LOUIS RARE PAIR FEST 2026
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(A) Louis/Character B are uni roommates
(B) Louis/Greg James - Louis takes Clifford to a secluded park and lets him run free for a few hours. A few weeks into going to a park, a friendly dog (Barney) Louis assumes is a stray comes over by him with a stick in his mouth and Louis plays fetch. This becomes a Thing every time. Louis notices Clifford has been gaining weight and can’t figure out why. One day, Clifford doesn’t come back like he usually does. Louis goes looking for him with (Barney) trailing on his heels. He’s just about to give up when (Barney) sprints away and Louis can’t stand the thought of losing two dogs in one day so he runs after him. Cut to…Louis finding a very tall, very handsome man, very excitedly welcoming Barney back with Clifford barely looking up from the almost gone bucket of dog food said very (very) handsome man clearly brought to the park. Confusion ensues since each thinks the other’s dog was a stray. Wild accusations from Louis about Greg making Clifford fat, jokes from Greg about how Barney has taken up finding perfect sticks and running away with his best one. They fall in love and become one big happy family.
( C ) Louis/Character B are musicians vying for the role of band leader at their former high school. They went there at the same time and were rivals then too, though for a totally different reason: they both had secret crushes on one another. When I’ve of them learns this, it changes everything.
(D) Girl direction! Louis/Character B are star athletes on the college (you choose the) sport team. They’re both on the butch side, and it takes them a while to figure out that they’re into one another and don’t need to femme it up to get the other to like them.
(E) Omegaverse: Alpha Louis has never questioned who he is, a strong Alpha loving Alpha who defies stereotypes. When he meets character B, a beta, he certainly doesn’t expect to fall for him (and hard)
(F) Famous Louis returns to his home town for his sister’s wedding. When he sees his non-famous ex-boyfriend at the first wedding event of the weekend, sparks fly. Cue a whirlwind romance and a lot of big decisions about what they’re both willing to do for love.
(G) Louis is a werewolf who’s gotten good at hiding his nature in order to make a quiet life for himself in a small town. Character B is the vampire whose arrival coincides with a couple of murders that threaten his peaceful existence. When it becomes clear that B isn’t behind the murders, he and Louis team up to find the real culprit (and maybe accidently fall in love along the way).
(H) Louis/Liam - Bros who get married for insurance purposes and then decide divorce isn’t worth the hassle.
(i) Louis/Charlie Lightening…no plot but sex on the ping pong table. Obviously.
(J) Louis and his bandmates/opening band let off some steam by having a circle jerk. It might turn into more for some of them.
(K) Ever since Character A was a kid they wanted to climb on a fire truck and one day they decide to just walk over to the fire station and ask if they can get on the truck. Character B is one of the firefighters.
(L) M/M Louis and Taylor Swift are rival quarterbacks for their town’s 2 high school teams. Nobody knows that they’ve been secretly dating since sharing a NYE kiss.
(M) Louis/Liam - everyone thinks Louis and Harry are together but it’s actually Louis and Liam
(N) Lilo hot water maintenance au based on this tumblr post
(O) Lilo Robin Hood AU
(P) Lilo Howl’s Moving Castle au
(Q) Louis and either Charlie or Nick from Heartstopper (the Netflixshow), friendship fic. Would love Louis either helping Nick through his sexuality crisis or Louis being there for Charlie through the events of the first season
( R ) Omegaverse: Louis is about to turn 25 without having presented. As he debates undergoing the risky process to force a presentation, he meets Character B who helps him realize he doesn’t necessarily have to “present” to be the alpha he know he is. (Omegaverse but make it trans and powerful!!) on hold 2026
(S) Bread van fic reimagined with all the guys in Louis’ band
(T) Louis plays on the uni football team and Liam is on the athletics team. they pass each other to and from training all the time. cue attraction. they are or become friends and are secretly pining for a while before they eventually start dating
(U) Edwardian era Lilo au where they’re both working class. maybe one is a servant and one is a shop assistant, or both servants.
(V) Louis and David Dawson bond over their time with Harry
(W) Louis/Oscar Isaac- edwardian AU where Oscar is a poet and Louis is his muse
(X) Louis/Pedro Pascal AU where Louis is exploring in the arctic and needs a guide
(Y) Louis/Pedro Pascal Gladiator AU
(Z) Michael B. Jordan as a boxer and nurse Louis
(AA) Louis/Sebastian Stan arranged marriage royalty AU. Louis is betrothed to King Sebastian Stan, a widower with two kids who aren’t to keen of the King’s fiancé.
