Fanfiction recs for Ikarishipping Day 💙💜
Because ikarishipping Day will come soon on 28th of June!!
Seven years have passed since Dawn parted ways with Ash and Brock, determined to fulfill her dream of becoming a Top Coordinator. After many struggles, she finds herself once again second best and still chasing her dream.
Paul has worked hard, creating a team that allowed him to claim victory in several regions' Pokemon Leagues. However, he has yet to fulfill his dream of becoming a Champion.
Two people chasing their dreams decide to head to Alola. What will happen when fate decides to allow them to meet?
Seven years have passed since Dawn parted ways with Ash and Brock, determined to fulfill her dream of becoming a Top Coordinator. After many
Crazy Rich Trainer by LunaAzul788:
Ships: contestshipping, ikarishipping, pokeshipping, oldrivalshipping.
When middle-class Gym Leader's daughter May Maple wins a coveted internship with the Hayden Corporation, Hoenn's unofficial royal family, she is thrust into a world of impossible glamour and unspoken rules. Navigating the cutthroat world of the ultra-rich and elite is hard enough, but doing it under the critical eye of the heir, Drew Hayden—a man as impeccably tailored as he is emotionally closed off—and his family, is a trial by fire.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72781651/chapters/189587351
Lock and Key by pokndowntheline:
Sometimes you find what you need most in the place you would least expect to find it. Dawn and Paul's dreams are right before them, but with their roads blocked, they unexpectedly find themselves in front of each other. Ikarishipping.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9274844/chapters/21018902
First Light by gymnastgirlflips:
Paul, now 17, decides to return to the Hoenn region to capture a Bagon and raise it to be a mighty Salamence. However, he doesn't realize that right after arriving an annoying cretin Coordinator would bump into him right when he's setting off on his new goal.
Dawn forcefully worms her way in Paul's plans in her quest to become a better Coordinator and the two struggle to get along. As Paul says, "When one life meets another, something will be born.".... but just what will be born between the two?
Paul, now 17, decides to return to the Hoenn region to capture a Bagon and raise it to be a mighty Salamence. However, he doesn't realize th
Revenge of and ex-con by shinygrowlithe12:
Paul Shinji is fresh out of prison after serving a 6 year long sentence for attempted murder on the man who killed his brother, Reggie. Unfortunately, the man is very rich and gets away with a slap on the wrist for the drunk driving incident. Paul decides to start in Twinleaf Town as he implements his plan for revenge, but a certain bluenette landlord won't let him do it alone.
Bluebells in bloom and berry garden by TurnaboutWriter:
Dawn and Paul have been married for only a few months, but the weight and stress of Paul’s new status as Champion is getting in the way of his relationship with his wife. After the last straw, Dawn makes the difficult decision to leave him and makes a life for herself in Kalos, where her father lives. When she returns to Sinnoh after five years, though, she knows that she has to soon disclose to Paul a massive secret she has kept from him during their separation – that they have a daughter together. Written for Ikarishipping Day 2018!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15083867/chapters/34973522
Waltz of the Clefairy by TurnaboutWriter:
Caught in a waltz through the world of fame, two hearts find themselves swept into an orchestrated romance under the spotlight . . . until their waltz begins to teeter on the line between pretense and reality.
Sinnoh’s newest Champion, Paul, runs into Dawn, now Top Coordinator and a novice Poké Stylist, for the first time in 10 years. Their unexpected encounter is caught on camera, and the rumors of “The Platinum King" dating "Sinnoh’s Diamond" sweep the tabloids, scaling them into popularity. They are urged to play along with the rumor by their mentors, Cynthia and Paris, until they both can establish some eminence in their respective fields. Things don't go as planned, however, as Paul and Dawn unexpectedly find themselves drawn to each other.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52939132/chapters/133915693
you're too sweet for me by slytherinaround (thekatinthehat)
This is their paradox. They can't do this forever, but they're obsessed with each other. Paul's a drug that Dawn can't seem to quit, and no matter how many times they call it a mistake, every time they enter a mile radius of each other their bodies relapse back into each other.
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in which dawn and paul begin a no-strings-attached arrangement and meet sporadically over the course of the next two years. what could go wrong?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55076749/chapters/139637446
Sunflower Playlist by Schon0710
Dawn had had a huge crush on her stepbrother’s friend, Paul, for a long time. She never had a chance to get close to him, but now there’s a chance right in front of her. Will she be able to take it and end this long one-sided love? High School AU. Series of songfics.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38035228/chapters/95001214
A Poke Christmas Eve by Scriptress
It's Christmas Eve, and Dawn decides to host her friends at her family's cabin in Snowpoint City. But what happens when the invite reaches one too many people? (Shenanigans. Shenanigans happen.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52182295/chapters/131989225
AU: Paul Andreas took his life for granted; everything he had he deserved. Then, when one night sends his life into chaos, will he use the chance given to him to change it for the better?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36135634/chapters/90077842
Gilded Heights by LunaAzul788:
In Sinnoh’s gilded world of old money, boardrooms, and private wars, Dawn Berlitz has been raised to make elegance look effortless. Paul Rebolledo has become something equally dangerous: a man shaped by pressure, silence, and the kind of power that invites fascination as easily as fear.
