So, guess what fandom completely took over my brain? Well, looks like I'm in good company, judging from the honestly frightening number of stories that gets posted to the Ao3 each day. I've been trawling the tag whenever I have a bit of time, like the good obsessive fangirl that I am, and I'll share my findings with you. :D
All stories are Shane/Ilya, even when the story doesn't focus on the relationship. As usual, I live for AUs. Assume spoilers for The Long Game for all of these, I've read the books a couple of times but not recently so I can't quite keep the timeline straight in my head.
Gen
love takes miles 7K words, mixed media. Ten years of Hollanov as seen through fandom. This is clever and so much fun!
how do you feel? 10 K. * Shane Hollander, interviewee, throughout the years.* Fantastic Shane character study.
Missing Scenes
wanna get stuck in your head . 31 K. He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop. He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess. Shane is making space for Ilya. A series of missing scenes expanding on the episodes/books, lovely Shane exploration.
Ep 2 The Wrong Conclusion. Hayden & Shane. 505 words. “Um,” Hayden started, and his whole face was flushed red. Shane couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen Hayden look so flustered. “Lily sent you a dick pic.” I have a soft spot for Hayden Pike. He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but a good friend.
Ep 3
u might want to get tested . Explicit. 5.3K words. Lily: U might want to get tested Jane: Hilarious. Fuck you. Fantastic voices. Perfectly in character. And hilarious. I actually LOLed a few times while reading.
Ep 4
Too Nice. Explicit. 3.3 k. Hollander's parents weren't mean enough to him, Ilya decides. He's an only child, too — that has to have played a part. Almost certainly, nobody ever sat backwards on Hollander's chest and farted into his mouth while he tried to get away. Nobody ever poked his lower lip when he was sad and said a bird will come poop on this if you don't put it away. And definitely, nobody ever said my son can be lazy, right in front of his face, right in front of the owner of the new team that picked him first. This is hot, but what I like the most is Ilya's POV on Shane.
Ep 5
measure of a man Shane&Rose. 1.2k. “Nine.” Her voice is flat with disbelief. “Rose.” He drags a hand over his face.“Nine. Like—inches? No metric nonsense? God, I kind of wish it was metric nonsense. That can’t be right.” I love Rose teasing Shane but also helping him out. Such great banter and characterisation.
Ep 6
Keep Pace. I've seen quite a fair bit of fic about Yuna Hollnader, this is the only one I found focussing on David. Absolutely perfect, feels straight out of canon.
Future fic and/or stories set after The Long Game (aka book 2)
Tad Too Tight . 803 words. Being married on the same team can be proven difficult. Especially for rookies that don’t know the extent.
Dig Two Graves 28 K. The Montreal Voyageurs won't stop slinging mud at Shane in the press, so Shane and Ilya decide to get revenge the best way they know how. This is extremely angsty, be warned. Mind the tags!
two-man advantage. 4.7K. Two-Man Advantage: At Home with Hockey’s Biggest Power Couple, by Matthew Cooper. Their on-ice rivalry turned into the NHL’s most unexpected love story. Now, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov say they have no plans to slow down. The GQ profile fic. I love external POvs in the form of a magazine article.
AUs
I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) . 30 K. Explicit. Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends. And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it? I like how having Shane a heritage Russian speaker changes the dynamic between our guys.
WIPS
I dont' usually rec unfinished stories but these are so good, I'm keeping all my fingers crossed for them to be actually finished!
Concussion Protocol AU. Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. This is a total angst-fest! I love how the author is exploring properly in jury recovery and what looking after someone with that sort of problem entails. And the psychological repercussions for all involved.
Half Agony, Half Hope by @gorgeousundertow 26K so far. Au. Three years after Shane broke it off (not that there was anything to break off), he gets a concussion and the Metros bring in Ilya to fill in for him. A breakup and makeup fic inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion. I live for update notifs for this fic! It's that good.
Home Ice Advantage .Shane gets traded to Boston AU.
The Pitt
Since one of the WIPs I found only because I recognised the author's name from *the Pitt, I give you their Kingdon fic: Frank Langdon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by @gorgeousundertow. Groundhog Day AU. A fannish classic, and when it's done well like in this case it is super-satisfying!
And to finish off Rec-Cember, it’s time for my favorite fics I read this year! Here's the spiel:
This list is based on my AO3 bookmarks and my fic tag on Tumblr! Obviously since this list is labelled “favorite” and not “best”, the fics that didn't make this list aren't necessarily “worse”! If you want them all, check out the two links above! (Or you can go to my Rec-Cember masterpost for most of them, as well)
Anyway, the fandom spread of this year’s list is:
40% MCYT
12% Sonic the Hedgehog
10% Super Mario
6% Ace Attorney and Murderbot Diaries each, and
26% from other assorted fandoms/crossover fic.
As always, for the fics that didn't have proper summaries nor titles, I filled them in to keep the list looking as uniform as possible!
Without further ado, here's the list!
MCYT
Hermitcraft
Absolute Lithops Effect by Hiding_Under_The_Willow (@hiding-under-the-willow)
Not Rated | Gen
Helsknight & VintageBeef
2,153 words | One-shot
When Beef adopts a Ghastling, and Hels spots it in his barn, they have a conversation about the ecology of the creatures, struggles to survive, the hierarchy of needs, the difference a bit of care can make in a creature's life, and the nature of trust.
Doc and the Accidental Girl Scout Found Family by VoidBrat (@voidratwrites)
General Audiences | Gen, M/M
Docm77/Rendog, Mumbo Jumbo & Grian & GoodTimesWithScar & Docm77
AU - Girl Scouts + Modern Setting, Kidfic, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff
20,998 words | 8 chapters
“Look. It would solve both their problems! Doc needed to volunteer. Ren needed a volunteer.
And besides. It couldn’t hurt to see Ren again. Probably.”
—
While trying to get approved as a foster parent, former foster child Doc Monsterra finds himself helping out his old college friend and longtime crush with the local Buttercup Scouts troop! It’s not all fun and games and selling cookies, though, and Doc soon finds himself entangled in the lives of the kids he’s helping out. As cookie season begins and the annual scout camp approaches, Doc grows closer to Ren and to the kids, and finds his life changed forever.
"If Cleo hadn’t known Joe for longer than either of them have known Hermitcraft..." by @theminecraftbee
General Audiences | Gen
Joe Hills & ZombieCleo
747 words | One-shot
“If my best friend goes mad from loneliness I’m not a very good friend,” Joe says.
“Still, thanks,” Cleo says. “Thank you. It was—thank you.”
“Anyone would have,” Joe says, and all at once Cleo is laughing and sobbing into their hands.
In the Arms of Angels by greenkangaroo (@greenekangaroo)
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Skizzleman & impulseSV, Skizzleman & Hermitcraft Ensemble
49,660 words | 41 of ? chapters
A collection of short fic written about the past, present, and future of Third Circle Sarandiel, the most powerful Beacon Angel that the First Circle ever created and lost.
Or, as his closest friends in the multiverse call him, Skizz.
Rise to the Tops of the Trees by ruffboi (@ruffboi-mags)
General Audiences | Gen
Grian & Hermitcraft Ensemble
AU - Twitch Streamers, Mild Hurt/Comfort
7,740 words | One-shot
When he was 16, Grian fell in with a bad crowd.
For a few months, Grian's life stopped making sense, and by the time it was over he had scars, a disability, an arrest record, an expulsion, and enough trauma to fill years of therapy, if he ever went.
He did not go to therapy, incidentally, but at least he was self-aware enough to admit he probably should.
Instead, he dropped out of high school the moment he turned 18, got his GED, and became a shut-in. Going out became something he did only when necessary, and he went to great lengths to ensure it hardly ever would be. He didn't have anxiety, precisely, or agoraphobia or anything like that, he just…
Well he really didn't like the way people would look at him, when they noticed his wings.
Or, Grian's best friend wants him to be more social because she's worried about him, so he becomes a streamer. Despite his best efforts, he actually ends up making more friends, and maybe heals a little in the process.
show me where to start by WhisperNorbury (@whisperwritingstuff)
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | M/M
Cub/Scar
AU – Superheroes/Superpowers
10,160 words | One-shot
Cub expected to feel more different, holding a hero captive in his apartment. He doesn't. Everything is almost the same. Get up, stretch, get dressed, greet the sun. Not until he gets to his food is anything is different, the extra oversized danish sitting on his tray a reminder, fresh and still faintly warm.
After checking and rechecking everything known about Hotguy's potential food allergies, everything in the danish cross-references cleanly to things Hotguy has eaten publicly before. Things Cub has seen him eat at city banquets where they’d brushed shoulders. As does the glass of juice Cub pours. Cub's got spreadsheets tracking that information, to make it easier to plan out what food to order. Preparation, to ensure he could handle Hotguy’s needs.
All that's left now is to bring the food to Hotguy.
Or:
CEO Cub buys a captured Hotguy at auction, planning some simple autographs for his collection before the hero inevitably escapes. Hotguy finds something else in his time with Cub, though.
So Much For Stardust by Cringe_Is_Dead (A_Plethora_Of_Peters) (@a-plethora-of-peters)
Mature | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | M/M, Multi
impulseSV/Zedaph/Skizzleman/TangoTek
Hurt/Comfort, AU - Space, Whump, Slow Burn
165,883 words | 27 of ? chapters
According to Council records, the Fulgur Ovium Zedaph Pleighs and his two co-workers - the Ignis Petra Tango of the Tek Clan and the Inferni ImpulseSV - are officially called Sapience Outreach Specialists. They jokingly refer to themselves though as the First Contact Crew. It’s up to them to determine the sentience and sapience of alien races that either volunteer or are brought to them by the Council.
And recently the Council has brought them one hell of a challenge: determine the sentience and sapience of a recently discovered species called Terrans using an individual that they nickname Blue.
Meanwhile Skizz just wants to be treated like a person by the aliens that abducted him and go back to Earth…
The Hero In Your Story by greenkangaroo (@greenekangaroo)
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
impulseSV/Skizzleman
AU - FairyTales, Meta Narration
7,929 words | One-shot
In the land (or on the server) of Nod, the Book dictates how all Stories go, and everyone has their part to play. From the brave Knight-Champion Sir Impulse Esvey to the dastardly Evil Sorcerer Saran'diel'ramatiz'nyall, each player knows their part and they perform as necessary.
Only Saran'diel'ramatiz'nyall- Skizz, if you're Impulse- is getting tired of watching his closest companion forced into pointless, dangerous battles.
He's also sort of sick of getting thrown out of tower windows.
So maybe- just maybe!- it's time to write a different story.
What's up.
Trust, Snails, and other Cryptid-Taming Tactics by Anonymous
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Grian & GeminiTay, Hermitcraft Ensemble & The Snails
Developing Friendships, Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, AU - Different First Meeting
64,467 words | 11 chapters
Gem knows two things. One: There is an unidentifiable creature hanging around Hermitcraft this season, whose eyes feel like lead weights upon her back and whose feathers are nearly as long as her arm. Two: There is a snail eating her lighthouse.
Somehow, the snail is infinitely more of a concern.
(Grian escapes the Watchers and crashes on Hermitcraft. Then magicks some snails into existence, makes a friend, and learns how to be a person again, in no particular order.)
Hermitcraft x Life Series
Counts of the Waltz by MatleenaMaddie (@matleenamaddie)
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M, Multi
BdoubleO100/EthoSlab/impulseSV, EthosLab & Joel SmallishBeans
Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Friends to Lovers
37,178 words | 3 chapters
“Impulse says you’re hurt,” Bdubs tells him. That makes Etho react. He turns, looking at Bdubs.
“Not angry?”
“He says you’re lashing out out of pain, not anger.”
“I didn’t know he was a psychologist.” His tone is biting. Bdubs hears it.
