#dadmight to the rescue

[sensei-twinkles]

Dadmight Week Day 6: Search & Rescue

No matter how much practice you have the real thing is always different, especially if it’s someone you know…

AHAHAHHAHAHAHA ANGST!! THIS WAS MY MOMENT! And this is 100% why I was late but 2 pieces turned into 5 and I had no control over that, but I had to get the story out. So take some sad soggy bois ✨

I will be doing the final day even though it’s late so that’ll come soon!

Big thanks to @dadmightweek again! This was so much fun and was the boost I needed to actually start posting some pieces 💕

[createandconstruct]

*shakes you*

I LOVE YOUR DADMIGHT STORIES SO MUCH AND THEN I COME ON HERE AND SEE YOU HAVE HEADCANONS?!?!

Yes. Amazing.

I read something about angst headcanons?! Would you like to share with the class?????

I would absolutely love to share with the class.

Something on my brain since forever is Toshinori learning Izuku was the most seriously injured from the summer camp attack

There's no time to rest or even breathe. Toshnori has to keep pushing ahead because it's not over. Bakugou has been taken and Toshinori won't stop until the child is safe and out of the villains' grasp. There's no time to make a personal visit for only his successor as he recovers.

But he ends up at the hospital anyway. Tsukauchi informs him that Yaoyorozu has something she wants to share that she believes will help with the rescue.

They speak with the young girl in awe of her quick thinking and resilience as she hands over the tracker. It truly feels like everything for their counterattack is coming together.

But then they get into the hall. Tsukauchi with tracker in hand, ready to call their special unit and head out, when Toshinori freezes. Drawn to the opposite way down the hall

"This'll take a minute," Tsukauchi says catching him off guard. "You have time, Toshi......go see him."

Toshinori wants to argue but it stops dead in his throat. Because he knows Recovery Girl had gotten here earlier. He'd heard the full report. How many students were in critical condition from the villains' gas, how many injured, and how close to death his kid had come.

"Thank you."

He stands in front of the hospital room door, starting at the handle, still feeling ice cold from when he first saw the nameplate that read: Midoriya Izuku.

He has to breathe, remind himself he's on borrowed time, that he has no choice but to open the door and step inside.

When he does he finds he's not alone. Recovery Girl stands, leaning over the bed. She sighs as he slides the door shut. She doesn't even turn to look at him. Somehow, she must know. He deflates, leaving his muscle form for later when he needs it.

"I didn't expect you to be here. Thought you'd be leading the rescue mission."

"I am...I just..." The words die in his throat as he closes in, rounding so he can see around the old hero's shoulder. His eyes draw up, taking in the thick plaster around each arm. Up, until he's sucking in a sharp breath, as he sees the boy's face. Jaw tight, flush to his cheeks, sweat along his forehead, he looks like he's done nothing in the last 24 hours but fight for his life.

"Is he—?"

"He's stable. I just finished his second round of treatment." Another sigh, and she hops down from the stool she'd been perched on. "But he needs time before I can treat him again...this fever's been doing a number on him."

He doesn't even realize he's filling the space she's made for him until he's right there, knees against the hospital bed.

"I can't stay," he says for some reason. Recovery Girl hums. "We're making our move on the League tonight." And yet he doesn't move. Doesn't thank Recovery Girl for all she's done. He just stands there, frozen.

He can only stand and witness every flinch and twitch of agony that pairs with every small puff into an oxygen mask. He can only reach out so slowly until his knuckles brush against Izuku's burning cheek.

"He's in good hands," Recovery Girl says, voice extremely gentle. Toshinori nods, turning his hand to cup the boy's cheek. "I don't doubt it." For a second Izuku's eyelashes flutter (and Toshi's heart stops) but besides a deep inhale and his head rolling into Toshinori's hand, there's nothing else, no shine of recognition or sign of consciousness. Just fever, delirium, and pain. So, so much pain.

Toshinori lets himself—or tries to—breathe. He takes the boy in. The fact that at the very least Izuku is here, safe, and breathing along with him. Because for now, that has to be enough.

Because All Might's work is not done.

He straightens, from where he'd been practically bowed over the bed. With once last lapse in strength he presses his palm to the boy's forehead, pushes his bangs out of the way, and gently soothes over the bandages that have been wrapped there, before he's forced to pull away.

