Top 7 One-Shot DaveKat Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length DaveKat fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
Your Interpersonal, Intergalactic Relationship: A Beginner's Guide
by 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.
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
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
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.
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Why Read One-Shot DaveKat Fics?
One-shot DaveKat fanfics — anything under 10,000 words — are the format of choice for sharp emotional payoffs, single-scene character studies, smutty interludes, and tropes that don't need a full arc to land. You finish them in one sitting.
Ideal for a commute, a lunch break, or right before bed when you don't want to start a 200,000-word fic at 11pm.
About This List
This list of 7one-shot DaveKat fanfics spans 34,932 total words. Kudos range from 3,091 on the newest entries to 4,610 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (4 of 7 fics).
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