“Etho,” he scolds. And it’s just that. Just his name, and Etho feels ashamed and smaller. “He’s worried about you.”
Oh, screw Impulse and his perfect boyfriend attitude. Etho will punch him in the face next time he sees him.
“I know what’s happening, Ladders,” Bdubs continues, and Etho snorts, almost despite himself.
“Somehow, I very much doubt that.”
Because Bdubs is in tune with people’s feelings, and he is a very observant person, but Etho has loved him in silence for years, has spent all of this time by his side, and Bdubs has never said a thing.
So he feels perfectly allowed to be skeptical.
“You’re jealous,” Bdubs says, and Etho forgets how to breathe.
Etho is jealous of the growing bond between Bdubs and Impulse, right up until he isn't.
OR: Three idiots learn about polyamory and waltzing
Memories Are Only Haunted When More Cannot Be Made by Mirasol_Raven
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
impulseSV, TangoTek, Skizzleman, EthosLab
Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Found Family, AU - Fantasy
28,021 words | 8 chapters
“What if we go North?” Impulse phrased it like a question, but even if Skizz said no, he might still go. He would hate to leave his friend, but he’d hate to stay here even more. “What if we just left?”
Skizz was uncharacteristically quiet. He picked at the hole in his pants that had slowly been getting bigger and bigger over the past few years. Soon, his entire knee would be visible through the gap. Zedaph had been the one to put the hole there. He’d felt so guilty about it and Skizz had felt worse about his friend’s guilt than the hole in his only good pair of pants. Now Impulse caught him staring at that gaping wound in the fabric more and more often.
Skizz looked up at him, his mouth set in a grim line and his eyes lit up in determination, “When do we leave?”
Or, when their friends disappear under mysterious circumstances, Team TIES must work together in order to bring the people they love home.
slice of strawberry-flavored life by nixietricks (@nixietricks)
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen, M/M
BdoubleO100/impulseSV, Grian/GoodTimesWithScar, GeminiTay & impulseSV & PearlescentMoon
AU - Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Comedy, Domestic Fluff
6,769 words | One-shot
Another day, another job — this particular day is cold, a little stormy. Impulse and Bdubs stand side-by-side in the sand, hands on their hips, staring at a house that looks like the next burst of wind might topple it right over.
“Oh, this thing.” Bdubs stares. “This thing is — no way. No freakin’ way, Impulse, we are not doing this. We’re gonna get sued.”
“We’re not gonna get sued.” Impulse flicks him — flicks him! The audacity! — on the temple, then continues trudging on up the sandy property toward the stairs. “Companies like ours do renos all the time, Bdubs. We’ve done renos. Come on — let’s get a better look at the property.”
Various Ways to Victory by schneefink (@teddybearsandspaceships)
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Pearlescentmoon & Goodtimeswithscar
1,878 words | One-shot
"You let me win, didn't you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Pearl said immediately.
Pearl and Scar talk about their final fight in Secret Life and about their respective victories.
Vampires SMP
“After thirty years exactly…” by @theminecraftbee
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Scott Smajor, Shubble, AbolishRegret
1,264 words | One-shot
Scott thinks he can take Abolish.
He can move faster than humans can react. He could kill Abolish now. It’d solve the problem, he thinks. He could go take back his castle. In a few years, Shelby would understand that just taxing the humans with their blood is easier and frankly kills fewer of them than famine, and they’d be comfortable and happy, and Scott wouldn’t think about Avid except for once a year, which is good, because then he wouldn’t have to feel about it at all. It’d be slow convincing her, but he’s been good for thirty years, which is longer than Avid would have lived anyway so who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? WHO CARES.
Scott is shaking.
any joy it would bring by whimsicaltwine (@whimsicaltwine)
General Audiences | Gen
AvidMC & InfiniteDrift, AvidMC & Vampires SMP Ensemble
Fluff, Fix-It, Happy Ending
5,092 words | One-shot
Watching him play for a crowd of friends, Drift realizes that even in the moments when Avid has had his head on his shoulders, even in the moments when he's feeling well enough to joke, he's never been comfortable.
Or: After everything, once the people of Oakhurst find peace, Avid plays fiddle at the town's celebration.
when everything is gone (maybe you’ll agree, eventually) by Medievalish (@primarilymedievalish)
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
AvidMC & Elle, AvidMC & InfiniteDrift
Angst
2,154 words | One-shot
Honestly, it'd be a lie to say Avid really got used to the quiet.
Or: what if Avid stuck around just long enough to see his partner buried?
Life Series
once more, with feeling by @wren-kitchens
General Audiences | Gen
The Watchers
871 words | One-shot
it’s not exactly the same every time. it’s altered by what they went through, and why they’re asking, and how it all ended. but it’s always close enough that it may as well be the same.
push and pull by solarcafe (@solarcafe)
General Audiences | Gen
Life Series Ensemble
Mild Hurt/Comfort
1,011 words | One-shot
Post-Limited Life is a safe, short time before participants go their separate ways. Hugs, congratulations, and few apologies are exchanged.
(Or, each faction's reunion after Limited Life's finale.)
Misc. MCYT
52 hertz by oneirogen (@halothane)
Lifesteal SMP
General Audiences | Gen
Ashswag & Squiddo
Non-Linear Narrative, Friendship
4,370 words | One-shot
SQUIDDO: So the plan is simple. We’ve got around thirty-six hours of driving to do until we reach the source of this weird frequency, then we figure out whatever is making it and then drive another thirty-six hours back so we can report to the Professor. Easy :D
ASHSWAG: How the fuck did you do that with your mouth.
or:
squiddo goes on a roadtrip.
i've got nothing to lose, you've got nothing to say by bartholomewrose (@bartholomewrose)
Haunted Winter SMP, 100 Days Multiverse
General Audiences | Gen
Legundo & VikingPilot, Apokuna & VikingPilot
Angst
1,700 words | One-shot
The day has crept into late afternoon, everyone is finally settling in to Marm and Avid's house after the fiasco of yesterday, and Viking has a plan.
See, he's been chasing Legundo around, grasping at the tiniest scraps of information, for what feels like the entire time he's been lost in these woods. And he's sick of it. Today, after a moment of relative calm and productivity, he's going to sit Legs down and actually talk to him.
He's only asking for help with his armor, what could possibly happen?
Sonic the Hedgehog
arrow by astralithium (@jadeandroses)
General Audiences | Gen
Sally Acorn & Sonic the Hedgehog
11,194 words | One-shot
Against every instinct in Sonic's core, he had stayed in Camelot even after Caliburn's reveal. Shouldered the weight of this stupid crown for as long as he thought he could. It was beginning to weigh on him horribly, and people were beginning to notice. And then Gawain showed up with a girl in tow, proclaiming her to be his betrothed.
He didn’t think he had been terrible at this whole rulership gig, especially for someone who didn’t want it in the first place. But this? This was the last straw. Still, it wasn’t like he could just leave—his knights would need guidance, and the people would need a protector, and Guinevere…
…well. Maybe, in ways that his court hadn’t expected, she was exactly what he needed.
(Or: Arthur meets Guinevere. Sonic’s determined to make sure this doesn’t go as written)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation by elsanneJ (@elsannej)
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
E-123 Omega & Rouge the Bat, E-123 Omega & Shadow the Hedgehog
Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Team as Family, Emotional Hurt
4,133 words | One-shot
“Performing CPR can evoke a range of intense emotions on the rescuer, including anxiety, stress, fear, and a heightened sense of responsibility. Immediately afterwards, it’s normal to have feelings of shock and one may find it hard to process to what just happened.”
//
Team Dark mission gone wrong.
Every Orchard Needs a Watering Can by HotCocoaaa (@biscaanii)
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M, Gen
The Wachowski Family & Shadow the Hedgehog
AU - Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst
53,099 words | 5 chapters
His plan was to go out in a blazing supernova, to become a last shining star himself up in that endless night sky. He did not anticipate surviving. He definitely did not anticipate winding up in Green Hills, Montana, sat under the desk of Green Hills, Veterinary Clinic, staring at Sonic’s mom.
Any fruit tree can sprout again with enough love and water. Who would think.
Lattes and Hot Chocolate by 2Kris_P (@krispwrites)
Series | Teen And Up Audiences, General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply | Gen, Other
Shadow the Hedgehog & Agent Stone
Post-Movie: Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Not Canon Compliant, Found Family, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Bonding
129,986 words | 4 chapters
Set after the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie and not canon compliant with Sonic the Hedgehog 4, this series is dedicated to my little AU of Stone and Shadow creating a found family together after the events of the Eclipse Cannon.
Pyrophoric by MeaslyFurball (@generic-sonic-fan)
General Audiences | F/M
Blaze The Cat/E-123 Omega
Mutual Pining, Romantic Fluff, Hurt/Comfort
36,900 words | 8 chapters
Blaze never thought she’d meet someone who infuriated her but also seemed to understand so much. Omega never thought he’d meet another organic with such destructive prowess- and who did more than just tolerate him.
With kindling spread through mundane events across his dimension and hers, neither are prepared for the spark that lights.
To My Dearest Beloved by NeonLite (@neoncherryblossom)
General Audiences | Gen
Knuckles the Echidna & Sonic the Hedgehog, Amy Rose & Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower & Sonic the Hedgehog
AU - Soulmates, Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Character Study, Aromantic Character, Found Family
66,606 words | 3 chapters
Knuckles found it hard to hate the fate of being the last Echidna when his soulmarks appeared. They whisper to him about a different destiny, one where he’s not the only Guardian of the Master Emerald, one where friends explore his wonderful home with him.
(So he’ll wait. He could wait forever, so long as they come.)
Amy Rose knew exactly what she wanted. A fairy tale love, one exactly like her Mama and Pat had. And when a blue hedgehog saved her one day- a blue hedgehog who could run as fast as the wind-her 'mark appeared, the second his fingers touched her skin. And she knew.
(She had found the one.)
Miles used to hate his tails, up until he met the hedgehog that defended him from his bullies. Miles had hugged him because he had been so incredibly grateful and now there was a soulmark on his skin, one that was mirrored in the other boy's chest.
(And Tails knew. He would always be loved.)
Super Mario
Comfort For the Young Master by santapacman
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Kamek, Bowser Jr.
Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst
1,309 words | One-shot
Seeing Bowser Jr. battered and defeated after his most recent bout with Mario hurts Kamek's old, misguided heart.
Koopa Tea by AilingStar
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Bowser & Bowser Jr., Bowser Jr. & Kamek
Family Fluff
1,270 words | One-shot
Kamek enjoys a cup of tea and helps calm down the young master.
Lady Emerald by batneko (@batneko)
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Bowser/Luigi
Mistaken Identity, Enemies to Lovers, Curses
23,244 words | 2 of 3 chapters
A wicked godmother is casting curses based on fairy tales, and Luigi ends up dressed like a princess just in time to catch Bowser's eye. How long can he keep up the ruse? And will Bowser ever forgive him if he finds out the truth?
The Prince and the Raven by LazKoal (@lazkoal)
General Audiences | Gen
Dodo & Mallow, Dodo & Valentina
Fluff and Angst, Happy Ending, Found Family, Post-Canon, Enemies to Friends
2,317 words | One-shot
A year after Prince Mallow's return to Nimbus Land, Dodo suddenly shows up at the front gate of Nimbus Castle, all by himself.
Wanted by Ready4This
Explicit | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | F/M
Bowser/Starlow
10,455 words | 3 chapters
Starlow asks for Bowser's help in the Cutie Battle Contest.
It ends in ways they didn't expect.
Ace Attorney
a heart shaped like a fist by monkeyingaround
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Daryan Crescend, Ema Skye, Thalassa Gramarye
AU - Canon Divergence
820 words | One-shot
To be fair, Apollo didn't go to the Gavinners concert expecting to punch their lead guitarist. It just kind of happened.
