#craig!bond

[earlgreyinpajamas]

00q fic rec masterlist

last updated: 21 Oct 2023

authors

beaubete

beginte

SvengoolieCat

Tokyo_the_Glaive

aus and fusions

author au

coffee shop au

different first meeting, pt 2, pt 3

fantasy au

his dark materials fusion

historical au

m lives

nttd fix-it

q doesn’t work for the mi6

role reversal

soulmate au, pt 2, pt 3

spectre fix it, pt 2

wing fic, pt 2

bond

jealous!bond, pt 2, pt 3

pining!bond, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6, pt 7, pt 8

protective!bond, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5

retired!bond

q

bamf!q, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6, pt 7

competent!q

god!q

holmes!q

jealous!q

kidnapped!q, pt 2

oblivious!q, pt 2, pt 3

pining!q, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5

protective!q

holiday themed fics

christmas fic, pt 2

valentine’s day fic

other tropes and categories

5 + 1 things

amnesia

auction

bets

bond’s break ins

bond’s souvenirs

bond’s swimming trunks, pt 2

bond the conspiracy theory

comfort fics

cooking, pt 2

crack, pt 2

domestic fluff , pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5

epistolatory

emotional hurt no comfort

fake relationship, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4

fandom iconic fics

fics with good mysteries

fluff, pt 2

friends with benefits

forced proximity

funny fics, pt 2

games

getting back together

getting together, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6

gift giving, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4

hurt/comfort, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4

insomnia

kid fic

kinktober

knitting

longfics

madeleine pov

meddling!moneypenny, pt 2

miscommunication

mission fic, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4

non slow burn long fics

not actually unrequited love

other 00s

outsider pov, pt 2, pt 3

pets

post nttd

q centric

q has a family

q’s name, pt 2, pt 3

q rennovating skyfall

safe houses

secret relationship

sick fics

smut with a side of relationship development

theatre/drama

[craig-watson-source]

Daniel Craig !James Bond ;  British agent with MI6, ace of Her Majesty's intelligence service ;  Licence to Kill

                 We all have our secrets. We just didn’t get to yours yet

[emiliasilverova]

Silverova's very own list of 00 agents

No idea if anybody will be interested to be fair, but well, I made this on a whim 🙃

Some notes:

This is Craig!Bond verse, set in 2014 shoo, shoo, Spectre

13 00s, because I don't think there has been any number above 0013 in the extended universe (that being said I'm not using any characters from said extended universe, because I just don't know them well enough). Also it puts Bond right at the middle 👀

001 is a weird case because he's both an OC and not an OC. He's technically the main character of the video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent, but since he's one of those silent protagonists everything but his name and appearance is completely made up by me

If @themuller13 is hanging around here, hope you're not mad that I couldn't find a better name than "Martisha" for Nomi

004 chose his name specifically to confuse people over the pronunciation (spoiler: it's Ka-zhee-myesh)... and also because I couldn't help making a Metal Gear Solid reference (Kaz, hmmm?)

"Panj" happens to mean "five" in Punjabi (thanks for the intel @00qsillyfanturtle)

James bloody Bond, a Catholic? 😱 Yessir (or ma'am, or any term that applies)

009 is named Eric after Eric Bryce (009 in the Spectre script)

My faceclaims for 008 and 0010 are respectively Regé-Jean Page and Joanna Dark (from the N64 game Perfect Dark)

0011 is Silver (my 16 year old OC) in 00 form. You might have encountered her in some fics of mine already

0013 is by far the least murderous one of them (followed by 005)

Religious background is just, well, a background--doesn't mean they're practising, or even believers

Languages in italics mean that said languages are more or less understood, though not enough to hold a conversation

You can ask lore questions on any of them, if you want. I'll be certainly happy to answer!

PS: damn, it's my 100th post 😮

(Also, cut in two parts to be a bit more readable on mobile)

[thestalwartheart]

Saw someone on Twitter call craig!bond the rugged bond and Brosnan!bond the pretty boy bond... what are your thoughts on them. Well we all know ur thoughts on craig bond but I'd like to hear more anyways

Okay, so Craig!Bond is my Bond of all time. My beloved. My fed-up, alcoholic, just-holding-himself-together disaster bisexual. BUT my first Bond was Brosnan!Bond. I grew up on his films and loved him. I do feel like it's a bit simplistic to reduce him to just the "pretty boy," though I admit he is v pretty.

I think, in some ways, their Bonds aren't too far removed from each other.

Brosnan's is known for being really smooth and unflappable, but there was a real nuance he brought to the role. It was less overt than what Craig managed, but still worth noting. I don't think Die Another Day is anyone's favourite Bond film, but the first twenty minutes or so of it are gold. He gets captured and tortured by the North Koreans, then - in a breathtakingly cruel turn - he's suspended by M because MI6 thinks he might have leaked information, then he finally gets to safety and tries to process all that in a hotel room, where someone tries to kill him. It's on par with the Turkey scenes in Skyfall, tbh. Totally heartbreaking and incredibly acted.

Also, Brosnan!Bond is an incredibly lonely iteration of Bond, but it's actually something you only notice when he's in bed with his women. There are three scenes that stick in my brain, in particular:

One of my favourites is in GoldenEye on the beach where he's brooding about having to kill Trevelyan. Natalya (one of the finest Bond women ever tbh) accuses him of being cold, he says "that's what keeps me alive." She responds with "No, that's what keeps you alone." And then they kiss etc etc, but what really strikes me is the desperation when he reaches for her. It's so clear he doesn't want to be alone, even if his life means that he'll always have to be. It was just a great scene.

