DARKLINA FIC RECS // part ii
annnnnnd i’m back again with another 🌔 alarkling / darklina fic rec list 🌒 after i made one last month before the show premiered with all my OG darklina favs. i just had to after the massive influx of quality content + shippers (passing 1000 fics on the AO3 tag today!!) after Shadow & Bone premiered on Netflix last month (BIG shoutouts to episode 5) which actually made this quite difficult because i wanted to put everyone’s lovely work on here! maybe that’s the universe telling me to i’ll need to keep making these lol without further ado here is PART TWO of my favorite post-show darklina fanfics for y'all to enjoy! happy reading!! p.s you can find the rest of my fic rec lists here
multichapter (aka canon-divergence galore)
EQUALSVERSE series by della19
In which Aleksander is (mostly) what he pretended to be, and Alina learns about power. In this world, they get to be equals //note: y'all trust me this series is a must read!! parts 1, 3, 4, 5 are *chefs kiss*
SONG OF DYING STARS by andromedabennet
His first dreams are of the darkness that frightens him and a little girl who can call to the light. He makes it his mission to find her, no matter what it might cost.
TEN SUNS IN THE SKY by presidenthades
Alina has a happy childhood in a border town that never gets razed. Her father is a clever otkazat’sya blacksmith who labors over creations to rival any Fabrikator’s. Her mother is a Shu Inferni who teaches her daughter to embrace the sunlight in her hands and their heritage. When the family makes a fateful attempt to cross the Fold, the Darkling finds not a pawn but a queen.
TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS TO FIND GOD IN YOUR SOCK DRAWERS. TELL ME AGAIN (WHAT IF LOVE WERE ENOUGH FOR US) by lifeitself
Two months before Mal and Alina are charted for their journey across the Fold, Alina enlists the help of the Darkling when the Fold begins to shrink. One Shadow Summoner – and a Sun Summoner who has practiced her power every night since youth underneath thin duvets.
WHEN THE SUN RISES by ineedyoursway
Alina is taken to the Little Palace after her Grisha test and given over to the Darkling to train. But there is one catch - when she comes of age, she is to marry Vasily Lantsov and continue the royal bloodline.
ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD by rist
He returns to the war room shaken, and finds an Alina that cannot leave without at least having tried.
A LIGHT IN THE SHADOW by sleepydragon19
It was the fate of the Sun Summoner to be born, her fate to meet the Darkling, her fate to save Ravka. How this happens, however, is up to her and the choices people make. Alina is five years old when she first meets the Shadow Man. It changes everything.
LIKE A TEAR ON A CHEEK by arianakristine
She escapes, late the night of the Fete. She knows she is a fool for what comes next, but can’t forget the heart in his eyes all the same.
AN ORDINARY NAME by emmathescribe
When Mal is killed on their first crossing of the Shadow Fold, a new power awakens within Alina. Traumatised and bereft, Alina finds herself thrust into the dazzling world of the Grisha, where she must try to grieve for Mal whilst navigating her growing relationship with the mysterious Darkling.
BLACK SMOKE WHITE FLAME by littleloststar
The shadow made her an offer: stay in the castle with him, and the regiment would survive the harsh winter that had trapped them all in the ice-sheeted valley below. beauty&thebeast!AU
A SOUL WHOSE INTENTIONS ARE GOOD by secretsarenotforfree
An authoritative voice, lightly accented and full of power even when kept low for secrets sake, his back to her. A briefcase so neatly made it had to be bespoke. The tall bob of the top of just criminally beautiful hair. Puzzle pieces. Alina’s favorite. Especially when she was given the chance to assemble them into a whole. suits!AU
ALL ALONG THERE WAS SOME INVISIBLE STRING, TYING YOU TO ME by fionakevin073
“The universe made you for me,” Aleksander says, black eyes glinting with delight. “No,” she corrects softly. “The universe made us for each other.” (Alina and the Darkling are soulmates, but she doesn’t know that yet) soulmark!AU
THE WITHERING by blonddragon
Unrequited love is a beautiful horror. A white narcissus that falls from his lips. That strangles him from within. The Darkling is dying. Will Alina return his love before it is too late? hanahaki!AU
AWAKENING by sol_moon
“If there was a way to cure your cancer, would you take it?” He asked, his voice barely a whisper, silver eyes boring into her. She fought back a snort, despite the tense air. There was no cure, she knew that. But she might as well indulge him in his fantasies. “In a heartbeat.” modernvampire!AU
I SHOULD LIVE IN SALT by larry_hystereks
Alina returned back with the Darkling to Little Palace after he destroyed Novokribirsk. years pass. they grow together, build together, work together. And then she’s taken. (an exploration into their dream connection, a marriage, and finding their home)
ROYALS by larry_hystereks
The married rulers of ravka celebrating their first anniversary together (au where they’re married and aleks surprises her for their anniversary with a puppy)
TALES FROM THE LIZARD BRAIN OF ALEKSANDER MOROZOVA by presidenthades
The Darkling is a centuries-old mastermind with utter control over his basest instincts. His lizard brain does not always follow the agenda.
THE CALM BEFORE THE THUNDER by ceris_malfoy
(Child, the Stag says. To the one that mattered, you were always enough.) When the Darkling asks, none of them seem to know why she isn’t waking, why her light feels like a slow drag in her veins to him instead of the rapids it usually is. On the 3rd day, he finally swallows, gathers his nerve, and mutters, “Her body is rejecting the amplifier.”
REFLECTIONS OF A SAINT by lightning_strikes_twice
He tugs on the tie to her robe and she doesn’t stop him. It’s easy to shut her eyes, let herself drown in the feeling of assurance and right-ness when he touches her. It’s not so bad, Alina thinks, to make mistakes in the dark.
SACCHARINE by valkyrhys
Not many people surprise me, Miss Starkov, he had said all those months ago. Now, Aleksander sits back on his heels and looks down at his beloved Sun Summoner, his pretty little pet reduced to a mess of trembling limbs and gasping breath by his hand.
CONTROL by maleficar
Aleksander impresses the importance of control on Alina. She is a quick study.
WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS by solnichka
Alina cuts a deal with the Darkling in exchange for Mal’s life, and the Darkling takes more than was bargained as they cross the fold.
AND MY BODY FOUND THE WIND by redbelles
Alina rides a horse, and then something else entirely. (The Darkling. She rides the Darkling.)
LOVE AND WAR by starwarringavengers
How the Winter Fete scene should have gone, if they weren’t interrupted.
RAVENOUS by under_the_rose
For obvious reasons, it’s not widely known that the queen prefers the company of the General of the Second Army for her heats.
anything and everything by these authors
LARRY_HYSTEREKS
PRESIDENTHADES
DELLA19
INKY_PENS
DESTINIES
FIONAKEVIN073
ACEOFNOWHERE
VUAS
NYMJA
