Top 7 One-Shot Loyalty Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with loyalty and falls in the short stories under 10,000 words range.
I Would Beat With Your Heart As It Beats
by inexplicifics
It's Eskel who smells the blood and finds the bard.The Warlord's right hand doesn't get to panic, so instead, Eskel...copes.
make a choice (turncoat hero)
by WhirlyBird70
He takes the kid as Rouge breathes her last, shuddering breath, and goes to turn out the door.Standing in his path is an old friend."Hand over the child,” Sengoku says, voice even and tired, and Garp has to make a choice.-Or: Garp accidentally becomes a pirate, purposefully becomes a grandfather, an
The Sky Is Luminous
by inexplicifics
A few days after Oxenfurt, the White Wolf asks to have a conversation with Milena.
Again and Again
by SailorFish
Achilles stood up. He had been expecting the stranger since Megaera had stalked past him, elegant despite the anger and blood dripping from her. An AU where Zagreus was raised by Demeter and ends up fighting his way through the Underworld regardless - just in the opposite direction. Guarding the ent
waters of the wild
by LadyCrimsonAndBlack
Even to his nakama, Luffy sometimes appears just a little bit too odd.(Or: Five times a Straw Hat notices something strange about Luffy, and the one time someone knows what's going on.)
Trust Falls
by Niki
Doctor Strange has a plan to tie Bucky Barnes to someone who can be trusted to never misuse the command words, someone who will always do right by him. The spell has side effects. It also chooses a person no one – including Tony himself – expected.
Masks
by Violet_has_a_Pen
This fic takes place during the events of Feet of Clay. The book left me with a lot of questions and I was particularly curious about Drumknott’s perspective.We all know Commander Vimes is more than capable of dealing with the Assassins’ Guild and that he feels the most alive when someone is trying
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About Loyalty
Stories that put allegiance under pressure: characters choosing each other over orders, ideals, or self-preservation. Loyalty fic explores what devotion costs when staying faithful to a person means betraying everything else.
A character declaring 'I'm with you, whatever happens' lands harder than any love confession, which is why loyalty is the beating heart of so much gen and shippy fic alike.
Common scenarios: A knight defying a direct royal order to save their friend, or a subordinate following a disgraced commander into exile without being asked.
About This List
This list of 7one-shot Loyalty fanfics spans 35,464 total words. Kudos range from 14 on the newest entries to 16,309 on the most established. Nearly all (86%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (6 of 7 fics).
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