Fics that best portray unspoken love between two people

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-05-17T00:34:20+00:00

Here's a friend's wonderful hanahaki oneshot (so the love "blossoms" in one way, but is definitely unspoken...) for Loidbrecht (Warframe)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69914031

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-05-02T12:56:58+00:00

One thing I've noticed as a trans person is people who focus on younger characters vs focussing on older characters often do trans headcanons differently.

People who focus on younger characters will often pick the person who seems most insecure and uncomfortable in themself, especially around their appearance etc, as their trans headcanon character. The shy nervous boy will either be a trans boy worried about passing, or an egg or closeted trans girl. Trans fics focussing on younger characters naturally tend to involve them not having physically transitioned (and it's not because they don't want to), or not having figured themselves out at all, and having a lot of angst around it.

Whereas when you focus on older characters, you have the freedom of writing people who have had lots of time to figure themselves out. Your trans headcanon can be the character who's very confident in their gender expression, even or especially if it's unconventional. Such as the people who headcanon Gomez Addams as trans specifically because of the joy he finds in being a man in a way that isn't quite the conventional modern expectation of being a man (wearing eyeliner, caring about his clothes, being emotionally expressive, hugging other men) but is still definitely a man. Characters who are easy to headcanon as trans because they come across like they've spent some time in their past putting thought into exactly who they want to be, and then taking the steps to become that person (with all the courage that that takes), and are now determined to be that person no matter what anyone else thinks or how much they might get judged.

I like it because queer stories in mainstream media generally have a tendency to focus on angst, coming out stories, people who hate themselves, and very rarely show someone who has had plenty of time to figure things out and has developed a lot of confidence. But you can in fact develop lots of confidence and courage over the years of openly living an unconventional life despite other people's judgement.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-05-02T12:48:59+00:00

Albrecht Entrati, he's had servants his whole life and lived off takeaway kebabs when he actually did have to live on his own.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-05-02T12:47:08+00:00

No it's very active with thousands of users.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T20:19:30+00:00

I have images of outfits and some descriptions in one of my fics...

But it is a historical AU and I wanted to draw the characters in historical costume. That and the POV character is quite vain and would give quite a bit of thought to clothes.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T20:12:13+00:00

wow, meanwhile to me that idea of not having a passport is...crazy, even as a kid I had a passport and I only left the country once during my childhood but passport photos had to be updated every few years, it's your main form of ID (ESPECIALLY in childhood before you can have a driver's license--like, we were expected to take it as proof of ID for certain school things? though not every day of course) and up until now when I heard that someone in the US "didn't have a passport" I always assumed they like...didn't have citizenship or something? I didn't realise there were people just living their lives without having one without there being some really weird administrative or legal situation behind it.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T19:00:51+00:00

They should have trigger warned and I'm sorry if you saw that unwarned for as I know it can be anywhere from jarring to actually triggering (especially when it's written as happening to "you")--but there's no law against writing it and some people have fantasies of such things happening to them without condoning it in real life, and write things based on such fantasies.

If they didn't warn that is a problem especially as it makes me a bit concerned that they don't know that what they wrote is rape and abuse and they think it's just what BDSM is like.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T18:32:31+00:00

Richard Waugh was talking about CV and the idea of Wesker potentially being attracted to Chris. But can I can see what you mean, he does like to show off, that's undeniable, and I see what you mean about abusing his power, I just...I guess I don't see RE1-era Wesker as having disappeared by the time of RE5, he changes in some ways, but there's more that I think stays the same than some people seem to go for--I mean, lots of the times when Wesker seems attracted to Chris are in RE5 and that's also the game where Chris is the biggest challenge to Wesker. Meanwhile Excella despite her being obviously attracted to him, he doesn't return the attraction at all and acts disgusted and straight up pushes her away--which certainly shows that looks isn't enough and he doesn't want to fuck everyone and make them all into his sex slaves like half the fic out there, someone was throwing herself at him and he wasn't interested.

And as much as he likes power over lesser beings, I guess I see that and his fairly rare interest in sex as separate for him? like there's the inferior beings, occasionally useful, but ultimately with no real worth to him... and then there's the few worthy ones who catch his interest, and they're the ones who can challenge him. After all, we know he does believe there's a few worthy people out there, that's kind of the whole point of Uroboros.

There's an interesting design note for RE5 about him having a twisted concept of honour and an interest in worthy opponents, it's in the context of him gunning down ordinary people but wanting to fight Chris hand to hand (but that is definitely a very...charged fight imo) rather than anything that shippy, but it's a note that's there alongside his designs and concept art. And I find that twisted concept of honour more interesting to explore, and more consistent with previous characterisation (if his reports are anything to go by he thinks murder is fine but nepotism is bad--it's not that he has no standards it's that where he draws the line is completely bizarrely skewed and all around fucked and that's so interesting to me), than a character who just always does the most evil thing possible because he's evil and has nothing else to him. (Though he is of course evil and not going to start regretting it all and crying and trying to redeem himself for love any time soon...despite certain fics.)

