#iterationship

[felixcosm]

what if we kissed 😳😳 and we were both boys 😳😳 and the same person 👀😈

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

WOE.BEGONE Iterationship Fic Recs

A while back I promised to throw together a rec list of my favorite iterationship fics so I am finally getting around to it!

There are so many good ones that I return to again and again. So let’s do this! There are some SPOILERS below up through the recent season so if you are not caught up proceed at your own risk.

I must begin with @solipsistful’s this heart of mine. For me it was the fic that launched a thousand (or, more accurately, 114+) fics. It centers on Mike and Michael in an established relationship? affair? something. Definitely something. And it deals with the fallout of being discovered. Needless to say if you read and enjoy my ongoing Mike/Michael series Love in the Time of Iterations and Retrocausal Pockets, you have ace from the solipsistful collective to thank. I also recommend Don't make this weird and Some Poor Decisions by them as well.

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The first annual Mike4Mike month was February of 2024 and it was, unsurprisingly, a boon for iterationship fics. When I read @felixcosm's it’s like you wanna get caught, I was positively delighted. It centers on a very bored Mikey having to sit through a meeting at Base while a bored (and horny) OverMike sits at home in Mikey's cabin. OverMike decides to entertain them both by texting Mikey and things get, uh, let's just say heated.

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Do yourself a favor and drop whatever you are doing and read Reflecting by @orchidbreezefc. The writing is lush and leaves you holding your breath. Set during season 5, it's a brilliant getting together fic that captures the self doubt and deep longing of Mike and Michael. If you enjoy that then go read Nostalgia, also written by @orchidbreezefc, to have your heart ripped out. It's set during 107 and I will leave it at that.

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If chaptered fics are your thing I highly suggest @felixcosm's what it means to claim my body. In this fic Mike is taken by the compound and then eventually returned to Sat Base. I don't want to spoil too much but Felix does such a great job of exploring the guilt and self loathing Mike feels after being held by and experimented on by Ty Betteridge and the guilt everyone around him feels for not realizing he'd been taken.

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@muppet-chaos gave us a DELIGHTFUL fic called Schemes and Consequences in which Edgar makes an offhand comment that implies that Michael is the hottest Mike Walters iteration. This of course sets Mikey out to prove Edgar wrong by trying to seduce Michael himself. It's equal parts hilarious and hot.

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If you haven't dipped your toes into WOE.BEGONE's tag on ao3 yet then you don't realize that probablynotsafeforwork is an expert at writing smut of all varieties. Tender? ✅ Silly? ✅ Angsty? ✅ Romanitc? ✅ Raunchy? ✅ They do it all. Getting Heated is an Omegaverse fic in which Mike discovers that he's suddenly switched from Alpha to Omega and it is positively scrumptious. Omegaverse not your thing? Don't you worry, probablynotsafeforwork's got you with fics like I Will Carry You Home in which Michael carries Mike home four different times only for Mike to be the one to eventually carry Michael home. It's sweet and sexy and I return it again and again.

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This next fic was written to me as a birthday present so MAYBE I am biased but I don't care. you haven’t relinquished as much as you want me to believe is sweet and tender and sexy. In this one @felixcosm writes Mike and Michael enjoying a rare moment when it's just the two of them at Sat Base and Mike wants to make the night last.

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@muppet-chaos broke my heart with The Best You've Ever Had (Is Just A Memory) in which Mike is called upon to help Mikey figure out who the Michael iteration is that's in compound storage. This fic is set after the fallout of the Showdown at the Shadow Dome. The story bounces between the present and a happy memory Mike has of Michael. This one's for the angst lovers.

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@falloutcoys made me a Mike/Mikey believer with almost like you never left. Set during episode 135, Mike and Mikey have reunited to solve Michael's ARG but they take a moment to catch up first. It's hot and sweet and does a wonderful job of capturing the character voices.

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@falloutcoys also gave us the utterly perfect Close Quarters. I'll go light on details so that I don't spoil the reveal but this fic is set during the period in which Mikey is crashing at Sat Base and Mike and Michael are trying to keep their relationship under wraps. But they also simply cannot keep their hands off one another. Hijinks ensue.

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One of the few iterationship fics that isn't about iterations of Mikes Walters is In Case of Emergency. This one focuses on Base Chris and Chris who is not from Base (not to be confused with CANNONBALL). It's a delicious and playful sexting fic in which Base Chris gets a text out of the blue from his iteration.

