September Fic Recs

[miya_morana]

Here are the fics that I’ve really liked this past month. All of these are complete. Enjoy!

Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender (1), Harry Potter (2), Merlin (1), Mulan (1), Yuri!!! on Ice (1)

Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender
Title: half in the shadows, half burned in flames
Author: r_astra 
Pairing: None
Rating: Not Rated
Word Count: 3,817
Summary:
“They say you tried to kill the Firelord,” Hakoda says. "Why?"

Zuko doesn’t know how to answer. Because I hate him. Because I love him. Because he wants to see the world burn. Because he knotted one hand in my hair and cupped flames against my face with the other.

Because my mother is dead.

Because my uncle is dead.

Instead, he shrugs tiredly and says: “Someone has to.”

 

Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Foundations (or, Where Do We Go from Here) 
Author: avioleta
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 17,788
Summary:
After the war, Severus retreats to the solitude of his dungeons. There are potions to brew, repair work to be done, and lessons to plan. But then Harry Potter begins turning up at all hours, wanting little more—it seems—than to irritate Severus. Severus doesn’t know what Potter wants. But he doesn’t know what he wants, either. From the original prompt: Severus knows it’s not love or even affection that brings Harry Potter to his rooms at night.

 

Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Things We Wish For
Author: avioleta
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 37,897
Summary:
Harry blinks. Blinks again. It doesn’t make sense. It’s simply not possible. But yet... “Snape?” It’s not the Snape Harry knows or remembers. Not the Snape Harry grieved. But he would know that face, that profile, those eyes anywhere. “What happened?” he manages. “How are you here?”

 

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Garden or Graveyard
Author: ShanaStoryteller
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 11,032
Summary:
Merlin has a secret. Arthur, it turns out, also has a secret.

It's the same secret.

 

Fandom: Mulan
Title: To Make a Man
Author: aladygrieve
Pairing: Fa Mulan/Li Shang
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 11,336
Summary:
Shang’s eyes went wide as he followed the arrow’s trajectory to the fifty-foot pole in the center of the camp. A tired but satisfied Ping grinned down at the men from his perch at the top, Strength and Discipline draped casually over his shoulder.

As he registered the sound of cheers, something warm blossomed in Shang’s chest. He had no idea what to make of it.

Or, Li Shang is pure of ass, dumb of heart, and very bisexual.

 

Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice
Title: crust and sugar over
Author: ShanaStoryteller
Pairing: Katsuki Yuri/Victor Nikiforov
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 36,012
Summary:
Katsuki sits cross-legged, clearly in no hurry to go anywhere. “What’s your name? I’m –”

“I know who you are,” he cuts him off, then blushes, then hates himself for both those things. Katsuki looks surprised, and Yuri can’t think as to why. He’s a nationally ranked figure skater. He’s Yuri’s favorite figure skater.

~

Yuuri and Yuri become friends and Viktor develops a crush.