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MARICLAUDE FIC RECS FOR #MariClaudeWeek !!
So, you're probably wondering what the deal with MariClaude is- what is this tiny rarepair that a few people are SO LOUD about? Perhaps reading my favorite fics will help sway you towards the pairing, or at least help you understand it!
So, you're probably wondering what the deal with MariClaude is- what is this tiny rarepair that a few people are SO LOUD about? Perhaps reading my favorite fics will help sway you towards the pairing, or at least help you understand it!
1. Starlight by @detectiveryanz - probably THE definitive canon-verse fic if you want a taste of what their relationship would look like in-game/the slow-burn that their paired ending describes
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20246785
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20246785
One of the best descriptions of what it's like to fall in love with someone who you've known for a long time and who's blossomed and grown, to step into love instead of falling into it. Some fools really do take 10 years to realize they're in love with each other, and that's okay
2. from the horse's mouth by godofmorons - Claude decides to talk to Dorte to see how he can maybe get Marianne to open up to him. If you want to see the future Alliance leader lose his shit talking to a horse, this is the perfect fic for you.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20984126
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20984126
3. tell me all the ways to love you by daluyong - there's a certain melancholia to this fic that I don't quite know how to describe...? A certain soft mourning to it, and a bitterly painful yearning to them.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22243297
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22243297
4. to be your harbor by @strikinglight_
A Little Mermaid retelling where definitely-not-Claude is the mermaid, and Marianne is definitely not the girl with hair like sky. A great story about love and what it's like to give it selflessly.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23223661
A Little Mermaid retelling where definitely-not-Claude is the mermaid, and Marianne is definitely not the girl with hair like sky. A great story about love and what it's like to give it selflessly.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23223661
5. Common Tongue by @detectiveryanz
If you don't feel like reading through plot/fluff/anything, this is just really, really good porn.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21233306
If you don't feel like reading through plot/fluff/anything, this is just really, really good porn.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21233306
6. Blue by legendofthesevenstars
Claude and Marianne talk about magic, and Marianne helps Claude with something that comes more naturally to her.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21528811
Claude and Marianne talk about magic, and Marianne helps Claude with something that comes more naturally to her.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21528811
7. May I Have this Dance by @_heyyahri
Claude and Marianne dance together, and romance begins to brew.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23024896
Claude and Marianne dance together, and romance begins to brew.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23024896
Feel free to respond to this thread with your own recommendations! As a queer person who enjoys M/F ships, I often lament that fics a lot of my M/F ships tend to fall into heteronormative traps. The MariClaude tag is overall EXTREMELY strong and strays away from that.
It helps that I know, or know OF a lot of the people who contribute to this tag, and a lot of us are somewhere under the LGBTQ umbrella. (Raise your hand if you're Not Cis and projecting onto Claude and projecting your gf onto Marianne)
