bringing this back bc y’all only love me for two threads anyways (the other being my stan twt thread)

1. johnyong gokushufudou au where johnny is a retired organized crime boss (yakuza, mafia, take ur pic) who’s given up a life of violence to play househusband and does it Well

2. dotae college TA au where our favorite tom and jerry get to mentor (read: babysit) a chem lab full of idiot freshmen who set trash cans on fire and snort aluminum chloride on accident no this is not based off of any real experience what are you talking about

3. markhyuck college au where dotae roast sophomore mark for passing by the class which happens to include freshman hyuck even though his next class is literally on the other side of campus

4. norenmin college au where nomin agonize over puppy crushing on renjun, a student in the stats class they’re TAs for, and end up inviting him to a frat party for halloween

5. chenji college au where hs senior jisung goes on a campus tour and encounters chenle, the star of the music program who got accepted to the uni early bc of sheer talent (it’s love at first song)

6. jaeten college au where their respective frats end up in an all out prank war and they gotta be gay do crimes, rivals to lovers style

7. johnil professors au where they're department heads trying to keep their students and teachers in line not knowing everyone is acting up in order to get them together but SIKE johnil are already secretly married

8. yuwin college au where they’re co-RAs on the same floor but one of their rooms suddenly has a bed bug infestation so they have to move in together but wait there’s only one bed and i talk about my crush on him in my sleep-

9. luwoo college au where lucas is the Face of the Campus as the MVP for the football team but is very publicly whipped for Cheerleading Fairy jungwoo

10. xiaohenyang college au where yangyang wakes up at 3am to hendery screeching bc their drunk student council rep is crouched at the end of his bed like a gremlin & maybe they should have hidden their collection of stolen road signs this is totally not based off of irl hahaha-

11. au where it's revealed that kun’s an omnipotent god who manipulated everything that happened in the last 9 aus i listed and is NOT just some janitor that i wrote into the background of every fic for fun

12. dojae road trip au where doyoung picks up rich kid jaehyun off the side of the road and they make the drive from cali to pennsylvania on the way home from uni

13. nomin arranged marriage au except they're both in love with renjun who is unfortunately obsessed with shipping them together

14. markhyuck warm bodies au, mark as r, hyuck as julie

15. dojae-centric durarara au with doyoung as izaya and jaehyun as shizuo

16. norenmin high school robotics au

17. 00line-centric pjo au with jaemin as aphrodite's kid, jeno as ares', hyuck as apollo's, and renjun as artemis's (he can be adopted or sponsored or something)

18. markhyuck wedding au except it's nahyuck-centric bc jaemin is pining and heartbroken, unrequited love, endgame markhyuck, just exploring his feelings

19. persona 5/inception crossover where taeyong runs a small clinic that solves people's cognitive problems by entering their subconscious, perhaps some supernatural creatures involved too

20. nahyuck high school au where they've broken up and are just generally antagonistic towards each other (but don't worry, they get back together)

21. jaeren royalty/christian mythology au

22. noren put your head on my shoulder au where they are college kids that just happen to end up as housemates

23. 7 days-inspired au where renjun gives himself 7 days to get someone to fall for him: if he can't do it, he'll give up on the other person entirely

24. norenmin skip beat-inspired au where renjun is a voice actor who gets kicked out of an agency due to a misunderstanding and blames jaemin. he vows revenge and becomes an actor at the rival company where jeno is the star celeb, shenanigans ensue

25. noren romeo and juliette au inspired by taylor swift's love story mv

26. canon compliant au where renjun's pissed off at jeno bc he keeps breaking out bc jeno pokes his cheeks so often

27. nct dream secret history au

28. noren hollywood au where jeno is an academy award-winning actor and renjun is the staff he falls for backstage

29. nct au of inokori sensei (yes the honeyworks song)

30. 7dream going through a haunted house

31. renjun-centric au inspired by the mv for good thing by zedd/kehlani

32. mafia au with established markhyuck, infidelity, nahyuck one night stand, inspired by more than that by lauren jauregui

33. jaemin-centric american psycho au

34. nct mikagura school suite au where they all get really cool powers depending on what extracurricular activity they do

35. an au of a children's book i love very very much

36. miraculous ladybug au with jaemin chat noir, jeno ladybug, renjun vulpina, hyuck queen bee, and a plot that doesn't make me want to tear my hair out like canon does

37. noren canon compliant fwb au where they are both very aware that jeno has unrequited feelings

38. nohyuck college boyfriends au

39. nct dating sim au with every member as an otome cliche, you've got like the teacher, the childhood best friend, the bad boy, the prince, the student president, the foreign prince, the werewolf, the demon king, etc.

