List your rarepairs. List your favorite Fics about them
@michellemagly made up this neato list and I totally wanted to get in on this.
I’m gonna dig for some, but a couple stood out immediately to me! Some of ‘em are..................extremely NSFW, but in the cases I’m thinking of, it’s done such sweet justice to the pair that it’s made it hard for me to consider these characters with anyone else. I’ll mark the NSFW ones.
1. Krem x Merrill, from Dragon Age (Inquisition and 2, respectively). One of those pairings that didn’t occur to me until I saw a fic, and now it’s the only one I can ever think of ever. I...I can’t even put into words why it fits so well, so I’ll link the NSFW fic that convinced me when I didn’t even know I needed convincing: Loose Skirts by WrenAndPoppy. Pls read it. So in-character with so many different characters that it feels like canon. It should be. It probably is.
2. Craig Cahn x Robert Small from Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Sim. I think I was looking for fluffy Craig/MC fic when I found this instead (I couldn’t find much of what I was originally looking for, anyway) and now it’s the only pairing I actually think about for the non-MC guys. Craig needs to chill out. Robert chills too much in some ways and way not enough in others. I think their ways of emotional processing are...kind of similar. The overextending until collapse. The need to block out all else and not think too deeply about the real problems. Anyway if you want very very very NSFW seriously look around you first, then read the Bros Helping Bros series by Tenebrosa
Oh hey did anyone wanna hear about my many favorite Naruto rarepairs? No? Here’s three!
3. Hidan & Temari (in friendship, but it’s going here anyway). Right? RIGHT???? Who the HECK would think? Not me, that’s for dang sure. I still don’t. The only way it works is in a contemporary AU centered on soldiers and the people back home that has nothing to do with ninjas at all but somehow still keeps the most important elements of Naruto. Somehow. But they play off each other so well! Temari’s no-nonsense, tenacious outlook and her fierce love for her family is such a good, idk, balance to Hidan’s impulsiveness and brashness and self-centered attitude that’s not based so much on pain or trauma or whatever as much as it is the fact that he really does just....think only of himself. I’m not selling this well. I’ve said so before, but A Remedy for Lassitude by firefly is the fic that has positively moved me more than any other.
4. Hidan x Hinata okay this is only going here AGAIN because of One Fic, and yes, it’s another contemporary AU (this one about working in journalism?????). But this is more plausible, right? Foul-mouthed Hidan and sweet but strong Hinata? Read Bluescast by stones if this intrigues you. That fic still makes me laugh out loud at parts.
5. Kimimaro x Sakura. I do wish there was more of this!!!! I’d write it myself, except I don’t want to dive down the Naruto-lore rabbit hole to get everything ninja-y right. Everyone ships Sakura with literally everyone, but this is one Bad Guy example I get behind and can see it being at least reasonably not terrible! (I know I wrote a 40k word SasoSaku fanfic but the whole point of that was how unhealthy it was, leave me alone) “Only Sakura could heal Kimimaro’s physical condition” aside, Sakura knows a lot about brainwashing (especially where ol’ Orochimaru is concerned) and there were other reasons why Kimimaro is good for her that I forget. It’s been a long time since I’ve read Canon-ish Naruto Fics, for a GOOD REASON, because once I start, I p much never stop. Here’s Marrow by DeGlace--the author rewrote it completely from when I first read it in 2006, and it’s now rated M when I remember it being T, so...maybe it’s NSFW now? I don’t think it had been finished when I was following along 12 years ago...Well, read it and tell me about it.
okay I’ll wrap up with self-promotion
6. Wayne x Siluka from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns. LEAVE ME ALONE, I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO WROTE IT BUT YOU GOTTA TRUST ME ON ITS PERFECTION. Here’s my super frickin’ fluffy fic on it, Sunshower, but you can start with the Siluka-less one-shot for some quick background before beginning called Stars In Her Eyes. The series is called Farmer’s Almanac because maybe one day I’ll finish part 3.
7. Saizou x Mozu from Fire Emblem: Fates. When I was playing Birthright, I had Saizou protecting little villager Mozu like, all the fricking time, because villager class is best class but it takes a LONG time to get there, and Saizou Ninja is strong af. Naturally, they started getting support convos, and....oh, god. They’re sweet. They bond over being from small villages, eating stew, missing their hometowns....it’s so domestic and it kills me. For whatever ungodly reason (probably because I knew I’d never get someone else writing anything for them), I wrote a softly smutty fic for them. It’s pretty lame in feeling plot-y at all because I hadn’t (and still haven’t) finished the game or gotten close, but who cares when it comes to sweet n sexy love? It’s called Borrowed Moments I guess oh and also it’s NSFW obviously.
okay that’s it bye tell me yours and read these
