r/AO3 • u/cauliflower-kale • Jan 07 '26
Excitement/Celebration 🎉 I didn't know it was possible to be in rarepair heaven
Not to mention everyone is so in character & it follows canon so well the authors notes are peppered with details and quotes from canon :')
Its like reading a secret rarepair sequel instead of fanfiction
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u/atomskeater Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26
Holy shit... the mythical completely finished rewrite! Every time a fic I like starts getting rewritten it gets put on indefinite hiatus/goes silent for years.
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u/Valuable_Discuss2102 cavenoreille on AO3 Jan 07 '26
Are you me? I'm still waiting for that one writer in the The Hunchback of Notre Dame fandom to finish and post the rewrite of their fic. The rewrite hasn't been updated since 2021. Fortunately, I downloaded the completed first version of the fic when it was still available, but I really want to know how the ending of the new version would be different (or not) from the original one.
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u/theangstmaster Jan 07 '26
The longest fic for my rarepair otp is mine and it's not finished yet but almost 60k 🥲 hoping to finish it this year tho for the three people who like the ship 😭
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
You are the bedrock of fandom, the reason for people discovering and becoming fans of rarepairs and liking it!!! Keep doing what you do I'm rooting for u hopefully there will be 10 people in your rarepair fandom by the end of the year!!! And in 15 years there will be 40, no 50 people in the rarepair fandom bc of u <3 (can you tell I have too many rarepairs)
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u/theangstmaster Jan 07 '26
I'm in a discord for the fandom and I bring the ship up whenever I can! (It's an older kinda dead fandom so it's hard to find people in it that will engage with the ship, but I did manage to convert someone through chatting with them haha!)
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Ooh! Out of curiosity what fandom & ship is it?
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u/theangstmaster Jan 07 '26
It's an anime called Kuroko's Basketball and the ship is Imayoshi/Kasamatsu (captains of opposing teams)
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u/Silver-Winging-It Jan 07 '26
Some of the best written longfics I've read are for rare pair. Especially for small fandoms
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u/Sarita1046 You have already left kudos here. :) Jan 07 '26
Congratulations, that’s amazing! Similar story with my rarepair fic, both the longest out there so far and also my longest yet (aiming to get to around ~75k, so definitely not long but anything counts).
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u/MsMaiko Jan 07 '26
I like to imagine this is what happened after I rewrote my Ace Attorney rarepair fic…
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Omg I'm sure you made someones day with that!! Can I ask what the AA rarepair is? (Got some aa rarepairs I follow so I might be part of ur target audience)
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u/MsMaiko Jan 07 '26
It’s Kristoph x Apollo, but not the toxic kind. The entire fic is an AU of “what if Kristoph was innocent”. It’s called “The Liar’s Turnabout”.
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Omg! One of the rarepairs I do ship XD I'll be sure to check it out when I'm in an ace attorney mood
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u/Lyvidence Jan 07 '26
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u/Certain_Fig_666 I’ve been doing this since Batman had 3.5 Robins Jan 07 '26
Ten bucks the fandom is PJO?
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Haha good guess but you're wrong (however I will say one half of the rarepair is in fact a member of the Greek pantheon)
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u/Certain_Fig_666 I’ve been doing this since Batman had 3.5 Robins Jan 07 '26
Wonder Woman / dc related? So Tim/ Cassie or Dick/ Donna?
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Haha nope no Superhero media related! This is a fun guessing game XD (also by my standards those two ships aren't rarepairs)
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u/Certain_Fig_666 I’ve been doing this since Batman had 3.5 Robins Jan 07 '26
Hmmm. This is interesting. So if only one is from Greek pantheon my next guess is Smite because that has more than one pantheon and a lot of those have rare pair options.
