return, how fucked up is it, and how does Blondie handle it? And/or, arguably even more terrifying for Blondie, does he actually just like Blondie? What if he takes the opportunity to have sex with Blondie while he's too sick/injured to run away?) Their relationship is so bizarre in the movie, Angel Eyes is just like "my new favorite :) come with me as an equal partner. I killed your old partner bc he was annoying :) you're welcome" and Blondie (who, though he would never admit it, was getting to like Tuco and doesn't appreciate having him presumably-killed offscreen) is just waiting for a good chance to stab him in the back and run away.
Piranesi:
The dramatic irony. The fucked up relationship. The manipulation and mind games from Ketterley and the honest desire to help from Piranesi.
There's that section from canon about Piranesi caring for Ketterley after he's caught in a flood:
Once the Other was in the Eighth Northern Hall. A strong Tide from the Northern Halls rose in the Tenth Vestibule, followed moments later by an equally strong Tide from the Eastern Halls in the Twelfth Vestibule. Vast quantities of Water poured into the surrounding Halls, including the one where the Other was. The Waters plucked him up and carried him away, sweeping him through Doors and battering him against Walls and Statues. Several times he was completely immersed, and he expected to drown. Eventually the Tides cast him up on the Pavement of the Third Western Hall (a distance of seven Halls from where he began.) That is where I found him. I fetched him a blanket and hot soup made of seaweed and mussels. As soon as he was able to walk, he took himself off without a word. I do not know where he went. (I never really know.) This happened in the Sixth Month of the Year I named the Constellations. Since then the Other has been afraid of the Tides.
Was Ketterley horrified at having to accept aid from his prisoner, or just irritated at his presence? Was he traumatized? Was the House starting to affect him? How long was he there? The juxtaposition between Piranesi's concern and Ketterley's complete lack of engagement is just fascinating. And then of course Ketterley just goes home to his actual house for a warm shower etc., something Piranesi doesn't have the option to do! Has Piranesi ever been carried off by a Tide like this? Did anyone take care of him?
Hurt Piranesi (with Ketterley):
Whump, Hurt/No Comfort or Hurt/Inadequate Comfort preferred, though I could see Ketterley comforting him for his own convenience (he needs Piranesi healthy and emotionally stable enough to keep running errands for him after all), like how he pats him on the shoulder while reassuring him about his plans to murder 16! Piranesi would probably be devastatingly grateful for any degree of awkward, barely helpful comfort... (I imagine emotionally Ketterley is that gif of going "there, there" and stroking someone's back with a broom from a safe distance.)
How does the comfort (or lack thereof) manifest, and what does this say about their relationship, and how does Piranesi interpret it? I feel like this would be deliciously fucked up no matter how you play it. It's the power imbalance, the amnesia, the forgotten enmity, the fact that Ketterly is the Only Other Person in the World as far as Piranesi knows... it's so fucked up.
Piranesi has so much hurt--the struggle to survive, the mental issues and amnesia, the trauma of being trapped there and then the confusion of having to basically rebuild his entire personality from the ground up in near-total isolation. The way he discusses the danger of cuts and infections like it's something he's very familiar with. His loneliness and desperate search for human connection, finding only birds, skeletons and Ketterley.
Hurt Piranesi (Solo, House or Statues):
How does he take care of himself? He does a pretty good job in the book, feeding himself, not doing anything self-destructive like trying to cross piles of rubble barefoot, checking in on his mental state and self-soothing. Sadly he usually has to do it alone. What solace does he find from his surroundings?
Hurt Ketterley:
Dramatic hurt ideas: the quote above, or similar House-related hurt. Or, maybe his maniacal quest for magical powers backfires in some way, and he is traumatized by witnessing eldritch horrors, or almost losing himself in another dimension, or harms himself attempting to do some kind of fucked up ritual. Or he successfully turns himself into an animal but can't turn back and needs Piranesi's help lol.
Then again: maybe he just comes down with a cold, or is stressed from work, or gives himself a papercut and doubles over like he's been shot. This could be funny, and I rather like making jokes at his expense, as he is so very full of himself. I feel like his pain tolerance is probably hilariously low compared to Piranesi, who has been scaling broken walls and chasing the tides in search of his next meal for years, though Piranesi of course would likely be gentle with him, far more than he deserves!
Prompts are optional as always, gifts are lovely, I like any POV, tense or fic rating and I like both art and fic. I ramble even longer about some of this stuff in earlier letters, you're welcome to scroll back through if you want.