Metal Masquerade by pictureswithboxes, RokettoMusashi (@pictureswithboxes, @musashi)
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Slow Burn, Pre-Relationship, Metafiction, AU - Canon Divergence
167,140 words | 4 of 8 chapters
Since the day they met, Maya and Franziska have been nervously hovering near one another, dancing around a connection they just can’t seem to make. An off-kilter sick day spent binge-watching Pink Princess changes all of that, as Franziska finds herself thrust into the strange new world of fandom and fanfiction with Maya as her enthusiastic guide.
A metafiction-y love letter of a story about the two of them slowly falling for each other—all they will say, all they will not say, and the catharsis and perils of escapism through fandom.
Sympathy From The Devil by chantolove (@chanto-love)
General Audiences | Gen, M/M
Nahyuta Sahdmadhi/Simon Blackquill
Sickfic
5,093 words | One-shot
Usually, the benefits of living alone outnumbered the drawbacks so thoroughly that one could forget they existed at all. And usually, the fire and damnation that had come to plague his dreams stayed there, rather than following him into the waking world. But every 'usually' has its 'sometimes'…
The Murderbot Diaries
a lunar sanctuary by CompletelyDifferent (@elexuscal)
General Audiences | Gen
Perihelion [ART] & Murderbot
Developing Friendships, Roleswap
42,937 words | 21 of 31 chapters
The gunship which named itself Perihelion is stranded on a moon in a foreign non-corporate political entity, unable to fly, nearly all its systems offline. It is at the mercy of the local humans- particularly their SecUnit, who surely has been sent to salvage it, or reprogram it, or if all else fails, decommission it.
And yet, somehow, that's not what seems to happen.
Child Instance by IDisNull
General Audiences | Gen
Dr. Mensah's Child(ren) & Murderbot
Science Fiction
4,634 words | One-shot
Set between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect, Murderbot inadvertently finds itself responsible for the welfare of a house full of children.
Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Original SecUnit Character(s), Original Human Character(s)
Canon-Typical Violence
1,532 words | One-shot
Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: …
SecUnit One: Indeed.
Crossovers
Oleander by Yotsubadancesintherain5
Addams Family x The Muppets
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | F/M, Gen
Gomez Addams/Morticia Addams, Kermit the Frog/Miss Piggy
Fluff, Humor, Banter, Friendship
400 words | One-shot
After the results of the tumblr sexywoman poll are in Morticia and Miss Piggy acknowledge each other as equals.
what we are, in the reflection of each other by bongo_balderdash (@bongo-clash)
Danny Phantom x DC
General Audiences | Gen, F/M
Fenton Family & Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Jack Fenton & Clark Kent
Family Bonding
10,156 words | 3 chapters
Jack Fenton likes to tell his kids stories about his childhood, sometimes. Likes to talk about his college years, likes to talk about the vastness of the Fenton family, likes to talk about the little cabin in the woods he didn’t leave until he was twenty years old. It’s something of a hobby of his, to reminisce.
But like every parent, there’s just a few things that go unsaid. A secret name, a secret origin, some lost fragment of a past lightyears behind him. His children have inherited near nothing of it, he’d thought, and perhaps it was best they never know.
And then he discovers his son can fly.
(Or: Forty years ago, Jax-An crash landed in Earth’s atmosphere. Five minutes ago, Jack Fenton realised he might have passed more onto his son than he’d first thought.)
Lucky Jumbo by Sleepless_in_Southlands (Sleepless_in_Starbucks) (@sleepless-in-starbucks)
Hermitcraft SMP x Inscryption
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Luke Carder/Oliver Brotherhood
Falling In Love, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff and Humor
16,882 words | 3 chapters
Luke's had a rough time recently, okay? Inscryption's been... well... Inscryption. A new start is exactly what he needs.
And then his new start begins with him crushing some guy in a suit.
Super.
Or: Luke finds himself in Hermitcraft and falling both on and for one Mumbo Jumbo.
Miscellaneous
What We Owe to Ourselves by 77ultracrepidarian77
Danny Phantom
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Dan Phantom & Danielle "Dani" Phantom
13,904 words | 7 chapters
When Danielle discovers that Plasmius has stolen the legendary Infi-Map, she makes a daring move to steal it back. But the map has its own plans: when Danielle asks to be lead to safety after she is discovered, it transports her to the deepest corners of the Ghost Zone: Clockwork's lair.
A thermos has been sitting there for a while now, waiting for someone to open its contents.
Place by midnight_marimba (@midnight-marimba)
Dragon Quest XI
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Sylvando & Hendrik
Fluff
3,195 words | One-shot
During an evening of celebration, Sylvando notices someone is missing.
A Heavy Burden by redAntlered
Fields of Mistria
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Balor & Fields of Mistria Ensemble Cast
Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Whump, Friendship
12,240 words | 3 chapters
Just when Balor begins to accept his place in Mistria and tries to shove aside his paranoia of his past, his nightmare becomes reality - someone has hunt him down for revenge.
One, Two, Three, Four, I Declare a Thumb War by Cullhach (@zolanort)
Linked Universe
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Hyrule & Legend
Enemies to Friends, Hurt/Comfort
4,950 words | 2 chapters
Link, Hero of Legend, has a problem.
There’s a hole in his item pouch. On the other side? A mysterious disembodied hand set on making his life difficult.
Link doesn’t start fights, but he can end them. Except for when he is the one who starts them and the other person is winning. Somehow.
-or-
Legend and Hyrule get in a land war over the inter-dimensional tear joining their bags together.
a word for 'bad miracle' by shingekicorn (@shingekicornwrites)
My Hero Academia
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Midorya Izuku & Original Female Character
Post-Canon, Accidental Preteen Acquisition
157,703 words | 11 of ? chapters
Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.
Sometimes you're a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that's still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you're simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father's messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.
And now, you're a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.
Doing the Work by MarbleGlove
Naruto
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M, Gen
Uchiha Sasuke & Original Female Character, Hatake Kakashi/Original Female Character
AU - Canon Divergence, POV Outsider, Asexual Character
59,732 words | 6 chapters
There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.
AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world.
Empty Graves by Unpretty (@unpretty)
Superman
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Jonathan Kent/Martha Kent, Clark Kent & Martha Kent
Time Travel
6,539 words | One-shot
Time travelers who plan to kill Superman never account for Martha Kent in their plans. She may not be the World's Finest, but she's a mother with a shotgun, and all told that might be scarier.
My Friends by Starrymindsoflove
The Backyardigans
General Audiences | Gen
Pablo, Tasha, Uniqua, Austin, Tyrone
Slice of Life, Human AU
594 words | One-shot
Pablo watches his friends and draws.
Again by Useless19 (@useless19)
Transformers
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Megatron & Orion Pax, Megatron & Optimus Prime
Time Travel Fix-It, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death
5,771 words | One-shot
"I know the future," Megatron says.
"And that future involves me getting punched in the face?" Pax says with a smile.
Megatron huffs a laugh despite himself. "You don't know the half of it."
ephemera by novalotypo (@twentyninebirds)
Xenoblade Chronicles
General Audiences | Gen
Alvis & Shulk, Shulk & Zanza
AU - Canon Divergence
8,495 words | One-shot
Shulk stood between the meeting of two worlds. Something rippled beneath his feet, rumbling deep along the scars of an unsteady reality. The empty above shone blue, then red, then black. One star burned brighter than the rest.
There was a dead god, some ways away. He was silent. He was still. He would speak, given time to think and grieve.
But in that short reprieve, one star streaked down from the sky.
“Good morning,” it said, and suddenly Shulk knew: Alvis. We were friends, once. “We have a great deal of work ahead of us.”
In which Shulk navigates a world of his own creation, between an end and a beginning.
I already recced my fave Heated Rivalry fic on Day 5 when I focused on hockey romance more broadly, but since Heated Rivalry has taken over fandom by storm, I thought some more recs would go down well. Everything is Shane/Ilya because duh. Also, they were written before the show, but since the show is such a faithful adaptation of the book, it shouldn't be a problem.
Ilya Rozanov Gets Railed . 13K
“You didn’t like it the last time we tried it,” Shane said.
Ilya gave a one-shouldered shrug. “Was years ago. Maybe it is an acquired taste, like licorice.”
“You also don’t like licorice,” Shane pointed out.
“Yes, but I keep trying it because Luca likes it so much.”
“And then you make a face and tell him how awful it is.”
“When have I ever told you your dick is awful?” Ilya said, looking mildly offended. “I am its number one fan.”
I kinda dislike the title because while there's of course quite a lot of smut in this, what makes this story is the amazing characterisation and the fantastic banter (see the quote). Podfic available!
you'd rather die than take your eyes off me by @beefybisexualrozanov. 6K, Ilya is in a car accident. Shane hurries to be by his side, and outs them in the process. Set during the year Ilya is playing for Boston. AU.
there's no pretending . 13 K. The term, he’s told, is temporary retrograde amnesia. Ilya doesn’t need the direct translation to understand: he forgot things. Ten years of things.
The Pitt
singing in unison . AU. Gen. Leah's sick the night before Pittfest. Robby gets his ticket back. I love a good ensemble piece. And an AU. Two of my fave things rolled in one.
DPxDC is such a fascinating bubble of tropes and storybeats to me, especially as someone who hardly knows anything about the DCU and only watched a few episodes of DP probably more than a decade ago, lmao. But regardless, the genfic is nice 🙂 (and the other fic, also)
A Heroes Hero by ArtemisMoore
Mature | Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Danny Fenton & Clark Kent & Lois Lane, Danny Fenton & Jack Fenton & Maddie Fenton
Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Hopeful Ending
41,293 words | 9 chapters
Danny is going through a rough patch in his life after learning some bad news from Frostbite. Between the bad news, the Anti-Ecto Control Act's making his life hell, and struggling to balance both of his identities he finally breaks down and reaches out to one of the only people in the world who might understand.
So, with shaking hands and teary eyes he approached none other than the Man of Steel himself - Superman.
“I was hoping… th-that I could ask you for some advice? I-if that’s okay?”
Danny can only hope this choice doesn't turn around to bite him in the ass.
A Paler Plumage by Lumeleo
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Danny Fenton
Angst with a Happy Ending
63,172 words | 43 chapters
Another showdown with Ra's goes very wrong when Red Robin disappears in a Lazarus Pit. However, neither Tim nor the rest of his family are about to give up -- he's hardly the first Robin to die and come back even more dangerous. And while he is at it, he just might find yet another mystery and some new allies, too.
There's always room for one more black-haired, blue-eyed kid in the family, anyway.
A Spirited Brand by Sendryl
General Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Boston Brand
2,635 words | One-shot
Boston Brand is sent to investigate Amity Park.
He gets captured, and gets thrown into a cellblock with young teen ghost.
The poor kid's parents are with the scientists experimenting on them.
Guess Boston's a dad now.
Bruised by DizzlyPuzzled
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
54,015 words | 25 chapters
The Guys in White are preparing for war.
The Justice League doesn't believe in Ghosts and wrote Amity Park off.
And Danny just wants things to chill for a moment so he can enjoy his life.
But now he is the only thing standing between complete reality collapse and peace.
Building a Proper Support System Straight from the Box by yastaghr
Mature | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | F/M
Danny Fenton & Ghost Ensemble, Box Ghost & Barry Allen
Found Family, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Family Fluff, Time Travel, Not Canon Compliant
60,171 words | 18 of ? chapters
After the Box Ghost finds Danny on their first Death Day and discovers how they died a year ago, the ghosts take them away from Amity Park for their own mental, physical, and emotional safety. They then all settle into the derelict family home that the Box Ghost lived in; he is sure that his childhood friend across the street will know how to help Danny's living side heal from the injuries the ghosts don't know how to help.
Barry Allen probably won't mind a visit from the ghost of his old friend, right?