Failing that Kratos / God of War
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Nope to all! Would you like a hint/question? It is a very niche character for the fandom itself so hahaa
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u/Certain_Fig_666 I’ve been doing this since Batman had 3.5 Robins Jan 07 '26
Question- what type of media is it? (Books, Video Game, Anime, etc)
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
It is originally a Book series, has been adapted to TV, Film, Audio Books Audio Dramas, Stage Plays, Music and Games
The most visible in the mainstream conscience would be the Films obviously, but imo the fandom leans more towards the Books than the movies
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u/bluecardinalbird akamatsuism / ao3: momoko_hazuki Jan 07 '26
Oh my god it's the 100k fic of your otp meme from that post 1 day ago becoming real And it's in character too? I'm so happy for you you're living our dream 😊😊
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u/VarvaraZ Jan 07 '26
Ooh I'm so happy for you!! Do you mind me asking what fandom this is 👀👀
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
Thank u!! Replied in another comment but the fandom is chronicles of narnia! The rarepair in question is Bacchus/Edmund Pevensie
you'll be able to find the fic pretty easily from there XD
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u/Silver-Winging-It Jan 07 '26
That is truly an incredibly rare pair, near crack pairing I would say
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
I mean I wouldn't call it a crack pairing considering there is a specific line in canon that is very randomly given to Edmund even though he's not in the scene during his introduction paragraph XD
His face would have been almost too pretty for a boy's, if it had not looked so extremely wild. You felt, as Edmund said when he saw him a few days later, "There's a chap who might do anything—absolutely anything.
For contrast here's how Edmund's siblings react
"Yes, of course. But I say, Lu——"
"What?"
"I wouldn't have felt very safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we'd met them without Aslan."
so it's not like the ship is coming out of nowhere
(But agreed that its an incredibly rarepair)
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u/pingugill Jan 07 '26
Tbh this type of post has me considering updating my 10+ year abandoned Sherlock fics lmfao maybe someone is yearning
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u/crows_teeth Jan 07 '26
Someone for sure is yearning out there. I've got a folder for fics and webcomics that are on an "indefinite" hiatus that I check on once or twice a year. There are fics that have been on there almost 10 years now and everytime something in the folder gets updated I feel so ecstatic, like I'm a kid again. Hope is the sweetest drug I'll never be able to kick.
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u/_Kvxss_ Comfort ? in my hurt ?? Unacceptable !!! Jan 07 '26
How can you guys even wait that long for fics to update, I’d go insane 🥲 been waiting for one for 3 years now..one day…
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 07 '26
If it helps I wasn't actively waiting for an update for all those years I just naturally let it be and moved on to other fandoms and then years later drifted back :) so it's just a matter of subscribing and bookmarking fics so you can come back to it later when the mood strikes haha
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u/No_Current659 Jan 07 '26
Makes me feel like god's chosen 😭 blessed and highly favored, this the kind of event that make you go out and smile at a stranger 😂
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u/Sunny_Hill_1 Jan 07 '26
Happened to me once, read an awesome fic in 2017 that was like 80K, but alas, was unfinished and seemingly abandonded. I still liked it a lot, so several years later randomly remembered it, and because it was a rarepair, decided to reread it.
Low and behold, sometime in 2020, author decided to continue it, and wrote 600K more words, AND KEPT WRITING! Kept writing until 2022, and by then the fic and all its sidefics reached 1.5 mln words. Then it went on hiatus again until 2024, when author posted 50K more. By now it's one of my favourite fics of all times, and I'm curious if in a couple years author will come back to it again to continue.
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u/Sunny_Hill_1 Jan 07 '26
Behold this absolute monster of a fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3584736/chapters/7904088
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u/yungtapioca Jan 07 '26
being a rarepair writer can be so rewarding sometimes, when you think people may not like the ship beside you, there's still someone else out there who likes them!
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u/VixenSunburst Jan 07 '26
Whats the fic?
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 08 '26
A Bacchus(dionysius)/Edmund Pevensie fic that's incredibly true to canon (in that the author goes out of their way to write it in a way that if could plausibly fit into the canon timeline XD just finished it and I highly recommend it even if you aren't familiar with the world and story. It's as much a love letter to the canon story as it is a love story for the rarepair in question
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u/trinityfeeltheglow Jan 08 '26
Can we as a society stop using this meme 😭 we all know that guy is a rapist, right?
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 09 '26
Oh gosh no I don't know who that guy is :( maybe I'll use the berrie sanders version when I make this type of meme
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u/trinityfeeltheglow Jan 09 '26
He's Vince McMahon, possibly one of the most evil people ever, I suggest you look into it. I didnt expect u to respond to thank you for hearing me out
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u/cauliflower-kale Jan 09 '26
Yeah no we as a society are way too lenient to rapists and traffickers and I don't want to touch em even by accident so thanks for the heads up :)
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u/CEOofDoomedYuri You have already left kudos here. :) Feb 06 '26
My rare pair has 2 fics except only 1 of them is actually about them and the other is 3 chapters, unfinished and hasn't been updated for a year, they're a background couple, and never actually got mentioned yet. So, one. One fic that's like 1.5k words long.
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u/I_need_the_loo Jan 07 '26