[Rec] 7 Fic Recs for 'Angst with a Happy Ending'

07 Sep, 2024

Faroe's Waltz by Wildehack (tyleet)

Fandom: Malevolent (Podcast), Pairing: Arthur/John

Summary: Arthur dreams of pain and wakes to music: the opening strains of a melody, left incomplete.

catharsis by SeleneIlene

Fandom: 2ha, Pairing: Chu Wanning/Mo Ran

Summary: Abandoned and forgotten by the one he loves, Chu Wanning dies a painful, quiet death in a cold palace.

Only to open his eyes three years in the past.

Chu Wanning hopes to live this life different from the last, fading into the background as just another faceless flower.

Too bad Taxian-jun won't let him.

onward and upward by iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid

Fandom: Resident Evil, Pairing: Leon/Luis

Summary: “Who are you? And what are you doing here?”

What is—?

He’s…

He’s awake. He’s upright. The fire splitting his spine is entirely gone. Instead there’s a fist pressed against his chest nearly hard enough to bruise, keeping him pinned to the wall behind him.

And Leon Kennedy is glaring at him, eyes angry and distrusting—and cold, that’s the strange thing. Cold, as if Luis didn’t take his last breath before those very same eyes not thirty seconds ago.

(Or: Luis, in a time loop.)

area cryptid upset no one bothered to inform him of his tragic backstory by crimsonseekers

Fandom: My Hero Academia, Pairing: Dabi/Hawks

Summary: “My life is a nightmare,” Dabi muttered blankly.

“Nah, this is hilarious,” Hawks said, and while he wasn’t explicitly laughing, Dabi knew that those weird little chirps he was letting out were pointed at him. “Imagine if we go through all this effort and you don’t even have some sort of dramatic background or tragic backstory to justify you being this emo, you’re just a hot topic junkie or something.”

“That’s fucking worse.”

Or,

Dabi has amnesia and keeps reading conspiracy theories about himself in an attempt to figure out who he is, gets the League in on it, and they dismantle organized crime, revolutionize society, and ravage the hero system in the process. Hawks suffers.

set fire by arahir

Fandom: SK8 the Infinity, Pairing: Tadashi/Ainosuke

Summary: Tadashi has a secret. Ainosuke finds out and goes mad.

But he only makes it two steps. Ainosuke is in front of him suddenly, breathing hard, hand fisted in the front of Tadashi’s white shirt.

"All this time," he's saying, and the edges of his words are starting to lose their sense. He bows his head. His hair falls forward over his forehead so that when he looks up again his red now black eyes are shadowed by it. "All this time I could have had you."

It's Always Been You - One Way Or Another by Murmeloni

Fandom: Batman, Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd

Summary: When Bruce confronts Gotham's latest crime boss he makes a life changing discovery, one that forces him to confront the feelings he's spent years desperately trying to suppress. But maybe it's time for a leap of faith. And maybe, he won't be taking the jump alone.

Second Chances, Second Thoughts by dawnstruck

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist, Pairing: Edward/Roy

Summary: Fullmetal is standing on the doorstep, looking windswept and utterly bereft, but holding a tiny baby in his arms.

“It went wrong,” he chokes out, his voice tight with barely suppressed sobs, and his eyes have an unusually bright shine to them. “It went wrong, I messed up, I didn't know where else to go, please, I messed up-”

#Post Type: Rec #Tag: Angst