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A lot of people clocked the chemistry between XL and 47 right from the moment they were introduced. When Mike tried to do some recon and stood in for XL, a lot of NSFW ideas started getting tossed around and @solipsistful, genius that they are, gave us fucking around and finding out in which Mike attempts to impersonate XL and realizes he might be in over his head.

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You want something silly and adorable and less spicy? @ty-bayonet-betteridge has got you covered with A lover is someone to be silly with. Set during the period of time where Base is stuck in the Dome and most of the Mikes Walters (that we knew about at the time anyway) were staying with Tex, MW and MDawg do their best to irritate Mikey by pretending to be in a relationship. Looking for spice? Don't worry they've got you covered there with Proud of Yourself in which Mikey 🌶️ rewards his past self 🌶️ for helping him outsmart Ryan after delivering Ryan the files from inside Tier 2 during episode 31.

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[dracolichen]

Happy Holidays y'all <3

[muppet-chaos]

I was chatting about how there were suddenly so many iteration ships this season that seemed like they had a lot of potential and somebody did the math and realized we had, approximately enough potential Mike/Mike ships to make this happen and thus this idea was formed.

I'm going to attempt to do the whole month as a writing challenge, but if other people are interested feel free to take part however (and however much you want), art, headcanons, whatever. I'm going to tag everything with mike4mike month. (ID for calendar under the cut)

Feb 1: Michael/Flinchite!Mikey

Feb 2: MW/Mdawg

Feb 3: Perfect Duplicate (Two iterations that aren't differentiated enough to have separate names yet, i.e. two Mdawgs or two compound mikeys)

Feb 4: Mike/Mikey

Feb 5: MW/Michael

Feb 6: Mike/Lieutenant

Feb 7: Mikey/Michael

Feb 8: Mdawg/Lieutenant

Feb 9: Mikey/Tex

Feb 10: Any 3 Mikes

Feb 11: Tex/Lieutenant

Feb 12: Mikey/OverMike

Feb 13: Mike/Alaska Mikey

Feb 14: Mike/Michael

Feb 15: Michael/Alaska Mikey

Feb 16: Mike/Mdawg

Feb 17: Any 4 Mikes

Feb 18: Michael/Lieutenant

Feb 19: Mikey/MW

Feb 20: Michael/Tex

Feb 21: Mikey/Flinchite!Mikey

Feb 22: Michael/Mdawg

Feb 23: Mike/MW

Feb 24: Any 5 Mikes

Feb 25: Mike/Tex

Feb 26: Mikey/Mdawg

Feb 27: MW/Flinchite!Mikey

Feb 28: Mdawg/Tex

Feb 29: Free Day

[eaglesex]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: WOE.BEGONE (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lieutenant Michael Walters/Michael Walters Characters: Lieutenant Michael Walters, Michael Walters Additional Tags: Bondage, Forced Orgasms, Orgasm Denial, Endurance Tests, Edging, Overstimulation (Implied), Multiple orgasms (implied), Selfcest, Iterationship, Mike4Mike Month Series: Part 18 of Mike4Mike Month Challenge 2024 Summary:

Michael just growls between gritted teeth. He can’t be any more aggressive than that, the energy it takes to form a verbal threat or refusal is simply not there. He can’t think of anything else but how badly he wants to lay down his pride and simply give the Lieutenant the password.

As far as he knows, he’s the first Michael to be taking this alternate form of interrogation and he’ll be damned if he loses so quickly. ~ Prompt: Michael/Lieutenant

[orchidbreezefc]

well, lads, my one fear has finally been realized: the ao3 tag wranglers made every mike walters tag synonymous

it's so bad. it is so so so bad. this is a nightmare. this is the bad place

like, look at [link: my comprehensive mike chart]. filtering for fic of one cell on that chart will now turn up every fic that contains any cell anywhere on that chart. searching for the lieutenant will now give me every fic with fucking m-dawg in it. most characters who arent the same guy are way less different from each other in both personality and story role than the lieutenant and fucking m-dawg.

woe.begone has a pretty big cast and it's about 40% mike walters. like, okay, for those familiar, picture the cast of homestuck. not all of it but like, a bit bigger than both troll sessions and both kid sessions.

now imagine if ao3 made every troll in the beta session (which is roughly approximate to the mikes' relative story prominence as well as their numbers) share one tag. if you wanted to search for sollux fic you'd use the tag "beta troll", which would turn up every fic with gamzee, terezi, nepeta, etc.

also. also. in this scenario the most popular ship in the fandom is between two trolls. now unsearchable. the only tag is 'beta troll'. like, vriska/terezi is the fandom's top ship, and the tag you can filter for is beta troll/beta troll. which gives you just, any beta troll with any other beta troll.

this is not a post promoting outrage and pitchforks against ao3, though submitting a support ticket politely requesting they unsync these tags would be very much appreciated. a lot of folks less familiar with ao3's tagging system didn't seem to grasp the ramifications here, so i just wanted to take a moment to unpack exactly how comically disastrous this choice was. it's very bad, y'all.

