#RoyJamie living together fic

[jamietwat]

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[royjamierot]

hi! if it’s not much bother, i somewhat recently just started reading some royjamie fics, but i wanted to ask if you had any must-read fic recs, or even any authors you enjoy for the pairing? i don’t mind if they’re long or short, royjamie only or rjk as well

thanks for your time!

YESSS IT'S NOT A BOTHER AT ALL I LOVE GIVING FIC RECS!! i love this thank you this a great chance for me to freak out about my favorite fics. in no particular order, here! I'll do my best to write a brief description and also put the ratings

in the next one, will you find me by nebuloussubject

this is a mature fic where jamie wakes up to an alternate universe where roy is 22 and a new transfer to richmond. it talks a lot about roy's vulnerability and also jamie's as well and it makes me sooo emotional i love it so much

it’s (not) only make believe by screaming_crying_perfect_storm

mature fic and FAKE DATING AU!!! it's sooo good it's unfinished rn but every new update makes me so insane it's literally soo good. it has georgie and simon in it and mutual pining it's amazing. i highly recommend everything from this author.

trip of my life by floweredhalo

unrated but not explicit fic about roy accidentally doing mushrooms and jamie taking care of him. it's such a sweet fic it lives in my mind.

that's what i want (collection) by BelmotteTower and Scoatney Hall

this is royjamiekeeley! i was so engaged in this collection i read most of it in a day i highly recommend it. it's so sweet and i love the relationships between the three of them.

open hand or closed fist would be fine by Tallfroggie20

royjamie again. mature also. this one is about roy and jamie being touch starved and filling that void in each other and also growing since the season one finale. I couldn't put this one down. one of my fave oneshots.

Be Furious by Emmybazy

this is an explicit younger roy/older jamie fic because this idea makes me insane. i love roy character studies and fics that make him younger tend to do this veryyyy well i love this fic. jamie and roy wear sweaters in this one which i love imagining.

love, that loosener of limbs by literatus

this is explicit basically just royjamie sex in the woods and also references to jane austen. i love this one im so normal about it.

Hospital Ball (Jamie Tartt's Adventures in Matchmaking) by dannyPURO

explicit fic :) i love this one it's mostly royjamie and some royjamiekeeley but it's so funny and jamie in this always makes me laugh. jamie and roy sleep together a ton and jamie thinks it's because roy is sad over keeley and roy thinks they're dating. shenanigans ensue.

Two Things Can Be True by cheerfuldisdain

this is a teen royjamiekeeley fic where roy processes his feelings about the two of them and also goes to therapy! also not finished yet but it is sooo good.

a muppet, dying of the incurable condition of being a little bitch by PeonyPages161

rated teen royjamie fic where roy calls jamie drunk a bunch of times when he's sad and they grow from that!! it's so good i love the way it's developing. also unfinished so far.

and i think that's a good list of my favorites? i definitely recommend all of these i hope you enjoy! if you are looking for specific recommendations for a specific tag or general vibe id be happy to give those as well!

[royjamielibrary]

RoyJamie Recomendations — Works in Progress (Part 1)

à la mode by immordelle (Rating: Mature | Chapters: 2/7 | Words: 9,052 | Setting: AU | POV: Roy | Tropes: Getting Together | Warnings: Drug Addiction)

“Name’s Jamie Tartt, mate.” And there’s something about the way his eyebrows arch, the way his smile changes, slants at the corners with arrogance like he thinks he’s doing Roy a favor introducing himself — “I’m your new executive sous.” He’s dropped his hand now, and Roy half-wishes he’d taken it while he had the chance, because now they’re just standing there, sizing each other up in some demented, testosterone-fueled parody of a staring contest, and it’s horribly awkward. Roy grunts. “That’s weird, because I think I’d remember it if I hired a fucking thrift store mannequin to work in my restaurant.”

Attention-Seeking Behaviour by Anonymous (Rating: Teen and Up | Chapters: 2/6 | Words: 8,728 | Setting: Post-Season 1 Canon Divergence | POV: Alternating | Tropes: Angst with a Happy Ending, Getting Together | Warnings: Homophobia)

He’s about to get into the driver’s seat when another flash goes off right in his face and some smirky fucker says, “So, you like taking it up the ass?” “Love it,” Jamie’s mouth says before Jamie’s brain can get in on the action. “Feels fucking great. Have a good day!” Or: the post-Season 1 fic where, Instead of self-destruction via reality show, Jamie tries self-destruction via public and very messy coming out. It works out better than expected.