40. nct bachelor au, yes the reality show

41. luwoo au where lucas needs to get woo's ring size to propose but he can't just outright ask so he tries to steal one of jungwoo’s rings

42. canon compliant serial killer nana, like he's always disappearing at strange times or maybe he's got a few mysterious bloodstains, maybe his gaze catches on a passerby for just a second too long, or someone walks in on him scrubbing out something red from underneath his nails

43. nct greatest showman au

44. i just think a yuwin historical au would be fantastic, i really wish i knew more about feudal japan or something

45. nahyuck fake marriage au but it’s also enemies to lovers but it’s also satire of every other fake marriage fic out there so they have to deal with every single kdrama cliche in the most entertaining way possible

46. markhei clubbing smut

47. some kind of detective/secret agent au where they find a fresh corpse in the rubble of a building demolished ten years ago, wonder how that happened

48. now you see me au with 00line as the four horsemen

49. noren great gatsby au

50. fantasy au where renjun gets horribly exploited for having healing powers but the dragon (jeno) spares him out of everyone in his battalion and asks him to heal him

51. norenmin art thief au where renjun feels bad about his failed art project so nomin break into the louvre and hang his up instead of the mona lisa or something

52. canon compliant au where dreamies go to jail! literally! manager-hyung just wants to quit

53. taeyong attempts to hold a nice christmas dinner for all 21 boys, shenanigans ensue

54. 00line as elements of nature, inspired by the chinese phrase 风花雪月 (haechan as the wind, jaemin as flowers, renjun as snow, jeno as the moon)

55. renjun lives in a house cursed to warp to a different location/world every day, so he never stays in the same place twice, but i'll make him fall in love with nomin somehow (yes this was... inspired by magic tree house don't @ me)

56. an exes-getting-back-together renmin au inspired by a quote from my high school social studies textbook i've had saved for like 6 years now about civil war and the commitment problem lol don't ask

57. rumors abound that renjun plans on confessing to someone on valentine's day, everyone thinks it’s the cute british exchange student, nomin vow to foil renjun’s confession

58. norenmin first love academy au (yes the vocaloid song)

59. nct night circus au

60. 7 days-inspired au again except this time it's a different person confessing to renjun every day for a week and then he has to pick someone on the last day

61. nct canon divergent zombie apocalypse au

62. noren canon compliant au based on jeno's many failed attempts to hold renjun's hand during the starK show

63. nct dream coming of age au where they have to reconnect in high school/college after never really getting along as children, loosely based on a silent voice

64. nct h2o au, yes the mermaids

65. nct hex hall au

66. nct big hero 6 au

67. nct canon compliant au where renjun gets stuck in a tree and no one can get him down bc everyone who catches him is cursed to fall in love with him, inspired by the we young choreo

68. renvy facetime! shenanigans ensue, blame jeno

69. mark is a necromancer by birth who doesn't know that he has a talent for raising the dead, haechan is on the magic council tasked with chasing down mark the overenthusiastic emt

70. les mis au with renjun as enjolras and jeno as grantaire

71. norenmin au where renjun gets kidnapped by the notorious bonnie & clyde duo to make a bomb for them but goes full mad scientist bc when is he going to get funding like this again

72. nct shokugeki no souma au

73. 5 times renjun is mistaken as single + the 1 time jeno shows up when renjun insists his boyfriend is better than anyone else

74. haechan keeps summoning scary demons bc he's punk like that but they keep falling in love with his roommate renjun who goes from horrified to resigned to amused to interested

75. nct canon compliant supernatural au, like they're kpop idols but maybe they're all different magical creatures

76. werewolf jeno never lets his boyfriend renjun see him shift bc it's embarrassing how easily he gives in to his animal instincts

77. norenmin shadowhunters au

78. nct modern au where all 21 of them live in the same apartment building, chaos and multiple storylines ensue

