#airline au

[17redeye]

+ Making Connections +

Airline AU, A/B/O, eventual Hannigram, Will/ all my favorite HEU Mads characters

Thank you @battlesuit for creating this beautiful fanart to accompany my first chapter 🥰

[ravendruid]

Remember this Au? I had some more ideas for it on the flight back home.

Before I continue, though, I want to make it clear that my knowledge of all things related to aviation is very basic/borderline non-existent, so if you see something that is not accurate/real, it's probably because I made it up. :)

I decided I do not want to kill Vilya in this AU, so she's still alive and she's a pilot for a different airline. She's also the person responsible for Keyleth becoming a pilot.

The last thing Keyleth needs to graduate flight school is to pilot a commercial flight (don't worry, this is completely safe!), so Korrin and Vilya book tickets for that flight to show Keyleth their support.

The flight itself is short (like from Emon to Westruun or Kymal kind of short), and Keyleth obviously has a much more experienced co-pilot (his name is Kerrek and he's been a pilot for as many years as Keyleth has been alive) that helps her through any difficulties she might have. Coincidentally, the twins are working on the flight and that's when Keyleth meets them (and the twins immediately flirt with the cute new pilot). At the end of the flight, once the plane is clear of passengers and only the crew (and her parents) remain, Keyleth is given her wings by Kerr.

[master-piece]

They are finally matching 🥹

Commission by @heneryque

[shepscapades]

[Part 1] [Part 2] [PART 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Don’t Let it Reach the Heart]

Finally! Part 3 is here!! yippee!!! As a refresher, this takes place at the beginning of season 9, when Doc and Xisuma try to boot Etho back up after he shuts down pre-Season 8 Finale, set to the vibes of Joywave’s Destruction from DBHC Etho’s playlist! Ouguguh I’ve been looking forward to posting this part so much; it has some of my favorite shots so far… something about the grey-fade of Doc going into shock, something about the last two pages with xisuma and doc’s expressions… idk!! i really loved working on these :] Hope you’re enjoying the horrific, horrific ride!! =w=

As a partially insignificant but Special-To-Me note: Xisuma has always referred to dbhc doc as “Docm”�� this is actually the first time X ever calls him “Doc.”

[piratefishmama]

Fake it Till you Make It | Part 13

“Buckley residence”

“Melissa, my second favourite Buckley! Hi, it’s Steve, is Robin there?”

“Oh Steve! Yes, yes one moment, I’ll just—weren’t you on holiday with your parents aaaand—?” he’d been calling Eddie his ‘partner’ for the week leading up to the big holiday. Never dropping any names, but given he’d found a sort of second home at the Buckleys… they were relentless in finding out who he was dating.

Since it’d never be Robin.

He wasn’t falling for it, no matter how deep they’d been into flower power back in the day. If he came out, Robin would end up coming out in solidarity and he knew she wasn’t ready yet so—“Yep, calling from Chicago airport, bit of a time sensitive call” he wasn’t giving it up.

“Oop, I’ll grab her—” there was a scuffle on the line then a quick “ROBIN, STEVE’S ON THE PHONE” another quick scuffle later and suddenly

“Aren’t you supposed to be on a plane right now, Dingus?”

“I’m in Chicago! Just checkin in on my baaaaaby, how’s my little bun today? Any morning sickness yet?”

“Robin!!”

“Mom get off the phone!!”

“Hahaha I’m kidding Melissa! Can I talk to Robbie alone though?”

“Unbelievable, you kids are turning me grey.”

“You’re as beautiful as ever though!” The other line clicked off, and Robin’s snickering laughter was all that remained. “One day she’s gonna stay on just to call my bluff.”

“But that is not today, again, aren’t you supposed to be on a plane? What’s up?”

“…Okay so, hypothetically, if you were fake dating someone you… I dunno… maybe, sorta… click really well with, can laugh with, and maybe sorta like a little, would you—”

“Steven Leopold Harrington do you have a crush on your boyfriend?”

“Fake, fake boyfriend, Robbie, fake. And that isn’t my middle name.”

“You’re not DENYING it! It's not even been a DAY yet, Steve!”

“No, I’m not—well… I’d call it more an interest than a crush, but that’s why I’m calling you, what would you do?”