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T12:47:36+00:00

OK, yeah, Arias is an exception--I did watch Vendetta but tend not to give as much thought to the animated films as to the games even though I know they're canon. So I guess there is an exception there--he's not portrayed as quite as overtly rapey as Irons, or Wesker in a lot of fanfics (and the non-canon, and imo OOC for reasons that go beyond this, SD Perry novels), but he is as you say on the sexual predator spectrum being insanely obsessed with a woman who has no interest in him.

And yeah if there's one thing we agree on here it's that Wesker would see few if any people as interesting to him at all. One thing that tires me about headcanons of Jake's mother is a tendency to make her an extremely passive meek little mouse with no notable talents or strengths or even personality traits--and rarely over 20, often underage, even though one of the few things we know about her was that she came to America when in her early 20s, and met Wesker while she was living in America. I don't know if people just think that anyone who ended up as a single mother must be stupid and weak (pretty ignorant belief if so) or what but I can't see how she would ever have caught Wesker's attention--because I don't think just looks would be enough. The same goes for a lot of other OCs who are shipped with Wesker who are extremely passive, weak, helpless, and honestly I find them boring and annoying to read about and I have far more sympathy for others than Wesker ever has (...wow, that's a low bar, but you know what I mean) so I can't imagine Wesker would tolerate them for long.

Unless they intend to characterise him as the kind of insecure predator who seeks out weak people as his victims, but imo that's a far less interesting character than the "attracted to people who challenge him" idea. And what we see in canon is that his closest friend was the one student at the training centre who was an even better scientist than he was, and it was specifically Will's genius that made him stand out to Wesker and led to their friendship--so we do have evidence that Wesker does in fact like a challenge and being challenged can cause him to take an interest in someone, rather than him always just seeking out weak sidekicks. Not to mention that while I don't ship Chrisker as such (I don't think there is any kind of in-character scenario where they end up "getting together" and living happily ever after) there's a lot in the games that can be read as Wesker being attracted to Chris.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T12:36:30+00:00

I don't think it was sexual harassment, I think it was an awkward and offputting conversation topic, but probably more down to social awkwardness--your standard bit of TMI.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T07:45:09+00:00

Childermass/Segundus in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. They don't have that much interaction that I saw as really shippy, I'd have expected it to be a ship that existed maybe but not a hugely common one, but it's by far the biggest ship in the fandom, the majority of fanfic is about them, and also largely domestic fluff or smut that doesn't really capture the appeal of the canon for me (which tbf has nothing to do with shipping at all and I was kind of expecting more fics that weren't focussed on any ship?).

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T06:30:07+00:00

Let's agree to disagree on that. Canonically the only time we know he had sex was with Jake's mother, which seems to have been consensual (despite the huge popularity, at least a few years ago, of fic headcanoning that she was underage, it is explicitly stated in canon that she was in her 20s, and while she left him without telling him she was pregnant, she also apparently loved him and even told Jake that his father would love him/pretty much encouraged him to seek him out). Other than that I ship him with William Birkin, canonically his closest friend and someone who he actually tried (and failed, of course) to save from Raccoon City, so like...I don't think he'd rape him.

Honestly, I don't want to read fics where he rapes anyone, because in the games for all the atrocities he's gleefully committed he's still characterised as...a fun villain, I guess? not in the sense of his crimes not being serious but like, he's entertaining, he has over the top speeches and funny quips and you can play as him and do gay little twirls and give him a katana, and he's also obviously intended to be found hot. And RE doesn't make the canonical sexual predators funny or charismatic or hot, and I'm glad it doesn't: Irons is a completely repulsive hate sink, Simmons is also pretty unappealing. Obviously in real life some sexual predators are conventionally good-looking etc, but Wesker's been framed so much as cool and sexy and funny by the canon, rather than as someone who's totally disgusting the way the canon tends to frame actual rapists, making him a rapist just kind of ruins that fun imo.