(BB) Louis/Sam Claflin - something based on the interview where Sam says Louis follows him on Twitter and that they’ve had a conversation but he doesn’t want to get into it.
(CC) 27 dresses take off where Niall is always the best man, never the husband, and Louis is the snarky reporter.
(DD) Zouiam, uni AU - Zayn meets Liam at the library and falls halfway in love during a single conversation. It’s a fairy tale, only back home is Louis - his FWB, the most important person in Zayn’s life, and someone who doesn’t take well to losing out on attention. Louis’ a bit put out when he meets Liam at football practice and this annoying, bossy, fit as all hell guy slides right in under all his defences. It could be the start of a beautiful term of fighting and fucking, only back home is Zayn. Zayn not only needs Louis - he’d become a full-time hermit otherwise - but it’s damn convenient having sex on tap right there in his own flat. And, oh yeah, Zayn’s like, his reflection or his shadow or his other half or something. Liam’s quite confused by having two drop dead gorgeous guys alternately sending him go signals, then just as quickly, stop. He figures if either of them settle on go, he’ll be batting a thousand. Then he realises they know each other. Biblically.
(EE) Louis is an actor in a murder mystery troupe. Character B (maybe Nick Grimshaw…?) is the audience member who’s clearly too cool for all this but giving joining in his best shot anyway. Louis is distracted by him all night, and then after the denouement they meet in the bar.
(FF) Louis/Greg James - Louis won’t stop whanging on about not getting to do the breakfast show with his new album, and character X (maybe Niall, or Oli?) eventually realises it’s less career-related jealousy and more about who sits behind the mic. He hatches a matchmaking plan. on hold 2026
(GG) Character A does embarrassing things when interacting with Character B because of their massive crush. Like Character B reaches out to do a fist bump and Character A thinks it’s supposed to be a microphone and says hello into their fist.
(HH) Character B joins local amateur dramatics society and suddenly Louis is no longer a shoo-in for every lead role. Cue the drama!
(ii) AU. Preschool teacher Louis / Boxer Sebastian Stan
(JJ) Yellowjackets AU! Girl direction, any pairing from the show, cutting from 1996 to present.
(KK) Louis/Cillian Murphy - 1970s criminal au (preferably with Louis as the criminal), based on this photo: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvyDkCnWAAk1UwS?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
(LL) Louis/Isaac: Louis and his band Rogue Direction are doing their first tour in their beat-up van at questionable bars across the country. One night, Isaac is hurled into his life, fleeing from an abusive boyfriend in parking lot of the band’s gig. Louis can’t help but feel..protective of the scrappy tagalong who’ll do anything to earn his keep.
(MM) Louis/Isaac: Louis fucks Isaac’s gauged ears.
(NN) Omega Louis / Male Alpha / Female Alpha polyamorous relationship
(OO) Louis/Patrick Dempsey. AU Patrick is Louis’ dad’s best friend. Possible tags: age difference, secret relationship, feminine Louis, hung Patrick
(PP) Louis Tomlinson/Alex Turner AU. Is basically based in the Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino where Louis and Alex are imprisoned together; so they must find a way to escape. But while they try to escape they begin to fall in love with each other however it will be difficult for both of them to escape.
(QQ) Louis and Rob Pattinson are in a secret relationship during the 1d days (around 2014 or 2015) unknown to everyone but then louis gets pregnant.
(RR) Beta Louis with alpha whomever, not established relationship.
(SS) Louis and Michael are secretly dating and navigating the resurgence of the Larry rumor mill. Larry was once real, Louis has insecurities about secretly dating another band mate, and Michael has some insecurities over Harry being Louis ex. Maybe an awkward run in or two with Harry trying to get him back but Michael and Louis being endgame.
(TT) Louis tomlinson/Dev Patel- second chance romance
(UU) louis/charles Leclerc, could title the fic as -my good luck charm- (or some such since charles won the race when louis was there etc) and or u could have charles say that to louis and louis getting smug and or bashful & giggly!
(VV) Charles Leclerc at one of Louis gigs? Or him joining the band onstage?
(WW) Louis had to wear multiple badges to have F1 access, so Louis makes Charles wear multiple badges to have VIP access to his concerts. All’s fair…
(XX) Louis/Taylor Swift - 2014ish. They commiserate over Harry not being able to make up his damn mind
(YY) Louis/Character B are the only single parents in the PTA, and everyone keeps trying to get them together.
