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Most of the fanfictions here are female reader or OC inserts. It's quite rare for me to post character/character fics because it's also rare for me to read character/character fics. Also, most, if not all, ships are straight. If they're supposed to be a gay ship, one of them is probably genderbent. Sorry. If that's not your cup of tea, you're free to click/tap away. Additionally, some fics may include dark content. If you don't know how to define that, maybe you shouldn't be looking at this blog. As always, you're free to leave if you don't like such fics.

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Assassination Classroom | Anatsu Kyoushitsu (ASSCLASS)

Akabane Karma

Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA)

Zuko

Avatar: The Legend of Korra (LOK)

Mako

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The (TBOSAS) | The Hunger Games (THG)

Coriolanus Snow

Black Butler | Kuroshitsuji (BB)

Alois Trancy Ciel Phantomhive Sebastian Michaelis

BTS

Kim Namjoon Kim Seokjin Min Yoongi Jung Hoseok Park Jimin Kim Taehyung Jeon Jungkook

Bungou Stray Dogs (BSD)

Dazai Osamu

DC

Batfamily & Batsis Bruce Wayne Damian Wayne Damian Wayne / Mar'i Grayson (Demonfire) Dick Grayson Jason Todd Kaldur'ahm Kyle Rayner Roy Harper

Death is the Only Ending for a Villainess | Villains are Destined to Die

Penelope Eckhart | Cha Siyeon / Callisto Regulus (Calliope)

Folk of the Air, The (TFOTA)

Jude Duarte / Cardan Greenbriar (Jurdan)

Genshin Impact (GI)

Diluc Ragnvindr

Haikyuu!!

Akaashi Keiji Bokuto Koutarou Hinata Shouyou Hoshiumu Kourai Iwaizumi Hajime Kozume Kenma Kuroo Tetsurou Meian Shuugo Miya Atsumu Miya Osamu Oikawa Tooru Sakusa Kiyoomi Sawamura Daichi Sugawara Koushi Suna Rintarou Tsukishima Kei Ushijima Wakatoshi

Harry Potter (HP) | Marauders

Draco Malfoy Draco Malfoy / Hermione Granger (Dramione) Female Harry Potter / Draco Malfoy (Drarry) James Potter James Potter / Female Regulus Black (Jegulus) Regulus Black Remus Lupin Sirius Black

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (HPMA)

Daniel Page

Hogwarts Legacy (HPHL)

Ominis Gaunt Sebastian Sallow

Honkai: Star Rail (HSR)

Dan Heng / Stelle (Danstelle)

How to Train You Dragon (HTTYD)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK)

Fushiguro Megumi Fushiguro Toji Getou Suguru Gojo Satoru Ieiri Shoko Itadori Yuuji Kugisaki Nobara Kamo Chousou Nanami Kento Ryoumen Sukuna

Little Women

Theodore "Laurie" Laurence

Love and Deepspace

Sylus

Marvel | Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

Bucky Barnes Loki Peter Parker

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir (MLB)

Adrien Agreste

My Hero Academia | Boku no Hero Academia (MHA | BNHA)

Amajiki Tamaki Bakugou Katsuki Shinsou Hitoshi Takami Keigo Todoroki Shouto Todoroki Touya | Dabi

Night Manager, The

Jonathan Pine

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (PJO) | Riordanverse | Heroes of Olympus (HOO)

Apollo / Female Percy Jackson (Perpollo) Female Percy Jackson Percy Jackson

Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (PGSM) | Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (BSSM)

Chiba Mamoru / Tsukino Usagi (Usamamo)

Shadowhunter Chronicles, The (TSC)

Jem Carstairs / Tessa Gray (Jessa) Jem Carstairs / Tessa Gray / Will Herondale (Herongraystairs) Tessa Gray / Will Herondale (Wessa)

SPY x FAMILY (SXF)

Loid Forger | Twilight / Yor Briar Forger | Thorn Princess (Twiyor)

Tears of Themis (TOT)

Artem Wing Luke Pearce Marius von Hagen Vyn Richter

Tokyo Revengers (TOKREV)

