Sleep No More
(Macbeth, Banquo, Female Speakeasy Bartender)

NOTE: for this canon, you do not need to include all requested characters!

My usual opening spiel: The McKittrick Hotel is a dreamspace in real life, fluid in the way that only often-retold stories can manage. It's also one of my favorite places in the world. I am so glad we have it back.

I'm attempting to practice restraint by only picking a few characters and writing more specific prompts, but I love everyone in this dark hotel. Feel free to reference any characters or 'ships your heart desires. Part of the great fun of SNM as a fandom is that the show is a framework that invites so much speculation, and I’d enjoy spending time in any character’s head.

First, Macbeth and Banquo: maybe it's me, maybe it's the show, but recently I've definitely gotten the impression that Banquo, at least, is more than a little in love with his friend (was Lost Luggage always such a pining dance? And the leadup so intimate?) I'd love for someone to explore this. Make it unrequited or not. Some Macbeths are also very touchy, even leading up to the murder. (Or especially leading up to the murder - and there's a conflict of interests for you!)

If that's not your jam, talk to me about what the afterlife is like for Banquo! Or: Give me unofficial worldbuilding for either of these men. We're in a 1940s Scotland with a King. Who are these men around him? How did either of them get their power? Was there a recent war, or did that also take some more illicit form? Tap into film noir here, give me detectives and mobsters, or shady politics. Here's where I could absolutely see bringing Speaks in too.

Speaking of which, how much to I love that our Female Speakeasy Bartender got a specific nomination? I would love an exploration of how she fits into this world, that looks as if it is run by men while the women pull the strings. While I haven't added either of them to my formal nomination, I loved her relationships with both Sexy - far more of a romance and mutual enjoyment of each other than usual, imo, and that's a relationship I would love to see explored, whether it be backstory or just a dance in the streets. And with Taxi - this Speaks seemed to be far more of a thorn in Taxi's side, disrupting his space and his worldview, touching his tools, "commenting" on his life choices.

Finally, I'm lifting my standard "No AUs" DNW. Keep the atmosphere of the original, but if you want haunted spaceships or a fantastical inn to be your location of choice . . . what the hell. I'm curious what might happen when this particular Macbeth story meets something other than straight-up Hitchcock.


DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum

The Burnt City
(Worldbuilding)

I've barely had the opportunity to scratch at the surface of Punchdrunk's new show, but oh, what a story. In my opinion, the Worldbuilding in this show is stellar - so many hints of scifi to be found once you start looking! The jury-rigged wiring and all of the misused appliances in the tenements, the way the pipes clearly don't work, the packets of powdered "food" in the restaurant, the fact that there is no sea, only a black hinterland, and all the flowers are fake. I heard one character say: It's as if the earth were dying all over again.

So... what happened here? What killed the earth? What is it like to live here? Spin me a little more of the story that TBC is so richly hinted at. Use any characters you like to assist, by the way. I have just met all of them, and I love them.

(Side note: I am aware of the Hades wrinkle. I love it! But for purposes of Worldbuilding, I'm more interested in Mycenae and Troy as places.)

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death (it's fine to create and kill OCs for the sake of Worldbuilding, but please don't linger in their perspective), Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, AU settings

The Great (tv)
(Catherine, Orlo)

This show is everything I love: gorgeous, glorious, historical irreverence. And, look, I know it is very unlikely that we'll ever get back on the path of history and see Catherine and Orlo have an affair together. But what if we did? We've seen the qualities that attract Orlo (as well as the many that do not matter, which I wholeheartedly acknowledge and appreciate!) Catherine has them. She's just- unfortunately, also Catherine, but I for one can see that converting itself into a massive Oh, No moment somewhere down the line, if it hasn't already.

I also loved these two in s1 as schemers, so if you would rather run with that as a premise, I'm all for it. Just bring them back together on the same side and I will be supremely happy.

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, AU settings

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (tv)
(Dr. George Arbuthnot)

"Oddly, I appear to have traveled to London without any blood in a bottle."

...and I was in love.

George is such a side character, but he's so good! Totally not the type you would expect to see involved in a caper, but here he is and he's doing marvelously. I would be very happy to see him roped into another casefic with any or all of the rest of the cast, or possibly these things Just Keep Happening to him with all of his social circle. My one request is that if your take on his reason for going along with the WDTAE scheme was that he was pining for Frankie, please make that past-tense only. (On the other hand, I would love to see George find some happiness, and Knocker is right there in Frankie and Bobby's wake too...)

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death (it's fine to create and kill OCs for the sake of casefic, but please don't linger in their perspective), Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, AU settings