#karlnap fic

[alittledizzy]

slippage in the system karl/sapnap rated teen, 2.3k

Sapnap runs into Karl at an event in Los Angeles when they haven't spoken in a year. (angst. this is angst.)

[read on ao3]

[bunnys-rose-tea]

Three More Hours

karlnap / sfw

(slight angst btw, based off their last irl meeting :/)

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Karl giggles and it's cute and sleepy and Sapnap wants to hear it forever.

Sapnap's smile has felt permanently glued on his face since he got to North Carolina. And god, he's trying to keep his eyes away from the clock at the bottom of the laptop screen.

Three more hours until he has to take an uber back to the airport.

Three more hours and he has to leave Karl, away from his warmth, and away from his voice (over the phone could never do it justice).

Three more hours of cuddling under a blanket to watch some random comedy videos Karl said Sapnap needs to watch, joined in the understanding that they could just cast it on the TV in front of them, but if they did that, there wouldn't be much of an excuse to be this close.

And Sapnap needs this.

He yawns.

And definitely needs it more than sleep.

"What's on your mind, handsome?" Karl says, before yawning too.

It's only then that Sapnap realizes he was staring.

"Nothing really," Sapnap shrugs. He debates if he should really say something more honest, but not too honest.

He's not looking to confess tonight or whatever.

"Just that I'm not ready to leave."

Sapnap of course misses Dream and George, but they literally live together.

Karl gets kidnapped by Jimmy Beast every other day, so they barely have time to talk over messages.

"Aw," Karl takes Sapnap's hand and kisses the back of it. "I'm not ready for you to leave either."

Sapnap pushes back on the thought that it feels just a little patronizing.

Because there's just no chance Karl feels the same way Sapnap does.

But when Karl threads their fingers together, smiling like that at him, and laying his head on Sapnap's shoulder, anything feels possible.

They watch more videos, laughing together and hands still linked.

And Sapnap prays that time stands still.

Karl falls asleep first, snoring softly against Sapnap's shirt. Even though he made Sapnap promise to wake him up if he did doze off, Sapnap knows how much Karl needs the sleep.

Plus now, Sapnap can get as many eyefuls of Karl as he wants. And maybe this time it'll be enough to keep him satisfied until they see each other in person again.

Just a short time later, Sapnap catches his phone alarm before it goes off and the uber is only a few minutes away.

His heart starts to sink and Sapnap does his best to gently wake Karl.

But he doesn't open his eyes.

Sapnap tries a little more firmly, but Karl stays asleep.

He tries a few more times, but it becomes clear that Karl isn't waking up. And now the uber's just around the corner.

Sapnap slides out from Karl's hold, as painful as it is, he makes sure not to move Karl too much. Sapnap leans Karl on the couch cushions, and pauses before pulling back.

And fuck it, Sapnap presses his lips on Karl's head.

They've done this for each other before, so he knows Karl won't be upset.

It feels different though, he's not sure why, but it just does. And he's not sure if it's a good different or not.

Sapnap wrenches his hand from Karl's warm palm and keeps Karl in his line of sight as much as best he can while he makes his way to the front door and his suitcase.

He can barely see the top of Karl's soft messy hair before he shuts the door behind him.

And his smile slides away.

[100blocks-archived]

Sleeping Pill

2.5k | Karlnap | 2/2 chapters | tags: Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Kissing, Comfort No Hurt, Sleepiness, minor background dnf (if you blink you miss it)

“It's funny,” Karl continued, “I always sleep better when I’m next to you.”

“Yeah?”

Sapnap was whispering now and he didn’t know why.

“Yeah,” Karl said, looking intently at his phone.

“In fact, you make me sleep so well they should put you in little bottles and sell you instead of melatonin. Or, actually- they shouldn’t do that. ‘Cause I don’t wanna share you. You’re like my secret little sleeping pill.”

OR: The infamous FaceTime call between Karlnap from Twitchcon Paris

(twitter)

[karljnap]

cherry blossom season

Karl Jacobs/ Sapnap

Rated Teen | 16.1k words | 7 chapters (complete)

Karl and Sapnap in Japan!

Tags: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Mutual Pining

Excerpt: Every day in Tokyo with Karl felt to Sapnap like he was living in a dream. Or maybe a cartoon, something bright and surreal and blurred around the edges.

Karl liked it because it was a big city with infinite things to do, never a shortage of sights to see or people to meet. It’s even better than New York, y’know? He said one night, laying in bed with Sapnap, their noses almost touching. Hardly anyone recognizes us here, dude.

Sapnap liked it because Karl liked it.

[awesamforehead]

A change of plans, 10k

Pairing: Karlnap, Dnf (background)

Characters: Sapnap, Karl Jacobs, Dream, Georgenotfound

Major tags: AU-merpeople, AU-genderbending, crush at first sight, beaches, Sapnap-centric, Sapnap is down bad, more tags to come

Sapnap groaned into her pillow for what felt like the hundredth time. She just spent the past thirty minutes scrolling through her Tiktok feed, all that did was make her brain feel even more like mush. Going to Twitter most definitely won’t do her any better. Now she’s in a constant loop of wanting to do something but nothing at the same time. The hot Floridan air heating up her room didn’t really help with her growing headache either. Maybe spending a few hours outside will do her some good. But she didn’t feel like going shopping or eating anywhere. What could she do then that doesn’t cost much money? Sapnap hummed to herself as she thought out her options, “I haven’t been to the ocean in a while.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sapnap just wanted a nice, peaceful walk on the beach to occupy her boring day. What she didn't expect was to find a mermaid trapped in a net with no one around and no cell service. A good thing for the mermaid, not so good for Sapnap. Now she's on her own as she has to save something that was supposed to be fictional.