Akashi Takeomi Haitani Ran Haitani Rindou Hanemiya Kazutora Kakuchou Kokonoi Hajime Sano "Mikey" Manjirou Sanzu Haruchiyo

TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT)

Choi Yeonjun

Twisted Wonderland (TWST)

Ace Trappola Azul Ashengrotto Cater Diamond Deuce Spade Epel Felmier Floyd Leech Idia Shroud Jack Howl Jade Leech Jamil Viper Kalim Al-Asim Leona Kingscholar Lilia Vanrouge Malleus Draconia Riddle Rosehearts Rook Hunt Ruggie Bucchi Sebek Zigvolt Silver Trey Clover Vil Schoenheit

Umbrella Academy, The (TUA)

Five Hargreeves

Wonka

Willy Wonka

There are more fics of certain fandoms and there are more fics of certain characters. Nonetheless, as long as they're listed above, there's at least one (1) fanfiction of them in here somewhere.

Happy reading! <3

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looking back at you - part i

Summary: Everybody talks about the terror, the calm, the longing in staring in the abyss. But nobody talks what happens when the abyss starts staring right back at you. Or, you’ve love him all your life and now you don’t know what to do. 

Pairing: Seokjin x reader

Warnings: This scene is heavily inspired by the scene between Laurie and Amy in Little Women (2019) although this story will veer off its course as we go on.  Notes: Short chapters for quicker updates is my jam. I love Seokjin and I’m finally writing for hiiiim.  Word Count: 1k *ish*

Everybody talks about the terror, the calm, the longing in staring in the abyss. But nobody talks what happens when the abyss starts staring right back at you.

You’ve loved Seokjin all your life. Have looked for, at, and after him ever since you’ve known him. You’ve looked at him with a sheer of innocence in your youth that eventually fell away when you grew older and learn how to desire. And your eyes began to stray from just his beautiful face but down to his chest, to the way his arm flexes when he lifts books for your mother, and to the way his thick thighs fills his breeches.

You’ve looked at him with naked desire and longing for more than a decade, it’s impossible he doesn’t know. And yet, he’s never looked at you with anything other than a passing glance, all his sight consumed by your brighter, whirlwind of a woman sister.

And for so long, you were angry. Angry at the world, at your sister, at the universe for making you less and putting you beside someone who makes you look even lesser. As a child, jealousy is your greatest flaw but it was negligible as many children’s flaws are but when nobody’s looking - and when had anyone ever bothered to look? - between your elder sister’s departure to Seoul, and your younger sister’s death, you’ve turned into a woman.

A woman with responsibilities. To secure a husband, to secure a future for the good of the family. And a woman with that lofty of a goal cannot afford to carry anymore of her childhood flaws. And so you’ve changed.

Away from the family that never saw you, from the sister that outshone you, and from a man who didn’t love you - you’ve changed, grown into your cheeks and filled out your dresses. Learned how banter with wit, flirt with your eyes, keep them hooked enough to come back, give enough push to tease but never to be admonished for it.

And with your own charms, wit, and beauty, now, you’re on the precipice of achieving your goal in the form of a proposal from another Mr. Kim. (“You’ve always known you’re going to be a Mrs. Kim,” your mother wrote, “you just never specified which one.” - ah but you did, in your prayers, every night, in every temple visit and in every coined toss in every fountain but that’s all for naught isn’t it?)

So, like everything else, of course, Seokjin comes to ruin it all. As he always does for you, and you, stupid girl you are - the one you revert to for him, with just one glance, one smile - allowed him.

“You’re being mean, Seokjin.” Childhood bleeds into your words and you completely miss the way his eyes flit to your mouth back to your eyes, and the sheer despair in what he sees in them. Your words a deflection to his earlier command (a plea, he wishes you could see) of “Don’t marry him.”

“Mean? How am I being mean?” he asks, his heart aching at the complete distrust in your eyes even when it’s not laid upon him but at his clavicle, as if you fear even just looking into his eyes.