EDIT: the damage has been undone! huzzah

[felixcosm]

Tex and Old Man should have hate sex, it'll fix them right up.

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

I love them so. This is gorgeous 💕

eek

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

47: [dragging XL back to their tent and said loud enough for the other iterations on the cattle drive to hear] let’s see if you live up to that name of yours, pard!

XL: [rolling his eyes and said under his breath] Michael we’ve been together for three years.

47: [pushing XL down into the sleeping bag] yeah but they don’t know that

XL: [making a skeptical face but allows 47 to pull off both their clothes] considering you make that joke every time we see any of them I’d argue otherwise

[muppet-chaos]

WOE.BEGONE Kinktober Day 2: Kidnapping/Stalking

[imaginepostingonmain]

someone's. like. someone's totally done a w.bg version of that 'would you fuck your clone' poll, right??

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

I am just getting distracted all over the place today. No complaints. Would recommend.

don’t you hate it when you walk in on your two older selves close to making out

(”hey ace, you know there’s a canon relationship you could be drawing—” nah :) )

- ace

[eaglesex]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: WOE.BEGONE (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Michael Walters/Texas Michael Walters Characters: Michael Walters, Texas Michael Walters Additional Tags: Selfcest, Iterationship, Season 12 timeline, Mentions of forced bottom surgery, Brief mentions of medical experiments, Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, mentions of dysphoria, Trans Ty Betteridge implied, Tex knows Outlaw is trans, Masturbation, Michael is alarmed by Tex's genitals, Tex is not used to them, Mike4Mike Month, Shyness Series: Part 20 of Mike4Mike Month Challenge 2024 Summary:

There's a long, tense silence between the Michaels. Tex refuses to look at him, but he seems upset. Michael doesn't blame him and guilt is starting to creep up his back. Maybe that's why he blurts out,

"Do you need any help?" ~ Prompt: Michael/Tex

[a-great-and-terrible-change]

i'm sure i'm not the first one to think of this but a nobody/stinky iterationship has so much potential. ultimate toxic doomed yaoi. mysterious horrifying rogue element x lonely pathetic opportunistic girlfail. truly they r made for each other

[mike4mikemonth]

Mike4Mike Month 2025

February is right around the corner, and that means it's almost time for Mike4Mike Month. Here's the schedule for this year, we've changed some things up in the formatting but as always, feel free to participate as much or as little as you want, and pick and choose which dates to participate in. Happy Iterationshipping! (Plain text calendar under the cut)

Feb 1: MW/Michael

Feb 2: Any Mikey Ship

Feb 3: Oldbrush Valley

Feb 4: Any Mike Ship

Feb 5: Any MW Ship

Feb 6: Satellite Base

Feb 7: Any Mdawg Ship

Feb 8: Any Michael Ship

Feb 9: The Flinchite Compound

Feb 10: Any Texdawg Ship

Feb 11: Any Old Man Ship

Feb 12: The Dome

Feb 13: Any Stinky Ship

Feb 14: Mike/Michael

Feb 15: The Texas Posse

Feb 16: Any Nobody Ship

Feb 17: Any Flinchite!Mikey Ship

Feb 18: Operose International

Feb 19: Any Tex Ship

Feb 20: MW/Texdawg

Feb 21: The Cattle Drive

Feb 22: Perfect Duplicate

Feb 23: Mikey/OverMike

Feb 24: Poker Night

Feb 25: Any Alaska Mikey Ship

Feb 26: Any Lieutenant Ship

Feb 27: Christmas Island

Feb 28: Free Space

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

True love

MICHAEL: Glad to have ya back for the evening, Mike. It feels like it’s been an eternity. MIKE: It’s been two weeks, Michael. MICHAEL: I said “feels like,” dammit. Come ‘ere!