79. norenmin nukoduke au

80. norenmin twilight au, a legitimately serious take

81. jaemin as bunnicula

82. nct st trinian's au

83. nct series where all the ships get together without drama bc not everything has to be difficult all the time okay

84. kun, a sex demon, gets summoned by ten, who just wants kun to fix his dead laptop

85. noren make your move au (the movie starring boa and derek hough)

86. johnyong kunten gentlemen prefer blondes au

87. john tucker must die au but it's johnny seo must die (with jaehyun as kate, ten as heather, taeyong as beth, and doyoung as carrie)

88. taeten get divorced but don't tell each other where they'removing so they accidentally become neighbors and possibly kidnap a few college students each in their quest to be the better role model

89. markren/nahyuck enchanted au where jaemin is the prince, renjun is giselle, mark is the corporate dude, and haechan is idina menzel

90. wayv secret agents movie au (deep in the act style where it alternates between movie scenes and scenes of them filming said movie)

91. norenmin destination vacation au where renjun travels alone and gets really lonely but perhaps he meets someone at his resort...

92. 00line girl meets world au kinda i guess? not really sure how this would work but something with the same vibe would be nice

93. nomin have a one night stand and wake up married, but they're both public figures so they can't divorce right away so now they have to come up with a fake backstory on how they fell in love except they're both kinda falling for nosy reporter renjun at the same time

94. norenmin college au where renjun keeps summoning demons in his dorm room to one-up haechan but every time he thinks he's doing it right, jaemin barges into his and jeno's room (jaemin just wants to study like a normal human, can renjun PLEASE stop summoning him)

95. markhyuck nomin high school au based on 19 days/their story

96. markhyuck au where hyuck is doing his best to get mark into his bed but mark keeps getting distracted halfway thru foreplay bc hyuck has really good sex playlists

97. jaemin is a woodwork master and his miniatures are so intricate and beautiful that he attracts the interest of a little fairy named renjun, who would very much so like them for his own house

98. police chief doyoung is married to mob boss taeyong and they have to keep "just failing" to catch each other

99. since eating fey food means you owe them, sucking fairy dick is probably the opposite (since you're doing THEM a favor), but none of this explains why taeyong, johnny's self-appointed fairy godtherapist (johnny never agreed to this) is showing up NOW when he just got dumped

100. jaemin's late to pay rent to his very attractive vampire landlord, jaehyun... oh no, HOWEVER will he make it up to him

101. norenmin superhero au where nomin only commit crimes to try to impress hero!renjun and get his attention bc neither of them knows how to flirt like a regular person

102. renjun prepping for his eventual descent into hell by summoning high-ranking demon jaehyun first and banging his brains out with the eventual agreement that he'll be treated pleasantly in hell in exchange

103. #102 except replace renjun with jaemin and replace goal-oriented, long-term planning with the insatiable urge to fuck

104. #102 and #103 happen in the same timeline and jaehyun has hell to pay when renmin both die together in a freak microwave accident

105. jeno sad lonely vampire on tinder just trying to find a boyfriend he can spend eternity with becomes with smitten with jaemin, an unimpressed monsterfucker who demands jeno to put some effort into kidnapping him and chaining him to an altar, stylized like a 90s sitcom

106. immortal!kun and time traveler!ten cross paths often and much more frequently than they’d like

107. hitman!ten who keeps crawling into college student!mark's apartment half-dead after missions and mark just tends to him every time while trying to resist actually falling for him

108. markhyuck canon compliant au where mark realizes that after years of haechan chasing after him, now mark's the one who sorely needs to catch up (this would be one hell of a character study honestly)

109. dotae tiger and bunny au with taeyong as kotetsu and doyoung as barnaby

110. secret agent ten mistakes michelin reviewer kun as his mission partner, kun is contractually obligated to never breathe a word of his actual occupation so he has to pretend to be the secret agent, hijinks and very good restaurant choices ensue

111. james bond au with kun as bond and ten as his sassy quartermaster

112. nomin actors au where jaemin’s the male lead and jeno’s the second male lead and i just think it’d be really funny for the actress (female oc) to be a bit of a diva and leak a love triangle to the press over the course of the shooting but nomin end up falling for each other

