#ik this is technically a day late but !!! i thought i’d throw something into the tag regardless

[bygoneboy]

✨ fic recs for 2023′s nivanfield day ✨

hey!! i’ve noticed that there’s a lot of new people trickling into the RE6 community, so i thought it’d be fun to put together a little rec list of my favorite fics for the nivanfield fandom. they’re almost all fix-it’s, since that’s my own personal personal preference, but i think there’s a lot of variety regardless!

crossed out by deansparkles: this is my number one favorite nivanfield fic of all time. what can i fucking say about this that hasn’t been said before, honestly— this is a simultaneously horrifying but equally beautiful jacob’s ladder-esque nivanfield wild ride fix-it, which blasted my soul into the ether and crushed my heart in its fist. i read this in 2018 and immediately fell headfirst back into the fandom. this author is far too powerful, PLEASE read this one.

you, me, and the monster by akumastrife: i feel like everyone has probably read this but that won’t stop me from reccing it. this is an all-time favorite for me— i love writing from chris’s pov but this fic makes me want to explore everything about piers’ mutation from his perspective. comfort and hurt and comfort. also, sherry repeatedly smacking piers over the head.

daydreamer by captain_tots: another oneshot, ONLY hurt but the best kind. sherry’s pov, she and chris get coffee together and she spends a lot of time in her own head just wondering what it would be like if the people they’d lost were there with them. i come back to this fic a lot— i love the way sherry and chris interact, not saying much but not really needing to either. 1338 words of heartbreak.

nightlight by red_to_black: my favorite multi-chaptered nivanfield after crossed out! i’m not sure it’ll ever be finished, but i adore it regardless and routinely go back to re-read my favorite parts. it’s a really interesting look at the dynamic of the original alpha squad before edonia, and what chris and piers’ working relationship was like on and off the field. just an incredible balance of action vs downtime between missions, which was definitely an inspiration for a lot of the field work in my own fic.

the future is an open road by thevalesofanduin: post-re6-piers-lives-roadtrip au, aka the nivanfield fic you didn’t know you needed. only two chapters but extremely sweet, and just a really nice reprieve from a lot of the angst and grief that usually goes hand-in-hand with this pairing. there’s also this scene where piers makes a rookie mistake on his first mission back post-recovery and it will probably live in my mind rent-free forever.

happy reading!! and feel free to add your own favs if you don’t see them listed! :)