Best DaveKat Friends to Lovers Fanfics
The best friends to lovers DaveKat (Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The foundation of trust and intimacy is already there - it's about recognizing what was always true.
Top DaveKat Friends to Lovers Fic Recs
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Your Interpersonal, Intergalactic Relationship: A Beginner's Guide
Friends to Loversby sicklekind
A beginner's guide to playing hopscotch, overcoming internalized homophobia, and falling in love with your alien best friend. Disclaimer: results may take up to three (3) years to appear.
Astronomy in Reverse
Friends to Loversby PunkZucchini (orphan_account)
Dave and Karkat are intergalactic pen pals, originally paired together for an extra credit school outreach project. Now, three years of correspondence later, they're best friends... and Karkat is finally immigrating to Earth.
Looks just like the sun
by messageredacted
“Holy shit,” you whisper. Dave joins you at the window.There are no stars left in the sky. Nothing but blackness and a faint soap bubble sheen.“Is that a dream bubble?” Dave says.And then it swallows you. Update: Now with a VERY NSFW illustration by Renaris.
Within, Without
by reinkist
Dave just wants to be left alone. What's the point of anything when what's broken can never be completely fixed?This is the story of Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas, on the longest journey of their lives.
M.C. Escher that's my favourite MC
by Unda
Dirk has a plan, when he's 18 he's going to take Dave and get him the fuck out of their terrible lives and start over. Until then being the barrier between Dave and Bro is his only job, his soulmate is just going to have to wait goddamnit. Dave has a plan, it involves getting internet famous and not
So It Goes
by TGP
They managed to win the game somehow. He's not really sure of the details, but it's not all it's cracked up to be. He's stuck in an unfamiliar body with a thirteen year old little brother who's terrified of him. Somehow, he is sure this is his fault.
Lousy Stupid Goddamned Pretty Troll Boy
by mercurialMalcontent
John introduces his best human friend to his best troll friend. Maybe the three of them sit down to watch romcoms, maybe they're just hanging around a lab in the veil, but whatever the circumstance, Dave has trouble paying attention to the conversation at hand. Karkat is good looking and distracting
House of Dirk
by imarriedacherub
A sitcom about completely normal and well-adjusted newlyweds Dirk and Caliborn attempting to make a good impression on their son, Dave, and his boyfriend, Karkat.
Doc Scratch's School for Supernaturally Gifted Adolescents
by medical
One minute you get a mysterious message from a man who types all in white like a jackass, and the next thing you know you're being whisked away to a mystical school for kids with superpowers. If you weren't Dave fucking Strider, this sort of thing might bother you.
Don't Forget the Sun
by Weevilo707
Karkat Vantas always accepted the fact that he was not going to live past nine sweeps. It was just a certainty of his sad, miserable life. At least, that was until his friends found out and decided to hatch a plan to get him out of the Alternian empire. A plan that actually worked.Now, he was strand
Shameless Dave/Karkat Porn
by Asuka Kureru (Askerian)
The thing about Karkat Vantas is, he might be a pompous, noisy windbag with an inflated opinion of his own importance, and if he was suddenly struck down by some kind of vicious troll laryngitis the universe's total amount of chill and quiet would suddenly go up three levels...But turns out he's als
Growing Pains
by Miko
Man, Dave thought getting through adolescence was a pain in the ass for HUMANS. He had no idea how good they have it, until he saw what trolls got to go through.
So It Goes: First Contact
by TGP
UNSG Moreau had not been a science fiction fan before getting involved in politics. He is even less of one now that real live aliens have contacted Earth.Otherwise known as a bunch of non-game humans suddenly have to deal with Trolls.
Drop It Like It's Hot
by orphan_account
"They just watch," John says, kicking the mop bucket into the broom closet after a hard day's asteroid-cleaning. "I guess chores are like a spectator sport for trolls? It's pretty weird! But... that's trolls for you!"
Paging Dr. Vantas to the alien experimentation bay
by reinkist
"The point," Karkat says, balling up the cape and tossing it over one shoulder, "is that I'm curious as fuck about your horrific alien biology, but you never take off any clothes, or let me see anything, really.""Oh, man," Dave groans. "There's nothing to see, jesus."
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
by MutantofTime
Karkat starts his heat cycle and Dave becomes more culturally aware. Best bros or not, desperate times call for desperate measures. Screwing your best friend? That's definitely a desperate measure.
hey there bright-eyed mister melancholy
by attentionmerrymakers
This is why you are sitting in Can Town making your fifty-sixth scale replica of a sheep.
The Calm Is Terrifying When The Storm Is All You've Known
by HappiKatt
There were two kinds of trolls who went to Earth: rich shitheads with too much money and free time, and desperate assholes who couldn’t survive on Alternia, even with the best efforts of the young Condesce. Karkat hated the planet almost immediately, but with his home planet too dangerous for mutant
Midnight on the Demon Patrol
by Asuka Kureru (Askerian)
Fighting fire with fire is okay in theory but Detective-Summoner Dave L. Strider figures trying to summon corporeal demons to the mortal plane to fight other demons is likely to backfire spectacularly. Sadly for him his inner Knight gets the vapors at the thought of letting anyone else play guinea p
>Dave: survive three years on this rock
by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Growing up on a flying meteor is hard work. You know this from experience.TG: dude what is this piece of shit you just sent meCG: TO PUT IT IN YOUR HUMAN TERMS:CG: IT’S A FUCKING LOVE STORY, DAVE.Well, it's a bit more than that.
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Why Friends to Lovers DaveKat Fanfiction Works So Well
Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas — The cool-kid human who hides everything behind irony and the troll who hides nothing behind anything spend three years on a meteor becoming Homestuck's canon endgame couple, confirmed in the post-Game Over timeline. Karkat's romcom obsession meets Dave's deflective rambling in a relationship that broke both species' romance frameworks. DaveKat remains the most-written ship in Homestuck's enormous archive.
Friends to Lovers — Best friends who realize their feelings run deeper than friendship.
It transcended troll quadrants and human labels alike — the meteor gave them three years and the fandom took forever. The foundation of trust and intimacy is already there - it's about recognizing what was always true. That's why friends to lovers DaveKat fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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