gonna take on the world some day by liesmyth (Rating: Mature | Chapters: 2/6 | Words: 11,255 | Setting: Post-Season 3 | POV: Jamie | Tropes: Getting Together | Warnings: N/A)

There’s a part of Jamie that’s still thirteen and awestruck, or seventeen and infatuated, or twenty-two and bitter and still fucking obsessed, that still can’t believe he lives in a world where he gets to have stuff like Roy Kent inviting him over for tea. Can’t quite believe this is his life. Jamie’s summer, and beyond.

have you ever thought just maybe (you belong with me) by sanazyung (Rating: Explicit | Chapters: 5/10 | Words: 37,360 | Setting: AU | POV: Jamie | Tropes: Angst with a Happy Ending, Getting Together, Mutual Pining | Warnings: N/A)

“Jamie. They want to have a season where the lead is openly bisexual, and they have men and women contestants. And they called me. Asking about you.” “Holy shit,” Jamie breathed, steadying himself against his kitchen counter. “They want me to be the fucking Bachelor?” or, jamie is the bachelor. roy is a contestant-but not by his own will. the world gets to watch them fall in love anyway.

Sign away your life at the door by PGHumfort (Rating: Mature | Chapters: 2/5 | Words: 13,148 | Setting: AU | POV: Jamie | Tropes: Getting Together, Hurt/Comfort | Warnings: Abuse/Domestic Violence)

In a world where everything is a distraction, his Master's thesis deadline is rapidly approaching and the pressures of academia are crushing, university student Jamie Tartt finds a unique safe space with a handsome broody man willing to help him get his work done, through positive or negative enforcement. At Nelson Road Cafe, incentives and coffee orders are customisable.

[maraudingforflesh]

I like Ted Lasso a lot so here’s some royjamie fics

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49123888/chapters/123938695

hold the king in awe (128,335 words); a year in their lives as their relationship develops following Roy kissing Jamie in front of a crowd at a match

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2762230

Lonely Hearts Club (series); in which Jamie has a few traumatic experiences before returning to Richmond and has to figure out how to put himself back together with some help from people who love him

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48769105

open hand or closed fist would be fine (23,664 words); Roy and Jamie are both touch-starved

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49806619

you know the story (18,360 words); Roy and Jamie find out about rpf and the fact that football fans and civilians alike ship them together

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45728365/chapters/115076629

Crash Course (22,590 words); Jamie is a John Green fan and Roy wants to know more about Jamie and his interests

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51381847

A Sure Thing (14,200 words); Roy brings Jamie to yoga night and all the moms assume he’s Roy’s boyfriend

[izzyspussy]

You said asks so NO PRESSURE but since you said S1 RoyJamie I now can’t stop trying to imagine it with a more realistic Roy and/or whatever other departures from the zeitgeist you would enact 👀 👀 👀 if you wanted to say anything more about that that would be exciting

Okay so, re: my tags about it being different than everyone else's that you eyeballed like. Maybe I'm just too aromantic for All This, but the biggest reason I usually don't love the season 1 royjamies that are already out there is because I feel like they warm up to each other emotionally and catch feelings and all that way too fast and imho without much actual romancing? Like, they have sex a few times and then they're like okay I was totally wrong you've never done anything wrong in your life. Which like honestly....... boring.

And my second biggest issue is usually more with Jamie's characterization than Roy's! (I mean I do always wish people wouldn't slough off a lot of Roy's anger and other various Problems and all, but that's consistent lmao). But like season 1 fics make Jamie such a woob and a sadsack and take away his agency quite a bit, like all his bad behavior is someone else's fault - and like, okay, to a degree, I GUESS, but like...... idk man him having a reason to act that way doesn't make it less of a choice that he made.

I also think there's way too much emphasis on him being protected and rescued, which like, listen. I love a good romantic rescue as much as the next guy, but it was also something I really loved in the show that Jamie got to defend himself. He got to decide to be fed up, he got to fight back. And!! He always had a belligerent do-your-worst attitude, which he maintained all the way up through season 3 to the end!! I love that about him and I find it lacking in general, but especially in season 1 fics when it should be most present, when Jamie has the most people and reason to be defensive.

Anyway, back to the first thing. I do think that having sex with each other would change their perspectives of each other significantly, but not necessarily toward romance or even friendship. Like, their Feelings develop totally independently of their physical relationship! Besides which, I feel like there's this really interesting stage in any enemies-to-whatever type of relationship, especially when it starts with a (literal) Bang, where they stop seeing each other as The Enemy and start seeing each other as a living, breathing, vulnerable human being who they happen to be enemies with. And I feel like in a lot of enemies-to-whatever things that stage is sorely neglected, and I think it would be an ESPECIALLY interesting - and vital - stage for royjamie.