“Pine uselessly for years, you know this.”

“Got it, pine uselessly” He could do that. He was doing that already, sort of. He’d watched in squinty eyed rage while a newsstand cashier with a nose ring flirted with his fake boyfriend while he grabbed a drink to down during the wait between flights. It didn’t go anywhere, Eddie barely even noticed, but Steve noticed. Steve noticed everything. “You really should ask Vi—”

“NO. Listen Steve, as the kids would say, you have found an ‘ultimate cheat code’ to asking your crush out, listen closely now, don’t want you to miss it… you’re already dating him!”

“It’s fake though!” Luckily his parents were off showing Eddie a cool mural they found last time they flew through. No chance of them hearing him.

“So?! Just act like it’s real! It’s like a test, you have a week to see if you’re actually growing ooey gooeys for this guy, and at the end of it, you’ll know if you wanna keep him.” Brilliant in theory but one small hiccup

“What if he doesn’t want me at the end of the week?” The fact that he hadn’t had a solid date in forever before the scheme looming over his head and heart like a dark cloud of suffering.

“I will eat my own shoe. Trust me dingus, trust me. He’ll want you, just work that mysterious Harrington Charm I’ve heard so much about. You’re already half-way there, you get to kiss him already.”

“…Okay, it’s gotta be the real stinker shoe though, you know the one.”

“The skunk one?!”

“Yep. The skunk one.”

“But we were gonna use that on—” Kevin, they were gonna hide it in Kevin’s office after he refused every holiday request Robin put in for a month after she, very politely, shot him and his advances down, why they still had it was… a mystery. They kept forgetting to get rid of it. “Fine, the skunk one. I will eat the skunk shoe, that is how confident I am that Eddie will want you, now please go and spend time with your way cooler than you boyfriend before your parents turn him into a normie.”

“Miss you already.”

“Miss you more”

“Miss you most.”

“Hang up.”

“No you han—” she hung up, and Steve couldn’t help but laugh about it knowing that undoubtedly. She’d be laughing on her end too.

The second flight was much easier to get Eddie onto. In fact, after they spent the hour between flights milling around the terminal, Eddie led him down the gangway, hand in hand, demanding he hurry up or “they’ll leave without us, my precious little harlot!!” there was no rush, they were actually first in line at the gate in front of his own parents, whom Eddie beat to the front of the queue, dragging Steve with him, still ribbing him for the mile high club thing.

He was not going to live that down any time soon.

The flight, in theory would give him a lot of time to think though. Nine hours. In seats that were too far apart. His parents in the middle of the cabin in a semi-enclosed pod-like structure comprised of two seats and a desk between them which they both shared to work on some paperwork, and he and Eddie on opposite sides of the plane.

Which sucked. Because he couldn’t hold Eddie’s hand.

He couldn’t make sure Eddie was okay, and that alone really dug into his time to think about things, because his brain was quite stuck on the fact that Eddie was alone on the other side of the cabin likely going through it as the second flight excitement could only last so long, and that just wasn’t okay.

Eddie couldn’t even do anything to pass the time, he’d packed all but one of his notebooks in his checked luggage, Steve was pretty damn sure he'd go insane if he had to just sit there with nothing to do for a whole nine hours.

So, they teamed up. From opposite sides of the cabin, because somehow Eddie just understood what Steve wanted him to do without having to be told.

It took them a joint effort all of one hour into the flight to puppy-dog eye his parents into switching seats with them.

This allowed them to pick at each other’s ‘gourmet’ meals, Eddie stealing several of his steak fries, and Steve stealing both the last bite of his steak, and two of his orange slices, it allowed Eddie to ramble on about the D&D campaign he was plotting to send the kids through when they got back, allowed Steve to subtly plant the idea into Eddie's mind that maybe... maybe he might be interested in seeing what that looked like.

Maybe they could hold the first session at his place when his parents went away again. Plenty of room! He could watch for once, instead of ribbing Dustin for it and purposefully never getting the name of the game right.

All leading to them both settling in their reclining seats, wrapped up in blankets, facing each other's smiling faces, and falling into an incredibly easy food-coma slumber for the remainder of their flight.

Both wishing the seats were just... a little closer.

