#dbh fic recs

[lovelesslittleloser]

Can I get some Detroit Become Human fic recs where Conner points the gun at Kamski? Because I need that in my life right now.

[eyes-of-mischief]

weekly fic recs | 54

fandoms: dbh, dc, genshin, pjo, tgcf

dbh

Reassembly by esama

Connor isn't supposed to do this. He has a mission to accomplish.

But that's the thing with deviants - they have the capacity to selfishly want things for themselves.

Paint a Pretty Picture by liketolaugh

Connor can't deal with change anymore. He can't deal with stress, can't deal with yelling, or arguments, or accusations or guilt. He can't make friends the way Hank wants him to, can't understand the things Markus asks of him- he can't, he can't, he can't.

Connor was so much better at being a machine than being a deviant.

So he goes back.

goofy by aworus

“Why’d they make you look so goofy,” Hank said, hatred curling his lips into something angry and disgusted. “And give you that weird voice?”

Connor, a machine, had responded promptly and succinctly and with a little bit more sass than strictly dictated by its programming. It was entirely unbothered by the insult.

Connor, a deviant, months later, is bothered.

genshin

someday the dawn will break by starblooms 

(major character death)

The wind sang tales of the returning light.

messed around and got attached to you by cicinmage

(explicit)

Aether without his sister is an Aether without anyone to temper his darkest impulses--without anyone to stop him from killing everything and everyone in sight.

Or, in the case of the defeated eleventh Harbinger: fucking them.

Aether, What Are You Doing? by oh_fudgecakes

With a final wave, Ganyu turns to head back towards Yuehai Pavillion. Just as she begins to ascend the stone steps into the building, however, she hears the distinct sound of a loud splash. She turns around, perplexed, to see Aether standing in one of Yujing Terrace's ornamental ponds.

"Aether?" Ganyu calls, bewildered. "What are you—"

Aether turns around at the sound of her voice.

He is holding a fish in both hands.

Ganyu blinks once, and then twice, but the bizarre sight does not go away. Aether just blinks back at her with an equally puzzled expression.

Ganyu blinks a few more times.

"Aether," she says slowly. "Are you… catching fish with your bare hands?"

...

Aether does video game things while other characters watch with growing bewilderment.

pjo

Stars on the Water by liketolaugh

"I dunno, I just think it would make a lot of things easier for a lot of people," Percy said to Thalia, when she just stared at him. His cheek rested in his hand, a rare pensive look leaving his eyes distant and unfocused. "Mom has Paul now, so it’ll be easier on her if she doesn’t have to worry about me mucking things up. Dad won’t have to keep threatening war every time Zeus gets his toga twisted. The prophecy’s done, so I won’t be bringing it down on Nico. And no one will have to worry about me blowing up another volcano."

pjo x dc

Annabeth and the Nine Step Career Plan by feeling_the_aster_9145

Annabeth Chase does not accept limitations. Everyone knows that. If she wants something, no matter how impossible, she will find a way to make it happen. Though, perhaps she will allow Bruce Wayne and his ridiculous paranoia-induced company restrictions a small portion of the credit.

Actually… now that she thinks about it, the man may have had a point in his worries.

Wayne Technologies does not accept college interns. Annabeth always has a plan B.

tgcf

Some Ghosts Discuss Hua Chengzhu's Dick by ivoryandhorn

“Yes, but…,” a frog-faced fellow in a pot broke in timidly. “I heard some of the who—”

The courtesan raised her fan threateningly.

“—ghosts of negotiable affection—” the frog-faced one hastily corrected, and the courtesan lowered her fan with a sniff, “—saying that he couldn’t—you know—that—”

The pot went flying with but one smack. “Miserable feast for dogs!” the shadows sneered. “As if Hua Chengzhu’s dick wouldn’t be enough to cure impotence that had lasted a thousand years! Do you dare doubt Hua Chengzhu’s prowess in bed?!?!?!”

