Thread of underrated/not talked about alarkling fics! (Because believe it or not, there are more than the four everyone always talks about!!)
1/? ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐’๐ž๐š: ๐˜ž๐˜๐˜—

This one is SO underrated. The writing is brilliant & the characterization is spot on & the author is a darling!! Leave them a comment!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13719921 
2/? ๐—ถ ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐˜€:

The smutty one shot everyone who ships alarkling must read before they die.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13843875 
3/? ๐‹๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

Everyone always talks about Start a War by nymja (rightly so) but no one talks about this fic! Alarkling over the course of four different lives.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2168904 
4/? ๐†๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐˜ž๐˜๐˜—

Vignette-style canon divergence AU. Thereโ€™s Hades/Persephone parallels and the writing is gorgeously lush.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14752154 
5/? ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ก๐š๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐–๐š๐ซ: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

This one is basically a classic, but no one talks about it. AU where Alina is an engineer (?) and the Darkling is an ambassador for Ravka. It starts slow but.. oh my god. READ IT. Twist ending.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4000816 
6/? ๐’๐จ๐ฅ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฃ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฒ๐ž: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

Ravka is on the verge of a Revolution.
Alina and Aleks are revolution leaders. Definitely dark, but beautifully written.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5856472 
7/? ๐ˆ๐ง ๐๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž ๐–๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ: ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

The Darkling comes back to life and poses as a Fjerdan man in order to tear Alinaโ€™s marriage apart. It sounds silly but itโ€™s BRILLIANT. Itโ€™s his POV, and itโ€™s absolutely amazing.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18008609 
8/? ๐ˆ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ: ๐˜ž๐˜๐˜—

โ€œAlina" comes to the Darkling more prepared for his nonsense than he could possibly imagine. (Alina knows the entire plot of the Grisha trilogy, except this story starts at the beginning. The maneuvering๐Ÿ‘Œ)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11864049 
9/? ๐€ ๐Š๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ž: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

Fix-it fic. What if Alina didnโ€™t run away in Shadow & Bone? The author is so nice, go give them support! I know this one is popular right now, but Iโ€™m including it anyways.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21288716 
10/10 ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ

Yes this is my own work... look away. Instead of responding with fear, Alina responds with anger when the Darkling comes to her in the night disguised as Mal. Smut.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23166229 
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