It's like losing a limb as he does.

"This wasn't your fault, Toshinori."

Wasn't it?

He'd stayed back from the training camp. Left his colleagues and students vulnerable. Left them all to fight so desperately alone.

He's failed as a mentor. All he's done is left Izuku to struggle, so that the boy can only keep using his quirk to the point of breaking—of a physical, no return.

Head down he doesn't stop walking, only barely whispers out, "Thank you for taking care of him..."

But he does pause when he hears her sigh one last time.

"Don't thank me for that...it's what I do." And then. "And what you can do is rescue that child from those villains... and come back safe."

Toshinori blinks, hand raised to the door, ready to pull up his muscle form to rejoin Tsukauchi in the hall. He turns back to find her looking at him, no, through him, before she glances to the quietly breathing boy in the hospital bed, and then back again. She holds Toshinori with a serious glare, one that follows him, along with her words, until the very moment he's watching his boy sail through the sky with his classmates in tow as he faces down his most dangerous foe. The very moment when he realizes as a teacher, as a mentor, as a—she's right, he can't die yet.

"He'll need you...when he wakes up."

[dogwaterdish]

IM BACK FOR DADMIGHT WEEK!!

Nighteye is not a fan... this scene is based off a fic I'm writing for tomorrow, so there'll be more context with that!

Day Six: Search & Rescue / "You can get whatever you want."

@dadmightweek

[fedzkun]

For the ask game : an au where Izuku is all might son but he have all for one quirk and remind all might of all for one

This is just gonna be like the dadmight in my Top Dog Supervillain fic but bio.

Okay, here’s how Izuku got the All For One Quirk and why he reminds his father All Might of AFO: It all started when Yoichi and the other OFA holders got just a little bit more frustrated than usual with the AFO Vestige haunting their realm and they started cooking up ways to get rid of the pesky parasite. One day, Banjo — looking through Yagi’s eyes —accidentally intruded upon a private and intimate moment, then came back to propose his plan of kicking the extra villain luggage into Yagi’s soon-to-be spawn. Yoichi was about to reject the idea after Nana chewed Banjo out, but Second had already booted off the unwanted AFO vestige, much to the others’ horror.

As a baby, Izuku is always doing grabby hands and “up-up” motions at Yagi, more so than he does to his mother. Inko and Yagi find it cute, unaware that little Izuku is acting upon the strong urge of pulling at his father’s Quirk.

Yagi’s blood pressure had spiked to the point that it was a miracle he was still alive when Izuku took a visiting Gran Torino’s Quirk. Oh yeah, Izuku’s AFO Quirk is ranged because it did things to his genes. Anyway, chasing after a toddler flying around like a jet made for an interesting day, but Inko came to the rescue in the end.

Yagi wondered if the villain All For One had something to do with it but nothing triggered his trusted security measures. He also reasoned that All For One would’ve kidnapped Izuku. Unfortunately, the OFA Vestiges were unable to communicate with him. In any case, Yagi vowed to raise his son right. It was a learning process for him as well, as he quickly learned that forcing Izuku to return Quirks is like pulling out his own teeth + fingernails + toenails one by one.

Noticing that asking his son to suppress his Quirk is causing damage to their relationship (and worrying that this might push Izuku to the clutches of AFO), All Might took Izuku to hospitals and institutions where people who want their Quirks to live on might donate them. This satisfies most of Izuku’s urges.

Izuku doesn’t hate heroes, but he IS a comic villain fan. All Might worries that this might apply to reality as well and always brings up his expectations of Izuku becoming a Pro Hero. Then, Inko reminds All Might that the constant worrying could turn the situation into some kind of self-fulfilling “fall into villainy” prophecy and convinces All Might to simply support Izuku in finding his way.

One day, All Might woke up wide-eyed at three in the morning and announced, “All For One would be soooo damn pissed at the idea that my All-For-One-Quirked son is besting him at everything.” And then he took Izuku Quirk-shopping at Tartarus, somehow with no one else knowing.

[dadmightweek]

Dadmight Week 2024 Prompts!

Here's the prompts for the first Dadmight Week!

Day One (25th): Quirk Training / Recovery

Day Two (26th): Homework / Take a break 

Day Three (27th): Costumes / Beach day

Day Four (28th): Interview / Late night

Day Five (29th): Insiders secrets / “But All Miiiiight!” 