So if (IF) I ever wrote one myself, it would still start with a literal Bang. They'd impulsively have sex. Not exactly hate sex, because neither of them can really hate someone they're having sex with - but that's the perspective shift isn't it. They can't hate each other anymore, but that doesn't mean they start to like each other or even really care that much about each other.

So anyway, they would sleep together, and they'd both be way different in bed than they thought the other would be. And they're a little bit mean, not quite in a fun sexy way, but not quite enough to be hurtful either. And then they'd do it again a few times, and they'd be vastly humanized to each other. But they'd still be just coworkers with workplace tension who are fucking and also sometimes Jamie stays for dinner just because they both get lonely and it's only polite for whoever lives in the place they're at to offer. They're slightly more than tolerating each other. They're empathizing with each other and being incredibly intimate - off the clock - and it's a bit weird but a bit not weird and they're just going with it because. well. what else are you gonna do.

And then I'd have them stop sleeping together when Jamie gets transferred, without ever moving into that What Are We stage nevermind any further along than that. And then they become friends, semi-long distance. Texting and stuff. Kind of like the fic Waterfalls, which idr but might be gen. But also I'd probably have it even more of a slow burn than that, at least wrt Roy learning about James. Just because like... another thing I feel like happens a lot is that people have Character A find out about James and then suddenly they like Jamie after that and all. And I don't really like that either, I liked that they had all bonded at least a little before That Whole Thing in canon as well, and I'd want to keep that. OR maybe even bump it up a bit, but have them not suddenly be buddies after it. It would be interesting to explore mixed feelings on that front, where maybe Roy feels protective of Jamie and angry on his behalf, but without having a fully formed (if reluctant, at that point in canon) personal relationship with him.

But anyway so. It wouldn't really be enemies-to-lovers. It would be enemies-to-not-quite-strangers-who-fuck-and-are-intimate (I know allos cannot handle this concept, at least when I bring it up as something I want irl lmfao, they just don't get it! but listen. it happens, it can happen, and it can be pretty good too!), then half-hearted-enemies-again-to-friends, and then friends-to-lovers.

And WHO can say what I'd do or not do with Keeley. But I also hate when she gets just completely written out of the dynamic because I feel like that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and also is a bit boring. Even if it's not an OT3 endgame, I still feel like she should be all kinds of up in their business.

[abubblingcandle]

RoyJamie Bingo R4 - Roommates AU

When Jamie is rejected by Man City and Richmond in one day, he is in dire need of someone to take his anger out on. Who else would be better than Roy Kent? Get into a little fight, get punched, maybe feel something again, go home, job done.

What this plan doesn't take into account is Roy inviting him inside and giving him a bed for the night ... and not punching him in the face!

Howdy and happy Roy Kent's birthday! This fic is one that has been rotating in my mind since a legendary interview from Arteta about Ben White and Oleksandr Zinchenko saying that they couldn't hate each other because they were "living together and sharing wives" which ... has stayed with me as a quote. And then I got thinking about Roy and Jamie "hating" each other but living together and so this happened.

This was writing as a solo live write in 24hrs on the This is Perverse discord server. It is a fab place full of fab people who cheered me along If you are 18+ and want to talk more Roy/Jamie then come join us! discord.gg/royjamie

@royjamiebingo R4 - Roommates AU Febuwhump Day 24 - "I'm doing this because I care about you"

[coolpointsetta]

do you want to hear more of my hannibal!ted lasso au?

TOO BAD IM SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY ABOUT IT ANYWAY

(hannibal spoilers ahead lmao)

- REBECCA IS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI!!!

- ofc Mannion is the Dolarhyde narrative equivalent. Rebecca got promoted because she was the one who hunted him down bc she knew who he was and that’s part of the reason they divorced. everyone thought she was crazy. she wasnt.

- nate and roy as psychiatric rivals. ROY GETS CONTACTED BY TED ABOUT JAMIE AKA THE MOST SAUGHT AFTER PATIENT EVER INSTEAD OF NATE AND NATE THINKS ITS THE ULTIMATE “WE ARE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE” AFTER NATE LEFT THE FBI AND TED TO RUN THE BSHCI

- ZAVA IS MASON VERGER. ZAVA IS MASON VERGER.

- Jamie teaches at the FBI academy only bc the government wont let him be employed privately. he acc wanted to retire and work at a pre-school or smn.

- Jamie is Ted’s Most Special BAU Baby. Ted wholeheartedly believes that his love and acceptance and support is enough to keep Jamie from falling off the deep end in spite of every other professional saying “please. please stop. LOOK AT HIM HE’S GOT ANXIETY.”