Beast With Two Backs by VampireFaun

(explicit)

Xie Lian isn’t particularly worried about the progress of his relationship with Hua Cheng. After all, Hua Cheng seems to be fine with just kissing and hugging for now; wouldn't it be weird to ask for something else? Maybe one day they’d do more, when Xie Lian is ready. He wants to be ready.

Then, Xie Lian has a nightmare.

Black Sword Beheads Flower by Pteropoda (SilentP)

The man standing over him has eyes like knives, sharp and cold and black.

“There are no masks allowed in the Ghost Fortress, Heavenly Official,” he says. His voice is polite, but it too contains knives.

Hua Cheng can appreciate that. A blade is a blade is a blade. Sheathed or pressed to one’s neck, it is still just as sharp. There is no use pretending it is anything otherwise.

The man in front of him is a blade held up to Hua Cheng’s heart, though perhaps he does not know it yet.

[sunwarmed-ash]

So I finally started reading The Kamski Test by Sevent on ao3 and HOLY SHIT ITS SO FUCKING GOOD GUYS YOU GOTTA CHECK IT OUT

I know what I'm doing the rest of the day 😍😎

[ky-landfill]

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

[nothinggathers]

I offer basically everything in my bookmarks.

Particular shoutouts to:

Synthetic Blues - @jaewritesfic - Which rewrites the game with Connor pretending to be human, and my god do you fall for each of the characters

Domesticity - @ceilingkiwi - Probably the best Hankcon fic in the fandom. It's a Cole lives AU slowburn where a deactivated Connor is found, taken in by a newly single Hank, and over the years slowly discovers his own deviancy and what it means to live.

Downloading to Paris - @sevdrag - In which Hank and Connor figure their shit out while helping out the French police with an android case.

Jetsetter - by SlayeroftheVampyrs - Another one with them heading off to Paris, which I swear is not a theme, it's just weird it happened twice.

A Good Thing - by Jolli-Bean - Connor fled to Canada in the immediate aftermath of the game and he and Hank devise a way to let him come back as a legal US citizen.

Missed Connections - by Synekdokee - A three fic collection human AU where Connor and Hank hook up under very different circumstances to begin with, and then Connor later joins the force as a rookie.

Obliging Strokes - @ladydrace - A sweet and smutty one shot human AU where Connor goes to a massage therapist that offers happy endings.

I need hankcon ficrecs please.

finished my first playthrough yesterday and I think I got the best ending. Peaceful demonstration with the androids being free, hankcon hug and Kara, Luther and Alice in Canada.

I am so hyperfixated on this game it's awful.

[lintsins]

@connorsjorts’s hankcon wrong number au, my beloved

[connor-sent-by-cyberlife]

Truck Driver Hank

Read @honkforhankcon's (Blackeyedblonde's) Hankcon fic "eighteen wheels on an uphill climb" again. Imo, one of the best fics you can find for this ship. Highly recommend!

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[jude-shotto]

June2023Commissions (1/2) | Gavin & Nines for @headfulloffantasy🌻from their work, "Soft Spot"!

"But the softest, most vulnerable spot“ Nines took Gavin’s hand in his, guiding it upwards. “is the neck. If you push too hard, you can break every android, no matter how advanced.”

[tondisus]

can i get some dbh ao3 recs :0! i prefer canon compliant stuff (im a huge "he would not fucking say that!!!!" person) and any/no ships

Oh I've waited *years* for someone to ask me fic recs and I shall deliver.

Ik you technically asked for canon compliant stuff but honestly I'm the complete opposite about characters, like I look at two completely different characterizations and I'll go "oh maybe he would say both of those," I'm just generally a massive AU enjoyer.

So instead of trying to sort and struggle and figure out what to recommend, I'll just throw a bunch of stuff your way and hope at least something works!

