#andy centric

[andromaquynh-ficrecs]

A year without dying by @praycambrian (ao3 praycambrian)

Summary: One morning, I went to the laundry room and you were waiting for me there. You, my own, my other limb: the face I know best of all time’s many faces.

After a mission gone wrong sidelines her at Nile’s family farm, Andy resigns herself to healing at the apparently glacial pace of a normal human being. Then Quỳnh shows up: gorgeous, immortal, inscrutable.

A road trip isn’t going to solve all of their problems, but Andy’s willing to give it a try.

Illustrations by @dylogger

Rated: Teen and Up Audiences | words: 13889 | Post Canon

What i loved: so many feelings!! Andy’s and Quyn’s reunion. All the pain and the grief between Andy and Quynh, and how they get to deal with it. The road trip. How is written from andy's pov like she is the one telling the story, so we can see what she thinks and feel. Lucretia and Nile, they have great interventions. Also how beautiful the art is. All the draws are fantastic and fit the fic so wonderful.

[andromaquynh-ficrecs]

When I was worshipped as a god by @lightdescending (ao3 LightDescending)

Summary: Her name was not always Andromache. Betrayed in battle and left to die, she rose again. For centuries after, she led her people, a warrior queen blessed by the gods - perhaps a god herself. She lived through so much: the domestication of horses, the development of written language, the collapse and emergence of countless cultures and civilizations.

Yet it was not just loneliness that compelled her to leave her people behind. It was something else.

This is a story of Andy's first three millennia of immortality: what she gained and lost, how she endured, and why Quỳnh changed everything.

Illustrations by @andromachete

Rated: Mature | Words: 24472 - Chapters: 6 | Pre Canon

What I loved: the exploration of Andy’s past. How she was worshipped as a goddess. All the complexity of what means to be a goddess/power figure. The historical and cultural references. Original character Kasha. How hard it was for Andy to be the only immortal. The dreams about Quynh. The andromaquynh meeting. How they get to know each other and changes as they fall in love. Soft Quynh. Lykon!!! Andy getting her “Andromache the Scythian” name. The beautiful art that accompany each chapter.

[andromaquynh-ficrecs]

That bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done by ao3 Coruscant

Summary:  Since losing Quynh to the ocean, Andy has died of the Hanahaki disease one hundred and fifty six times. After Merrick, the hundred and fifty seventh will be the one that kills her.

Rated: Teen and Up Audiences | Words: 5705 | Canon Divergence

What i loved: the idea just fits so well and it does great doing it while following the canon. How we see Andy dealing with the survivor guilt. The angst, the reunion, and finally a happy ending like andromaquynh deserves.