Part 15

[talktonytome]

bucktommy au> airline pilot Tommy x cabin crew Buck. They get caught making out in the crew bunks while they're supposed to be resting during a long haul flight

ty for the prompt! I had fun with this one 🩷 ✈️

Tommy’s nearing the end of his sleep shift, when he’s suddenly jostled awake by a warm mass of solid muscle on top of him, a head perched on his chest. Evan. He smiles before opening his eyes, then takes a moment before blinking himself fully awake. When he rubs the sleep from his eyes and he blinks into focus, Evan’s bright blue eyes and dimpled smile greet him.

“Hey, you,” he mumbles, leaning in enough to press a chaste kiss to Evan’s mouth. 

“Hey yourself, Captain Kinard,” Evan greets him, lowering his voice and tilting his head in that way he does when he flirts. Oh, he’s playing dirty, using his title like that. 

“Evan,” Tommy groans. The man gives him a shit-eating grin and Tommy should protest, he really should, but damn, he can never refuse him. “Shouldn’t you be in the cabin?”

“Eh, Ravi’s covering for me,” he shrugs. “I missed you.” Evan straddles him properly now and starts mouthing at his jaw and down his neck. There’s not much room to move; the cabin crew bunks are barely big enough for one grown man, let alone two big guys like them. Tommy settles on gripping Evan’s hips, holding on for dear life as he works to unravel him. 

“C’mere,” Tommy cups the back of Evan’s neck and brings him down for a thorough kiss, the kind that leaves him breathless and makes him feel like he’s flying, the prelude to more. It’s all teeth and tongue and desperate, knowing they don’t have much time. Anyone could come in at any time- the crew is always in and out for their turn to get some shut-eye. 

Evan leaves his mouth momentarily, on a mission to suck bruises on and beneath his clavicle; a proper pilot can’t go around visibly covered in hickies, after all. Tommy roams his hands across every part of Evan he has access to- down huge, muscled biceps, across a strong, broad chest and his sides, feeling the notch of every rib along the way.

Evan’s rutting down onto him now and oh, the friction is amazing. Tommy thrusts up, matching him in rhythm, then cups his face with two big hands, bringing him in for more kisses. Evan moans and Tommy has to remind him to keep it down. “Shh, baby,” he mouths against his lips. 

Suddenly, there’s a loud cough a few feet away and both men freeze. 

“Captain Kinard.” And of course, it’s Hen, one of his co-pilots. She clears her throat. “First Officer Han asked me to find you, wanted to go over some things before rotating, but I can see that you’re… busy,” she tries and fails to hide a smirk.

“Erm,” he says smoothly. Evan’s no help, as he shakes with laughter, hiding his face in Tommy’s chest. “I’ll uh, I’ll see him up there shortly, Captain Wilson.” 

“Sure, I’ll tell him you’re finishing up inspecting things down here,” Hen grins and Tommy knows he’ll be getting shit from both her and Howie later. With that she pivots and walks away, leaving them alone once more.

Evan lifts his head up from Tommy’s chest and gives him his signature puppy eyes. “To be fair-"

“Don’t,” Tommy cuts him off. “They’re never gonna let us live it down,” he sighs. 

“So is now a bad time to tell you everyone knows, um, about our inspections?” 

“What?!” Tommy squeaks. 

Evan leans up to kiss his nose and slots his thumb on the cleft of Tommy’s chin.

“Why do you think nobody comes down here when we’re together? Well, except for today, apparently.”

Tommy can’t help but chuckle, shaking his head in disbelief- of course this is his life. And he wouldn’t trade it for the world. 

[moirabarrie]

POV you’re a flight attendant in Faerun (your bg3 companions are your customers)

I saw this poll yesterday and got a way too involved!!

Minthara : That powerful CEO who’s (secretly) afraid of flying. Business class only. Needs recognition of her status. You're lucky she's a little anxious (softer, she depends on you a little), she often makes the waiters cry when she's on the ground and bellow.

Laezel : is scared of flying too, obviously. But she suffers in silence (please say something nice to her!) + she’s tense because she had to put her weapons in the hold. Follows all the instructions from the crew carefully. Yeah sitting her next to Gale is a good idea.