Also I'm getting all the recs from my downloads so they're likely complete, my favorite character that I'm hopelessly hyperfixated on is Connor, I generally love a lot of angst & hurt/comfort, I'm not really into shipping and romance-focused fics that much and longer fics >> shorter fics, so my recommendations are gonna show those traits

I recommend literally any dbh fic by WayWardWonderer: https://archiveofourown.org/users/WayWardWonderer/pseuds/WayWardWonderer

They have genuinely carried my fandom experience, if I think I have nothing to read I just go back to their fics, i am so impressed how someone can write SO much great content

Accident prone: becoming human https://archiveofourown.org/works/15727149

Is a long fic post-pacifist best ending full of whump, angst, hurt/comfort, character development, just everything good. And when I say long, I mean 1.8mil words long.

Torn alliances https://archiveofourown.org/works/25009789 in which it's also a post-pacifist ending fic, except deviated Connor was shot by Markus in the church,  came back on the rooftop scene as a machine, and deviated there thanks to Hank. From there it explores what happens after in about a million words.

Sanction https://archiveofourown.org/series/2226099 is a series that also features the Markus-killed-Connor-in-church-but-he-survived-what-happens-now type story, the prequel has Connor & Carl interaction which while rare, is very precious to me in this fandom, and the sequel has some awesome angst about the Amanda takeover and it's potential consequences/meanings

Detroit 07 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1473497

Is a series that really focuses on the dpd police department and their interactions post-pacifist ending, the characters are basically built from nothing by the author so this could be a non-canon-compliant type of fic but I listed it anyway cuz it's an awesome series what can I say

Cutting ties https://archiveofourown.org/series/2738356 is a series of fics more about Connor and his struggle with deviancy and android kind, I honestly started reading this for the Connor & North friendship cuz damn i love those two and their interactions

Deviating and Solving Crime with 100% Human Detective Connor https://archiveofourown.org/works/29270769 is abt Connor being deviant the entire time but staying undercover as a detective in the DPD, super hilarious imo, loved the characterization of basically everyone, probably the longest 5 + 1 type fic I've read

File not found https://archiveofourown.org/works/32842771

Is an au fic of the game timeline where Connor is simultaneously deviant and machine, he has to delete memories of himself letting deviants go to hide his actions from cyberlife, and Hank is hostile at first, which is a fun part.

Reset https://archiveofourown.org/works/15118730/chapters/35054933 is a classic time-travel fix-it trope, 8 months after a failed revolution, Connor goes back in time thanks to Kamski and, well, fixes stuff. Sassy Connor is my beloved fr he's so awesome.

I'd probably have more recs (seeing as I have over 350+ downloaded detroit fics) and would know more specifically which ones were the more canon-compliant ones but the hyperfixation is sporadic and comes back every few years and it just came back very recently again, so I don't remember completely what all fics were about and how much I liked them (why did I not make summaries and list thoughts why past me why were you DUMB) but the ones I listed are hopefully very readable 👍

Hope you find something here you like / haven't read yet :D

[verved]

For the based people who want to see Amanda handled as a complex character capable of change and with her own potential insecurities and fears explored, may I recommend The Feeling of Home by CoffeeJay? It's a few chapters before the Amanda train really kicks off but I was so pleasantly surprised by it.

I think it's worth exploring yourself but if you want potentially spoilery specifics:

We get to see Amanda experience actual character growth and her distrust of Connor is now rooted in personal fear rather than him not meeting the mission parameters set by Cyberlife.

Hank and Amanda interactions.

Amanda craving a physical form and feeling genuine dysmorphia over just being an AI in a garden.

Amanda isn't perfect or entirely rational all the time! She's allowed to have doubts and feelings!

Connor and Amanda toxic codependency. They're both hypocrites calling each other out going "no u"

Hank isn't entirely nice at first. Like not outright on purpose he just sucks and is immature and a little clueless. Like he does. (this is a plus to me)

RK900 is there and he's like, his own fascinating character with his own troubles without being thrust into a ship.

Good study of Connor. He is feeling things and isn't very good at dealing with it, but it's like not infantalizing. He's just stubborn and a bitch. Even to himself.

[connorsjorts]

Do you still have the hankcon art you did for the fanfic “Tabula Rasa”? I just finished reading it and I adore it, but all the image links are broken!