General Likes:
- Canon divergence
- different first meetings
- character studies
- mental illness/PTSD
- injury/disability
- concussions/head trauma treated seriously
- gallows humor
- hurt/comfort (or hurt/no comfort, whump)
- weird west
- horror
- ghosts/undead
- darkfic, fluff, smut, gen, anything in between.
- Characters with very intense hard to define relationships.
- drunk sex
- awkward sex
- sweet and intimate or rough and aggressive depending on context
- anywhere on the spectrum of fully clothed to naked
- dubcon/villain-on-protagonist noncon (will specify what ships I want)
- Polyamory, friends with benefits or non-standard relationships
- Bed sharing
- bathing together
- morning wood/wet dreams
- Omegaverse, especially unconventional or where it's really having fun playing with the concepts--dual genitalia fine, I like fic that gets into the weird speculative biology/social logistics of it all and also just using heat as a sex pollen sort of scenario. No focus on mpreg please, you can mention it as part of the worldbuilding.
- I'm not as much a fan of blowjobs and rimming as most other stuff but they're not DNWs.
DNW:
- AI generated content
- unrequested genre-change AUs
- explicit under 16 sex
- unrequested trans headcanons or "real-world" gender dysphoria (a/b/o fantasy angst fine)
- scat/watersports
- punishment/discipline kink
- pregnancy
- ejaculating on face
- focus on nipple or spit stuff
- repeated/immersion-breaking consent check-ins esp. between characters it would be out of character for
- feminizing the character who's bottoming (ex. describing them as significantly shorter or more delicate than they are in canon)
- fingore/detailed descriptions of finger or toe injuries (unless it's about a canon injury or how a Lee Van Cleef character lost his fingertip)
- body parts freezing and breaking off
- characters suddenly "getting over" a canon long term disability or character tic.
Death Rides a Horse:
Can be watched on Youtube!
Hurt Bill:
Emotional or physical, mess this guy up! He's got so much trauma. What about the aftereffects of being knocked unconscious and tortured in El Viento? (Did Pedro break the whip on him, or just drop it, before he went for the pitchfork??) For movie reasons he doesn't appear to suffer any ill effects after that, but my guy has got head trauma and whip lashes all across his stomach. Or, maybe he doesn't get out of one of those gunfights completely unscathed.
Omegaverse: trauma about his dynamic! Complicated emotions! Was his sister an omega?
Hurt Ryan:
This guy has been on his own so long, I don't know how he would react to being taken care of, but I would like to see it. Maybe after Bill breaks him out of jail, when he's been beaten half to death? Or post-canon, as he grapples with his guilt, relief at being alive but loss of purpose? What if he completely falls apart inside after Bill rides off? Or, as an alternate first (post-timeskip) meeting, what if Ryan was injured during his first encounter with the assassins, and Bill finds and takes care of him (or even helps defend him?)
Hurt Both or either:
They both get injured a lot in this movie! I think they should commiserate with each other, maybe help patch each other up.
Post-canon: Do either of them know what to do with their lives after All That is finally dealt with? Maybe they find each other again because nobody else really understands. Maybe they stay at Bill's farm, or do something else, together.
Ghost/undead/horror AU: what if one or both of them technically died in the fire that night but has unfinished business? Monster hunter Bill?
Religious angst! I love that scene where they're both hanging out in the otherwise empty town while everyone else is at church.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
Whump, Hurt/No Comfort or extremely pragmatic comfort preferred. Then again, what is this movie for if not the occasional, brief, devastating moments of vulnerability and intimacy between men who spend a majority of the movie trying to torture each other to death? Dubcon is fine in any direction between the Trio, Angel Eyes can be responsible for hard noncon.
Tuco and Blondie:
Having to patch each other up. One or the other having to care for the other out of self-interest (but maybe there's a little genuine sympathy in the mix. Maybe. Maybe not.) Maybe one has to break the other out of jail, or rescue them from rival bounty hunters or old enemies. Or, angst about their relationship, torture, excessive noose whump.
Tuco, Blondie, Angel Eyes:
Is Angel Eyes torturing them, or using them to torture each other for his own amusement, or are they all forced to work together in an uneasy truce? The torture dynamics get interesting when you add Angel Eyes, because even if Tuco and Blondie are currently going through one of their breakups, they can agree that Angel Eyes sucks.
