Best Short Pacific Rim Fanfics
Pacific Rim novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 15 Short Pacific Rim Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Pacific Rim fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
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
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.
corpus callosum
by Anonymous
1 + 1 = 1.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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