Fem!Karlnap mermaid fic

[raviolihailstorm]

This was my first-ever Karlnap fanfiction, "The Stone Maiden" - featuring multiple pronouns for Karl Jacobs - which I originally published on June 24 2021 for one of my mutuals (who has since left the Dream Team fandom).

Rated for general audiences

2k words

"Dream and Sapnap visit a human-like statue in a crowded city square."

[snowdreamr]

Underneath the Mistletoe

Rated T | 4.2k words | oneshot

Sapnap and Karl share some kisses on New Year’s.

Tags: Friends To Lovers, Getting Together, New Year’s Kiss, Sharing a Bed

Extract:

Karl walks until he’s behind his back, and leans on the chair to speak quietly into his ear. His breath is a lot warmer than the faint hint of coffee in the dessert he’s having.

“Sap, can you help me with something in the kitchen?” He whispers, hands falling idly on his shoulders, a smile evident in his tone.

(twitter)

[crimsonbluemoon]

Rollercoaster Chapter 19

I am so out of it today, so hoping posting this will get me back in the right mindset.

Enjoy! Maybe thread fic tonight on my twitter? Octo's art is tempting me, but idk which one to write about... Rating:Explicit Pairings: DNF, Karlnap Chapter: 19/?

[rebelpeas]

Thirty-two stitches.

That’s how many they needed, to fix his face after Technoblade was done with it. Thirty-two, and when the doctor tells him that — barely lucid, still floating delirious from the anesthesia and blind from the bandages over his eyes — he remembers saying with a clumsy tongue, “That sounds excessive.”

quackity takes off his bandages for the first time.

1.5k, quackity-centric, honq/karlnapity. mind the warnings in the tags!

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: “Fucking—let—me—go!” he snarls, wrapping both hands around the length of the rope, painfully aware of the laughter ringing through the trees; the sounds of feet crashing through bracken; and Tommy—he doesn’t understand why the rope isn’t burning, why the frayed strands aren’t catching—it’s just a length of rope used for hunting, its not important enough to be enchanted, no one would waste coin enchanting rope to make it fireproof when it’s only use is to be part of a snare and nothing more. The voices are getting louder and Tommy is running out of time. There’s a trail of smoke where something just barely catches alight and Tommy doesn’t bother with a cry of victory—not when he’s not free, not when he’s still suspended up in the air, dangling by his foot, trying to burn through his shoe so that he can gain favour towards escape or free his knife— “Oh my god Techno, your snare caught a child!” Or: Tommy is running from his past, and finds family along the way.

Author: Dragonire

Note from submitter: Storge is familial love

[amaranthinecanicular]

Karl laughs, then hiccups. He crawls over and molds himself into Quackity’s side. The cool weight of him is grounding. “I was lying when I said Tina was my only best friend,” Karl says. “It’s just that you’re special.” Quackity’s stomach flips. He tells himself it’s the wine, or the end of the world. “You’re special too.” “What are we going to do?” “We’re gonna tell Sapnap,” Quackity says. Alcohol emboldens him. His resolve steels. “I promised him I would. Then we’re gonna—fucking, save the world, I guess.”   (the host of a cosmic horror, the harbinger of the apocalypse, and a guy who's failing chemistry try to stop the end of the world. what's the punchline?)

[written for @honeyblockm, as part of @mcytrecursive, based on @rebelpeas's stellar fic shrimp colors! I adore cosmic horror and I adore karlnapity, so I truly had the best time writing this fic. thank you, yen, for giving me the chance to write it, and I hope you enjoyed!!]

[when-is-tuesday]

ok this is just getting ridiculous now

just saw a 4k fic with the tag "slow burn" like no. I don't think it is. you need a few more thousand words for that.

[i-pogchamp]

possessive demon boyfriend :)

[100blocks-archived]

posting a snippet of my fic so i feel motivated to actually finish it

[karljnap]

i’d probably still adore you with your hands around my neck

Rated Mature | 9k words | oneshot

Sapnap celebrates his birthday with his friends.

Tags: Friends To Lovers, Getting Together, Fluff, Mutual Pining, Drinking, Light Angst, Mild Smut, Possessive Sapnap

Excerpt:

It was unfair of him, he knew, so fucking unfair to feel like this every time Karl touched someone else. It wasn't jealousy, not really. It was the constant reminder that Karl's touches were indiscriminate, lavished on anyone and everyone who consented. It was blinding, irrefutable proof that Sapnap did not belong to a special category in Karl's head, that his tactile nature meant nothing more than love you, bro.

(twitter)

[toomanyfandomsorkinafs]

What’s that one ship you love that only exist of the way more popular poly ship?