Best One-Shot Pacific Rim Fanfics
Pacific Rim one-shots under 10k words — complete reads in one sitting. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 One-Shot Pacific Rim Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Pacific Rim fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
ich hasse dich
by que_sera
Anyone who has spent any amount of time in the Hong Kong research division knows to clear out when Newt and Hermann start screaming at each other in German. Raleigh has not spent any time in the research division. He's also beginning to question his knowledge of German. For instance, did Newt really
All of Your Flaws and All of My Flaws
by CinnamonCake
Hermann is still there tomorrow and the day after and Newton tries to not break his face with the door again.
big teeth small kiss
by magneticwave
It takes Raleigh three accidental meetings, two scoops of vanilla ice cream, and an economics textbook to fall for Mako Mori harder than he’s fallen for anything else in his entire life. Yancy, predictably, laughs his ass off about it.
Seeing in Color
by what_alchemy
The Dr. Geiszler Hermann had found in the publications — printed pages worn with constant handling and tucked into his briefcase for easy access — was an eloquent scientist whose work functioned at a level far above almost anyone else Hermann had ever encountered in the field, and yet he neither pat
Bear Your Neighbor's Burden Within Reason
by callmejude
written for the kink meme prompt: "Hermann's cane ends up being lost/broken. Until he can get a replacement, he has to (reluctantly) rely on Newt to get around. Cue them wandering around arm in arm. It starts off annoying and a little embarrassing at first, but they soon settle into a routine that e
Zegepraal
by ezlebe
"It’s not that I find you completely incompetent," Hermann says, startling Newton slightly as he steps just to the left, clumsily sliding down next to him against the steel wall.
Become What We’ve Always Been
by irisbleufic
Hermann doesn't have enough time to experience a crisis over Newton's response to his unvoiced request; he's drifting into that self-same lethargy, eyelids heavy, his arm across the cane gone slack.
Not While I'm Around
by callmejude
written for the kinkmeme prompt: In all the years they've worked with each other, Hermann can't remember ever seeing Newt angry - upset and frustrated, maybe, but never angry. Sure, they argue and raise their voices at each other all the time, but that's just lively intellectual discourse - they're
Heartlines.
by lornrocks
Based on this prompt from the kink meme: Established relationship - Newton was afraid he'd lose his wedding ring inside kaiju entrails, so he ended up tattooing a few lines of the kaiju appearance equation/a line the Jaeger OS code in a band around his finger instead of wearing one.
Listening
by cypress_tree
Newt has a dirty talk kink, and Hermann has a really nice voice.
Into a White and Soundless Place
by callmejude
written for the kink meme prompt: In most of the fics I've read for this pairing, Newt is the one kind of driving the relationship. I'd like to see the opposite. Something where Hermann is the one who courts Newt/flaunts their relationship/asks Newt to stay with him. It also probably isn't going to
Newton Geiszler's High School Reunion
by fangirlSevera
It’s like those old movies about the unpopular kid from high school going back for the ten year reunion who gets to rub his riches and trophy wife in the faces of his old bullies. Except this isn't high school, it's a university lecture. Instead of money, he's got the saving the world thing. And Her
No Need for Strangers
by billiethepoet
Newt takes the time to closely examine what he saw in Hermann's mind during their drift with the Kaiju.
Darling
by BeeLove
In which Newton rides Hermann for all he's worth. Or at least tries to.
hyphen
by buckgaybarnes
After a minor misunderstanding leads people to believe Newt and Hermann are married, Newt and Hermann decide to play along. It all goes swimmingly—that is, until Hermann realizes he enjoys the charade a bit more than he should.
First
by cypress_tree
Newt and Hermann's first time is Newt's first first time.
Joined By The Westering Wind
by Glinda
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
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
Innovation vs Adaptation
by Loverboy257
After the creature had finished mutilating the quintesson it looks towards me finally, it's a maw finally snapping closed. A part of my processor tries to rationalize it as nothing more than a visual malfunction in my optics, but it's still covered in the evidence of its actions, green acidic intern
anyone can fall
by nayanroo
After two years working in the Research & Development Unit at the Los Angeles Shatterdome, Doctor Ryland Grace is close to a breakthrough on a bioweapon, one they can deploy against the kaiju on the newest Jaeger in the PPDC--the Hail Mary. Everything nearly falls apart when the lab--and the intende
negative space
by carnalapples
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
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.
Chariots of the Gods
by Mr_Crocodile
First came stone, bronze, and iron. Then came steel, alloys, and silicon. Then came titanium, composites and polimers. The mace of stone never left us, it merely became stronger.First came the lever, wheel, and pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw. Then came the spring, the sail, the clock and t
Three Jaeger Pilots and A Baby
by BornFirst087
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
In Which Hermann Is Adopted By A Cat
by SynthApostate
Turns out there is room in Hermann Gottlieb’s heart to love something other than Newt. Which is fine! No problem here at all.
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This list of 25one-shot Pacific Rim fanfics spans 107,071 total words. Kudos range from 15 on the newest entries to 7,659 on the most established. Nearly all (80%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (10 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Post-Movie · First Time · Mutual Pining.
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