[Rec] 11 Recs for OG Fics on AO3
Mirror City by nirejseki
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Group: Spirit of the city/Its favorite human - Relationship
Summary: Murder gets treated relatively lightly in Volyne, but that's only to be expected given that it shares it's borders with Mirror City - which is just as often called Murder City, home of the country's finest assassins, where each and every mirror can be used to scry into someone's life in order to figure out how best to kill them.
But when a woman's dead body is found in just the right place to cause a riot that will draw in his friends, Jan Tarlo - who swore years ago to stop making bad decisions, or indeed any decisions whatsoever - gets drawn into a web of political intrigue that forces him further and further back into his past.
Back to Mirror City.
to the victor go the spoils by suzukiblu
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: M/M
Summary: The dragon arrived early in the morning, and by noon the entire village was in a panic in the town hall. No one in the village knew anything about dragons, aside from what they’d heard in fairy tales and stories, and the plans for dealing with it were about that level of sophisticated.
“We’re not sacrificing a virgin to the dragon,” Viktor said in exasperation.
“Well what would you do?!” the mayor demanded.
“I’m going to go talk to it,” Viktor said reasonably, and got up from his seat and went to do just that.
Follow the River Down by SassySnowperson
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Older Little-Known Rock Singer/His Younger #1 Fan who is a Famous Actor
Summary: "Am I cancelled?" David asked. He didn't know exactly what it meant to be cancelled, but it seemed like the sort of thing that would come with a lot of notifications.
There was an ugly snort on the other side of the phone. "No, Dad, kinda the opposite," Nicole said patiently. "Jonathan Vane said you were his favorite artist!"
These Side Characters Have More Important Things To Do by bafflinghaze
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: M/M
Summary: After dying in the zombie apocalypse, Ren Xiyang inexplicably transmigrates into the body of a villainess in a het romantic fantasy novel.
Ren Xiyang: “…...” Following the villainess’s script? Sorry-not-sorry, he has more important things to do ¯_(ツ)_/¯
After dying from the plague-curse, the Crown Prince Rian Azure learns that he’s a side character in a romantic fantasy novel. When he wakes up before it all happens…
Rian Azure: “!!!” Letting the plague-curse devastate his kingdom again? Don’t be ridiculous, he has more important work to do (⌒▽⌒)☆
Forget the original novel, this is a farming and fief-building BL now!
thirst is all i know (you will be the water) by susiecarter
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Prince/Prince of Enemy Country
Summary: Damianos is being sent to the prince of Kumat, who will take him as a husband; this is among the terms of the treaty that will end the war at last. Unless, presumably, he displeases the prince and is executed, which seems to him as though it is all too likely. But perhaps they will only dislike each other a little. Perhaps the prince will find Damianos's looks to his taste, and be willing to fuck Damianos at least the necessary once. That would not be so bad.
It is too improbable to be worth contemplating, that perhaps they will each please the other very much indeed, and like each other, and be happy. Far, far too improbable. And even if by some chance it were so—too many dangers would yet remain for it to have any hope of lasting.
A Bride Most Scandalous by shiny_silver_socks
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Regency man crossdressing to save his sister from elopement/Regency Lord
Summary: At the request of his beloved twin sister, Frederick Avington agrees to wear a wedding dress and pose as fiancée to Lord Montcroix. It's only supposed to be a distraction, to allow her the time she needs to elope with her lover, but before he can stop it, he finds himself legally Baroness Montcroix.
William Montcroix, newly titled and back in England after spending years fighting Napoleon's forces, has resigned himself to a loveless marriage with a woman he's never met. But the woman to whom he finds himself married isn't a woman at all--and he can't say he minds.
The Fox's Grief by nirejseki
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Beautiful Detective With Peerless Martial Arts/Frail Secret Spymaster He‘s Trying To Seduce
Summary: No one in their right mind would ever seriously try to woo Lin Ronghu, the Emperor's infamously ruthless (if unofficial) spymaster.
Not that that's stopped the local legend, a (self-described) beautiful detective with peerless martial arts. His crush is a major inconvenience - at least until there's a murder that puts Lin Ronghu's most hated political nemesis straight in the frame. Since Lin Ronghu can't believe that anyone would be that stupid, he decides that maybe having a private detective around might be good for something after all...
An Uncommon Betrothal by DictionaryWrites
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: M/M
Summary: Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton.
Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus.
Erotic romance with a big emphasis on period-typical homophobia, repression, power dynamics, and so on.
isle blues by NoteInABottle
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: former sitcom dad with post-series success/washed up younger actor who played his son (M/M)
Summary: If lightning in a bottle ever had a color, then it was the color of Ekaterin’s eyes.
for the want of a jewel by FormlessVoidbeast
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Conquering Warlord/His Right-Hand Warlock/Prince of Conquered Land
Summary: With his country fallen to the unstoppable tide of the Dread Warlord, a terrified king sends a peace offering of his own flesh and blood in the hopes of buying leniency.
When Prince Damian of Miska is accepted as the symbol of his country's surrender and immediately wedded to the Warlord, he expects his fate to be both painful and humiliating, and his death inevitable. To his confusion, the Warlord and his terrible Warlock seem to have no interest in abusing that which they have claimed as their own. As Damian finds his feet and gains friends in a new land, he begins to question everything he once thought was true.
But some jewels were never meant to be sold, and the consequences of Damian's sacrifice are more far-reaching than anyone expected.
Stray Dogs by devilskin
Fandom: Original Work, Pairing: Twink/Trans King
Summary: A feisty twink gets tossed in a holding cell overnight, where he meets a trans king.