i was bored (avoiding my final project) so i decided to finally fill out a mhyk ship chart 🥳 mostly consists of the fated pairs!
ship chart template by @/eatingmercury on twt
fics that have an asterisk (*) in front of them are my personal favorites!
this list was last updated on 7/9/23.
NOTE: this is an assorted collection of fic recs for mhyk, including ships such as bradnero, shymurr, misuruchi, and shinoheath. not spoiler-free!
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*fault lines • multi-chapter (2/2) • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “how is it that their relationship has been reduced to this stupid, childish masquerade, where every single thing that bradley does seems to be stepping on nero’s toes?"
TAGS: relationship study, angst, pining, relationship status: its complicated
NOTES: the summary excerpt i put does not do this justice so just do yourself a favor and read the fic!!! the bradnero characterization is so amazing incredible showstopping
*wishbone • one-shot • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “early as sin, and nero was already fighting a panic attack over a room full of stolen objects worth pounds more in diamonds than he was. fuck’s sake, he thought, slightly hysterical, the mirror’s embedded with rubies. it’s 13th century, the hell is it doin’ in a room with me?”
TAGS: canon-compliant, character study, cooking, found family, fluff, light angst, intertwined paths...
*you’re the reason i believe in ghosts • one-shot • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “nero wishes he could go back.”
TAGS: drabble, hurt no comfort, angst, bittersweet ending
*(our) time is running out • one-shot • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “sometimes it feels like bradley has a pit in him that burns hot where nero’s feels empty, cold.
TAGS: pre-canon, relationship study, memories, hurt no comfort, angst
*drunk off this sweet mood • one-shot • shylock/murr
SUMMARY: “murr's found something new that catches his eye: the barkeep at the bennett bar.”
TAGS: even more pre-canon, murr’s pov, back when shylock and murr first met, bantering, enemies to ???, murr before his soul shattered (loathsome murr), reading this makes my heart ache....
*capulet garden • one-shot • shylock/murr
SUMMARY: “he jests at scars that never felt a wound. all shylock can do is watch.”
TAGS: pre-canon, passive aggressive flirting via shakespeare, romeo and juliet references, prose, soul shattering, angst
*odds and ends • one-shot • shylock/murr
SUMMARY: “murr seems to consume all of his thoughts; and so, shylock knows it is love.”
TAGS: present-day canon, shylock’s pov, character and relationship study, the amount of pining here is off the charts, shylock waxing poetic about his love....classic western wizard things!
*how easy you are to need • one-shot • shino/heathcliff
SUMMARY: “so heathcliff keeps himself in check, muzzles his hypothetical non-platonic feelings, and smiles gratefully when shino appears at his door. that’s the safest option.”
TAGS: heathcliff's pov, fluff, yearning, childhood friends mutual pining you all know how it goes
*3 different ways to annoy heathcliff blanchett • one-shot • shino/heathcliff
SUMMARY: “his first thought was: ah, shit, he’s pretty. his second one was: wait, since when has he worn glasses?”
TAGS: shino’s pov, he is down bad, mutual pining, fluff, humor
a couple’s room • one-shot • shino/heathcliff
SUMMARY: “there's only one free room at the hotel, and you know how the story goes. they only had one bed.”
TAGS: mutual pining, fluff, they r so silly
unexpectedly • one-shot • shino/heathcliff
SUMMARY: "when he had stepped into that room earlier, the last thing heath had expected was to get confessed to.”
TAGS: sickfic, accidental confession, fluff
what words cannot say • multi-chapter (1/2) • shino/heathcliff
SUMMARY: “when you can't apologize, what else is there to do?”
SUMMARY: “in his quest to understand desire, nero learns it.”
TAGS: pre-canon, nero character study, angst, set shortly after his departure from the bandit gang
requited but unequal • one-shot • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “nero has no shortage of dissent, and almost he speaks it, but of the many things time has taught him, utmost is: he cannot expect bradley to ignore the thrill of life no more than he can expect to get drunk off water. for all they share in common, the sharp divide in how they each see life is too big to surmount. he tries not to think about it.“
TAGS: pre-canon, the fracturing of their relationship, angst
beast • one-shot • shylock/murr
SUMMARY: "shylock nudged his way through the open door, eyes wide with disbelief. if the figure hunched before him was murr, it was a version of murr that looked as though it had been dragged straight through hell and back. murr's bedroom was made nearly unrecognizable. the blueprints and sketches for new creations that usually hung on every open inch of wall were torn down, laying on the floor, reduced to shredded piles.”
TAGS: pre-canon, a fic exploring what happened when shylock found murr after his soul shattered, angst, hurt/comfort, fall from grace?, pain.......
CW: the descriptions of what happened to murr both mentally and physically after his soul shattered may be a little distressing to read
our final night alive • one-shot • shylock/murr
SUMMARY: “the night before murr’s soul shattered.”
TAGS: canon-compliant, relationship study, bittersweet, inspired by west rhapsody
familiarly unfamiliar • one-shot • mithra/rutile
SUMMARY: “it feels warmer lately.”
TAGS: drabble, fluff
warmth • one-shot • mithra/rutile
SUMMARY: "with rutile by his side, all mithra could feel was a lot of emotions and things that he has rarely ever experienced. but mostly, warmth.”
TAGS: drabble, fluff, i love how both misuruchi fics here are about warmth, btw i think this is an auto-translated fic so there may be grammar inconsistencies
the bandit’s kitchen • one-shot • bradley/nero
SUMMARY: “after barely managing to escape from figaro and the twins, bradley ends up at nero’s doorstep.”