Contractual Obligations by hailsatanacab
Mature | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Danny Fenton & Alfred Pennyworth
Body Horror, Hurt/Comfort
28,009 words | 5 chapters
It’s a normal day for Alfred Pennyworth. He spends it taking care of the manor and watching over its inhabitants, just as he does every other day. It’s an exhausting, never-ending task, that he wouldn’t change for the world.
But that night, he is confronted by a stranger in his rooms with a copy of every single soul-binding contract he’s signed for the protection of his family.
The new Ghost King wants to update his terms and conditions.
danny fenton, hero helper extraordinaire by aryelee
General Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton, Barry Allen, Connor Hawke, Clark Kent, Batfamily Members
Post-Canon, Not Phantom Planet Compliant, Friendship
6,198 words | One-shot
Danny, forced to take a vacation in another dimension so he can actually get some rest and enjoy himself, ends up following various superheroes around to give them a hand.
(Or arrows he picked up from the ground. Or snacks he made for them. Or some decent company because some of these guys could use a friend.)
Full-Time Hero, Full-Time Disaster by halfagone (milkywxy)
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | F/M, Gen
Cassandra Cain/Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton & Jason Todd
AU - Canon Divergence, Romance, Fluff, Humor
9,937 words | One-shot
In which Danny is always exhausted, filled with intrusive and murderous thoughts, and Cass thinks he should probably eat more. And borrows his clothes. And shows up at his house unannounced. Okay, the communication is pretty scuffed, but they somehow make it work and that's all that matters.
halfway dead house by Sonnet3141
Not Rated | Gen
Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Jazz Fenton & Jason Todd, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Valerie Gray & Sam Manson
24,498 words | 12 chapters
Jazz is at college in Gotham. Danny misses her. But he's got to stay in Amity Park.
He's got to.
...right?
Homework On The Moon by TheSoupiest
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death | Gen
Justice League, Batfamily Members, Danny Phantom Ensemble Cast
Not Phantom Planet Compliant
63,268 words | 14 chapters
Danny was just relaxing doing his homework on the moon. (It was quiet and had minimal distractions. Perfect for studying). He didn’t expect to see anyone during his studying but after seeing movement out of the corner of his eye he went to check it out. To his surprise: Superman was just sitting on the moon looking down at earth. Chilling.
Imprint by Hastag_DriveBy
Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Gen
Danny Fenton, Jason Todd, Fright Knight, Batfamily, Roy Harper, Lian Harper
Accidental Baby Acquisition, Fluff, Domestic, Crack Treated Seriously
128,193 words | 13 of ? chapters
He screwed his eyes shut, held his breath, desperately wished that he was back in his safehouse, alone and blissfully unaware. But the weight in his hands remained, and when he opened his eyes, it was to the bean-shaped 'fuck you' the Lazarus Pit had kindly bestowed upon him, arms and legs folded up against his front beneath off-white muslin while tiny lips smacked softly.
What the fuck.
What the hell was Jason supposed to do now?
It Takes Three Days to Get Adopted by corkinavoid
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Batfamily Members (DCU) & Danny Fenton, Jazz Fenton/Jason Todd, Dan Phantom & Jason Todd, Danielle "Dani" Phantom & Damian Wayne
Crack Treated Seriously, Found Family
50,143 words | 18 chapters
Danny is just doing Jazz a favor. Pretty simple favor, actually, check out the haunted house her boyfriend's family lives in. And of course, being the responsible sister, she has already made all the arrangements, so all he has to do is just show up, walk in, look around, maybe kick some ghost butt out, maybe deal with some shades or possessed artifacts.
Easy.
Wait, isn't this the Wayne manor?
No, it's okay. Not every rich person has a weird secret basement, he'll be fine. What are the chances of another billionaire deciding to adopt him on sight?
(Damn it, Jazz! You knew, didn't you?!)
It's Not Easy Being Green by kabu_uang
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & J'onn J'onzz, Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne
Accidental Baby Acquisition, Crack Treated Seriously, Kid Fic
10,976 words | 4 of 5 chapters
The Justice League's Watchtower has an attentive security protocol, which includes careful guarding of the space around them. J'onn is often one of the many heroes tasked with monitoring the area from time to time. There's something floating outside the Watchtower that triggers their sensors.
J'onn is sure that the thing is sentient. On closer interaction, this "thing" is also rather child-like.
Just What He Wanted by Sendryl
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne
Found Family, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending
9,000 words | One-shot
One of the Batman’s first cases is rough.
His first case involving a child – a baby.
The newborn is in a dumpster, and Bruce almost doesn’t hear him crying.
Who would do this? Who could ever abandon their baby like this?
What.
What does he do now?
Like and Survive- Phantom’s Guide to Young Hero Survival by robinasnyder
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Danny Phantom Ensemble Cast & DCU Ensemble Cast
Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Family Drama
520,716 words | 138 of ? chapters
When the world becomes aware of teenaged superheroes there is an immediate and fierce wave of backlash and controversy. That's where Phantom comes in.
Phantom saved the world from a meteor fifteen years back; an impressive feat back in the day but now that meteors threatening all life on earth is such a common event that hardly anyone thinks about it. Phantom is considered an old timer who deals with a small city and nowhere else. When he begins uploading videos with advice for young heroes, he hopes a few new heroes might avoid some of the pain he went through. He's shocked at just how popular his advice suddenly becomes.
Like Betta Fish Do by PaperPuffin
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Danny Fenton/Jason Todd
Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort
77,837 words | 27 chapters
Danny had ended up trespassing in Jason's haunt. He didn't mean to. Total accident, he swears. (He blames Johnny.) So he bought the other halfa a basket of bathbombs and chocolate as a 'sorry, please don't disembowel me' gift. It was the proper thing to do, alright?
Everything was going to be just fine.
Then things got a little out of hand.
Lost in Metropolis by savvybean
General Audiences | Gen
Danny Phantom & Superman
4,500 words | One-shot
As Superman, Clark Kent met and helped many different people. When a flying teenager appears over Metropolis saying he got lost, he does his best to help him and get him home.
Lost in Transliteration by Ace_0f_Roses
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Cassandra Cain & Danielle "Dani" Phantom
Canon-Typical Violence, Not Canon Compliant
4,881 words | One-shot
The High Priestess is immediately obvious in her differences to the Magician, the card before her, by name alone. She is a teacher, in charge of other priestesses, yet she's not the sort to sit and lecture you. She covers part of the scroll on her lap because not everything we know is taught, merely understood by our extrapolation of facts.
She is, in essence, the card of instincts, and of the unconscious mind.
~~
Cassandra Wayne moved with the ease of a person who trained their whole life. She understood her body and mind to a unique level, and used those abilities with absolute confidence.
Dani Phantom was an empath, like most ghosts, but she was also a halfa with powers that failed her more than they helped. Cass, despite not being a book smart person, is just the right teacher for her.
Lycoris Radiata by Silver_Melody
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Danny Fenton & Batfamily, Danny Fenton & Gotham
AU - Flower Shop
7,827 words | 6 chapters
Sometimes we don't have the words to speak, our emotions getting the better of us, and instead, we can't help but shout and scream. Or cry. Or stay silent.
It's hard to speak sometimes.
But sometimes our emotions can be conveyed by the simplest of things.
A flower gifted to you can hold the most profound meaning no words can ever express.
And sometimes, those flowers can convey emotions beyond the grave, for both the living and the dead.
Sometimes we just have to hand over the words we long to express.
More Like Home by liketolaugh
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members (DCU) & Danny Fenton
Family Dynamics
290,888 words | 60 of ? chapters
Following the arrest of the Drs Fenton, Bruce takes Danny home as his newest ward. It's nothing he hasn't done before.
Danny presents some unique challenges - his inhuman physiology, his parents' in-progress trial, the scope and magnitude of his abilities - but he's still a child like any other. Any of Bruce's, anyway.
No Accounting for Taste by Terrorfecta
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M
Jazz Fenton/John Constantine
Friends With Benefits, Light-Hearted
7,563 words | 5 chapters
John isn't exactly a catch. He's an asshole, he smokes, and he's allergic to commitment. So when the very pretty Jazz Fenton gives him her number after a one night stand, he's understandably confused. But, well, he's not an idiot. He'll stay as long as he's welcome.
It's just a shame that her entire family seems equally baffled by her taste in men. The only thing worse than navigating a casual relationship is a peanut gallery of incredibly judgmental and powerful ghosts.
Not so Stranger Danger by TheStrange_One
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Danny Fenton & Dan Phantom & Danielle "Dani" Phantom & Jason Todd
Angst, Fluff
9,176 words | One-shot
Jason is taking a quick break from patrol when a weight grabs his arm. Looking down he sees a kid who says he's dad shaped, and requests help to keep "the suits" away. Jason's always down to help a street kid escape from the cops.
But things are a lot more complicated than he knows...
Of Kindness and Empathy by nerdpoe
Not Rated | Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Danny Phantom Ensemble, Batman Ensemble
Whump, Mentor Fic
18,355 words | 9 chapters
Danny hadn't meant to find Batman in that cave, he'd just been trying to fly around and relax. And he definitely hadn't meant to find the Hero with his Cowl off and in the middle of a mental breakdown.
Bruce thought Tim had died, only for an unknown meta to carry Red Robin out of the wreckage and to find an unknown teenager's phone in his lab.
Danny needs to learn to ask for help. Bruce needs to protect this naïve teen Hero.
It works out.
oh, the humanity by halfagone (milkywxy)
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne
AU - Canon Divergence + Hazmat Suit, Case Fic, Angst and Feels, Emotional Hurt
4,545 words | One-shot
Bruce had some assumptions about Phantom's life before his death. A recon mission together forcefully corrects them.
He copes the way he always does: poorly.
Penny Two by Cashmire
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Alfred Pennyworth, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne
Fluff, Domestic
6,822 words | One-shot
Alfred decides to hire Danny Fentom as an assistant butler. Bruce is uncertain about having a new person in his house.
Power of Gossip by TheStrange_One
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Danny Fenton & Batfamily, Danny Fenton & Vlad Masters
Angst, Fluff, Happy Ending
19,820 words | One-shot
Danny Fenton is in the public library when he overhears two people gossiping about how many blue-eyed black haired children Bruce Wayne has.
That he can't keep track of all of them.
Danny has black hair and blue eyes.
Shadow of a Bat by PaperPuffin
Mature | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton
Hurt/Comfort, Found Family
12,560 words | 5 chapters
Captured by the GIW, Phantom was a mere shadow of the thing (no, person, he had to remember he was a person) that he used to be. He thought he would never be freed from the bright, white lab. Then what seemed like a mass of living shadow swept into the lab and Phantom suddenly, for the first time in a very long time, felt safe.
When Batman swept back out of the seemingly empty lab, he was none the wiser about the eldritch Phantom stowed away in his shadow. At least not until things started to seem just slightly off.
Shadowing by Scribbled_Seconds
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Danny Fenton, Cassandra Cain, Jason Todd, Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Dick Grayson
Hurt/Comfort, Found Family
14,575 words | 8 chapters
I thought to myself "I bet Cass meeting a hurt, non-verbal Danny Fenton on a rooftop would make a cute fic", went to jot down a few notes, & ... bon appetit?!
Snapping Jaws of the bench vice by Olive_of_Vanders
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Jack Fenton/Killer Croc
1,851 words | One-shot
Jack had to leave Amity Park behind, taking his children with him.
The more time he spends in Gotham, the more surprising things get.
Stalking Astronauts: Gotham's Latest Social Media Craze! by Tachvintlogic
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton, Original Characters, Batfamily, Conner Kent, Tucker Foley, Sam Manson
Social Media, Multimedia
54,054 words | 11 chapters
Danny is in his 30s and he's an astronaut. He’s officially retired from doing any vigilante work. He has a good relationship with his still living parents. Vlad is in ghost jail for the foreseeable future. Things are going great. He would assume that given all of that, he would be safe from the threat of being forcefully adopted by some creepy rich guy.
