fic recs
speaking of fanfic tropes, i was meaning to make a post about my absolutely favoritestest fics that live in my heart rent free.
in no particular order:
• you came at the brink of the end of the world
[AO3 link] - by anonymous
currently unfinished at 84k words and 21/? chapters
insane about this one. insane. it's beautifully written and scar calls grian trouble (best thing ever and nobody can convince me otherwise) and grian is a bundle of unknown magic and memory loss and trauma and it's just overall great. trust me.
this is from the official fic description:
[grian is falling from the sky, scar has more magic in his blood than he realized, and everyone else is so much better at seeing than they are]
tags include strangers to lovers, slow burn, hurt/comfort, memory alteration, pining, found family...
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• and like an arrow, you broke me down.
[AO3 link] - by mochiwrites
currently unfinished at 81k words and 14/? chapters
traumatised sad birb grian gets thrown straight from the grief of 3rd life into the middle of last life. of course the first thing he does is get away from southlands (martyn???) and beelines for scar. there's confusion and emotional damage and man. it hits hard and it's wonderful and i absolutely love this one. also a beautifully written fic (yes i'll say this for all of these bECAUSE THEY ARE!)
tags include angst, hurt/comfort, PTSD, survivor guilt, protective scar/grian, touch-starved scar, and canon typical things like violence and referenced suicide
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• closer to another shore
[AO3 link] - by remrose
currently finished at 56k words and 15/15 chapters
this one is sooo heartfelt and heartwrenching and sad and good and. it just makes you feel things. the way they delicately navigate around each other. the way it all goes up in flames anyway because they can't have it any other way. the way their steps keep bringing them inevitably back together.
scar and grian start as exes, with the circumstances of their break up murky and mysterious. and scar needs help, and grian offers himself.
there's a lot of pain and guilt and weakness (because how can they help but be weak towards each other?) it's wistful and tragic and hopeful. it's. it's something. (and did i mention it's beautifully written?) (it is) (just go read it really.)
(i'll also throw this bait at you. this bit. this: Grian was the absolute most infuriating man Scar knew. It was a shame he loved him to death.)
tags include soul bound, mating rituals, panic attacks and anxiety, hurt/comfort, chronic illness, insomnia, guilt, slow burn
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• lost in the dark (he's got a heavy heart)
[AO3 link] - by definitelynotshouting
currently unfinished at 51k words and 9/? chapters
this one. THIS ONE. gosh where do i even begin. there are some deep, raw, self destructive feelings here. grian is a watcher in the sense that he is a creature that feeds on emotions, and he's dangerous and starving, and things have gone so very wrong. he just doesn't want to hurt anyone ever again. he's going to do everything he can to take himself out of the picture just to prevent that. (yeah this one is HEAVY.)
the writing. the writing. it's so so so beautiful. i know i keep gushing about the same thing for all of these fics, but. there's something so intricate and pretty in the way the words are woven in this one. i'm absolutelly entraced by the language. it's so pretty.
this is the hunger au if any of you are familiar with that name.
like i said, this one is a whole different kind of heavy. tags include angst, hurt/comfort, suicide attempt, starvation, eating disorders, body horror, trauma, self-harm, injury... (the light at the end of the tunnel is the recovery tag mkay)
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if you go read any of them, make sure to look over AO3 ratings and warnings and tags for cw/tw stuff!
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I have a feeling that every year on Alex and Morgan’s anniversary, Alex doesn’t do anything villainous, so the heroes are like “wtf is with this one day that they don’t do anything on”
And they end up coming up with the stupidest shit like:
1. Alex is a werewolf, but only annually
2. Alex has a 1-year lifespan but has hundreds of frozen clones and that’s thawing day
3. Alex is an alien that goes back to their home planet every year
4. Alex turns into a worm to fuck with the heroes because they find those worms on a string scattered around their office (Morgan’s idea)
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Alex, Morgan, Barnaby, and Ohio have a joint Twitter account but no one knows that all four of them run it, just that all four of them are somehow involved because they never specify who writes each post. Its mostly shitposts and they treat it like a blog.
It’s extremely popular but incredibly confusing to the public. Why is St Bernard hanging out with his arch nemesis and the worlds most powerful villain? How is this random F tier hero no one has ever heard of able to roast Alex and survive? No one knows, but they’re honestly too afraid to ask at this point.
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I made a reference to a possible version of Morgan’s apartment, ‘cause I got tired of not being able to keep track of things in my own fic. Enjoy or whatever. Also posting to ao3.
LR has referenced that there are two bedrooms in this apartment, and only one bathroom that's been mentioned, but we also know it has a couch, a chair in the living room for Alex covered in Halloween skeleton fabric, a linen closet, and a hallway, so I took those notes and kinda ran with them. Furniture can be whatever style you want, really, save that I think Morgan's should be worn and salvaged as fuck, and the fridge is made of shekanium.
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