Gale : Can explain how the plane works. Very nice and thoughtful. « Those long-haul flights must be tiring for you. ». Wants to talk. Give your opinion about the movies he’s watching, he’ll love it. Careful after 5mins, he’ll try to convince you that it’s unfair that Tara has to stay in her bag during the whole the flight, she’s not a pet she’s so much more than that. (True)

Alfira : First flight. Says yes when you ask her what she would like to drink.

Wyll : Respectfull to everyone. Charms people around him. Makes jokes. Watches romcom and Christmas movies. Flight attendants in the galley talk about him "Did you see that passenger row 19? Handsome" and more.. Hardly anyone recognizes he’s the Blade of Frontiers.

Halsin : Why did he get on that plane in the first place ? Default doctor on board. Lovely passenger. Unfortunately, he doesn’t eat anything because the vegetarian meal is ultra-processed, even worse than the main option. Is mortified when he sees all the food, plastic and paper waste :( He’s open to join the mile high club, on this flight. (With you or/and your purser)

Ketheric : « My sound isn’t working. » (didn’t put the headphones on)

Astarion (purser) : HATES his job. Don’t bother him unless it’s very important. Asks the captain to create turbulence (or to turn the seat belt sign on) when too many people are standing in his galley.

Mizora : Crazy. Rude and demanding yes but most importantly crazy. Threat to safety. Must be stopped. Quickly. You can disturb Astarion for that. And ask a sane passenger (who doesn't cast fireballs) for help, Halsin will be happy to help you.

Withers (flight attendant with you) : He's done this job for YEARS. Jaded. Nothing can impress him, not even a crash. Always matches your mood at 4am on night watch. (Depressed zombie)

I can’t picture Karlach and Shadowheart as customers as clearly as the others. They'd make a good Co pilot/Pilot duo I think. But Shadowheart would be an amazing sarcastic flight attendant too and passengers would love her for that.

[luckkythirt33n]

HellsGate Airlines

Coming soon to an ao3 near you.

[turtledotjpeg]

This came from a randomized AU prompt involving flight attendants and characters meeting in a coffee shop - I went with the main four meeting in an off-brand airport starbucks (plus melody because I have a blorbo agenda here :P), but got thoroughly sidetracked drawing melody + pika as flight attendants haha

(gon & killua meet in the airport and quickly hit it off, but while goofing off they accidentally bowl over leorio who really needed that coffee after 18 hours in transit back to medical school

kurapika is about ready to murder leorio - not for the coffee stain, but because he didn't apologize sincerely enough - but then gon jumps in very politely and says it was his fault and he's very sorry. kurapika decides to let it go :)

some handwavey logic later and they all end up on the same plane. kurapika gives gon and killua extra bags of the little pretzels and nearly kills leorio again for trying to flirt with melody. they all have a feeling it's not the last time they'll cross paths 🙂)

[bradshawsbaby]

Come fly with me ✈️

[buff-muffin]

Travelling Luffy modern AU:

A modern AU where when Luffy met Shanks as a kid he and his mates were living in a van travelling the country probably as some form of criminal but no one in the sleepy village of Foosha knew him. And it inspired Luffy to travel when he grew up. So after high school Luffy picks up random jobs saving money for himself and others to travel going on these grand trips over seas and when he gets back squats at a new friends place and finds a new shitty job to save money and does it all again. He tries to get all his friends to travel with him though it doesn’t always work out so it’s usually two or three of them.

And even in completely different countries Luffy just has a way of befriending the locals finding the best restaurants and activities and even making genuine friends who he is still pen pals with years later. So many times the craziest things have happened to him but Luffy never takes photos on his journey so Nami and the other Strawhats had made it their mission to document every bullshit lucky occasion because no one will believe him otherwise.

His car broke down? Yeah turns out the mayor of the city found them and helped them out. Now they regularly share animal pics. The random old man he befriended in a big city? Yeah turns out he’s actually one of shank’s dads and a criminal and while though retired is still conning a casino for their money and running from the government. The tall rando he fought at a restaurant before both of them decided to just eat and chill? Turns out his mother is one of the biggest gang leaders in the country and he is her right hand man.