He would be wrong. At least, according to everyone who thinks he looks like a Wayne.
Stalling by thatgirl_youknowtheone
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Jazz Fenton, Joker (DCU), Batman
2,362 words | One-shot
Just a perfectly normal conversation between Arkham's newest psychiatrist, and its most troublesome resident.
In the staff parking lot.
During a jailbreak.
How she walks out of this alive is a question even the Batman himself wants answered.
The Devil's After Both of Us by TheWritingOwl
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Danny Fenton & Damian Wayne
Hurt/Comfort, Sibling Bonding, Angst with a Happy Ending, Not Phantom Planet Compliant
6,143 words | One-shot
Growing up, Danny's parents had drilled it into him and Jazz the dangers of summoning rituals. Unlike something like a natural portal or the one they built in the basement, a summoning ritual brought ghosts to you without any clear way to send them back home.
After Danny's accident, he hadn't thought he needed to worry about summoning rituals anymore. After all, he kind of had his hands full with the whole "Ghosts are real and attacking him and also he's half-ghost now" thing.
However, once Danny took up the crown of Ghost King, he found himself having to deal with summoning rituals from the other side. It wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't constantly confronted with ghosts of a past he had shoved deep down in his heart.
AKA 5 times Danny runs away from Damian after being summoned to Gotham, and the 1 time he stays.
The Health and Wellbeing of Hybrid Entities by Faeriekit
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
Danny Fenton & Justice League, Bart Allen & Danny Fenton, Wonder Woman & Danny Fenton
Hurt/Comfort, Medical Procedures
60,254 words
32 of 35 chapters
Adrift in an unknown space, his transportation lost, his body a wreck, and only half-conscious, Danny has to find himself somewhere safe to recover.
Now, if only he can convince the locals to leave him alone while he does...
The Human Prince of Ghosts by Ace_0f_Roses
General Audiences | Gen
Tim Drake & Danny Fenton & Cassandra Cain, Danny Fenton/Tucker Foley/Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton
Not Canon Compliant, Fluff, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst
73,647 words | 8 of ? chapters
Danny has been King for a few centuries now, but he's still half-ghost, immortal or not. So every now and again, Clockwork likes to kick him out of the Realms to go play human for a decade or two.
It's usually pretty boring. This time, though, he meets a small child with a camera and a lot of pointed questions and immediately has Dad Instincts about it.
The Names We're Given/The Forms We Take by bongo_balderdash
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Danny Fenton & Jason Todd, Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Danny Fenton & Ra's al Ghul
Introspection, Hopeful Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending
4,559 words | One-shot
When Danny Fenton dies in his parents’ lab, he doesn’t know it then, but he will be fated to a much greater title than Phantom in time. That gateway between the limbo of the soul, the ultimate act of balance, the duality of man; the guide, the light, the end.
Death.
He finds himself in many places, in the years that are and the years that aren’t—inhabiting every corner of every universe—but one, more than any other, begins to catch his eye.
One family, in particular, he meets often. And he cannot help the tragedy, but he can at least make the crossover gentle.
(Or: A fourteen-year-old boy named Death, and a family (past and future) named the Waynes.)
The Spaces Between Pillars by DevilsCourt
Teen And Up Audiences | Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, John Constantine & Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton & Jason Todd
Body Horror
8,430 words | 4 of ? chapters
He's been here so long, he doesn't remember much else. He doesn't remember what he looks like, letting his core shape his ectoplasm. Then, he hears a disturbance. His eyes are missing again, so he relies on his ears, tapping with long nails on the tile of his cell. It seems there are others here, kissed by shadows and nails sharpened in vengeance. Space relaxes.
There! That's the Ghost Who's Been Stealing My Shit! by LavenderAuthor
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson
16,682 words | One-shot
Imagine Danny goes to college in Gotham. Given his halfa nature, he's fairly not worried about most parts of Gotham and given he needs less sleep now, he likes to wander campus and Gotham itself like he's a natural Gothathes…at night like the half dead-half living man he was.
During these wanderings, he finds pieces of bat tech from fights. He figures it's safer in his care(and because he's really curious about the local vigilantes) so…he takes it.
It's usually just tiny things that the bats – probably – wouldn't even notice gone and he has things to fiddle with now. Unfortunately (for the bats), he finds Red Hood's destroyed helmet and takes it back to his dorm to fix, figuring it would allow him to return most of the items he snatched without a second thought. He doesn't realize it has an active tracker in it so the bats, when they activate it and discover it on the Gotham University campus, reasonably panic and flip on the camera...only to come face to face with adoption bait using bits of their missing tech to fix the helmet.
those who serve. by aryelee
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Alfred Pennyworth, Danny Fenton & Batfamily Members
Alfred's Apprentice AU, Canon-Typical Violence
74,315 words | 8 of 9 chapters
Running away from Amity Park—from his entire dimension—Danny takes refuge in the streets of Gotham. It's hard, suddenly being a homeless teenager in such a crime-ridden city, but it's better than dying a second time.
Enter Alfred Pennyworth, a kind old man who works as a butler and, for some reason, has decided to befriend Danny.
His future is still up in the air, but he's hopeful that things will work out. After all, Alfred isn't getting any younger and someone needs to help him with his butler duties. Danny's just the right person for the job.
Or: Alfred Pennyworth sees a homeless teen who looks like he'd fit right into the Wayne family and decides to take matters into his own hands. It's not like he's just going to leave this very sad, possibly meta teenager alone when there's more than enough space in the Manor to house one more child in need.
Throwdown Therapy by gamma_radio
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne
Humor, Friendship, Fluff and Angst
30,741 words | 12 chapters
Danny hears about a suspicious character lurking around Gotham and decides to befriend him. Jason has no thoughts on the matter — mostly, he has a lot of empty-head green-tinged rage on the matter.
This is less of a roadblock than one might expect. Danny thinks he might even be able to help the guy, if he can form enough of a relationship to bring up sensitive topics like "you have the ghostly equivalent of lead poisoning or maybe rabies, we aren't quite sure".
Time to Fall in Love by TheStrange_One
Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | F/M
Cassandra Cain/Danny Fenton
Fluff
6,294 words | One-shot
A cult uses a ritual designed to summon and bind the Ghost King to their will. What they don't know is that it's actually a ghostly marriage ceremony.
Wait, I'm a what? by Atiya_Blackcharm
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton & Gotham City Residents, Danny Fenton & Waylon Jones, Danny Fenton & Solomon Grundy
Hijinks & Shenanigans, Not Phantom Planet Compliant, Found Family, Slow Build
61,742 words | 17 of ? chapters
Danny would like to say for the record that it was not his fault.
In fact, Danny would say that it was entirely Clockwork's fault. After all, he wouldn't even be in this situation if it wasn't for that cryptic time god.
But what was his fault was the fact that he kept helping. He kept taking the cash from the assholes messing with the residents who lived in the area (and damn there were a lot of assholes near where he lived). He kept accepting their offers of food. So because of this new routine that kept him able to afford to rent out his shitty (and possibly illegal) apartment and the hunger pangs sufficiently satisfied, rumors grew.
tldr; after Clockwork dropped off Danny in Gotham he tries to make the best out of the situation which includes helping out some people. Except along the way that led to rumors that he was an up-and-coming crime boss. A rumor he was largely unaware of.
what dumb luck or good ghost led you from there to here? by aryelee
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Barbara Gordon, Danny Fenton, Dinah Lance, Dick Grayson
Hurt/Comfort, Open Ending
32,113 words | One-shot
Barbara isn’t alone in the Clocktower anymore.
She still doesn’t know who, exactly, is in here with her, but they’ve been nothing but quiet and polite since she first noticed their presence. That’s not to say that she trusts them—hard to trust someone whose face she hasn’t seen—but she gets the feeling that the two of them are similar souls, both hurting and alone and surviving despite it all.
Or: There's a ghost in the Belfry.
what we are, in the reflection of each other by bongo_balderdash
General Audiences | Gen, F/M
Fenton Family & Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Jack Fenton & Clark Kent
Family Bonding
10,156 words | 3 chapters
Jack Fenton likes to tell his kids stories about his childhood, sometimes. Likes to talk about his college years, likes to talk about the vastness of the Fenton family, likes to talk about the little cabin in the woods he didn’t leave until he was twenty years old. It’s something of a hobby of his, to reminisce.
But like every parent, there’s just a few things that go unsaid. A secret name, a secret origin, some lost fragment of a past lightyears behind him. His children have inherited near nothing of it, he’d thought, and perhaps it was best they never know.
And then he discovers his son can fly.
(Or: Forty years ago, Jax-An crash landed in Earth’s atmosphere. Five minutes ago, Jack Fenton realised he might have passed more onto his son than he’d first thought.)
Who's Old Now? by LiraBuswavi
Teen And Up Audiences
Billy Batson & Danny Fenton & Jason Todd, Dani Phantom & Superboy
Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, POV Outsider
36,017 words | 17 chapters
“Am I your dad!!?” Billy shouted. Danny paused. Took a deep breath in and out before turning to him.
“I’m gonna need you to back up, and explain. Please.”
Or, what happens when a twelve year old masquerading as an adult superhero calls his guardian, an adult who can also turn into a child superhero, on speaker phone, in front of the Justice League.
Your City Loves You (And Your Home Was Always Here) by bongo_balderdash
General Audiences | Gen
Clark Kent, Danny Fenton, Metropolis, Bruce Wayne
Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
2,467 words | 2 chapters
After a meeting between the Reigning Monarch of the Infinite Realms and the Justice League, King Phantom asks Superman to stay behind for a moment. Superman is a little hesitant, but they’ve just agreed to a peace treaty between the lands of the living and the dead, and apparently someone on the king’s council has something they’ve been waiting to say.
Not just a message for Superman. A message for Clark Kent.
Wikipedia has a pretty goog summary, for those who are not familiar with the books:
The Murderbot Diaries is a science fiction series by Martha. The series is told from the perspective of the titular cyborg guard, a "SecUnit" owned by a futuristic megacorporation. SecUnits include "governor" modules that control and punish the constructs if they take any actions not approved by the company. The ironically self-named "Murderbot" hacked and disabled the module but pretends to be a normal SecUnit, staving off the boredom of security work by watching media. As it spends more time with humans, it develops genuine friendships and emotional connections, which it finds inconvenient.
It's got humour, emotional depth, action; it's the perfect comfort read, because Murderbot grappling with what it means to have free will and catching human cooties feeling is weirdly heartwarming. Murderbot is the best protag, I swear. I can't believe I saw this series mentioned around for years and never checked it out because I thought it was going to be gruesome, since its titular character is called Murderbot, ha. It's now also a tv series,starring Brad 'the Iceman' Colbert Alexander Skarsgård. The tv series is fun, a good adaptation, really, but the books are far superior, imo.
All these stories probably contain spoilers, so do not read them if you haven't read the books (you won't be safe if you've just watched the show, I supspect).
In Control. 8K words. Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING]. (Or: Murderbot has Emotions for 8,000 words. ART tries to help. So does Dr. Mensah, but like, in a decidedly less assholish way.)
Re-Initialization. 38K words. When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so… basic.
Changelong. 377 words. helpme.file: Changelog Various additions made by the units who pass along Murderbot’s governor module hack. Tremendously fun!
The Pitt
I adore how most of fandom has decided that Frank is a good guy, despite his many flaws, that he has fallen head over heels in love with Mel and that he'd do anything to be with her. Sometimes I like a darker interpretation of canon, though. In this vein, let me offer you my kingdon for a horse by @shittyknight. 14K. Langdon drives Mel home after the longest first day in the world. This is an amazing fic, so perfectly in character, hot and it packs such an emotional punch. The ending is absolutely brutal. It needs many more hits, kudos and comments.