When you were younger, you never thought of Seokjin to be capable of being anything other than perfect. He’s light, wit, beauty and charm made alive with every gesture of his beautiful hands, with every theatrical delivery of his woes.

But you know better now. After all, hadn’t it even been a month since your disastrous argument at the ball? Where he showed up drunk, heartbroken from a long-coming rejection from your sister, with two equally beautiful and bold women draped on his shoulders like ermine fur. Where he stared at you, surprised, as if he hadn’t made you wait for an hour. Surprised, perhaps, that you even showed up at all.

Younger Y/N would’ve cowered and wept at home, but you’re older now. Wiser. You know your worth and even if you love him - and you do, quite desperately, the type of love that consumes and threatens everything - you will not compromise on this.

“You— you can’t do this to me,” you say, and you allow yourself one small reprieve, a reminder of youth long gone and clutch the sides of your dress like a petulant child trying to keep their crying at bay, “Not now.”

Seokjin advances on you, purposeful steps eating away the distance between your heart and his and wills you to understand and allows a bit of his gentlemanly wiles fade away, “If not now, when? When you’re married to Namjoon? Is that when? Would you rather I stand witness at your wedding and protest in front of hundreds of people—“

“You wouldn’t—“

“I would,” Seokjin interrupts, his hands on yours pulling it to his chest, “I would for you.”

His heart cracks yet again at the distrust and suspicion in your eyes as you pull back your delicate hands, stepping back looking every bit of a woman you’ve turned into. “You lie.”

You turn away, and suddenly your dress is too tight and you heave out heavy breaths, stepping out of the shadow of the courtyard to where the sun lays its rays heavily. Underneath it, you are brilliant, shining and beautiful in Seokjin’s eyes, and he wonders how he’s missed it — how you’ve missed it.

You’re beautiful. So, so beautiful. 

Enamored as he was, he’s not prepared for you to eat up the distance between the two of you, your very presence suddenly so big and undeniable in his life.

“I…” you begin, eyes dry and voice steady, your aunt would’ve been proud. “I have been second to my sister my whole life. Second-born, second place, the spare daughter — what have you. But I will not be someone you settle for just because you cannot have her.”

If your sister is a whirlwind, then you are the sea, Seokjin thinks. And the two are incomparable, forces of nature but while he is nothing but swept into your sister’s world, you— you make him want to sail, and dive, and drown in you.

“Not when I’ve spent my whole life loving you.”

He wants to tell you, but as you turn away, hair glinting in the sunlight, steps sure and back straight, he fears that he has lost his chance.  

End Notes: I think this will be a short series, maybe 5 parts!  Hearts are appreciated but comments are gold. Let me know what you think and if you want to be included in a tag list!

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Love Can Make The Darkness Sing by house-laurie

Rating: M

Pairings: Yoongi/Jimin, Namjoon/Seokjin

Status: Complete

Word count: 527,595

Summary: In which Yoongi is a bitter omega and Jimin is the alpha he comes running to when his heat hits

Notes: This fic is a behemoth but so worth the read, I promise. It details so much of their lives together beyond the initial premise, it’s definitely worth sticking around for. 10/10 for being the ultimate parents au

[naomikafka]

Chapter 1 - Dioch

Night falls, the wind blows, the animals around are singing in joy as he enters the forest to find his favorite place. 

Kim Taehyung climbed into the tree house and made a comfortable position to watch the sky turn dark.

Stars begin to appear in the dark sky. They make a beautiful formation, like a unicorn in shape. He sighed in awed as he watched, never bored even if he always did this almost everyday. 

He started doing this ever since he joined the team. 

It's been more than 100 years ever since that painful day happened.

 He was a Dioch.

A Dioch is a very strong creature. Dioch is a half elf and half human. He can fly and he can live for a really long time just like an elf, but his look and heart is like a human. Dioch is a very rare creature, because normally dioch wouldn’t be able to survive after they’re born. Humans and elves couldn’t have a kid, it’s their fate, it’s just a curse. If they’re survived they’ll be a very strong creature, a Dioch.

