Raven or butcher neils where he becomes a fox? With or without Jean and at same time or separate from when Kevin left. Ongoing or older ones? I feel like I’ve missed some since I haven’t been in the fandom a whole year yet. Complete or unfinished
Welcome to the fandom, friend! We’re very lucky to have so many talented and prolific writers and artists here, so I’m sure you’ll find plenty of fics to enjoy.
Check out our previous recs for a lot of the content you’re looking for, and we’ve collected a few more fics for this post. A word of warning though: raven!Neil fics have a tendency to be heavy on the trigger warnings, so take care! - S
Previous recommendations*:
Raven!Neil to Fox (1) here
Raven!Neil to Fox (2) here
More Raven!Neil to Fox here
long complete raven!Neil fics here
RBB 2020 Raven!Neil fics here
‘Scared to Live (But I'm Scared to Die)’ and ‘The Raven Court’ here
‘Black, The Night That Ends At Last’ here
‘Two Birds with One Stone’ and ‘Come Back For Me’ here
‘Wings above, dangers near (they’re coming down)’ and ‘What it takes to survive’ here
‘Shake my Tomb’ and ‘Appendages’ here
*many of the fics mentioned here have since been updated/completed
Innominate by Major_816 [Rated E, 55361 words, incomplete, last updated June 2021]
An AU where Mary never got Nathaniel out. Instead, he became too invaluable of an asset to be killed off or 'gifted' to Tetsuji. Instead, he's raised with Ichirou and Jean as a part of Ichirou's inner circle.
He'd always had a knack for languages and lying and all the 'messy stuff' came easily enough when your father is called the Butcher of Baltimore. So Nathaniel became the Wraith. He was untraceable, unknowable, infalliable; a criminal fairytale.
When Kevin Day leaves the Nest, there's no better person to send.
tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced nonconsensual drugging, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: murder, tw: kidnapping, tw: blood, tw: nightmares, tw: panic attacks
Chase Me by silverforthedemontowers [Rated T, 4179 words, incomplete, last updated June 2021]
Nathaniel Wesninski has been asked by his dearest brother (no blood association), Ichirou Moriyama, to go play for the Foxes under the guise of Neil Josten, while his other brother (no blood association), Jean Moreau, is playing for the Ravens. All for the sole purpose of making sure that Riko Moriyama (the idiot) hasn't fucked things up for everyone.
tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced drug abuse
Pebble in the Water by Read_write_playsoccer [Rated M, 64845 words, incomplete, last updated July 2021]
Understanding she was not long for this world, Mary Hatford practices an unexpected bit of honesty with her son. Learning the whole truth behind why they fled Castle Evermore, Neil makes a different choice.
tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: suicidal thoughts, tw: nonconsensual drug use, tw: attempted rape/noncon, tw: panic attacks, tw: dissociation
Die Free or Die a Failure by Mickey_99 [Rated E, 165566 words, incomplete, last updated July 2021]
“He’s joining us earlier than we anticipated.”
“He’s a flight risk. This way there should be no more risk of him getting away from you. I’ve killed his mother. He belongs to you.”
“Six years old and already training in the Raven’s nest. He will be a player that won’t be rivaled.”
Nathaniel lives a hard life in the ravens nest, choosing Jean and Kevin's safety and happiness over his own constantly. Like the martyr he is. Then one day he is given a chance. It's a fools bet, and Nathaniel is unlikely to win it.
But he has one season to take the Foxes to championships and win.
If he doesn't, well.. he doesn't like the other options.
So he makes his own. Win or die.
tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: suicidal thoughts, tw: implied/referenced suicide attempt, tw: self harm
Birds of a Feather by lee_a_p [Rated M, 42357 words, incomplete, last updated June 2021]
In an effort to force Kevin back to the Nest, Riko leaves a battered Neil on the doorstep in Columbia. But Neil won't go along with Riko's plans, even he doesn't trust the Foxes. He'll do anything to get Jean out of the Nest, and he might even find a team of his own in the meantime.
tw: anxiety, tw: disordered eating, tw: implied/referenced drug use, tw: vomiting, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: dissociation, tw: attempted sexual assault, tw: panic attacks
Vendetta by Idk_bro_I_just_like_tea [Rated E, 19242 words, incomplete, last updated April 2021]
When the Baltimore Butcher kills his beloved wife for the Moriyama family and sells his only son to their elite Exy court, he unintentionally created a blood feud between the Moriyama family and the Hatford family. When Nathaniel escapes Castle Evermore, he not only finds himself on the PSU Foxes team but also in the middle blood feud.
tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon
Night is the Raven, Day is the Fox by aelinsfox [Rated E, 62517 words, incomplete, last updated Jan 2021]
Nathaniel Wesninski is seven-years-old when he's brought to Castle Evermore to train with Riko Moriyama and Kevin Day as a business exchange by his father, Nathan Wesninski, the Butcher of Baltimore. He's eleven-years-old when Jean Moreau joins them, creating the Perfect Court. He's twelve-years-old when he makes his first deal, selling himself to the Main Branch in return for Jean and Kevin's safety in The Nest. Constantly saving others in exchange for himself--his body, mind, and freedom--so they can get out unharmed, a true martyr that Nathaniel Wesninski is.
Andrew Minyard is nineteen-years-old and a freshman at Palmetto State University when he first meets the seventeen-year-old boy with icy blue eyes and auburn curls that fell in his eyes at the fall banquet.
Hell's floodgates can all but collapse with all that comes after but [almost] everyone would agree that they would change nothing.
tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: rape/noncon, tw: violence, tw: eating disorder, tw: torture, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: homophobic language, tw: depression, tw: suicide attempt
You promised me by Justafan [Rated E, 28841 words, incomplete, last updated Aug 2020]
Riko is in love with Raven! Neil(called Nathaniel mostly). Kevin promised that he would take Nathaniel away from all this but he's gone now, what choice does Nathaniel have but to love Riko back?
tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: brainwashing
Given It All by glittermerm [Rated E, 25721 words, incomplete, last updated Aug 2017]
Raised to be a Raven, Nathaniel knows his place as #3 in Riko's perfect court. But when #2 Kevin leaves, Riko doesn't forgive him, and neither does Nathaniel.
tw: violence, tw: blood, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: staged suicide attempt
Stitch Yourself Back Together by story_telling_sage [Rated M, 20609 words, incomplete, last updated Sept 2016]
David Wymack did not get paid enough for this. He got paid to coach a Class I Exy team. He got paid not make sure Andrew didn’t actually murder anyone. He got paid to get his kids to the court and whip their asses into shape. He probably didn’t get paid enough to deal with traumatized, violent teenagers on a daily basis but he walked right into that one on his own and refused to regret it.
He did not get paid to come to his office only to have the door blocked by a vaguely human shaped bleeding mess.
In which Nathaniel Wesninski never became Neil Josten. When he and his mother ran they were caught and Nathan's transaction went through with the Moriyamas. In this world Nathaniel wears the #3 on his cheek until Riko takes things too far and decides to send a message.
tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: panic attacks, tw: non consensual drug use
Raven!Neil AU by @j3mwrites [tumblr, 2017]
Nathaniel Wesninski with a little three on his cheekbone, a shock of auburn hair and just as many scars as he would have gotten if he’d been on the run. So how do the Foxes fit in?
When he scores the last point of the game… by @rei-ka-ko [tumblr, 2020]
is this butcher Neil? art by @meaucrow [tumblr, 2020]
butcher neil with bodyguard andrew art & drabble by @coldcigarettes [tumblr, 2016]
dark AU Butcher!Neil and his bodyguard Minyard art by @cute-electrocute [tumblr, 2016]