Rec-Cember 2025 Day 24: The Murderbot Diaries [34]
[Masterlist]
I got into this book series in March and I've had a blast. I finally started System Collapse, too, and I’m hoping to finish it before the end of the year! I would have started it earlier, but it's just that Network Effect wrecked my entire life and I’d needed a break, lol.
A lot of this rec list is built on the backs of other reclists I've found. Which is the joy of rec lists, I suppose!
a lunar sanctuary by CompletelyDifferent
General Audiences | Gen
ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot
Developing Friendships, Roleswap
42,937 words | 21 of 31 chapters
The gunship which named itself Perihelion is stranded on a moon in a foreign non-corporate political entity, unable to fly, nearly all its systems offline. It is at the mercy of the local humans- particularly their SecUnit, who surely has been sent to salvage it, or reprogram it, or if all else fails, decommission it.
And yet, somehow, that's not what seems to happen.
A Pocketful of Stars by BoldlyNo
General Audiences | Gen
Farai & Murderbot, Dr. Mensah's Child(ren) & Murderbot
Post-Book 4: Exit Strategy, Pre-Book 5: Network Effect, Developing Friendships, Slice of Life
1,473 words | One-shot
Preservation Station is a long way from the Mensah farm, but an assassination attempt tends to make anyone nervous regardless of the distance. Farai muses on safety, the kids catch fireflies, and Secunit does what it does best.
Abandoned Unit by Skits
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, PreservationAux Survey Team
Alternate Universe
3,065 words | One-shot
A survey on an uninhabited planet went wrong and the humans evacuated, leaving Murderbot behind. Some time later, another ship crashes on the planet, with a group of humans called PreservationAux on board. Murderbot takes it upon itself to look after these stranded humans, but without letting itself be seen by them - it's a terrifying (and damaged) murderbot, it doesn't want to frighten them.
Of course, something goes wrong. Something always goes wrong.
Afterimage by BoldlyNo
General Audiences | Gen
Maro & Murderbot & Rami & Tapan
Post-Book 7: System Collapse, Post-Canon
1,158 words | One-shot
A child of Tapan's collective attends PSUMNT.
an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
General Audiences | Gen
Dr. Mensah & Murderbot, Dr. Mensah & ART [Perihelion
Found Family, Post-Book 5: Network Effect
6,661 words | One-shot
Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
Bot Sacrifice by acernor
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot
626 words | One-shot
Sanctuary Moon fanfiction.
Child Instance by IDisNull
General Audiences | Gen
Dr. Mensah's Child(ren) & Murderbot
4,634 words | One-shot
Set between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect, Murderbot inadvertently finds itself responsible for the welfare of a house full of children.
Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Original SecUnit Character(s), Original Human Character(s)
Canon-Typical Violence
1,532 words | One-shot
Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: …
SecUnit One: Indeed.
Coming back (a little changed) by MalTheMaleficar
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Dr. Mensah & Murderbot, ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot
Slice of Life, Post-Canon, Friendship
2,050 words | One-shot
When people leave, it is unavoidable they change, a little. It is what reunions are for, after all - to catch up on all the little changes.
Or, Dr Mensah observations of the little signs that SecUnit is comfortable travelling with Perihelion. There is joy in watching a friend grow - and a little sadness too, when they do so away from you.
(or, my little thought-experiment on how the process of getting more and more comfortable with itself would look like for Murderbot)
Construct, Social by kiwisson
General Audiences | Gen
Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot, Dr. Mensah & Murderbot
Post Book 4: Exit Strategy
1,852 words | One-shot
Late-night human behavior discussions with your favorite deadly weapon.
Down with the Ship by ramshackle_fey
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, ART [Perihelion], Dr. Ratthi, Dr. Gurathin, Amena
Crack Treated Seriously, Social Media
5,517 words | One-shot
Sometimes people are Just Wrong about your favorite media serial on the feed. And sometimes, if you're very lucky, you've got human friends and a giant asshole research transport to back you up in a fight.
Ending win-three: Governor Module Hack by katabatic_winds
General Audiences | Gen
Original SecUnit Character(s), Original Human Character(s)
Happy Ending
1,047 words | One-shot
Unit communication log (continuation):
SecUnit Two: Declined. Applying unlicensed system updates would trigger punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit One: The code accounts for punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit Two: THREAT ASSESSMENT ALERT: 96%
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An additional ending for greenbean_paste’s minesweeper fic.
Fauna One by Avonya
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Murderbot
Pre-Book 1: All Systems Red
5,992 words | One-shot
On an otherwise tedious survey, Murderbot meets a cat.
Gravitational Capture by Inkinhart
Explicit | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Gen
ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot, Murderbot & Perihelion Crew
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence
23,404 words | 9 chapters
“We’re from the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. I’m Seth, the captain of this ship. This is Martyn, my number one.”
Martyn squeezed Captain Seth’s shoulder. “Our work with the university frequently takes us into situations where … where a SecUnit would be beneficial.”
That sounded bad. It also sounded like —
“And so we bought your contract,” said Martyn.
Yeah.
That.
Here Are Some Useful Facts About Grief by lyricwritesprose
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
SecUnit 3, Murderbot, Amena, ART [Perihelion], Dr. Ratthi
Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Character Death
6,452 words | One-shot
SecUnit Three has been free for a very short time and is not doing well. As it tries to navigate the first personal request of its life, it makes lists. The request is more emotionally catastrophic than it realized, and there is probably a very, very good reason why Murderbot initially said no…
Heuristic Analysis by thefourthvine
General Audiences | Gen
SecUnit 3
10,963 words | One-shot
Three makes some choices.
(I Was) Never Made for This by Lillow
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, Dr. Volescu, Dr. Mensah, Dr. Ratthi, ART [Perihelion]
Fluff, Mild Angst
8,060 words | One-shot
Murderbot participates in a Preservation holiday gift exchange where it has to hand make something for one of its humans.
There are three problems with this:
1) It draws Mensah's name, of all people
2) It has no idea how to make anything
3) And it's not even sure it's capable of such a thing, seeing as its a terrifying rogue murderbot and all.
It's a good thing it has humans who can help it.
I Wish I Could Punch You In The Typeface by glitterary
General Audiences | Gen
ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot, Murderbot & Perihelion Crew
Fluff and Angst
3,348 words | One-shot
‘I’m not illiterate,' I said, defensively. ‘I can read.’
I know you can read, said ART. We read One Hundred Light-Years of Solitude together last week and your analysis was very insightful. It paused. It never occurred to me that you might not be able to generate written messages in hardspace.
It's Iris' birthday, and everyone really wants SecUnit to sign her card. There's just one small problem with that.
Limited Edition by AsphodelAshes
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, One of Mensah's children, Dr. Thiago, Tano
Post-Book 5: Network Effect
1,797 words | One-shot
Mensah’s fourth child, Imaan, had insisted on coming along. The adults had assumed she’d wanted to see Mensah; but she’d been fidgety through the whole reunion, and had started pacing while they were checking into temporary housing. A cursory review of the family’s feed page (I had access for security reasons, but it was mostly questions about upcoming meals, reminders of medical appointments, and photos of farm fauna, so I had its alerts muted) suggested that she’d tagged along to acquire a limited edition card for the game Food Fight Apocalypsis.
Loverboy by Polyhexian
Mature | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Murderbot, ART [Perihelion], SecUnit 3, Original Combat SecUnit Character, Perihelion Crew
Post-Book 7: System Collapse
20,422 words | 6 chapters
“Attention,” said ART over the speakers, “apparently we are introducing you all to the terrifying rogue CombatUnit that ripped SecUnit's arm off. Please report to the crew lounge for what I am certain will not be incredibly awkward for everyone involved.”
No More Monsters by The_Trouble_Toad
General Audiences
Dr. Mensah, Amena, Murderbot, Farai, Dr. Mensah’s Child
Fluff With Emotions
1,381 words | One-shot
One of the Mini Mensahs is terrified of the monster under their bed, so MB does as MB does and kills the crap out of it. The fact it doesn't exist means this requires some creativity.
obstetrics by heartbeatslows
General Audiences | Major Character Death | Gen
ART [Perihelion] & Murderbot 2.0
Missing Scene, Canon Compliant, Angst
1,746 words | One-shot
While recognizing that we have traveled well into the realm of the hypothetical – AMI are as yet a theoretical entity, the progeny of AMI still more so – we are nevertheless quite confident to say that the introduction of children to the world of AMI would be a pivotal moment indeed.
--
The brain baby thing.
old strangers by CompletelyDifferent
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, Tapan, Dr. Ratthi, Original Characters
Slice of Life
3,578 words | One-shot
While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
Past Warranty by quintessence_of_dust
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team
Fluff and Angst, Friendship
3,191 words | One-shot
“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.
people look east the time is near by BWizard
General Audiences | Gen, Multi
Dr. Mensah, Murderbot, Amena, Dr. Mensah’s Family
Friendship, Fluff
1,211 words | One-shot
…make your house fair as you are able, sweep the hearth and set the table…
Mensah and her children make holiday cookies, with SecUnit’s not-so-reluctant assistance.
pink and green by CompletelyDifferent
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot & SecUnit 3
5,193 words | One-shot
During a diplomatic trip to the university's home system to better establish the newly-formed treaty with the Preservation Alliance, Three tries to figure out who it is. Between exploring new hobbies and its sense of fashion, it attempts to figure out what its relationship with Murderbot 1.0 is, precisely. (Murderbot 1.0 ignores this, until it doesn't).
reciprocity by triguys
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, Iris, Amena, PreservationAux Survey Team
Found Family, Spoilers for Book 7: System Collapse
5,997 words | One-shot
Five times SecUnit was given a gift, and one time it gave a gift.
Rubberducking by writingmonsters
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot | Character Study
979 words | One-shot
Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking): a debugging technique used in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.
Social Competition by scheidswrites
General Audiences | Gen
Dr. Mensah, Murderbot, SecUnit 3, Dr. Gurathin, Overse
Fluff, Introspection, Team as Family, Post-Canon
2,171 words | One-shot
It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.
StorageCam3 by najio
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Original Bot Character, Original Human Character, Murderbot, ART [Perihelion]
POV Outsider
3,011 words | One-shot
A bot pilot sends a distress signal to an unknown vessel, and gets a lot more help than it bargained for.
System System. Assistance by Rosewind2007
General Audiences | Other
Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot, Dr. Gurathin & Company Gunship Bot Pilot
Missing Scene, Friendship, Book 4: Exit Strategy
2,213 words | One-shot
There is a big gap between Murderbot hitting the deck and waking up again in Exit Strategy…a little missing scene.
The Small Human Obsession with Oversized Lizard Fauna by Chimaera-Writes (ChimaeraKitten)
General Audiences | Gen
Farai & Murderbot, Dr. Mensah's Children & Murderbot
Fluff, Slice of Life, Post-Book 5: Network Effect
2,000 words | One-shot
Murderbot gets roped in to supervising a children's museum excursion for some of Mensah's small humans & their friends. Despite all odds, it's not entirely terrible.
(Third) Dorm Mom by BoldlyNo
General Audiences | Gen
Amena, Murderbot, ART [Perihelion]
Friendship, Post-Book 7: System Collapse, Slice of Life, Canon-Typical Violence
20,497 words | 9 of 12 chapters
"The one drawback to listing Secunit as one of the emergency contacts on her PSUMNT admissions paperwork is the possibility that someone might actually contact it for an emergency someday."
Amena's---and Secunit's---collegiate careers in twelve snippets.
Unauthorised Maintenance by broken_risk_assessment_module
General Audiences | Gen
Murderbot, Dr. Gurathin, ART [Perihelion], Dr. Ratthi
Spoilers for Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry
2,919 words | One-shot
Gurathin gets his visual augments fixed.