113. mark is a ghost who realizes he can still manipulate tech a little bit, haechan is a human who is very charmed by the mysterious no-pic dude he's met on a dating app... now who's gonna tell him

114. jaemin is bored and strokes his laptop camera three times, accidentally summoning his fbi agent doyoung, now they are stuck together until jaemin gets three wishes but the twist? dy’s not magic so he has to fulfill the wishes using his governmental resources

115. kunten batman/catwoman au

116. dojae starstruck au where jaehyun is the trapped celeb, doyoung is the unimpressed normie, and haechan is the fanboy brother

117. i'm not sure how well this can be pulled off in a kpop fandom bc we have such emotional attachment to names but a transmigration/reincarnation anthology (with a system) would be cool as shit

118. norenmin cruel intentions au where renjun bets his stepbrother jaemin that jaemin can’t seduce jeno, the new kid in town: if jaemin wins the bet, renjun will sleep with him, and if he loses, renjun gets jeno

119. rookie detective jisung finds out his best friend chenle is a serial killer and goes through an internal struggle bc chenle only kills criminals jisung has complained to him about

120. markhyuck are roommates and hyuck is a twitch streamer: whenever his fans catch sight of mark they ask if the two are dating, hyuck is a little shit and aggressively flirts w mark to fan the flames higher and one day mark turns the tables on him, kissing him while he's live

121. painter!renjun lives by the ocean where the sea (jeno) meets the sky (jaemin). he listens to their tale of being star-crossed lovers and decides to help them, but perhaps he falls in love with them along the way

122. nct dream suicide squad au

123. jeno is the realtor just trying to sell a haunted house, renjun is the cat with a complaint, jaemin is the ghost only the cat can see

124. film director renjun, leading actor jaemin, cameraman jeno (either norenmin or noren with jaemin being renjun’s lovers to frenemies)

125. last game/horimiya/kaguya-sama inspired doten high school au where it's just. student pres doyoung vs unimpressed slacker ten, battle of the nerds

126. norenmin au based on the 365 fresh mv by triple h, just aesthetic criminals on the run

127. art conservator renjun, exasperated beyond belief with his wealthy clients jeno and jaemin who... fucked their way THROUGH a painting... he's not even going to ask

128. chenji horror? au where chenle is an automaton and jisung is the boy who discovers how to make him sing

129. due to an entirely coincidental turn of events (who let mark and lucas hold a cooking party over facetime?), all the dorms have burnt down and ot23 will be living together for the first time. surely this can’t go wrong at all!

130. chenji gamer boyfriends yes i know i have an esports au languishing already, also i literally know NOTHING about esports help i just think k/da bops

131. nct dream canon compliant fight club

132. serial heartbreaker jaemin meets his match in soft and steely renjun: “i don’t deserve you.” “no. but you have me anyway.”

133. canon compliant au where the hyungs all get caught up in nct dream’s games

134. norenmin how to train your dragon au with jeno as toothless, a shapeshifting dragon

135. noren getting married, just wanna make it soft and happy and disgustingly sappy

136. nct au where A is an assassin for an evil organization but accidentally kills the bad guy so now he’s being hunted by his bosses and the good guys who don’t know he switched sides, B is the only contact he can trust (don’t have a preferred ship for this yet)

137. dotae one-sided love groundhog day au at the bar where taeyong gets engaged

138. taeyong stress bakes and johnny buys him little trinkets in exchange for a limitless supply of sweets and everyone else just wants to know why yong is saved as “sugar daddy~” in johnny’s contacts

139. dojae great gatsby au with doyoung as daisy, johnny as tom buchanan, mark as nick, jae gatsby, and assorted other characters

140. college au where renjun is glorified tech support for the university college station and every time he goes in to fix something, he makes a fool of himself in front of johnny, the charismatic dj/announcer

141. nct fic but it’s a soulmate goose of enforcement au i can’t believe i forgot about the best trope of all time

142. youtuber chef!renjun and his videographer!jaemin having to physically entangle themselves in some very compromising positions in order to create those aesthetic cooking videos where you can only see the chef’s hands

143. doyu au where yuta has a natural tendency to commit crimes and doyoung constantly has to keep his boyfriend leashed

144. dojae au where they switch bodies with each other... the catch? they went back in time to high school, back before they broke up for good