(ZZ) Louis/Nick Grimshaw (or Greg James, I just want someone from 1D era but not someone in 1D). Nick run into Louis when he’s on a vacation to the USA and Louis is there for his work. Maybe Nick goes to a park and see Louis sitting on a bench. He is hesitated at first whether he want to go and greet Louis or not because they weren’t best friends back in the days, even though they didn’t hate each other like some fans imagined them to be. Eventually Nick goes to greet Louis and Louis seems very delighted to see Nick, like he has the brightest smile on his face or something and that makes Nick’s heart skip a beat. They catch up and go for coffee/lunch/dinner while Nick is in the US. Nick doesn’t think they will keep in touch after he flies back to the UK but to his surprise, Louis textes him when he gets back and they hang out more. At one point, Louis comes out as gay to Nick. He is happy that Louis trusts him enough to come out to him. The relationship develops. You can be creative with this. I want it to be slow-burn, fluffy, and spicy.
(AAA) Sebastian Stan/Louis Police Officer AU with omegaverse. Omega Louis is a rookie detective in crimes and investigations division. He’s paired with Alpha Sebastian whose old partner just resigned. Louis is a loud and bratty omega who often gets himself in danger at work. Sebastian tries to keep him safe while solving crimes and somehow falls in love in the process.
(BBB) Louis Tomlinson/Sam Thompson Since Louis and the love of his life split a few months ago, before their joint coming out, he’s been utterly rudderless and destroyed. With his third album only partially completed, but full of love and life, his manager has organize a PR stunt to smooth over any inquiring minds and fill in the gaps while he finishes his album, which seems to be taking a turn for the worse. He’s absolutely bored with the gal chosen, and luckily they’ll be spending very little time together. However, a quick meeting with all parties involved includes her closeted gay “ex” and Louis couldn’t be more intrigued with the guy. Could he be the one to help ease Louis’ broken heart and become his muse? Is it too soon for Louis?
(CCC) A bouquet of flowers arrives backstage with the note “for the most beautiful”. All the members of Louis’ band think it’s for Louis, but Louis sent the flowers to (band member of your choice).
(DDD) Louis is a cowboy along with Character B out on the range, and they come back into town to find that the apocalypse has happened.
(EEE) Louis is too polite to say no. This leads to increasingly weirder situations.
(FFF) Louis and Character B work for the same company and have the same job position but they hate each other because the first time they met there was a misunderstanding or something. But all their coworkers think they would make an amazing couple so they try to get them together.
(GGG) Louis/Simon or Louis/Robbie Williams, x-factor judge era
(HHH) Louis/Robert Pattinson exes to lovers. Louis and Rob broke up for a while, as in months, but they hadn’t really moved on from each other. One night Rob got a call telling him that Louis was in an accident and Rob was his emergency contact.
(iii) Kevin Kaarl/Louis. Could be canonish. In a serious way or in a crack way. During the AFHF 2024 Kevin, one of the acts, dedicated his song “San Lucas” to Louis. (Your eyes shine brighter than the moon, the sea and the sun. I want to bare your soul and dedicate it a song.) Later in an interview, he said, “I was giving my all, and then when I left the stage I saw they were shipping me and Louis on twitter. So, I said, ‘Oh well, I’m going to go and give bro a little kiss’.”
(JJJ) Louis/Pedro Pascal - Pedro’s friends order a “bunny boy” stripper for his birthday party as a joke. He meets bunny boy Louis and falls for him fast.
(KKK) Louis spends countless nights not sleeping so he doesn’t have nightmares but character B starts to notice. (Or vice versa with the characters)
(LLL) Louis asks Character B if they want a kiss and Character B blushes and says okay, but Louis meant Hershey’s chocolate kisses and holds out the candy. Character B is super embarrassed and runs off and Louis runs after them because he really does want to kiss them and not just give them chocolate candy. Could switch the characters around too
(MMM) This is from a social media post I saw once that said something like these two people were friends and they knew their friend had feelings for them after they were at a party and went to leave and their friend kissed them on the forehead unexpectedly and they both just froze. But their mutual friend was standing there with them and realized what had happened and so also kissed them on the forehead to try to make it less awkward. And I just thought that would be so cute for a fic.