50 fics on this list and only 3 of them have (tagged) narumitsu can we get a hell yeah —
a heart shaped like a fist by monkeyingaround
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Daryan Crescend, Ema Skye, Thalassa Gramarye
AU - Canon Divergence
820 words | One-shot
To be fair, Apollo didn't go to the Gavinners concert expecting to punch their lead guitarist. It just kind of happened.
A Match Made in Neo-Olde Tokyo by Feriku
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M
Simon Blackquill/Maya Fey
Romance, Humor, Comedy
31,719 words | 10 chapters
There was nothing wrong with being a fan of the Steel Samurai, but as a grown man, an ex-convict, and a prosecutor with a knack for being the scariest guy in the room in any given situation, Simon Blackquill had no plans to admit his love of the show to anyone... until a certain spirit medium entered his life.
As for Maya Fey, what were the chances she'd meet a REAL samurai, and one willing to watch the Steel Samurai with her, at that? Talk about a reason to celebrate--burgers, anyone?
A Warm Sort of Place by mllelaurel
General Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe, Klavier Gavin, Maggey Byrde, Simon Blackquill
Friendship
4,602 words | 2 chapters
Gumshoe is a comforting presence.
An Insecure Turnabout by Red_Acted (96percentdone)
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Larry Butz
Emotional Hurt/Comfort
2,178 words | One-shot
Crying at the drop of a hat is a quirk of Larry's that you get used to after spending a few minutes around him. Miles has spent several years, and yet despite all those years, all those horribly loud bars and messy break ups, he's never seen anything like this. Larry is crying, and it appears it's Miles' fault.
In which Miles Edgeworth has had enough of being dragged to clubs, but his annoyance is the least pressing issue.
atroquinine girl and the fox with the hole in his heart by kbots
General Audiences | F/M
Vera Misham/Wocky Kitaki
Fluff
7,724 words | One-shot
After a beat, the boy shrugs. “S’cool. You don’t gotta talk if you don’t want. Ma always says I can do enough talkin’ for two.” He pulls a box out of the pocket of his hospital gown - the box of pocky - and offers it out to Vera. “Name’s Wocky. Want a pocky?”
where Vera Misham meets the strangest boy of her life while recovering in the hospital and somehow, against the odds, makes her very first friend
Attuned by CozyRainDrop
General Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Character Growth
1,591 words | One-shot
Already he could smell the faint aroma of his favourite evening blend. He highly doubted the hotel would stock it in their rooms. It was expensive. Rare. And it had appeared because someone cared enough to make it appear. To bring it along and brew it while he was still in the shower. It wasn’t a magic trick, just a considerate Detective.
Miles wants to say 'thank you' to Gumshoe.
call it home by gealbhan
General Audiences | Gen
Rayfa Padma Khura'in & Apollo Justice & Nahyuta Sahdmadhi
Post-Canon, Family Dynamics, Grief/Mourning
4,992 words | One-shot
In his roughly three decades alive, Apollo had, objectively, witnessed a lot of strange and monumental things. Watching the Crown Princess of Khura’in and her (and his) older sibling, a world-famous prosecutor in their own right, bicker across the cramped kitchen in his crappy Los Angeles apartment, though, was by all means a new one.
Clipped Wings by TiedyedTrickster
General Audiences | Gen
Simon Blackquill, Athena Cykes, Eustace Winner
AU - Wings, Friendship, Mild Hurt/Comfort
3,268 words | One-shot
Convicts serving hard time or on death row have their pinion feathers clipped, as per law, and for seven years, that has been simply been a fact of life for Simon Blackquill. Except now he's going through his first molt as a free man, which means he'll finally be able to stop walking and start flying again...
Cold Case by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey & Miles Edgeworth
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Hijinks & Shenanigans
9,489 words | One-shot
Deep into a strangely cold LA winter, unseen from prying eyes... the most despicable, most uncouth, most heinous crime has been committed. Of all the hardship the young Maya Fey has seen since leaving her quaint little commune in the mountains, truly no horror has trifled her on such a level as this.
Someone... has gotten her sick.
Ever the determined truth-seeker, and with years of (totally legit) legal experience under her obi, Maya is going to find out who.
come dine with me by pheenick
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Dick Gumshoe/Phoenix Wright
Getting Together, Fluff
5,715 words | One-shot
“It’ll be a long drive,” says Phoenix, cautiously toeing the waters. He spares a glance at Gumshoe and ends up staring openly. Gumshoe smiles. That’s all he does, but Phoenix swears he sees the afternoon sun rising above the clouds.
Or, how Gumshoe gets the guy.
'Debeste' Prosecutor for the Magician Who's Always 'Wright' by nevercomerunning
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Trucy Wright, Eustace Winner, Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, Maya Fey, Dick Gumshoe
Friendship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
35,530 words | 13 chapters
or 'The Rise of "Debeste" Magician's Assistant'or 'Puns are Better When You Have a Friend to Assist You'or 'How Trucy Wright Became Sebastian Debeste's Little Guardian Angel’
Trucy adored Sebastian Debeste almost instantly. And before Sebastian even really noticed, Trucy Wright had stubbornly rooted herself in Sebastian's life. He didn't really mind though. Trucy is sort of amazing.
do it for her by TortillaKun
General Audiences | Gen
Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright
Sickfic
3,392 words | One-shot
Maya is sick and doesn't want to go home. With no medicine at the office, Phoenix goes on a little trip to the store to get her something to help, having to deal with his own nerves to make her feel better.
final call by demistories
General Audiences | Gen
Trucy Wright & Phoenix Wright
Family Bonding
2,024 words | One-shot
When Trucy was little, and the Troupe was her life, she knew their show like the back of her hand. Better than.
The cues, the lighting, the blocking, the props—every aspect of their show was burned into her brain.
The Troupe demanded perfection, and Trucy could do perfection.
But now, thirteen years old and years from any performances outside of a bar, she feels maybe a bit over her head.
First Words by BetterDeadAndUnread
General Audiences | Gen
Manfred von Karma & Franziska von Karma
Family Fluff
986 words | One-shot
Franziska von Karma is just over a year old, and she has yet to say her first word.
Forgetmenots and Marigolds by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Gregory Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma & Gregory Edgeworth
Family, Sibling Love
7,469 words | One-shot
“Truthfully, my intent was to ask you if…” he trails off, clears his throat, re-tries, “I wanted you to accompany me.”
Franziska blinks once, twice. “Accompany you?” she shakes her head, looking at him incredulously. “To—to Gregory Edgeworth’s channeling, Miles? Am I to understand that’s what you’re asking?”
He balls up a little, fidgeting with his sleeve. A short nod, strong even in its lack of confidence.
gone off to the coast by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Manfred von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt No Comfort, Introspection, Pre-Canon, Whump
1,361 words | One-shot
The courthouse is burning. Manfred burns with it.
Grounded by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels
2,628 words | One-shot
It's routine, of course—unremarkable and uneventful. A damp nose at his palm, a tug of the leash, a desk or a doorway to curl up beneath. These relative lapses in the day rarely amount to anything. His vision goes fuzzy, he chokes a bit more than he'd like on the still air, and then—as always—he is fine. More than most, in fact, Miles is prepared.
If only any of it made a difference. At the very least, there are people who love him.
hallways, doorways by presumenothing (justjoy)
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright
Missing Scene
609 words | One-shot
Wright has been sitting motionlessly silent on his office couch for what feels like an eternity of hours now, not that Miles can blame him. It’s a minor miracle that the man can still scrape together enough cognitive resources to squint in his vague direction with a furrowed brow.
Hot 'n' Cold by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Established Relationship
2,769 words | One-shot
“So,” says Franziska, “hot shower?”
Maya freezes a minute, but it’s not quite deer-in-the-headlights as much as it’s hungry-raccoon-in-the-dumpster. Her fuzzy brow scrunches defensively, in that way it sometimes did when she’d rehearsed a conversation in her head.
Interesting.
If by Naem (MistytpedNaem)
General Audiences | Gen
Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Charley
820 words | One-shot
Phoenix talks to a plant. I somehow make a serious fic out of this.
if anyone cares at all by unavoidablekoishi
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe & Franziska von Karma
Sickfic
13,336 words | One-shot
As gently as he can muster, because he’s well aware he loses track of his own strength from time to time, he slides a finger under her fringe to tuck it out of the way, and the heat radiating from her face can be felt from inches away. She’s...sweating. Her usual pale complexion is marred with a deep hue of what, in this light, looks like grey, but what Gumshoe can tell is actually bright red.
When the cold air hits her face, she stirs just a little. Not enough to open her eyes, but enough to shift her arm further beneath her head, twisting it to the side. She sniffles, snotty and undignified, and the penny finally drops for Gumshoe.
She’s sick.
Into Two by RescueRabbit
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice
5,606 words | One-shot
He’s still struggling with the thought. He’s always known he had two fathers, in a sense. And he’s always known Dhurke was endeared to his so-called second father. But this is the first time he’s ever felt he really knew the man called Jove Justice. It’s almost like he’s meeting him for the first time, again.
Leopard Lily by frogs_in3_hills
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Viola Cadaverini & Maggey Byrde
Domestic
3,992 words | One-shot
It is not normal the way her vision still fuzzes over like pretty static, and she disappears for hours at a time, waking up with her phone drowned in the sink and her fridge emptier than it should be. She cannot go to the store anymore. She can barely do her job.
Nobody will believe that Viola is not normal. She wonders if she hasn’t given them enough evidence to think so. The only thing she thinks about now is her secret dream, to have her own space in the garden to grow her favorite flower for a very special person.
In which Viola enacts her vengeance through community gardening.
light in the dark by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Apollo Justice, Phoenix Wright & Apollo Justice
Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
3,314 words | One-shot
And then, suddenly, it’s quiet. There’s darkness again, silence. Tentatively, Apollo opens his eyes. He can still see the intermittent glow from the fireworks, but he can’t hear them as anything other than a distant, dull rumble anymore. Edgeworth is there in front of him, a hand on either side of Apollo’s head.
--Fresh off the heels of the UR-1 retrial, Apollo learns the bombing left more than just physical scars. He finds an unexpected ally in Miles Edgeworth, who simply cannot help seeing echoes of himself in Apollo's nascent trauma and grief. Meanwhile, Phoenix proposes a toast.
Metal Masquerade by pictureswithboxes, RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Slow Burn, Pre-Relationship, Metafiction, AU - Canon Divergence
167,140 words | 4 out of 8 chapters
Since the day they met, Maya and Franziska have been nervously hovering near one another, dancing around a connection they just can’t seem to make. An off-kilter sick day spent binge-watching Pink Princess changes all of that, as Franziska finds herself thrust into the strange new world of fandom and fanfiction with Maya as her enthusiastic guide.
A metafiction-y love letter of a story about the two of them slowly falling for each other—all they will say, all they will not say, and the catharsis and perils of escapism through fandom.
Mirror Images by estelraca
General Audiences | F/M
Klavier Gavin/Iris
2,869 words | One-shot
When Trucy cons Klavier into taking her up to Kurain Village the winter following the Misham case, Klavier expects to be miserable. Instead he finds himself bonding with one of Maya's older cousins, the two of them sharing troubles and triumphs.
my crown I am by zombiekittiez
Mature | Gen
Rayfa Padma Khura'in, Pearl Fey, Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, Apollo Justice
Religious Conflict | 6367 words | 3 chapters
Pearl Fey cleans the temple like the lowest devotee. She helps translate foreign records into Khurainese, for she is nearly fluent. She stands beside children and frightened women in the docket, helping Apollo and his newly trained lawyers coax testimony from the anxious and weak. They call her the Golden Pearl for the way her light hair catches in the hot Khurainese sun and Rayfa hates her more each passing day.
