Best Ghoulcy Slow Burn Fanfics
The best slow burn Ghoulcy (Cooper Howard | The Ghoul/Lucy MacLean) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.
Top Ghoulcy Slow Burn Fic Recs
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Beauty Prefers The Beast
Slow Burnby WriterPug
A young woman and an old Ghoul are moving across the wasteland.They're hunting a man and hunting for the truth.They're gonna find more than that.Lucy has always been too curious for her own good.And she's always wanted things she wasn't supposed to want.
We Don't Have To Be Friends
by rickgression
(BRIDGE BETWEEN S1 FINALE AND S2) Lucy had the sort of face girls in the movies had: clear skin, big eyes, and neat hair. Pretty — beautiful, actually, but not as a matter of compliment. Beautiful in the way she’d make a good price at any given market if he was inclined to sell her. Beautiful in the
An Equal Partnership
by Emily_F6
Lucy isn't sure what exactly possessed her to take the Ghoul up on his offer to 'meet her makers' as he put it, but as they travel together, she realizes he might not be the monster he wants everyone to think he is. And she might not hate him quite as much as she used to.
Kinda Like a Cowboy
by Cantique
“I’d be real careful with that line o’ thinkin’,” he warns, raising an arm and bringing it to brace against the wall beside her head, all but pinning her to it. They may not be physically touching, but they’re so close to it and he’s looking at her like she’s a meal (which should be concerning becau
Mine
by Storygirl82
On the road to New Vegas, an unlikely pair forms a surprisingly unbreakable bond...
Lucy, The Ghoul, And The New Golden Rule
by Jenetica
After the events at Griffith Observatory, Lucy has about a thousand questions about herself, her morality, and everything else she can think of. Luckily for her, the road to New Vegas is long, and the Ghoul is surprisingly fascinating to talk to. Naturally, she does what any (questionably) sane pers
Live Round
by Heratic (TaiyouRae)
Ghouls are sterile, everyone knows this. Lucy knows this.Her uterus, however, didn't seem to get the memo.
trouble like a mugshot
by DittyWrites
"Hey, Cooper." Lucy called, fingers rolling across her bare forearms as she sat with her back to the wall, legs crossed in a neat pile. "You awake and listening to me?" "Hard not to with those foghorn vocals." A grumpy response, muffled by the hat, rang back at her. "What are you yapping your flap a
Into the Wastes
by Sky_kiss
Vaultie doesn’t talk much for the first couple of days. Coop tries not to dwell on it—lot easier for him, lot safer for them, if she keeps her mouth shut. Just…well, hell, it’s one of those things that niggles at him, twitching in the back of his mind like a worm on a hook. Dumb fuckin’ fish that he
Same Shit, Different Day
by Short_honey_badger
Cooper sews Lucy up after a surprise raider attack, and they get to know each other a little more~“Ain't no goin’ back after this, Sugar. You sure this is what you want?” Cooper asks her, and meets her eyes, “I ain't in the habit of sharing.”Lucy stares right back at him, heart thundering loudly in
The Machinery of Night
by stickypearls
It’s definitely stupid to sleep across from an undead cannibal, but Lucy is too tired for safety regulations. If he wants to make jerky out of her ass cheeks, he will.But he probably won’t. Lucy has noticed that something has been decidedly less callous about his behavior, ever since she saved him.
A Distinct Lack of Exploding
by gotfanfiction
Lucy had had. A thought. (What do you get when you combine a bitter, irradiated divorcee with a self-widowed, aggressive optimist? A whole buncha bullshit, that's what.)
Commission Blorbo Gallery!
by WriterPug
I love my ships and characters! I commission a lot of art for them. Many of the pieces are based off of scenes from my fics! So I'm posting this gallery to celebrate them and the many wonderful artists, moots, friends and Blorbo-Lovers I've worked with! Many fandoms and ships will be featured. Enjoy
where the nuclear sun rises
by mitslits
It was wrong to want her, he knew that. She was young, but more importantly, she was naive. He wanted to take that naivete between his teeth and grind it up until there wasn't a shred of it left.The old Cooper would hate the things he'd done to her. The old Cooper could never forgive himself for tak
start carvin'
by littlefoolswritings
Little Lucy throws him a blank look, the same one he’s been seeing on that pretty face since the showdown with her father. “I want to keep going.”There’s that stubborn tenacity buried under her too-soft flesh. He argues back, “I’m tired. Ain’t you tired?”(or, Ghoul discovers Lucy has a method to get
he's a devil, she's a demon (he's a doll)
by Bitumz
She was grieving, just as he had when the one he'd trusted most in the world had shown their true colors, spending the days mostly silent until some human urgency or another arose, otherwise trudging along behind him as if the path his boots left was the only one she knew. As if his rope was still s
Strike A Bargain, Light A Match
by DittyWrites
A collection of all my wicked little Cooper Howard fics comprising all the nasty and questionable filth that I want to see this ghoul take part in.(And one filthy Maximus fic since I don't have anywhere else to put it at the moment)
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes
by Rulimaquina
Lucy remembered being young, a little girl. Her vault suit covered in dirt and the heels of her hands scrapped, bleeding. It seemed like the worst that could ever happen to anyone, like her entire existence had been turned on its axis, like the end of the world to a child. Then, her mother standing
Trapped
by V_a_l_y
Lucy's worst choices occur when she wants to pursue the stupid moral principles imparted in the Vault, according to the Ghoul. Could it be different this time?(A single-chapter of an extremely long fancomic — and a lot of porn)EDIT: UK users couldn't visualize the comic because it was hosted by Imgu
A Trust and a Promise
by KLouWolf
Ambushed and kidnapped by bandits, Lucy finds herself trapped with Cooper when his dosage of yellow vials runs out…
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Why Slow Burn Ghoulcy Fanfiction Works So Well
Cooper Howard | The Ghoul/Lucy MacLean — The Fallout show's 200-year-old bounty hunter drags its sunny vault dweller across the wasteland, selling her organs one scene and saving her the next. By the finale they ride off together, and the fandom's biggest new ship was sealed.
Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.
Her stubborn golden-rule decency slowly cracking his cowboy nihilism is enemies-to-partners at its most watchable. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. That's why slow burn Ghoulcy fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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