Mute!Phan (3) Masterlist
Links Last Checked: June 4th, 2025
part one, part two
A Force To Be Reckoned With - poetictragediess
Summary: Dan is selectively mute, which makes him an easy target in school. With Phil by his side, he finds himself slowly overcoming it.
But It Takes Someone To Come Around To Show You How (ao3) - Cutaehyung
Summary: Phan Mute Soulmate AU. Dan is born mute into a world where once in everyone’s life your soulmate will say the specific words that are tattooed onto your body, and bring you together. These words will save your life in more ways than imaginable. Whilst Dan resigns himself to the fact he will never have a soulmate, fate has different ideas…
Dear Diary...Signed, Daniel Howell - paradisobound
Summary (tw): The Diary Entries of Daniel Howell.
Dear Phil - indiestripper
Summary: Dan and Phil have been friends since elementary school, but Phil is just a little bit different from the other kids. After Dan stands up for Phil on the playground the two of them become best friends and maybe even more. Written from Dan’s point of view as a letter to Phil recounting special memories.
Diagnosed for the Worst (ao3) - Star4545
Summary: Phil can’t speak and has always found home in books. Dan Howell is his favorite author who writes books that always speak for Phil.
Finding My Voice (ao3) - bunnyboylester
Summary: (tw) Phil Lester is a sixteen year old boy who has just transferred schools as a ‘fresh start’. He is transgender and only just started living full time as a boy (well, that’s the term the doctors use). He refuses to talk, opting to write his words down where they can be easily corrected and carefully calculated. It also means that he doesn’t have to hear his high pitched voice that is the only thing that stops him from ‘passing’. He expects to be alone, sit quietly and get ignored like a ghost. When he befriends PJ Liguori he realises that actually he has missed having friends around. PJ has a small group of friends who include Phil as their own. Maybe he will find his voice rather than fade away as if he were never there.
Hearing You (ao3) - centroid
Summary: They were laying on Phil’s couch, watching a movie. Maybe watching was a bad choice of words.
His Unspoken Word (ao3) - ineffabledaniel
Summary: Phil isn't quite sure what to do when a boy name Daniel suddenly drops into his life. In the midst of a Turf War, will he do what he can to protect him?
If People Were Colors, He Was Red and Blue (ao3) - midnightskydan
Summary: In which Dan and Phil’s relationship hits a hard patch when Phil has troubles. Dan associates his difficult love with different “colors” like blue and grey. Feat. mute!Dan and depressed!Phil.
Listen - adorkablephil
Summary: Phil is a successful YouTuber, and Dan is a fan desperate for attention. Sounds like 2009, right? Except Phil is Deaf.
Lollipop (ao3) - orphan_account
Summary: In where Dan's bisexual and slutty as fuck and Phil just wants his candy business to take off.
My Boyfriend, Dan - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan and Phil have been together for eight months. Dan isn’t a youtuber but Phil is. Dan’s also mute. But Phil decides to one day ask Dan to join his live show to meet his viewers for the first time.
Restless (ao3) - overwhelmedbysonder
Summary (tw): Breathe. Just breathe. In. Out. In. Out. In. It’s not that I don’t try. I see my family, my friends, visiting with their faked smiles and forced laughter, desperately trying to pretend that things are fine, that nothing’s changed. I see them and I want to reach out, I want to look at them and smile and reassure them that I’m here and I’m fine and I’m here, but I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.
Or, the one where Phil struggles with depression, PTSD and being mute, and Dan just wants to hug him.
Second Chances - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan is mute and Phil is the bad boy at school who picks on him and bullies him. The only problem was that Dan and Phil have been talking to each other online for months. But Phil didn’t know he was talking to someone that he already knew, until they meet in person. Things don’t quite go as planned.
Shut Your Mouth and Listen Closely (ao3) - SimplyUndead
Summary: (tw) Dan is mute with an unfortunate past. Phil is a nice boy with a warm heart and love to give.
Strange Harmony (ao3) - rapier_puree
Summary: Dan is mute and Phil is deaf, which, as it turn out, works quite nicely.
The Defect System (ao3) - Star4545
Summary: Everyone is born with a Defect. Dan and Phil just happen to be born with two. Dan is blind and deaf, Phil cannot speak nor dance. Once you meet your soulmate, the defects will disappear one at a time.