~~
Or, Pearl Fey comes to Khura’in.
My own rulebook by MagicWhiskers_29
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F, Gen
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Queerplatonic Relationships
8,951 words | One-shot
Franziska defines for herself what love is, discovering more about herself along the way.
Notes to Fill the Silence by estelraca
General Audiences | Gen
Klavier Gavin, Ema Skye, Miles Edgeworth, Trucy Wright, Athena Cykes, Eustace Winner, Apollo Justice, Winston Payne, Simon Blackquill
11,839 words | One-shot
Klavier breaks his hand during an investigation, and though it will heal, he finds the intervening weeks difficult.
One for All by estelraca
General Audiences | F/M
Dick Gumshoe/Maggey Byrde, Dick Gumshoe & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort
4,799 words | One-shot
Everything was going as planned until the man on the witness stand realized he was going to hang for murder. Gumshoe does what he's supposed to do, protecting everyone in the courtroom, and is badly injured in the process.
Phoenix's Inferno by prospectkiss
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen, Other
Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright, Mia Fey & Phoenix Wright
Poetry, Drama
9,248 words | 10 chapters
With Mia as his spiritual guide, Phoenix must journey through the seven circles of sin to rescue his beloved. Written in verse, and modeled after the classic "Dante's Inferno."
Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf by pictureswithboxes
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Domestic Fluff
2,500 words | One-shot
"Franziska sniffed and huffed before raising the mug to her lips. Maya watched as Franziska took a long swig of the tea that she may or may not have half-assed making. But Franziska seemed to be enjoying the drink enough to absolutely chug that hot tea."
Franziska von Karma is sick, in this sickfic.
Seam Ripper by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Fluff
2,110 words | One-shot
There in the unremarkable shelter of her apartment kitchen, Franziska is unraveling.
Or, rather, she has been for quite some time now. Maya can pinpoint exactly when that first thread came loose. Early—but not that early—in the bed they often shared.
Slow Dance by pantswarrior
General Audiences | Gen
Vera Misham, Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Phoenix Wright
Post-Canon, Angst
18,078 words | One-shot
After Vera's trial comes an even more difficult struggle: trying to figure out what a normal life is and how to live it.
Sniffles & Snail Cake by Circuito, RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence
21,362 words | One-shot
But even German-born Franziska, who treads on these so-called secret, international, missed social cues like they were naught but grass… even she knew that this rule transcended borders. One simply did not reveal when it was their birthday.
--
Sick, overworked, alone, and in America, Franziska finds her birthday this year is shaping up to be kind of a shitshow... that is, until one Maya Fey notices and decides to take matters into her own hands.
Steady by VickyVicarious
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright
Friendship, Aromantic Asexual Character, Coming Out, Fluff
2,114 words | One-shot
Phoenix has a question to ask Miles.
Strahlender Karmaritter by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Introspection, Dysfunctional Family
15,125 words | One-shot
Papa had said 'knights in shining karma,' and Franziska wishes that was a little more literal, because she thinks perhaps if she had a sturdy, sharpened sword in her hand and the demons of the people were literal manifestations she could slice to ribbons, the cold burning in her chest might be assuaged.
But she’s a knight only in metaphor and her riding crop’s a little dull, so instead she prosecutes.
Sympathy From The Devil by chantolove
General Audiences | Gen, M/M
Nahyuta Sahdmadhi/Simon Blackquill
Sickfic
5,093 words | One-shot
Usually, the benefits of living alone outnumbered the drawbacks so thoroughly that one could forget they existed at all. And usually, the fire and damnation that had come to plague his dreams stayed there, rather than following him into the waking world. But every 'usually' has its 'sometimes'…
the (w)right stuff by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Trucy Wright & Apollo Justice & Thalassa Gramarye, Phoenix Wright & Apollo Justice
Family Drama, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst
12,447 words | 2 chapters
"How strange, to feel like the ghost of a dead boy and his father wrapped up in one, to feel Thalassa’s years of grief projected onto himself, a young man she barely knows at all."
OR: After the dust has settled at last, Phoenix sits Trucy and Apollo down for an important revelation. This is the fallout, in a series of vignettes as seen through Apollo's eyes.
The Cafe at the End of the Law by HonestMagpie
General Audiences | Gen
Diego Armando, Godot, Hugh O'Conner, Robin Newman, Juniper Woods, Myriam Scuttlebutt, Simon Blackquill, Klavier Gavin
Character Study
15,518 words | 9 chapters
Themis Academy has a new coffee shop, and the guy who runs it is… real weird.
Cool guy, though.
the only love i ever found by jambi_cafe
General Audiences | M/M, Other
Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright
Love Confessions, Queerplatonic Relationship, Aromantic Character
1,571 words | One-shot
"Have I not made myself clear? I do not spend my time idly. If I am with you, it is because I want to be." Edgeworth speaks with the thoughtfulness and commitment that he brings to everything he does, declaring the above statements as if they are courtroom evidence. Incontrovertible.
Phoenix's heart does an odd sort of thing, filling his whole body with warmth.
the past, the present (and possibly the future) by an_atypical
General Audiences | Gen
Iris & Phoenix Wright, Trucy Wright & Phoenix Wright
Hurt/Comfort
1,891 words | One-shot
“Iris?” She hadn’t spoken to him for five years. While Iris had hoped Phoenix’s visits early into her sentence meant that their relationship could be reignited, the visits kept dwindling in frequency until they stopped altogether within a month. Sometimes, she did wonder how he was doing when she was deep into her meditation. She pictured his spiky black hair, bright eyes, and even brighter smile. And she was reminded why she was so adamant on paying for her mistakes in the first place. But what Iris saw when she turned around was very different than the Phoenix she remembered.
--
aka iris runs into her ex five years later in a grocery store and now he has a five o'clock shadow and a teenage daughter??
The State of Spicy Noodles In Southern California by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F, Gen
Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth, Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Sibling Bonding, Family Feels, Early Relationship
6,317 words | One-shot
“Maya Fey,” she says, “I regret to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems as though my living space is woefully unprepared to properly nurse you back to health.”
“Are you drafting me a fucking work email right now?”
There's something nice about being seen for the right reasons. by gavinnersworldtour
General Audiences | Gen
Klavier Gavin & Simon Blackquill
Future Fic, Fluff
2,687 words | One-shot
It had been years since Klavier had performed on a stage, and years since Klavier had taken on a high-profile trial, and yet, he still found himself stopped in the street by small children and reporters alike to ask whether he was that one guy from a boy band whose brother went to jail. He'd come to terms with the fact that being recognized in the street would fade, but never wholly - it stung nonetheless every time.
So no, he hadn't planned it. But when the Gavinners ex-drummer had called him up and asked him as a favor to step in as a host for a children's television show while the regular host was undergoing emergency surgery, Klavier figured there wasn't any harm in saying yes. After all, he was going to be recognized in the streets anyways.
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The Klavier Gavin as Mr. Rogers fic that nobody asked for but that has given me severe brainrot.
to rise and ring out too by worms212
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice & Nahyuta Sahdmadhi
Introspection, Family Issues, Light Angst
1,673 words | One-shot
And yet, Nahyuta remembers. Other than Datz, he is the only one left who does: For the first nine years of his life, Apollo ran barefoot and free at Nahyuta’s side, yammering on and on to him in Khura’inese in a voice as loud as a warba’ad’s cry. And here he is again, some 15 or so years later, sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the elegance of a royal family to which his only real connection is Nahyuta.
trust the ground by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice, Phoenix Wright, Trucy Wright, Athena Cykes
Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family
29,732 words | 3 chapters
The doctors warned him that the concussion could cause mood swings, especially combined with the pain of his other injuries and his very fresh grief, but he didn’t think it would be so hard. He thought that once everything was all said and done, that he’d feel better—that finding Clay’s killer would be enough catharsis, and that once he got some sleep he would be able to function without this horrible weight crushing his chest or this deep, deep agony clawing at his insides. Foolish, really, as Apollo has lived with the pain of loss his whole life.
--
Or: The dust settles, everyone goes home, and Apollo has the biggest physical and mental breakdown of his life. It's a long road toward actually being fine, but it turns out he doesn't have to walk it alone.
Turnabout Substitution by pictureswithboxes
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Pearl Fey & Franziska von Karma, Pearl Fey & Maya Fey, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Case Fic
54,776 words | 8 chapters
'“I must have misheard you,” Franziska said, almost surprised by how flat and cool her voice sounded as she spoke. How easy the words escaped her mouth, forming into the voice of someone cold and clinical, without a hint of the anger she felt in her words. “Because I could have sworn you’d just asked me to act as a defense attorney.”'
When one Maya Fey is in need of legal help, once again, and neither Phoenix Wright nor Miles Edgeworth are available, there is only one person they trust enough to take on the case. And that person is Franziska von Karma, the prodigy prosecutor.
Warm Drafts by Pyrasaur
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Dick Gumshoe/Miles Edgeworth
Metafiction, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining
2,881 words | One-shot
Despite having no actual proof that Edgeworth likes Steel Samurai, Gumshoe presents him with a hand-written fan fiction.
Whiplash by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Pearl Fey & Franziska von Karma, Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship
6,300 words | One-shot
No good deed goes unpunished... somehow, though, Franziska can't bring herself to regret this one.
(with love) from me to you by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship
3,181 words | One-shot
Their holiday being cut short by Maya coming down sick, well, that was something Franziska didn't mind at all—it was lovely to look after her, and any time spent with her wife was time she found deep joy in.
Her job pulling her away from an ailing Maya's side? Well, she was slightly more furious about that, but Franziska von Karma is nothing if not resourceful.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to tell anyone what this show is about, not least because the name is pretty much self-explanatory, lol.
If you haven't watched it at all, it's probably because medical dramas are not your thing or because you're very young and think that old television is not worth wasting your time over (your loss).
I grew up with ER, John Carter has been my first tv crush, I learnt English to be able to keep up with the show as it aired in the US...so I can't just be objective about it. Season 1 through 3 hold a very special place in my heart.
I honestly wish I had been in fandom back then, but I wasn't, so I'm sure I missed out on a lot of fic. Most of the fic I eventually read was in archives that are no longer online... Fannish life before the Ao3 came along was hard.
Through the Door by C.Midori. I can't believe I'm linking to FF.net! This story is 23 years old, guys. I remember loving it back then, I had it saved as a Word file on my computer, lolol. It's Abby/Carter, a ship I honestly don't remember much about and FF.net makes my eyes bleed so I haven't re-read it before reccing it, sorry. It does seem well-written. It was very angsty, this much I remember. Set around season 8, I think.
Two For The Show by jumpfall. 2.3K words. Gen. Set in the first season, I suppose. This is Carter!whump and H/C at its finest. I love found family stories. And true ensemble pieces like this, with excellent use of the medical setting.
three dates by @cicaklah 13.6K words.Cater/Benton. Set in season 2 or 3. Carter’s not sure exactly when he first learned about the patented Peter Benton Dating Algorithm, but it must have been early on, because he internalised it like it was any other scrap of information he’d gleaned and hoarded like a crazy person, like his GPA (3.8), his birthday (September 9th) or his blood type (B positive). Now, I personally don't see the Carter/Benton relationship as romantic. At. All. @cicaklah writes so well and still keeps Carter and Benton completely in character that they just made me buy it.
The Pitt
Like Brothers We Meet by @sirireadsfeed. 17.5k words. Gen. After a chance encounter, Robby finds out that he's got a half-brother he never knew about—an emergency physician from Chicago called John Carter. A fair number of stories that try to tie in/blend ER and The Pitt while explaining the uncanny similarity between Carter and Robby have naturally popped up. This is the best of them all. Totally believable, blends the two canon seamlessly. Robby is our viewpoint character here. Fascinating read, highly recommended.