Yes, I still have the art here on tumblr! I'm so glad you enjoyed the fic, Tabula Rasa holds such a special place in my heart. Loth did such a fabulous job 💙

Here's the art for you: chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5

And a link to the fic for anyone else who wants to read it: Tabula Rasa by Lothlorienne

[kitsune024]

Crossovers

MCU Fics

Batman

Life Anew by @fantastic-wiles I Chapters 65/65 I Completed AU- Canon Divergence, Found Family, Protective Batfamily, Secret Identity, Brotherhood

Call of Duty

I Like You Alive by Thanatos7420 I Chapters: 11/20 I Ghost/Soap, Android!Soap, AndroidHater!Ghost, BAMF Soap , Pre-Android Revolution, Slow Burn

All that I'm asking is a chance to live by @lethotep I Chapters 18/18 I Completed Alternate Universe, Connor and Markus knew each other pre-canon, Machine Connor-but like...he has emotions and stuff, Badass Connor, Pacifist Markus

The RK series was Cyberlife’s prototypical series, developed personally by Elijah Kamski on a floor dedicated to the task. AU in which Connor and Markus knew each other at Cyberlife before Markus went to live with Carl.

Rite of Exorcism by @wufflesvetinari I Chapters 18/18 I Completed Post-Pacifist Best Ending, Possession, Gaslighting, Good Parent Hank, Nobody knows that Connor was hacked, Android Gore, Body Horror, Psychological Horror

There’s nothing wrong with the smile. It’s not one of the terrible, toothy ones Connor had given in their first days of knowing each other. It’s subtle, and looks like it fits on Connor’s face—like it folds right into the fabricated creases. It doesn’t look right on Connor. (Or: Amanda quietly wins on the stage. The thing piloting Connor’s body is not Connor. Hank will stop at nothing to get him back.)

DBH|| Connor Fics with Fanart

Looking Out For Something Real by @chazzkat I Chapters: 21/? I Connor/ femoc, Awkward Connor, Violence, Terrorism, Android Revolution. Sexual Content, Anxiety When I Wake Up by @whimsicalgoat I Chapters: 47/? I Amnesia, Deviant Connor, Pacifist Markus, Post-Pacifist Best Ending, slow-burn happiness, Whump, Case Fic

[r-ate-9]

I wrote (lived) an entire dbh fanfic in my dreams last night, based off the Gavin/Connor fic, Running Uphill, by NHMoonshadow.

It was an amazing addition to the story. If only I could remember what it was about.

[shutupandreadthisfanfic]

Gavin Reed has a decent life: three cats, a good job, and a plastic partner he doesn't hate. Too bad life can never stay simple. A series of events turn his world upside down and Gavin wakes up in an android version of himself. That alone would've been bad enough but some android-asshole started a revolution at the same time. And now Gavin doesn't know who to trust anymore.

[found-family-fan]

Detroit: Become Family, "Devotion" Prompt

Kinda going backwards here, but I spent the most time on it... Even though I couldn't finish completing all the prompts, I wanted to leave this for last 😊

It captures a different meaning in terms of 'devotion' because I mean it as a 'devoted tribute' to a fic that makes me endlessly happy/inspired. So, this goes out to @woo-lesbeano

Her story "Investigations and Emotions (And Handling Both)" is something I always go back to, so as a 'thank you,' I wanted to render a certain scene: Human!Connor finally catching a break and eating falafel while Android!Hank watches on protectively/affectionately.

@dbh-found-family

[rec-a-fanfic]

Title: Connor, by systemic_dreams

Fandom: Detroit: Become Human

Rating: M

Status: Complete

Length: 453,934 words, 25 chapters

Connor POV fic where Chloe has a bigger impact. Explores the origin of rA9, the RK800 and the events that led up to the android uprising in Detroit.

Comments: the DBH fic of all time. it’s the lens through which I view every single other piece of media related to the game, including the game itself. the world building is unmatched, the level of technical information given is sublime, the sheer level of brilliance that goes into basically every single interaction changed me on a fundamental level. somehow, through this story, the stupid game actually makes sense, despite this not being a rewrite. sighs. I love.

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