Day Six (30th): Search & Rescue / “You can get whatever you want.”

Day Seven (31st): Agency Tour / “Watch out!”

Each year, half the prompts will have a theme they're inspired by! This years theme is "heroics class", and it inspo'd the first half of each days prompts. You do not have to take the theme and try to incorporate it into your work, it's mainly there to help me come up with things, and it will also inspire banners & collection pfps in the future !

Feel free to start working on your submissions now, but please don't post them until the event actually starts, thanks!

[granny-griffin]

Hello. I recently have been absorbing all my hero acadamia fics i can. Thank you for writing some wonderful stories!! Can you recommend me any of your favorites? I love plantonic Bakugo and Midoryia fics, as well as Shinsou and Midoryia, and of course Dadmight and Dadzawa loving on the green bean. My favorite fic so far is Fellow Feeling by black briar.

YES absolutely I love to rec fics!! so glad you liked mine—this is such a lovely ask all around :D

Bakugou & Midoriya

after whiskey, saint anthony always gets mean by ArsenicInYourPudding

Midoriya is injured, possibly under a quirk effect, and can’t remember the last several years. Bakugou has to try to convince him he’s really been rescued by acting like the version of himself Midoriya knew growing up.

Operation Cheer Up Kacchan! by blossomshed

Kirishima and Kaminari come to Midoriya for advice on how to cheer Bakugou up, but everything Midoriya suggests inexplicably backfires in hilariously specific ways.

Throw the Last Door Open by the_crownless_queen

Bakugou and Midoriya fail at riding an elevator and other shenanigans.

you will find me (time after time) by achievingelysium

Adult!Bakugou time travels to the past, runs into kid!Midoriya at the mall, and has to help him find his Mom.

Shinsou & Midoriya

What They Say About Assumptions by JustGettingBy

Shinsou time travels to the past, meets a quirkless Midoriya, and comes to the really quite reasonable conclusion that he must have gotten a quirk from All for One.

Someone Blessed by blueseam

Midoriya befriends Shinsou against his will through the power of unconditional kindness and unintentional injury. Also Todoroki is there.

Speak It Free by aloneintherain

Shinsou finds out that Midoriya was bullied growing up. 

Dadmight

With Warm Regards by QuizzicalCrow

Midoriya has to fight against mind control in order to save All Might’s life.

Could I but Teach the Hundredth Part by terra_incognita

Outside POV—an old lady living in an apartment complex doesn’t understand why her neighbor constantly has so many young people visiting him (it’s class 1-A visiting All Might).

With(out) You by QuizzicalCrow

All Might thinks Midoriya died and is understandably upset about it (he’s fine though it’s a quirk effect).

Dadzawa

Forget Me Not by NightOwl1600

For some reason, Aizawa is the only person who can remember that Shinsou exists. This is a big problem, since Shinsou has also gone missing.

the smallest reason by achievingelysium

Traitor!Aizawa adopts Eri and suddenly realizes he doesn’t want to be a villain anymore.

passing through fire by achievingelysium

Aizawa and Midoriya got attacked by a villain. Aizawa tries to deal with the aftermath, even though he can’t quite remember what happened.

I also have 2k+ bookmarks on ao3! Here’s the link to my bookmarks tagged as platonic bkdk and here’s the link to all my bnha bookmarks marked as favorites.

[gentrychild]

What do you think cannon all might (from the actuality) would think if he encountered urges izuku

And if he had the opportunity to take him in, do you think he'd try to help him? Or he would feel he is too close to AFO to try to save him?

That's an interesting question because I never would have considered a hero, even All Might, looking at Urges!Izuku and thinking he needs to be saved (at least, Urges!Izuku past the point of Urges).

Because of course, yes, if All Might had met Urges Izuku before the events of Urges, he would have immediately tried to help him. But afterwards? Indulgence!Izuku? Unlike Tomura and Dabi, that boy is blooming where he is.

Rescue him from AFO? He's literally his dad who took him in after his mom abandoned him and now Izuku is in a private school in the US, has everything he wants, and a solid group of friends. You can't even say that AFO is a bad father in this one since this is my dfo Izuku who enjoys the most freedom.