They knew each other once, years ago, when they were too young to name what was forming between them. Ten years later, they meet again as adults shaped by expectation, restraint, and the kind of wealth that teaches people how to perform long before it teaches them how to feel. What begins as recognition becomes tension; tension becomes obsession; obsession becomes a private language of power, restraint, want, and ruin.
Set against couture, corporate control, family expectation, and the violent intimacy of being truly seen, Gilded Heights is a dark romantic drama about rediscovery, hunger, and the cost of loving someone who can reach the worst parts of you—and still make you feel chosen.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/81470001/chapters/214218151
Model Behavior by HarvestGirl10:
The world of coordinating was now just a fading, unwanted memory. Hikari, now an elite supermodel, has moved on with her life and is nicely settled into the fame and riches of her career. But not everything is picture perfect, and between each photo is a story that isn't meant to be told. How professional will Hikari be when the biggest break of her career involves...Shinji?!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28083588/chapters/68806236?view_adult=true
Where You Remain by SpringFallin:
Canalave city, a flourishing port city, attracted all sorts of people to its grounds. The popular teahouse and its classically trained geiko played an instrumental role in attracting many. This livelihood of entertainment was Dawn's saving grace, but with the spread of a mysterious madness and the arrival of an unusual guest seeking her services, her place within the teahouse is put at risk. With the city's troubling history unraveling at her feet, she will have to decide between breaking the code of her livelihood to pursue her own selfish sentiments or letting her cherished feelings remained chained to her heart.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79538421/chapters/208703916
Heroes Grace by Artemis173:
Hearthome is the city where dreams come true, and its performing arts academy is one of the finest in the world. Paul, an amateur musician among the rich and elite, is just trying to prove himself. Dawn, the reigning Pop Princess, wants to hold onto her title no matter what. But what happens when his music speaks to her in a way she never thought possible? (IS, OS, CS, PS)
Front Line Sonnet by Creo_Terative:
A war that nobody wanted.
It's always easy to say that in hindsight. But the crowds, the ocean of lost and deluded souls who longed for it before the red tide of bones and horror stifled the cheering – you forget them in order to save a face, on which the gruelling madness could not be more clearly seen.
Amidst the cries for more, the hunger for battle and blood, two small, insignificant souls hold on to each other.
While Dawn longs for her best friend, her heart crying out for him each and every day, she struggles to find her own purpose in all of this. What can she do to help? Can she even help? Or is she doomed to be left behind, waiting in the winds?
Paul on the other hand has to survive harsh conditions at the front, surviving battle after battle for an idea he never even agreed with. With each bullet he shoots and each bullet he takes, he loses a part of himself, that disappears in the trenches and is silenced forever. How long will he be able to endure this torture? Will he ever see his beloved again?
- Letters from the front and back.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72717486/chapters/189408491
Under the Red Sky by LunaAzul788:
Akari wakes beneath a torn sky with no memory, no home, and only a name—and Jubilife Village calls her omen before it calls her human.
To earn shelter, she joins the Survey Corps and is placed under the command of Shin Kamado: the commander’s severe son, Jubilife’s most capable field operative, and a man who teaches survival as though mercy will only get her killed.
He sees her recklessness. She sees the wounds beneath his control. Neither knows what to do with the other, and Hisui gives them little chance to keep their distance—throwing them into fire, mud, snow, wild Pokémon, ancient gods, and the kind of danger that makes trust feel less like softness than strategy.
But the sky above Hisui is still torn, and when fear begins searching for someone to blame, Akari must decide whether belonging is something a village grants—or something she chooses for herself.
A Pokémon Legends: Arceus story.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/86490231
Paul's Reluctant Leap into Love (and Total Embarrassment) by Crimsie (CrimsonLavendar), CrimsonLavendar
Six months from now, Paul and Dawn are getting married!
Well, mostly against Paul's will. Dawn doesn’t seem to mind, which is strange considering they can’t stand each other. Forced to take her to Hoenn while he prepares to take over the Viridian Gym, Paul has six months to figure out how to end this mortifying engagement before he’s trapped with Contest Queen Supreme forever.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63178759/chapters/161808583
I Hate Everyone But You by pokechuuu:
You suddenly see an old childhood friend (or enemy) for the first time in years, and you're like -
1. pissed, like damn, not this guy again I stg
2. why did puberty hit him like a truck tho
What could go wrong?
Dawn has been feeling like she's been getting nowhere, taking a not-so-glamorous job to make ends meet. Unfortunately she clashes with her new boss...her old frenemy, Paul, who's fighting some demons of his own.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55204681/chapters/140013535
About the unexpectedness in life, and then especially when you're expecting. About a group of (not-always, absolutely-not and very-best) friends and how they move on to the next phase of their life. Contest, Ikari.