(NNN) Based on a tumblr post that says "Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household." Not Famous!Louis/Famous!Pedro Pascal fic where Louis and his friends/housemates have a Pedro cutout and always joke about asking Pedro, until one day Louis happens to run into Pedro and awkward meet cute ensues and his friends don't believe him when Louis tells them he met the real Pedro. LINK
(OOO) Louis meets and gets super faded with Ke$ha who wingmans him getting together with some hot male friend of hers
(PPP) Louis is looking for a place to hide after throwing a brick at a cop; character B opens his door to him, but the quick rescue ends up being a longer visit than anyone had expected when the police shut down the area looking for Louis
(QQQ) when Louis meets Hudson Williams at an event he tries to talk to him about the pressures of sudden fame and offer to be available if he needs anything- but a touchy feely Hudson is drunk and just keeps trying to get in his pants instead...
(RRR) Shane and Ilya have agreed to find a third to fuck Shane while Ilya doms him but stay anonymous and they pick Louis from an app... but Ilya realizes he wants to keep this guy around while they are Eiffel towering Shane. They ask Louis and all decide to try to be something more
(SSS) Kostas Tsimikas is getting bored with screwing his way through the ranks of the football world and is ready to think about something more serious. But when he sees Louis in the VIP area at a match he knows he has to meet him even if its just for another meaningless hookup... but maybe Louis is more than just a pretty face and maybe it was meant to be for both of them!
(TTT) Louis didn't want to go to this stupid award show in the first place and now he's going into heat besides; but he's going to have to wait for hours to get his car to get home with the crush of people leaving and he's starting to really sweat and worry about going under. Oli has gone to try to figure something out and he's on his own; the person whose car is actually at the front of the line realizes what's going on and offers him a ride. Older alpha Ashley Walters is very gentlemanly and hands off... but Louis would rather he not be actually. Can he convince Ashley that actually he's had the hots for him ever since he saw him in Adolescence and it's not just the heat talking? Will he get fucked in the back of the car or will Ashley send him home alone with a scented shirt and take him out on a nice date after his heat is over?
(UUU) Louis was only planning to pop by the 28clothing shoot for a few minutes... but he knows the minute he sees the NB blond model getting their sharply angled face so prettily made up that he needs to find out more about the person making his designs look so good...
(VVV) Louis/ Damon Albarn- britpop fanboy Louis gets to live one of his teenage fantasies when they meet in a festival VIP area
(WWW) Shane and Ilya go trolling for a third at a bar and find Louis
(XXX) Louis/ footy team of your choice- Louis' habit of dropping messages in various footballers' DMs pays off when a few recipients talk about it and decide to invite him to one of their group... gang bangs? circle jerks? whatever, you get the idea, dealer's choice from there
(YYY) Louis meets a hot bartender with a mysterious secret on vacation in Mexico (if you want to make it a crack fic, Oli has to translate for them)
(ZZZ) When Rose introduces Shane to Louis he doesn't think much about it... he likes big muscled guys, and anyway he just wants Ilya. But Louis' dominant energy starts to get to him and he finds himself looking at his hands and wanting them on him....
(AAAA) Louis reluctantly agrees to go to Eleanor and Jimbo's engagement party for old times sake and appearances... but when he meets Jimbo's rugby pal Joe Marler he's pleasantly surprised to find him witty and intelligent (since Louis was ofc the only guy in the UK who didn't actually watch Celebrity Traitors)- but more importantly he finds his hulking bear like presence extremely exciting and is absolutely interested in getting thrown around a bit if Joe was doing the honors
(BBBB) when Louis is cast to play Andrew Robertson in the Scotland national team biopic he needs to meet him and spend time with him to understand the role- but instead he comes to understand that they have an incredible time together being silly and getting into trouble, he hasn't had so much fun in years. And on top of that, is Robbo...flirting with him? Because he wouldn't say no
(CCCC) Alpha Louis is surprised by his attraction to fellow alpha Michael since he's never tended that way before, but is more worried about the age difference and boss/employee dynamic than that... but when he realizes Michael is actually an omega posing as an alpha to make it in the business he finds it hard to control his protectiveness and back off even though he knows he needs to
(DDDD) when Conor Storrie and his crew of West Hollywood gays invade Barney's and get rowdy Louis is cranky as hell and ready to just give up and leave, but a quick trip to piss on the way out has him running into Conor who wants him to know that he's a BIG FAN.... and what if he locked the door for just a few and showed him how big?
(EEEE) Zouis road trip