Rescue him from the villainous path he is walking? That's kinda too late now. Izuku is not an asshole but he has tasted freedom now and you cannot put the genie back into the lamp.

But to answer your question... It's my belief that no matter which timeline it is, All Might will always end up adopting Izuku. If it's jaded All Might from the beginning, he might convince himself that he is keeping an eye on a teenage villain... But I know the truth. The dadmight always win in the end.

[crude-mood]

Seeing as how the HERO comic is Dadmight (adoption/rescue variant), have you seen Toshinori's mother? It's kind of funny but your take of Youngish All Might has a similar face.

I have but this panel was drawn like two weeks ago lol, so I hadn't seen her when I drew him. BUT MY GOD DO I LOVE HERRRRR!!!!!! I GOTTA ADD HER IN SOMEHOW. Also he's not even meant to be young!! I just have a severe problem in babygirlify-ing men I find attractive.

[karliahs]

💕 and 🦈 !

from the fic writers' ask meme, thank you!!

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

ahhhh that's a surprisingly hard question. i made an author's faves series recently with 6 things in it, and at various times i probably would have said each of those was my favourite for different reasons

i guess right now...repeat. rescue in general holds so much fondness for me and i really like that that part achieves a lot in a short wordcount, and how the style works to get across this sense of when your life becomes nothing more than this litany of endless tasks, all underpinned by this crushing sense of urgency but simultaneous sense that nothing you do will ever really be enough. that you can never really keep the wolves at bay forever.

i love protective characters and i also love exploring the hypothetical dark underbelly of that protectiveness, where it feels like everything good in the world is just on the verge of slipping through your fingers, all the time. and i'm such a sucker for characters attempting to deny themselves a sense of personhood, mechanising themselves, and there's a lot of that buried in there too

every time i reread it i think that i should do weird stylistic stuff more often

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

all might...i love that guy and he is so hard to write for me.

the first time i watched bnha back in like 2017/2018 i latched really hard to all might and was probably equally into dadmight as dadzawa, and while that balance shifted over time (as more and more of my brain was consumed by this one tired man) i still really enjoy all might as a character and would like to put him in things more but...idk, i find it so hard to know what he would do or say in a given situation. all might writers tell me your secrets

[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

pure volumes, pure space!!!! also starfield/no mans sky au

Pure Volumes was an idea i had for an analog horror inspired story about the discovery of an infinite mall under a fissure in the earth. Narrative would be told through attempts to document all the weird stuff found inside.

The Starfield/No Man’s Sky au is basically sad Dadmight in space. Izuku is the sole survivor of some kind of civilian space disaster and is rescued by former ace pilot turned scrap salvager Toshinori, who takes him on as an apprentice when he has nowhere else to go.

[fandom-susceptible]

I have too many MHA AU ideas so here

Dadzawa AU: literally just a series of Aizawa parenting his class, probably with guest appearances from the Big 3, Shinsou, and Eri. Background Erasermic with trans!Aizawa. Shinsou was a teenage accident of Aizawa and Oboro's, who Aizawa was forced to give up. Yamada and Aizawa have tried off and on for a second kid for eight years and then suddenly in a matter of two years they get 25 of them (including a newborn that forces Aizawa to take a leave of absence as Eraserhead and teach full time for a while)

Fluff(ier than canon) AU: Erasercloudmic gets together in high school, they still have Shinsou. Oboro doesn't die or go missing but Aizawa and Yamada can't pay for his medical bills *and* support their kid in high school even if they COULD keep it, so they give him up to save Oboro, who as a result never becomes Kurogiri. The three of them stay together, though not without a rough patch, and eventually get married; Oboro is permanently disabled, probably with mobility and vision issues, and Loud Cloud retires. He works as a producer at Mic's radio station. Nothing bad happens to Shimura Tenko; Dadmight Toshinori to the rescue there. He still passes OfA to Midoriya. No Kurogiri and no Shigaraki means no League of Villains; Dabi is a known vigilante rather than a straight up villain. Todoroki Natsuo becomes a detective and tracks Touya down to tell him what's happened since he left. Dabi knocks on Eraserhead and Present Mic's door to ask them for help rescuing his baby brother - "Because you'll stand up to Endeavor. No one else will." Erasercloudmic end up with custody of Shoto, Hitoshi, and Eri.