Blondie and Angel Eyes:
I can imagine Angel Eyes caring for a sick/severely injured Blondie "because they're old friends :) " and Blondie's mind racing over what Angel Eyes is going to want from him in exchange, because Angel Eyes doesn't have friends, there's no way he's just doing this because he likes Blondie. (Does he actually want something in return, how fucked up is it, and how does Blondie handle it? And/or, arguably even more terrifying for Blondie, does he actually just like Blondie? What if he takes the opportunity to have sex with Blondie while he's too sick/injured to run away?) Their relationship is so bizarre in the movie, Angel Eyes is just like "my new favorite :) come with me as an equal partner. I killed your old partner bc he was annoying :) you're welcome" and Blondie (who, though he would never admit it, was getting to like Tuco and doesn't appreciate having him presumably-killed offscreen) is just waiting for a good chance to stab him in the back and run away.
Piranesi:
The dramatic irony. The fucked up relationship. The manipulation and mind games from Ketterley and the honest desire to help from Piranesi.
There's that section from canon about Piranesi caring for Ketterley after he's caught in a flood:
Once the Other was in the Eighth Northern Hall. A strong Tide from the Northern Halls rose in the Tenth Vestibule, followed moments later by an equally strong Tide from the Eastern Halls in the Twelfth Vestibule. Vast quantities of Water poured into the surrounding Halls, including the one where the Other was. The Waters plucked him up and carried him away, sweeping him through Doors and battering him against Walls and Statues. Several times he was completely immersed, and he expected to drown. Eventually the Tides cast him up on the Pavement of the Third Western Hall (a distance of seven Halls from where he began.) That is where I found him. I fetched him a blanket and hot soup made of seaweed and mussels. As soon as he was able to walk, he took himself off without a word. I do not know where he went. (I never really know.) This happened in the Sixth Month of the Year I named the Constellations. Since then the Other has been afraid of the Tides.
Was Ketterley horrified at having to accept aid from his prisoner, or just irritated at his presence? Was he traumatized? Was the House starting to affect him? How long was he there? The juxtaposition between Piranesi's concern and Ketterley's complete lack of engagement is just fascinating. And then of course Ketterley just goes home to his actual house for a warm shower etc., something Piranesi doesn't have the option to do! Has Piranesi ever been carried off by a Tide like this? Did anyone take care of him?
Hurt Piranesi (with Ketterley):
Whump, Hurt/No Comfort or Hurt/Inadequate Comfort preferred, though I could see Ketterley comforting him for his own convenience (he needs Piranesi healthy and emotionally stable enough to keep running errands for him after all), like how he pats him on the shoulder while reassuring him about his plans to murder 16! Piranesi would probably be devastatingly grateful for any degree of awkward, barely helpful comfort... (I imagine emotionally Ketterley is that gif of going "there, there" and stroking someone's back with a broom from a safe distance.)
How does the comfort (or lack thereof) manifest, and what does this say about their relationship, and how does Piranesi interpret it? I feel like this would be deliciously fucked up no matter how you play it. It's the power imbalance, the amnesia, the forgotten enmity, the fact that Ketterly is the Only Other Person in the World as far as Piranesi knows... it's so fucked up.
Piranesi has so much hurt--the struggle to survive, the mental issues and amnesia, the trauma of being trapped there and then the confusion of having to basically rebuild his entire personality from the ground up in near-total isolation. The way he discusses the danger of cuts and infections like it's something he's very familiar with. His loneliness and desperate search for human connection, finding only birds, skeletons and Ketterley.
Hurt Piranesi (Solo, House or Statues):
How does he take care of himself? He does a pretty good job in the book, feeding himself, not doing anything self-destructive like trying to cross piles of rubble barefoot, checking in on his mental state and self-soothing. Sadly he usually has to do it alone. What solace does he find from his surroundings?
Hurt Ketterley:
Dramatic hurt ideas: the quote above, or similar House-related hurt. Or, maybe his maniacal quest for magical powers backfires in some way, and he is traumatized by witnessing eldritch horrors, or almost losing himself in another dimension, or harms himself attempting to do some kind of fucked up ritual. Or he successfully turns himself into an animal but can't turn back and needs Piranesi's help lol.
Then again: maybe he just comes down with a cold, or is stressed from work, or gives himself a papercut and doubles over like he's been shot. This could be funny, and I rather like making jokes at his expense, as he is so very full of himself. I feel like his pain tolerance is probably hilariously low compared to Piranesi, who has been scaling broken walls and chasing the tides in search of his next meal for years, though Piranesi of course would likely be gentle with him, far more than he deserves!