- what about. WHAT ABOUT. WHAT ABOUT HENRY AS MIRIAM LASS. WHAT ABOUT THAT. WHAT IF THAT’S THE REASON TED PUSHES JAMIE TO FIND THE RIPPER BUT ALSO TRIES TO SUFFOCATE HIM WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION AND PROTECT HIM FROM THE WORLD WHILE EXPOSING HIM TO ONLY THE WORST PARTS OF IT.

- royjamie version of the ladder scene. thats. thats it thats the fic.

- roy killing james tartt sr after the man insults his practice. and feeds him to jamie. lovingly. either pre- or post-s1 finale. i think pre then he tells him afterwards, like in the late s2 era

- Roy and Roy’s sister were separated when the Lecter family was attacked and their other siblings were yk fed to them, and Roy, years later, didn’t realise that Phoebe was acc his niece until after he framed Jamie by “killing” her and they were living together.

- just jamie with will’s sass and all of his self confidence. “some lazy psychiarty there dr kent.” and “i dont want to kill you any more, dr kent. not now that i finally find you interesting.”

- roy as hannibal is so. HE’S SO. “long pig.” and “nothing here is vegetarian.” and “abigail hobbs is dead / long live abigail hobbs”

this is all semi-incoherent nonsense. i will be back with actual Plot and Legible Notes. probably.

oh my

oh my god

OH MY GOD

YOURE SUCH A GENIUS!!!!

roy and nate as rivals??? royjamie ladder scene?? TED TRYING TO HELP JAMIE AAAAAHHHHH

goddddddd ITS TOO GOOD

Thank you for sharing your thoughts i absolutely adore them i’m so normal about it (lies)

[lunar-years]

reblogging just to respond to some points here and share an ot3 shipper's pov (which is to say I want to gush about why I think they do work together, lol). No offense intended op, I think your thoughts are valid, and (amongst the currently active fandom at least) actually not unpopular at all! Obviously we can all prefer different ships and that's cool, I just want to get my own thoughts out there!

So anyway, I agree with Keeley being emotionally intelligent but not necessarily emotionally mature. I also agree that she wants to thrive in her career and prioritize her independence at the series' end. But i do disagree that that negates her getting back together with Jamie or Roy or the both of them in future.

Keeley definitely doesn't want to "settle down" in any traditional sense, sure, but I don't really think Jamie and Roy do either? They clearly all enjoy being in relationships (and RoyKeeley was a serious and longterm one), and I think at this point in their lives all three prioritize commitment and don't want to just mess around. But none of them (imo) seem concerned with things like marriage, kids, etc. So yeah, Keeley is very career-oriented, ambitious and driven, but all THREE of them are. Jamie is on the cusp of the peak of his athletic career, and Roy just signed on to be manager of Richmond with very little experience in managing a club. In an ot3 setup, I imagine them learning how to navigate their rising, high-powered careers while also centering their importance to one another and their commitment in the relationship.

The main reason I see people give for why R/J/K could never work out is that RoyJamie are clingy and glued to the hip whilst Keeley needs her space. I think a lot of people (not you, op, just in general on here and in fics I read and whatnot) wayyy overblow both of those points. It's true to an extent, but we also have to keep in mind that RoyKeeley were under a unique set of circumstances in Headspace:

Roy was coming out of a long period of depression and not having a clue what to do with his life; Keeley was one of the only people he was really interacting with for a large chunk of time before he began coaching at Richmond. For that period of time, Keeley became his replacement for football. He focused entirely on her and made her his whole world because football could no longer be that for him, and if he couldn't cling to anything or anyone he was going to drown, like he seriously was going to choke on its absence. Hence: Roy's extreme clinginess.

But, during that time, Keeley was still working at Richmond. They had their time apart during the days, even if they were living together and seeing each other outside of work constantly. Things start to go south when Roy becomes a Coach and now also is working in the same building as Keeley. Roy (seemingly) wants to eat all their meals together in the cafe together, and they're making out in the hallways at work, and they're driving in AND leaving together in the same car everyday, etc.

All that goes beyond just Roy wanting to spend all of his time with Keeley. He's clinging to her as a crutch in an unhealthy way; he's quite honestly giving her no space to breathe. It also goes beyond Keeley needing a bunch of space in a relationship. While I do think Keeley values her occasional me-time and space, the fandom imo tends to way exaggerate it and act like she hardly likes spending time her partners at all. There's just...no evidence for this? In s3, we see her dropping everything to fly to different countries and be with Jack, spending time at work with Jack, prioritizing dates with Jack, being excited to meet Jack's family and friends even though the relationship is new, etc.