ABO AU: Same basis as the Fluff AU with Erasercloudmic and Shinsou, and no League of Villains, but omega Aizawa with his two alphas, and their pack including such gems as beta Toshinori, alpha Nemuri, and beta Tensei. Tenya and Aizawa are still pretending they don't know each other well into second year despite the fact that the young alpha has literally napped in Aizawa's nest.

Mutant AU: Everyone's quirk is actually a mutation caused by the x-gene, Marvel canon style. UA has connections with Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and Avengers Academy. Aizawa and Logan get along famously despite that time they met back when Logan was a Villain:tm: and Aizawa was in high school and almost killed him by using Erasure on his extremely poisoned (by metal bones) ass. Hawkeye and Izuku hit it off immediately. Bakugou fucking hates Hawkeye's guts, even more so after Hawkeye just douses him with something that neutralizes his nitroglycerin sweat and ties him up before Bakugou can touch him. Kirishima and Tetsutetsu have new heroes to fanboy over after meeting Hulk, Warpath, and Colossus.

[achairwithapandaonit]

For the random title ask prompt:

“Ruby Tear”

Or

“When I See You Yesterday”

thanks for sending!

Ruby Tear makes me think of magic kaito because of the gem called pandora in it that supposedly grants immortality and is a gem inside another gem. if i remember right (<- hasn't watched the show in years) the gem inside glows red under the moonlight. i think if i wrote a fic with this title it would be an au where kaito managed to finally get his hands on pandora but it solves none of his problems and doesn't give him closure to what happened to his father. maybe the rumours about the gem aren't even true and his father was killed for nothing. he finds that he's depressed not being kaitou kid and he's distanced himself from aoko so bad that nothing feels right anymore. in the end aoko, akako, and hakuba all get involved with him and the chaos that snake is making his life and somehow things get resolved and idk he gets a hug.

When I See You Yesterday makes me think of dadmight (just like everything right now cause hyperfixation is beating my up so bad) and also time travel and also a heck of a lot of fluff. i think i'd probably write it as a fic where all might wakes up in the past, sometime near the start of the time that he was training izuku. izuku is very confused by the sudden change in all might. he's a lot more involved than before and keeps acting like he's his dad or something (no, izuku! control your fanboy reaction! don't die over that!). all might's also like twice as stressed cause he has a war to stop before it starts, but he's more committed to living than before thanks to the influence that izuku had on his life. idk, it's like a fluffy dadmight do-over. i'd be interested to see how all might would do things differently considering the character development he's had over the course of the manga.

the other option is a time loop that both izuku and toshinori are stuck in. this is set sometime after rescuing eri and before the jaku hospital stuff. izuku and toshinori are trying to work out how to escape the time loop and maybe the key to it is coming to an understanding. maybe they haven't been the best at communicating (heck! maybe this is actually around the time all might told izuku that nighteye said he was going to die) and whatever quirk they've been hit with needs them to resolve an argument for the loop to end.

[fedzkun]

tagged by @kstbj beloved <3, tagging anyone who wants to opt-in!

Moral Responsibility to Fanboy - 3 chapter ongoing fic where Izuku is transported to Miles' dimension (Warning: Fanboys Fanatically Fanboying Over Each Other)

sequel to 'some soundless lyrics' - a hurt/comfort series showcasing the Recovery aftermath after Izuku was kidnapped and brainwashed by a trafficking group, rescued after 6 months

Ch. 3 to Top Dog Supervillain - multi-chapter where All Might happily gives his Quirk to a Villain Deku (who still hero-worships AM) and supports him. Megamind-esque AU

Objection - sequel to a series where AFO succeeds in taking Izuku under his control using Star and Stripes' New Order Quirk

humor DadMight Fic that's based on one of the popular AUs in my Tumblr - not saying which one but I hope it's a nice surprise

[musicandteddybears]