Then, in The World Is Not Enough, you have the wonderful exchange with Elektra King where she asks him how he survives, and he tells her, "I take pleasure in great beauty." I'm sure he thought it was an attempt at misdirection, but it was extremely telling.

Say all you like about Tomorrow Never Dies, but the Paris Carver storyline is one of the most brutal in any Bond film, and very underrated. They used to be lovers. He admits to her that the reason he left her years ago is because she got too close. Then, she gets close again (while he's using her for the mission) and of course it all ends up in death.

Daniel Craig gets a lot of attention for the romantic melodrama in his films, especially with Vesper and Madeleine, but Brosnan took the material he was given and turned sex into a real window into Bond's character. I was always really awed by that.

I think my heart will always belong to Craig!Bond, mostly because of the ruggedness paired with a clumsiness that's sort of self-effacing and hilarious (running through walls, falling on couches etc etc). People will say Craig!Bond is closer to the books and all the rest of it, but the real reason I liked him was because no secret agent would ever be even remotely well-adjusted, and Craig never pretended that was the case. He once said he played Bond in Skyfall like he was about to fall apart at the seams with anxiety, terror and substance abuse. In reality, he played him like that for five whole films. It brought refreshing sense of realism to an otherwise very unrealistic franchise.

Anyway, they're both very different Bonds, but the thing that makes me love them both is the same: that they're both inescapably lonely men who are trying not to be.

And let's face it, the perfect love child of both of them is Dalton!Bond.

Whew! Okay! That got insanely long. I would love to hear other people's thoughts too.

[silverbrume]

The spy who betrays... expects only betrayal from others

[Many thanks to @stormofsharpthings for workshopping this with me!]

While in the middle of drafting a meta post comparing Dalton!Bond to Craig!Bond, a side thought came to me.

One of the things that always perplexed me about Craig!Bond was how readily he assumed that both Vesper and Madeleine had betrayed him. With each woman, he declares himself in love and gives up the world of spycraft for them, and yet, at the first sign of trouble, he assumes they've thrown him under the bus and he disavows them.

He tells Vesper that she's left him without armor and he wants to wander the world with her, then assumes she's betrayed him as soon as he sees her handing over the money to the bad guys. Even after she apologizes and commits suicide, he doesn't pause to dig deeper and just calls her a bitch to M. Years later, even Madeleine knows that Bond *still* hasn't forgiven Vesper.

Then we have Madeleine, with whom he walks away from a burning crime scene, steals a DB5, and rides off into the sunset. But as soon as one of Bond's enemies makes a vague statement about how Madeleine is a daughter of Spectre (he knew this already??) Bond just storms in and won't listen to anything Madeleine says. He doesn't consider trusting her until Blofeld (again one of his enemies!?) tells him that Madeleine didn't betray him. Why does Bond trust the word of his enemies over that of the woman he loves?

Then it occurred to me--Bond doesn't expect the women to be loyal to him because he's not loyal to his friends and lovers. He can't be, given how he's internalized MI6's ideals: people are just expendable tools, a means to an end for the perfect spy. How many times do we see this Bond ply Moneypenny or Q for assistance, often threatening their job security or physical safety, without being a dependable friend in return? How many times do we see Craig!Bond seduce a woman, obtain their assistance, and then leave them to a terrible fate?

Solange, Fields, Severine, and we could even argue Vesper--each woman died because they were loyal to him and he abandoned them (or failed to save them) when they were no longer useful to him. Solange is tortured to death because she won't give up Bond, Fields is drowned in oil for helping Bond escape from Quantum, Severine is shot for bringing Bond to Silva, and Vesper dies having traded Bond's life for the Treasury's money. If you sacrificed lovers for your greater cause, wouldn't you expect them to do the same for you?

The greatest tragedy of Craig's Bond: when he is finally ready for love, it is too late for him to learn how to trust.

[animentality]

[ayo-edebiri]

Skyfall (2012) // Glass Onion (2022)

[nkp1981]

Daniel Craig: SNL bumper photo

[justanerd]

Spent 20 minutes editing the Casino Royale poker scene to be chutes and ladders instead of finishing my English homework.

[kyitsya]

god bless the fic writers that explore bond and m’s relationship,,, they’re so real for that

[tampire]

Hello~! Crowley likes James Bond a normal amount.

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Think I’ve finally figured out why Daniel Craig is trending

This image has become a meme in comparing him to a banker / accountant / antiques dealer / European MP, university professor etc etc (whilst also acknowledging the sexiness ofc)

Why does he keep accidentally creating viral memes and he doesn’t even know 😭😭

[cr-nack]

You see Benoit Blanc as another alias for James Bond.

I see them as twins separated by their divorced parents and raised in different countries only to meet by chance when a spy case and a murder investigation interlap which leads to much bickering due to their opposing personalities when a peculiar dietary habit and other traits show that they’re not so different after all which prompts each of them to show a torn picture of their long lost parent that fits together like a puzzle showing that they are in fact brothers.

We are not the same.

[kind-of-heart-dumb-of-ass]

Daniel Craig really went from

to

And we are all here for it

[buttstothemoon]

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but the music that plays over the title card for Glass Onion is incredibly reminiscent of a James Bond style title song. I thought that this was just a fun little nod to Daniel Craig, but I've just realized which Bond song it's imitating and oh my goodness.

You Only Live Twice. It's You Only Live Twice.

[animentality]

He should've been the first gay James Bond.