Imo, this boils down to: the roykeeley problem was never as simple as Roy is clingy and Keeley isn't. The problem was far deeper than that, and roy being "clingy" was simply Keeley's only way of finding voice for it at that time. But the deeper problems are the kind of thing that both of them are working to fix by season 3's end, Roy through therapy, Keeley by choosing not to jump back into a relationship immediately.

This brings me to: I actually don't think Keeley had a ton of opportunity to get back together with either of them? She's not going to jump back together with Roy when he just fully broke her heart, and then she's in a relationship with someone else (who also hurts her and leaves her further floundering). As for Jamie, she's only just started in s3 to realize how much he's grown and that she may still be having feelings for him again. When she sleeps with Roy, she's in a vulnerable place feeling terribly about herself and looking for quick comforts. But when she steps back and looks at the situation objectively the next morning, she probably realizes 1) his apology was kind of shit and 2) they therefore haven't discussed any of the issues that broke them up to begin with. I guess I didn't take her turning him down right now to mean that her feelings have lessened or that she doesn't eventually want to get back together, just that she knows it will go better if they work on themselves first before launching into something neither are ready for and falling apart in the same way.

That said, I think ot3 at the end of the series have a lot of work to do before they will be successful longterm in a relationship, but I think the show ends when they're all willing and in a position to grow together to find that place. Keeley definitely does need time alone to focus on KJPR, which is why I personally imagine royjamie getting together first, and then adding Keeley to the mix later on when she's ready.

And to end, I vehemently disagree that royjamie have this special emotional connection to one another that Keeley could never hope to match, especially to where she'd awkwardly be forever on the outskirts of their cosmic obsession with one another or whatever. Obviously, royjamie have a special understanding of one another especially when it comes to their careers and football, etc. But with therapy, Roy is going to realize how he used Keeley, and then to some extent used training with Jamie, as poor replacements for what football was in his life. Of course he likes spending lots of time with his partners, and no I don't think that's ever going to change, but i DO think it will look different post-series than what we see from him onscreen. I personally really dislike when people write royjamie obsession to the point where they literally never spend a single moment apart, because that would just not be good or healthy for either one of them (and they both know that. and they both have other friends!! they do!!!)

Additionally, Keeley is the one there for Roy during the hardest period of his life. She's also the one who played an enormous role in Jamie's growth and change. She understands things about each of them in ways the other might not be able to, too! I think they would need to work through that and balance it in a relationship, but that doesn't make any leg of the triangle more significant/important than the others, and it's part of what makes the relationship so special! The love and chemistry, I feel, are so clearly there between all three of them-- season 3 and otherwise.

Listen. Do I understand people who ship Roy/Jamie/Keeley? Sure. The dynamic has potential. The chemistry is there definitely. All three of these people are disaster!bisexuals even as Keeley is the only canonic confirmed queer person between the three.

But…..

I don’t know. I just don’t buy it. I do not buy that Keeley, freshly on her own and determined to dominate in her career is willing or able to be a part of a poly relationship that is going to demand SO MUCH emotional labor.

I love my girl Keeley, she’s an absolutely fantastic character. But, I dunno, is she the most emotionally intelligent of the three? Sure. Is she the most emotionally mature? I don’t know, I think that might go to Jamie in all honesty. Roy is definitely the most stunted of the three.

And Jamie and Roy being equally as clingy and desperate and needy as each other, in ways that complement so beautifully it’s almost perfect, doesn’t leave a lot of space for Keeley to emotionally connect with them.

And she doesn’t seem to want to?

Like, she has the opportunity to get back with either one of them…multiple times! And she doesn’t? She loves them, both of them, but chooses to just be by herself. Chooses what she needs and wants in that moment because I think it’s kind of clear that neither Jamie nor Roy can truly give her that?

I LOVED Roy and Keeley at first, but the pure cruelty of lamenting how clingy he was when he was going through a massive depressive episode broke my heart. (Maybe my own mental health struggles make me extra sensitive to this)

But I just don’t buy that Keeley, free spirit and business woman, wants to settle down with these two, no matter how much she may love them.

[jamietwat]

THE SNIPPET OMGGG

WHAT WAS IT FOR?

It’s from one of the many fics I’ve planned and/or written some of but haven’t posted anything for yet because I definitely do not have time to be posting other incomplete things while still writing Bizarre Love Triangle

I don’t think I’ve mentioned than one anywhere before (unless I said something vague about it in a comment at some point???)