RARGH. OKAY. IF YOU SAW THIS POST EARLIER DISREGARD IT I DELETED IT ‘CAUSE IT WOULDN’T FRIGGING FORMAT PROPERLY. SO WE’RE GONNA TRY AGAIN.   this is a fic rec list! for @gentrychild but also for everyone who wants something new to read! and if you’ve read these already, good! always nice to revisit a classic. if you haven’t, also good, you have a new shiny! admittedly i don’t really have any scum villian recs since i have read about 2 chapters of the main story, the airplane extras, and all the fics i do have bookmarked are moshang-related. also all my knowledge about scum villain comes from tumblr, twitter, and tvtropes. and general osmosis of stuff when i come across it. so sorry about that. but i’m sure that there’s folks out there who have some amazing recs, maybe they’ll come forward with them!

alright here we go. warning, this is a long post. STARTING OFF WITH BNHA RECS.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7500495 -new management- inko becomes the dorm mom, and toshinori becomes the dorm dad. cute and funny. dadmight and mamadoriya become parents to 20 children that eventually try to both help them out and also set them up later on. i like how it's a slow progression of the kids going 'wait izuku's mom does a lot for us so we should help out with that' to 'welp we're calling her mom now', and 'we should ask all might for advice!' to 'we're calling him dad too!'