Ace also travels but never as frequently as Luffy does now. He’s seen the big places and heard plenty of stories from his friends (the white beards) but is pretty happy in the city. So it’s always a pleasant surprise when the random stranger Luffy befriended happens to know is big brother.

It’s even funnier if you imagine that’s how Luffy meets the grandline strawhats. Like Robin was an exchange student staying overseas, he befriended and greeted her when she returned home. Chopper was graduating high school in a sleepy snow town and because of Luffy decided to head to the university local to him to become a doctor. Franky was actually a professional mechanic and after talking and a lot of pushing decided to make a better name for himself in Luffy’s town for a fresh start. Brook was an old professional singer who was stuck over seas they randomly found and decided to help out, renewing his passport finding his birth certificate ect. He now performs at bars and is working on a solo career. Jimbe was travelling for his own kind of work though after a few encounters with Ace and then Luffy, he found himself so charmed and in need to settle a little, chose to become a teacher at the local university.

The one time Luffy flew by himself because none of his friends could make time he ended up having to stay over seas for two years due to issues with his visa. By some fucking miracle Rayleigh was there and ended up looking after the kid helping him with his piss poor education, inability to hold a stable job and his own house. Luffy came home to the biggest party ever and while most of his friends graduated he started taking online courses while travelling got a share apartment with Zoro and started really cleaning up his resume and not quitting his fucking job every time he traveled.

Luffy just has the travel bug and a need for adventure and has taken all of the east blue gang with him multiple times on these adventures. Something always goes wrong but works out in the best ways.

[jrooc]

We wrote a fun little romcom airline pilots 🛫 AU full of fluff, angst and a little 🔥 for @blue-disco-lights. Happy birthday Julia 🥳 from me and @mybrainismelted 👯‍♀️

Summary: Mickey is an airline pilot who's world gets thrown upside down when his teenage crush suddenly appears as his co-pilot one day.

Rated: M

Read it now on ao3!

[ravendruid]

Based on the replies, I'm picking Keyleth as a pilot, so here are some HCs!

The twins are both flight attendants, and when they are placed on the same flight (which is rare), they host a silent competition to see who flirts the most with the passengers.

Vax loves getting assigned to first class because people always forget stuff behind, so he collects trinkets. Sometimes, he uses the five finger discount to get trinkets. ����

Keyleth tried to become a flight attendant, but she realized she was too shy and awkward to deal with people, so she decided to become a pilot instead.

Keyleth met the twins on her first flight, and immediately, Vax and Vex hosted a competition to see who would get the cute new pilot's number first (spoiler alert, it was Vex).

Y'all, new vaxleth au fresh in my brain. Tell me which option is the best:

Keyleth is a pilot and Vax a flight attendant, or Vax as a pilot and Keyleth as a flight attendant?

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Robin: Is Franky piloting today's flight?

Franky: Yup! Let's do a good job!

Robin: Then we are going to fly safely today *smile* I'm sure you won't let your guard down, will you?

Another pilot: WHY DOES MISS ROBIN LIKE YOU SO MUCH WHEN YOU ARE SUCH A PERVERT!!??

Franky: Stop, you're making me blush you bastard~

Another pilot: I'll kill you!!

[racingliners]

Sebson & wink 😉 for the one word prompt!

Soooo I went over 5 sentences but in my defence I came up with this as I went to sleep last night and had to dig through my brain to remember it this morning 😅

"One of these days," Jenson paused to quietly sigh as Sebastian ever so slowly did up the buttons on his shirt. "You're actually going to stay with me long enough to have breakfast."

Seb finished putting on his uniform, deliberately leaving his tie until last, and let out a small laugh. Pilots from Lufthansa really were the worst.

"I'll see you in Tokyo schatz." He aimed a wicked grin squarely at Jenson, and winked at him as he left the hotel room.

send me a ship/characher(s) and a one word prompt and I'll write a 5 sentence fic

[ten-cent-sleuth]

I love taking the airport express in my city because it’s amusingly dissonant to see people in full pilot get-up on public transportation. Like logically it makes sense that pilots would take the city bus to get to the airport just like the rest of us can, but it doesn’t feel right. You have the fancy cap and the starched shirt, sir, shouldn’t you be driving the heavy machinery, not sitting with us passenger plebs?