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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.

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1

Beauty Prefers The Beast

Slow Burn

by 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.

1,355 kudos 24,503 words 4/4 chapters Explicit
2

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

3,203 kudos 16,818 words 5/? chapters Explicit
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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.

2,863 kudos 201,992 words 44/44 chapters Explicit
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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

2,686 kudos 39,425 words 3/? chapters Explicit
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Mine

by Storygirl82

On the road to New Vegas, an unlikely pair forms a surprisingly unbreakable bond...

2,536 kudos 156,987 words 25/? chapters Explicit
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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

2,152 kudos 58,665 words 12/12 chapters Explicit
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Live Round

by Heratic (TaiyouRae)

Ghouls are sterile, everyone knows this. Lucy knows this.Her uterus, however, didn't seem to get the memo.

1,981 kudos 240,504 words 56/? chapters Explicit
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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

1,769 kudos 36,856 words 14/14 chapters Explicit
9

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

1,745 kudos 9,304 words 5/5 chapters Explicit
10

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

1,520 kudos 52,492 words 17/17 chapters Explicit
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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.

1,500 kudos 63,085 words 29/29 chapters Explicit
12

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.)

1,460 kudos 20,625 words 11/11 chapters Explicit
13

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

1,412 kudos 0 236/? chapters Explicit
14

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

1,337 kudos 31,693 words 20/20 chapters Mature
15

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

1,174 kudos 10,345 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
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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

1,167 kudos 20,200 words 7/7 chapters Explicit
17

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)

1,139 kudos 29,895 words 20/20 chapters Explicit
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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

1,085 kudos 19,321 words 7/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
19

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

1,079 kudos 0 1/1 chapters Explicit
20

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…

1,067 kudos 4,454 words 1/1 chapters Explicit

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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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