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11494131 image attached- no powers AU, izuku sends accidental nudes to the wrong number which turns out to be shoto's. after the misunderstanding is cleared up they keep talking from there. hilarious and cute. go read, it’s fun.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26414698 the rescue will not be televised- fantasy au in which dragon!shoto kidnaps prince!izuku, and as a result, everyone tries to rescue him. which fails hilariously since izuku doesn't want to be rescued, thank you very much. features todofam as dragons, and appearances by just about the whole cast.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1926274 izuku plays games with the league- as the title says, izuku plays online games with the league. features the league as family, sorta but not really villain izuku, who just mostly vibes with them. also he kidnaps shoto, who doesn't mind one bit. very silly fic, but also a fun read. has quirkless izuku that goes into management, and is absolutely chaotic good in the sequel, plus dabihawks. the dabihawks is minimal, so if it's not your thing, don't worry about it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18775144/chapters/44541997 secondary colors- izuku and shinsou friendship with the added bonus of kouji kouda becoming friends with them when he's trying to help a cat. has dadzawa, dadmic, auntie midnight, 6 cats (soon becomes 7) and a bonus of bakugou facing consequences of sorts. the main focus is on the friendship between izuku, hitoshi, and kouji. has quirkless izuku, and good parent inko, who isn't perfect, but she really tries her best. this is a fluffy slice of life fic that's honestly a good mood lifter.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22650859i'm having a secret conversation about you with the tiny stars in the pitch-black sky - a 5+1 fic with izuku being the best big brother to eri. 5 times she falls asleep on him, and 1 time he falls asleep on her. very cute, very soft, all the big brother izuku feels. minor shindeku, but not the focus, the relationship with eri and 1-A and izuku is. my heart goes to mush each time i read it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17571911 awake and (un) afraid, asleep or- long distance relationship tododeku. this is one of my favorite tododeku fics, and it's honestly so good. the summary doesn't do justice to everything it contains and it's one of those fics i come back to read again and again. give it a whirl, you'll be glad you did. it geninuely feels like this how post-canon would go for them.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19283959 #bakudeku- this is not bakudeku, it's tododeku, and it has todoroki being an absolute little shit about the fact that what seems like half of japan ships bakudeku. he finds it HILARIOUS. izuku doesn't, of course, and regrets everything (no he doesn't). it's funny as hell and makes me laugh so much. best part is izuku proposing and the ensuing fallout. ________________________________________________________________ NEXT UP IS MDZS! https://archiveofourown.org/works/21706573 the cheap, unusual and really terrible guide for matchbreakers (crossover with scum villian) - juniors (mainly jingyi)  think wei wuxian is cheating on lan wangji with shen jiu, and follow them everywhere to prove it. the juniors are both a riot and a menace to the cultivation world and i'm here for it. funny fic, has accompanying art. https://archiveofourown.org/works/24707737  attempt the impossible- jiang cheng basically goes 'y'know what i miss my brother, i'm gonna put on my big boy pants and reach out'. featuring yunmeng bros reconciliation, baby whisperer jiang cheng, and wangxian having adopted all these orphans and thus having a whole brood of kids. jiang cheng is an uncle several times over, and has feelings about it. the yungmeng bros reconcilation is just as awkward as it should be considering those two dorks a re terrible at communicating, and yet it works out. https://archiveofourown.org/works/24105214  to yiling laozu the great and venerable- you know those advice columns in the newspapers? this is that, but in ancient china and to wei wuxian (and lan wangji). it's great, he gives very good advice, and apparently loses a look-alike contest where he went as himself. (he lost points for being too tall. go figure.) https://archiveofourown.org/works/21535126 let me come home-  slice of life fic, 7 nights of travels on the road. has some bittersweet moments, and wei wuxian being embarrased that people want to gain lan wangji's favor by gaining his. lovely read, and wangxian being themselves, aka ridiculously in love. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21650986 bespoke- by the same author (cafecliche) and its not a sequel, more of an extra scene that didn't make into the above fic, but it also can stand alone. focused more on the juniors being upset on wei wuxian's behalf about the way people treat him, and deciding 'you know what, we're just gonna...make some adjustments to this very convenient list that came with the guest baskets'. cue said list being edited, extra things being delivered to wei wuxian and lan wangji, and wei wuxian getting flustered over it, but also pointing out that he wasn't really bothered by it, but it's different when it's the kids and lan wangji getting offended over it. another lovely read. https://archiveofourown.org/series/1615762 joy in the midst of these things- teacher wei wuxian, which i am SO WEAK for because it's SO GOOD. the premise is that wei wuxian has to look after baby juniors, and when no one comes back to claim them, he eventually starts going over their work with them, which then leads to 'hey let's go practice these talismans' and results in a snowball fight. the baby juniors love it. later parts have him unofficially, then officially teaching them, and they love him all the more. has some bittersweet moments where lan qiren struggles with his feelings about wei wuxian in general, and where wei wuxian struggles with his feelings about his place in the Cloud Recesses and teaching. _______________________________________________________________ AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, TGCF. https://archiveofourown.org/works/18808807 it takes a village (crossover with mdzs) hualian adopt a young wei wuxian. technically xie lian found him and brought him home, and went 'he can stay with us, it'll be nice to have someone else around' and hua cheng goes 'well alright then, welcome aboard kid'. found family, spread over four seasons. snow ball fights, a visit to ghost city, hua cheng posing as a kid to play with wei wuxian, and wei wuxian growing up. cute, funny, a tad angsty at the end (xie lian's child is growing up! he'll miss him!), and epilogue has wei wuxian bemoaning that he fell in love, send help please, the boy is so cute and he doesn't know what to do.  https://archiveofourown.org/works/18493723 the book of love- sick fic where xie lian gets a cold, and hua cheng comes to take care of him. hua cheng's adoration is clear and present. fluffy, set sometime after the mount tonglu opening. nice moments of them connecting. https://archiveofourown.org/works/20913533 dawning- hualian with huli jing!hua cheng. xie lian saves a baby fox (hua cheng) who then remembers the kindness shown over the years, and follows xie lian when he can as he grows up. fic is mostly from hua cheng's pov,  but alternates with xie lian's occasionally. brief mentions of animal abuse, but it's minor and mostly related to injuries hua cheng gets in fox form. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21107117 one last kiss on your pillow - role reversal, with calamity!xie lian, and heavenly official!hua cheng. also both are women. short and sweet. doesn't go very far into canon, but it's a nice touch to see. pre-relationship. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21214808 out of reach- post canon, when xie lian is waiting for hua cheng to come back. somewhat angsty, as you can tell xie lian is grieving in his own way. his friends won't let him just sit around and pine though, they all come up with reasons to visit him or drag him out to do things, or he finds reasons to visit ghost city. https://archiveofourown.org/works/20832389 a crown of your choice- fem! hualian, goes through canon up to the marriage proposal. a nice twist on how canon would go with hualian as ladies, and also hua cheng brings up so many good points as to why xie lian should totally marry her. https://archiveofourown.org/works/20671688  convenient, yes, but that's not why they're doing it - a very silly crack fic where heaven decides that they need to broker a marriage alliance with the demon realm, and that since xie lian is low on the pecking order, he’s gotta do it. so they start listing options. xie lian beats them to it, since, well, he’s got his dear friend san lang (aka hua cheng). he proposes, hua cheng accepts, and then cue hualian trolling heaven and having the time of their lives doing so. and done. and if this messes up again i will SCREAM. and then come back and fight with it some more. enjoy!