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Best Short Pacific Rim Fanfics

Pacific Rim novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 15 Short Pacific Rim Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Pacific Rim fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

it wouldn't be make believe

by infinituity

"By the way, dude," he says, and he reaches down both to grab his notepad as well as to avoid looking at Hermann, "my parents think we're dating."Instead of the expected angry yelling, he gets only silence in response, so he looks up to see Hermann opening his mouth to speak, reconsidering, closing

3,331 kudos 11,669 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
2

It's All in the Hands of a Lazy Projector

by patster223

Hermann is cursed as a child so that he may never remember anyone he meets. Theoretically, this should make falling in love impossible, but then he meets (and meets and meets and meets) Newton Geiszler.

2,136 kudos 10,589 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

corpus callosum

by Anonymous

1 + 1 = 1.

1,782 kudos 13,220 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
4

Tie Our Souls Together

by SIMBELMYNE_LETHARGY

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

174 kudos 25,323 words 18/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
5

Pacific Rim: The Guardian of Earth

by Rain3r999

“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

108 kudos 11,239 words 4/8 chapters General Audiences
6

I Had a Son Named Charlie

by Mangotits

Chuck Hansen wakes up in a hospital bed, but the man across from him, no matter how much he looks or acts like Hercules Hansen, is not his dad. Chuck soon finds that although he is surrounded by familiar faces, the circumstances are very unfamiliar indeed.

105 kudos 47,066 words 16/? chapters Mature
7

Newt and Hermann Go on Six Dates

by SynthApostate

Most people would say they’re doing things out of order, but if Newt and Hermann were like most people, they never would have saved the world. Let’s hope that ability to think outside the box is enough to help them through their newest challenge: dating.

70 kudos 31,578 words 7/8 chapters Mature
8

You, Me, We

by artylinds

Twelve years after the first Kaiju breached, the newly traumatized Ranger Shikamaru Nara is without a copilot. At the same time, it just so happens the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is eagerly looking for a new drift partner for their golden boy, Naruto Uzumaki. Pulled between two factions, Sasuke Uchih

33 kudos 11,911 words 5/14 chapters Explicit
9

si vis pacem, para bellum

by y3xx3r

So there's tiny sun-eating alien life forms slowly killing the Sun, what could be worse? Tiny sun-eating alien life forms and giant monsters coming out of the ocean. And aliens, maybe. Earth really can't catch a break, huh? [PHM x Coltland twins x Pacific Rim AU]

32 kudos 13,071 words 2/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
10

The avatar's guardian

by Dragonlord04

Before the Avatar there were the Titans. The original rulers of the Earth and protectors of everything that ever lived. And now the King of the Titans has Returned to bring balance back to all. Starting by protecting the Next Avatar Korra from the greatest threat the Titans faced and others. Legenda

31 kudos 31,336 words 8/? chapters Mature
11

a loose bolt of a complete machine

by aletterinthenameofsanity

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

23 kudos 26,624 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
12

Jedi or Sith

by Dragonlord04

Dooku has encountered a disturbance in the force which leads him to an unknown planet and to a young boy who's power is unlike anything Dooku has ever seen in a Jedi or Sith. 3 years later this man enters the clone wars but he meets Ahsoka trying to deliver Jabba's son to him and he begins to feel a

21 kudos 29,534 words 11/? chapters Mature
13

just to get me through the night 'til we're twins again

by aletterinthenameofsanity

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

19 kudos 21,044 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
14

may the bridges I have burned light my way back home

by aletterinthenameofsanity

The brain scans come back, and Tendo gives her an apologetic look. “We’ve compared the brain scans from after your initial drifts with Raleigh, with Hermann, and after Hermann and Newt’s drift.” He points to two very brightly lit up dots- one in her amygdala, the other in her thalamus. “I can’t say

14 kudos 40,387 words 4/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
15

Of coffee, Kaijus and the one I love

by Frankenkeks

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

4 kudos 12,377 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete

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21,044
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47%
complete
3,331
top kudos
~84 minutes
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This list of 15short Pacific Rim fanfics spans 336,968 total words. Kudos range from 4 on the newest entries to 3,331 on the most established. 47% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (7 of 15 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Hurt/Comfort · Angst · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Grief/Mourning · Kaiju (Pacific Rim).

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