100.000 Years before there’s Byun Baekhyun, the first Dioch who was able to survive, he was so strong before, he was a hero, protecting and fighting evil creatures, but now he was gone, No one knew where he was.

Taehyung is the second dioch who was able to survive and grow up to be a fine and strong man. Dioch also was blessed with special hands. With his bare hands, he could make an incredible attack by creating wind and thunder. 

With this power he could make the opponent turn to ash.

Taehyung's father was a human while his mother was an elf. The elf is eternal but they can die with their true enemy, a dragon devil. And Taehyung's mother was dead after being attacked by them, leaving him with a sapphire blade, his mother's legacy.

Taehyung sealed the sapphire blade with his power, he created thunder and filled the thunder to the blade. It became a powerful weapon. He didn’t know his deed would just make his life harder, because as a dioch, he already had so many enemies, evil creatures wanted to kill him to steal his power, and with the weapons he had, the evil creatures were more aggressive to kill him. 

He wasn't scared though, he was so strong he could fight them.Through the harsh situation he managed to save people on his land with that weapon, he lived with saving people and fighting all evil creatures. But one day, they started to attack the people around him. It made him scared. Because he didn’t want to lose everyone he loved.

And one day his fear became true.

He lost Byul. 

His lover.

He lost the love of his life in the hands of a wick witch, Laurie. She was about to attack him when Byul pushed him aside and got shot by a thunderstruck instead. That was too fast. Byul was a human, in the blink of an eye, she's gone. Laurie disappeared soon after, terrified.

After Byul was gone, he went crazy, his heart turned to a cold stone, he became a cruel murderer. He tried to kill Laurie and her kind, but he couldn’t find laurie. Desperate, He killed more than 1000 wizards he just found.

Until one night, he suddenly remembered about his lover and he knew that if she was still there she would hate him for what he had done. And he regretted it, he just wanted Laurie to die but that witch, she was hiding from him and he killed innocent wizards instead. 

He was crying that night. The rain was pouring so hard. His screaming was blaring into the cold night in the forest, shouted out with the lightning.

He was crying out loud he could barely feel anything, he was crying yet the only thing he could feel was numbness.

That was the time when Kim Namjoon gave him a hand and took him to their home. 

Namjoon lived with another 5 men. Min Suga, Kim Seokjin, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook. They were so nice and treated him like he's a treasure. 

And it turns out Namjoon is the leader of a Bangtan, the fighter team who have a mission to kill the lord of darkness, the most undefeatable one among other evil creatures, Dominus, who wanted to rule the whole universe and who always killed people without mercy, destroy their planets, kidnapped them and forcing them to be his slaves. Namjoon with his team came together to fight to kill him and bring peace to save the universe. It wasn’t easy, because he was so strong, Namjoon and his team needed to set a strategy to fight him. 

After Namjoon met Taehyung, who is a Dioch, a very rare creature in the whole universe. He then asked Taehyung to join the team. He knew Taehyung was fighting all evil creatures and saving a lot of people’s lives. They have the same purpose so he thought Taehyung could be a Bangtan member. 

Months after he met Namjoon, he became one of the members of the team. 

"Guys, meet our new fighter, Kim Taehyung. From now on, He will fight and bring peace together with us." 

So that night Namjoon happily announced to the other members that he was finally becoming one of the members of their team.

He was still cold, not talked much and didn't even smile yet everyone was welcoming him with warm hugs. 

He just stood stuck, rooted on the floor, gaze falling down, looking at the glossy marbles as he felt a warm embrace every now and then. 

The only thing he had in mind was that he wanted to have someone to rely on, to have people he could lean to when he was in pain, when he needed to forget about her even if he didn't want to. He just needed that pain in his chest to stop.

"What are you doing here alone, Tae?" It was Jimin's voice that made all his memories fade into thin air. Jimin is an elf, he's one of the Bangtan members.

He glanced and found a smiling Jimin on his side, he was stretching his legs in front and put his hands behind, matching his position.

"I just can't sleep and need fresh air." He smiled thinly.

"Do you want warm milk? I'll make one for you." Jimin asked as he's getting ready to get up.

