Best Raleigh Becket Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The best grief & mourning fanfiction featuring Raleigh Becket (Pacific Rim) on AO3, curated by popularity. Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive.
Top Raleigh Becket Grief & Mourning Fic Recs
2 grief & mourning fics featuring Raleigh Becket, followed by other top-rated stories.
Tie Our Souls Together
Grief & Mourningby SIMBELMYNE_LETHARGY · Mako/Raleigh
The Breach was closed. The Kaiju were gone. Two people had stood on the brink of all possible things, alone, but inseparably together. The bond was stronger and closer than either of them realised, a thread tying Mako Mori and Raleigh Beckett together. But now the world and it's thousands of questio
Of coffee, Kaijus and the one I love
Grief & Mourningby Frankenkeks · Mako/Raleigh
When she meets the star pilots of the Gipsy Danger for the first time, Livia can't help but fall for one of them. Yancy is kind, loving and unfortunately gone too soon, a loss that makes both her and Raleigh question their respective jobs.When he leaves, Marshal Pentecost keeps her on board. Years l
Pacific Rim: The Guardian of Earth
by Rain3r999 · Mako/Raleigh
“When I was a kid, when everyone would feel small and lonely, I’d look up, wondering if there was life out there in the stars. Turns out I was looking the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal b
Joined By The Westering Wind
by Glinda · Mako/Raleigh
Love is not always a helpful word. For them it means 'where you go, I will go, for the rest of our lives'. It might mean something else to other people.
chemistry is rare (our secret life)
by mrrrston · Mako/Raleigh
As he swishes water in his mouth and spits it into the trash, Raleigh tries desperately not to slip into Mako’s head. She’s angry. At Raleigh; at herself. She’s fuming and trying hard not to take it out on the nurse. She can feel Raleigh, too. Can she hear Yancy? Can she feel him? Is he pressing aga
i'll be your satellite to guide you home (you are not alone)
by aletterinthenameofsanity · Mako/Raleigh
When the world finally stops ending, most of the Shatterdome staff head home. (There are no pilots left save the three who don't have a home to go home to. There are no scientists left save the two that made their home in each other. One LOCCENT officer remains, but he made his home here in Hong Kon
negative space
by carnalapples · Mako/Raleigh
She wakes up in a cold bed, Raleigh burning like a furnace next to her. Lying there, she tries to remember: what his stomach looked like the day she met him, how his eyes would have looked. If only she had turned her head to meet them—were they detached or anxious or worse, soft, burning into her? T
Breathing You In (Because I'll Crumble If I Don't)
by shatteronlight · Mako/Raleigh
Set immediately at the end of Pacific Rim, Raleigh is high-key obsessed with Mako. I love submissive men and this was my first attempt at writing one lol.
let the ultraviolet cover me up (i'll find a new place to be from)
by aletterinthenameofsanity · Mako/Raleigh
Some days, it’s easier. Some days Newt wakes up and he’s not a hollow with the echoes of eldritch creatures banging about in his head. Some days, it's a fucking chore to get out of bed. When Newt thinks about the fact that he can’t be trusted in a lab anymore. That he can’t hold a fucking scalpel w
a loose bolt of a complete machine
by aletterinthenameofsanity · Mako/Raleigh
Hold on, Mako thinks. Hold on, Hermann thinks, and he thinks about being a little girl in the middle of a broken city, her parents’ ghosts in her chest, a red shoe in her hands, bright and taunting as the dash of blood against concrete, and the jaeger descending from above, a king emerging from the
just to get me through the night 'til we're twins again
by aletterinthenameofsanity · Mako/Raleigh
Newt is staring at him, slack-jawed, absolutely stunned, and in any other moment, Hermann might be absolutely pleased at such a reaction. This might be the first time in ten years that he has struck Newton Geiszler utterly speechless, and that makes it one for the record books. Mark the calendar- He
Three Jaeger Pilots and A Baby
by BornFirst087 · Mako/Raleigh
Raleigh shifted next to her, his hands on his hips as he bit his lip. He sucked his teeth, “Um…yeah. How did you get in this mess again?”The baby gave a little gurgle in her carrier. “I might have just been agreeing to get the conversation over with…” Mako let the silence carry.The blonde pilot humm
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Raleigh Becket in Grief & Mourning Fanfiction
Raleigh Becket — A washed-up Jaeger pilot who lost his brother mid-Drift and carried the ghost of that connection for years. Raleigh's instant compatibility with Mako Mori gave fandom its template for Drift-as-intimacy fic.
Grief & Mourning — Stories that sit with loss: characters mourning a death canon rushed past, or grieving losses that aren't deaths at all — homes, futures, versions of themselves. Grief fic ranges from raw immediate aftermath to the strange long tail of missing someone for years.
Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive. Raleigh Becket's role in Pacific Rim makes them a natural fit for grief & mourning storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Pacific Rim fanfiction.
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