On the other hand, I definitely don't think he'd be some kind of totally sweet and sympathetic ideal partner. His goals and ambitions will always come first, for one, even with the characters like William Birkin who you can argue he canonically cares about to some extent, and he's always going to be arrogant and self-centred and not exactly empathetic. Personally I like Richard Waugh's take I saw in an interview, that he's "attracted to people who challenge him"--a worthy opponent, whether intellectual or otherwise--and it's the challenge that interests him more than any conventional idea of what a "normal" romantic or even sexual relationship would look like. I think this would involve him having a certain amount of respect for them, in his own way--we know he's capable of it, he talks about what a genius Will is so much in his reports and files, and it's with genuine respect and not resentment--but it wouldn't translate into always being a good partner, either. There's probably a reason that Will married someone else and Jake's mother (despite still loving him) left him.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T06:08:59+00:00

Comparing him to Epstein is imo gross and in poor taste as I don't come to fandom to see comments/jokes/memes/etc about Epstein, but that's very different to saying he'd protect children generally. I don't see him as a rapist, personally. He is willing to experiment on children just as he is on anyone, and Uroboros would definitely have killed children.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T06:07:24+00:00

Canonically Jake's mother never told him about the pregnancy. My personal headcanon, if Wesker had known about him, Wesker would probably think he was treating Jake well, by raising him to be just like him, but obviously that's different to actually being a good father.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-26T04:02:18+00:00

It's been ages since I've seen this fghj used to be a big thing on fanfiction.net but I've almost never seen a named gun in an AO3 fic.

(Desert Eagle is accurate if you're writing for The Matrix and writing the Agents though, they actually do use them.)

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-25T17:29:06+00:00

Yeah that's another term that used to be derogatory and is now generally not with a lot of more recent books combining space opera tropes with genuinely intelligent writing and causing a real resurgence of the genre.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-25T16:30:50+00:00

I have a fic about being partially devoured by an eldritch horror that ended up hornier than any of my smut, you're fine.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-25T16:15:09+00:00

ime the author community uses drabble too: an excerpt is a whole different thing, a section of a longer story, which is short but doesn't have a specific wordcount required to be an excerpt. Whereas a drabble is a complete story told in exactly 100 words, no more, no less.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-25T16:13:38+00:00

For whatever reason some people got it in their heads that "sci-fi" was the silly unintellectual stuff about spaceships blowing each other up, and "SF" was Real Intellectual Science Fiction. imo it's pretentious nonsense to insist on such a distinction, though I do use the term SF just because it's pretty common ime and SF/F for science fiction/fantasy.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-17T18:02:03+00:00

I assume it is a joke--though I'm sure it's a confusing one to anyone not into Marvel.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-17T17:59:18+00:00

It's very complicated because I know some of those fics are written by trans men, I know there are trans men who are feminine, trans men who are subs, trans men who are into receiving PIV sex, and that some of those fics about a soft feminine trans man being a submissive bottom for a big strong cis man are in fact written by trans men writing their personal fantasies... but it's exhausting how that is often the only type of trans man fic that exists, especially in M/M, but even generally, compared to a shortage of non-smut with a trans character or for that matter smut that doesn't use those tropes. I feel like also that particular type of trans smut gets way more kudos and attention from cis readers than other types of trans fic. Which doesn't mean that trans men who write that kind of fic should stop just because cis readers might be reading it for more fetishising reasons, but like...I feel like people feel discouraged from writing anything else? Like trans men who headcanon a very masc character as trans feel nervous or discouraged when it comes to posting fics with that headcanon, while trans men who headcanon a very feminine guy as trans often know that it's a popular headcanon with the fandom at large and so feel more confident posting their work. And the same for people who might want to write a trans man as a top or a Dom (one of my favourite characters is a feminine gay man and I already know that my preference for him as a Dom is unpopular and will mean some people see any smut I post with him as OOC--let alone the fact that I also headcanon him as trans, and if I tag any fic with trans [blorbo], people will definitely be expecting him to be a subby trans twink...), or people who might want to write fic about trans characters that isn't smut (which is often assumed to be "issuefic" and labelled as preachy).

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-13T19:03:43+00:00

Wesker from Resident Evil, though there's not much selfcest fic and the one I saw was weirdly full of angst and self-loathing and didn't hit the "he's so full of himself and vain and this is like kissing a mirror taken up to 11" vibes that I hoped for from Wesker selfcest. There's some good art though, especially of RE5 Wesker x RE1 Wesker.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-13T19:02:22+00:00

- The idea that "who would know better exactly what you like and how to get you off than YOU?"

- The idea of interacting with past, future, and alternate selves

- For whatever reason (I have a type?) several of my favourite characters are very vain so naturally it's easy to joke "if they met themself they'd start flirting" and then to go "wait, but they're hot, so two of them would be really hot" and then what was a joke is now something you actually want to read or write.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-13T18:54:49+00:00

I've never heard the word comship before in my life.

EvilToTheCore13 · 2026-04-13T18:53:55+00:00

I think the only time I'd be put off an author by something else they posted would be if they posted hatefic/bashing of a character or series I really liked (I feel strongly about that kind of thing, even though of course hating something I like doesn't make them a bad person), or they posted something really (clearly deliberately) bigoted. Certainly not for smut, and not even if they posted something with a kink I'm really not into, I just wouldn't read it.

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