"No thanks Jimin. It's fine. I just need to watch the sky for a bit. I'm so sure I'll sleep after this." He looked away and watched the sky again.

"Why do you like the sky so much Tae? Especially at night." Jimin frowned, feeling confused why his friend was always spending so much time just to watch the night sky.

Taehyung smiled as he felt a familiar warmness in his chest. He had no idea why he loved watching the dark sky, especially the moon and the stars, it made his heart calm somehow and his pain was gone even just for a while.

Though the fight and war he's been through. The up and down. The happy moments with Bangtan, his new family and friends. Still, He couldn't forget about Byul, the love of his life.

Even after more than 100 years his lover's death. She isn't completely gone. She stayed there in his memories and his heart. He always remembered her once in a while. It still pains him so much that he had to accept the fact that she was dead. 

"Tae? Taehyung?" Jimin's voice again makes him out of his depth of thought. Taehyung slowly turned to him and realised that he didn't answer him. 

"I don't know. It just calmed me for no reason. It's peaceful and makes me happy." He sighed and tried to stop thinking about her.

"I see, I love the blue sky too. It's so bright and the colour is so beautiful. Do you like the blue sky?" Jimin giggled from his side.

Taehyung shakes his head and chuckles.

"I only like the night sky."

"Why?" Jimin confusedly asked. He’s always been curious ever since he realised Taehyung loved to spend his night watching the night sky.

"At night I could see the moon and stars. They always shine so brightly. They're so pretty. I couldn't see them in the blue sky." Taehyung honestly answered with a calm smile, his eyes showing affection once he said it as he kept watching the sky up above making his friend turn to confusion more.

"You like them that much?" 

Taehyung nods without even turning to his friend.

"So you're excited to see them up close? And set your feet on your favorite places." Jimin asked suddenly, he remembered what their leader said hours ago.

"Huh?" Now it's Taehyung’s turn to be confused. He didn't understand.

"You forget about the mission?" Jimin gasped in disbelief as he sat straight to watch his friend closely. 

Taehyung bites his lip and shakes his head slowly, feeling sorry because honestly he didn't pay much attention to his leader's speech when they were in the meeting room.

"I guess you didn't hear what Namjoon said 2 hours ago, did you?" Jimin shook his head and chuckled as if he already figured it out since Taehyung did this not only once. He’s always in deep thought, like he was wandering in his mind. And Jimin somehow felt so sad looking at his friend so lost like that. 

Taehyung nods honestly and quickly, he wanted to hear Jimin tell him right away. He felt bad for not paying attention, his leader must be talking about the important mission.

"Well, Namjoon said he got news about Louis, we have to find a blue stone on the moon. The blue stone will lead us to some hints to show us where those weapons were hidden. We need to head out to that moon tomorrow before the sun rises. And we will ride a starship because we need to camouflage as humans and Namjoon is taking care of the starship right now." Jimin explains and Taehyung can feel his heartbeat increase for no reason. He doesn't know why he feels nervous all of sudden.

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looking back at you - part ii

Summary: Everybody talks about the terror, the calm, the longing in staring in the abyss. But nobody talks what happens when the abyss starts staring right back at you. Or, you’ve love him all your life and now you don’t know what to do.

Pairing: Seokjin x reader

Warnings: Reader’s issues with her family. Mention of a marriage market. Favoritism in a household.  Notes: Short chapters for quicker updates is my jam. This chapter occurs before the first chapter. Also, I feel like this is flopping hahaha but oh well, I’ll just write to the void jk Word Count: 919 

Part i 

“This is absurd! Absolutely barbaric!”

Your sister paces around your home’s living room, her skirts fluttering high as if she’s running ‘round the hills as she did so when you were younger. Arms akimbo, and eyes blazing with righteous fury, she waves around your letter as if it’s hers.

Beside you, your aunt sips tea quietly. Somehow, even without saying anything, she conveys a look of boredom and mild judgement with the grace of her fingers and lilting tilt of her mouth behind the cup. Every bit of a lady that she is. She looks quite out of place in your humble home, seated in an old worn out couch in the finest silk and fabrics you’ve ever seen.

