Best MattMello Angst Fanfics
The best angst MattMello (Mello/Matt) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration.
Top MattMello Angst Fic Recs
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Our almost Love Story.
Angstby BrideOfDemons
Tres días sin hablar.Un cuarto que casi los mata.Y la jodida realidad de enamorarse.
when i get up this is what i see, welcome to reality
Angstby mello_meowow
Mello risks his life to save Nears and ends up with a traumatic brain injury. Near becomes L's successor and tries to live with the guilt. Mello wakes up each day to a shattered reality, missing the thing he always valued most about himself. And Matt... well, he stays with Mello. What else would he
A race against fate itself.
Angstby Imfromgaydisneyland20
L Lawliet knows he’s bound to die to Light Yagami’s hand.That’s inevitable.Bound by their shared fate.He’d seen it coming, seen firsthand in his last life, his other universe, as Light Yagami watched the life drain from his eyes.He couldn’t stop it then.…He could stop it now.
mail for Mail.
Angstby rottenredapples
Mello and Matt grew up in the Wammy’s house together, each year growing closer together until they were inseparable. On December 13th Mello turned 18, he was required to leave the Wammy’s House, he promised he would write to Matt and they would meet again. It was boring without Mello, but as promise
ThrashNet
by symph0ny0fdestruction
It's the early 2000s and Matt and Mello each run popular fansites sites for rival metal bands, and yeah, they fucking hate each other. But between infighting online, they keep running into each other at concerts. Fucked up on cocktails of drugs and alcohol; things turn nasty, sexy, and dark very qui
Stay Tuned
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx
"Promise me, Mihael, if we get separated, we'll find each other no matter what," I whispered, idly grazing the strings of my guitar. "If I can't find you, then you'll have to become a freaking rockstar and be on every music channel, so there's no way I don't find you, Mail," Mihael replied, and I kn
Wintering
by Guns_N_Poses
“Um… hello?” Mello said carefully, his English stiff and nervous. “I um. I’m Mello.” When there was no answer, Mello took a cautious step closer. “You like dogs?” The other boy hissed—an actual hiss—and a nearby husky barked sharply, echoing his warning. Mello stumbled back, startled. The boy’s lips
Ashes & Amber
by deathnotediv4
Mail Jeevas was devoured by curiosity and abandonment; Mihael Keehl was driven by ambition and replacement. Wammy’s House was where it began. Where innocence, youth, and ethics ran free, childish and sweet. Los Angeles taught them how to survive outside their cages, but not how to remain whole as ti
Backstage Pass
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx
The prize: Mello, singer and guitarist of Mind Pollution, the million-dollar rock star who sells out arenas, tops charts, and leaves fans screaming and swooning. The contestants: nineteen hopeful guys and one Matt, who mostly came for the paycheck. It’s reality TV. It’s supposed to be fake. But thin
Meet The Kids
by LeviAckerman_is_my_husband
"Kira has adapted to his new life, as well as he’s going to as long as he still remembers what his old life was. Or as L says, ‘Light’s life’, it's not his anymore, because he’s not Light Yagami anymore, he is Kira. And he will be for the rest of his new life. And he will share that new life with L,
Birthday Boy
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx
At 00:00, Matt turns eighteen.At 00:09, still a virgin and still hopelessly in love with Mello, he downloads Grindr in the hope of fixing at least one of those problems.
Going Bananas
by xxbeyondxbirthdayxx
After discovering that the Takada abduction was a trap designed to get them killed, Mello and Matt fake their deaths and flee to a tropical island under the deeply unfortunate aliases Clive Bananas and Percival Mango. Near thinks he has removed two dangerous variables from the Kira case. Unfortunate
What You Need
by lulu0zyx
“I’m sorry about last night.” It’s not Mello that should be apologising, really, but he feels he owes Matt something. Especially since he’s about to propose one of the most outrageous proposals that has ever been proposed.
Fly Me to the Moon
by Meg_Y
The last two months Mello and Matt had together.
ThrashNet Fanart
by Lawlightcortispeak
Idk I just wanted to draw Fanart of Matt x Mello for symph0ny0fdestruction's ThrashNet series cuz it's so goated^^Btw I also posted this and other Fanart on my Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/mattsterofpuppets (Yes the username is absolutely copied from Matt's in ThrashNet)
Good Memories and Nightmares
by BouquetsOfChlorosis
"These are the memoirs of a forgotten generation; the voices of the lost children of Wammy's House. The dead, the living, and those who were never truly either.” — The Archivist, c. 2025 In 2020, Near receives a package from a former resident of Wammy's House who has vanished without a trace. Inside
Soup and crackers.
by rottenredapples
Just a short Mellodramattic story of Mello getting sick while Matt takes care of him.
The Tale of Three Kingdoms
by atl_as11
The Yagami kingdom and Wammy kingdom have been rivals for the longest time, heated by a conflict decades ago. Despite this rivalry, King Yagami is determined to get land from the Wammy. Unfortunately, he has to negotiate with the current king, Lawliet, who happens to quite stubborn.
【M2M】只言片语
by Muterced
matt 视角下mello的到来和两人的解剖 Wherever you go,I’ll follow.
Alternate Ways to Breathe
by FemBoyLiquor
Boring is the only word to describe Matt's life as a drummer for a band and who lived in a cramped apartment in LA. He yearned for more-and more did he get. Mello is an important part of the American mafia. His life is insane, and what he works the hardest on? Communism. Specifically against his cap
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Why Angst MattMello Fanfiction Works So Well
Mello/Matt — Wammy's House's chocolate-eating runner-up and its chain-smoking third place reunited for the Takada kidnapping, where Matt died as Mello's decoy minutes before Mello's own heart gave out. A handful of panels of loyalty unto death built one of fandom's classic minor-character ships.
Angst — Stories focused on emotional pain, drama, and intense feelings.
Canon gave them almost nothing, which means fic gets to invent everything about the boy who died for Mello without being asked. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration. That's why angst MattMello fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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