She may be old, your aunt, but she’s never out of style. (“Fads come and go, little Y/N, style is timeless.”)

Across the room, your mother’s brows are creased with worry, eyes on your sister just as it always is. Beside her, your father leans on the window sill, looking beyond the gardens of your home, perhaps dreaming of better times when he promised his daughters a great future whatever it may be, before he went on to squander it on a half-baked dream.

Your sister turns to you, rushes forward and holds your hands on your lap. With imploring eyes, she all but coos at you, “You do know what this means right?”

With poise, you pull back your hand, “Of course, I do. I’m not a child, Jineun.” You take the letter from her grasp and smooth it on your lap. “I’m a woman, just like you.”

You hate it when your sister looks like this. Eyes soft, and voice even softer, she speaks to you as if you’re a child. In many ways, perhaps you still are. You’re not half as worldly as she is, nor as experienced - your world limited between your homes and occasional trips on trains and carriages, always chaperoned and never alone. It is perhaps unfathomable to her that growth can happen in a limited amount of space.

“I’m not sure you do, little sister,” she snatches back the parchment, her ink-stained fingers crumbling it to the point of no return, “This is barbaric! A marriage market?? A bidding - you’re not a cow, do you understand?”

There at the corner of your living room, is a piano. It hasn’t been played in a long time, and it fills the room like a ghost with its dusty keys and ledge. Above it is a portrait of your younger sister, forever fifteen and forever gone to a fever caught too late, untreated just because of the sheer cost of a doctor in your town.

She’s not here, but she gives you strength. Your ears burn at the righteousness of your older sister, at the unfairness of her disregard of your choice. You stand up and with satisfaction, you note that you are nearly eye-to-eye.

“How do you propose we live then, Jineun? Heaven knows you’re not earning from your writing. Father’s squandered everything —“

Jineun gasps, perhaps at your audacity, and it’s echoed by your mother behind her. You grab at the invitation. It weighs like expensive paper. It weighs like salvation. You pass it to your aunt and she tucks it to her purse, close.

The thing with Jineun is this. She’s all passion - uncompromising, burning, and immovable passion. Admirable, it is. But while you’ve all been fed by romance in this family, from the quaint house you grew up in to the books your father bought, the stories your mother told, and their entire relationship, it’s produced different daughters in you.

Uncompromising passion, you understand now, is a wild and volatile thing, burning everything in its path. Too much of it can burn an entire home down. This makes Jineun mean, and she wields her words like weapons in the air, cutting in its precision.

“How dare you, if you’d been better educated you’d know—“

But you, you, the vain sister who’s dreamt of ballrooms, lace, and pearls have been burned so many times as well. First, by your family, second by the cold of society - their judgemental eyes, and lilting smiles. You now know how to cut too.

“I wonder why I haven’t been educated,” you speak and your sister draws back as if slapped. Your father stands up, and yet he doesn’t meet your eyes. Shame pouring out of his posture. You won’t even bother to look at your mother. They’ve made their choice. “,between my vanity and you, pursuing your passions, I’m not the one squandering everything for something unsure.”

A muted sound of a door opening nearly brings you to a pause, but you power through, “Marriage is our family’s only hope now, Jineun. God knows you won’t do it, so call it what you will - a marriage market, a bidding war, I don’t care. I’ve always known this is my path, why should I be ashamed of it when it’ll drag us out of the muck?”

Behind you, your aunt shuffles to stand and with a touch to your elbow, you straighten your back and prepare to leave. A shadow moves by the hallway and your eyes stray. Seokjin. There he is. Perhaps here to pick up your sister to another escapist adventure. 

He’s open-mouthed, looking at you and for once, you don’t look back.

The echoes of the invitation tingles on the tips of your fingers.

You can’t afford to look back.

End Notes: I think this will be a short series, maybe 5 parts! --> a lie hahaha idk, it’s probably short interconnected chapters with plotline.  Hearts are appreciated but comments are gold. Let me know what you think and if you want to be included in a tag list!