Fanfic Recommendations

[Severance] Pebbling by Their_Footprints_in_Our_Snow (original, archived link)

The backstory of Petey’s reintegration. Featuring: Petey dad jokes, slice of life casino shenanigans, Radar being a very good boy, poetry, and fanart I drew. This will mostly focus on the Outies, but be sprinkled with Innie scenes.

[Severance] salt water by cassiandor (original, archived link)

Mark S. has a bad day. Mark Scout has a worse one.

[Severance] he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother by cassiandor (original, archived link)

”If anything happened to you,” Devon mumbles into his neck, “you know I would just have to invent time travel to bring you back, right?”

Mark lets out a watery laugh, his arms tightening around her.

“I know you would,” he says. “I know.”

Devon and Mark, through the years.

[Severance] gathering in loose ends (you or your memory) by lamphouse (original, archived link)

There's a lot of fucking things Dylan wishes he'd said to Irv. About a million of them, actually. Which, of course, he's just lost his chance to do, forever. Just his luck.

[Severance] The Fable of Lady Malice Upon Her Sister's Wedding-Bed by mechadogmarron (original, archived link)

“Today, Kier guides me to recount of Lady Malice Upon Her Sister's Wedding-Bed, that we might see the wiles of our charges.” Lorne's heart skipped a beat, and she fought not to smile. It was a sad tale, and strange, and so she liked it. Her most perfect child was always taken from her, killed by her own hand. The tales of Malice were a balm to such pain.

[Severance] Clean by pajama pants (kylatradora) (original, archived link)

"Gemma?" Mark asks without turning around as the sliding door squeaks open behind him. For a moment he doesn't look up from his cooking, then, when Helly doesn't answer, he turns around and locks eyes with her. She freezes like an animal in headlights, the same song and dance every night. Mark turns off the burners and cleans his hands with a dishrag.
"Outside, Helly," Mark says, and she slouches and obeys.

[Severance] what remains is perfectly scattered by Princex_N (original, archived link)

Mark is lucky, he knows it. He holds the thought in the center of his mind and tries not to forget it. He is here because he got lucky, because his sister loves him, and things could have been so much worse.

Knowing that things could be worse, though, doesn't really change the fact that they're still really fucking hard.

[Severance] General Knowledge by Jennie_D (original, archived link)

The severance procedure does not erase everything from the human mind. Innies still know how to speak, how to read, they retain general knowledge.

Sometimes that knowledge proves revealing.

[Severance] Milkshake, Milchuck, and other Things a Good Sport Swallows by mystery_ink (original, archived link)

Milchick is driving through the night on his motorcycle. He is passing by a snow-covered field which seems to go on forever, twin of the night sky. He is worried. He has just had to re-hire two people he previously chose to fire. He is angry, but there is no room for anger.

[Severance] i bet on losing dogs by Anonymous (original, archived link)

My wife liked other people’s dogs.

Or, three months after Gemma’s accident, Mark encounters a familiar face.

[Severance] Green by archersilverr (original, archived link)

It was a mistake to come in. It was the right place to be. The sight of the room stunned him into silence, frozen by the door. He had lost track of where he had been walking towards, and he had only been familiar with the directions to this room from O&D.

The plants were still green. Luscious. Alive.

[Disco Elysium] swallow the stars (let's beg to be born again) by melencolia (original, archived link)

The present is endlessly scorched to cinders by the heat of history.

[Disco Elysium] After the Pale, the World Again by PositivelyVexed (original, archived link)

They stand in front of the body. The putrid, decomposing body, which is somehow back in the tree.

“Is this normal?” the detective asks. “Is this how time works?”

“No. This is not normal.”

[Disco Elysium] still in motion by wrishwrosh (original, archived link)

Harrier Du Bois takes up birdwatching.

[Disco Elysium] aurum by nothingbutflowers (original, archived link)

the story of the perikarnassian - and a little glimpse of kim clubbing.

[Disco Elysium] Von allen Werken by chelmnik (original, archived link)

Off-duty, Kim takes Harry for an afternoon at the museum. Harry searches for part of himself.

[Disco Elysium] The Shape of the Sand by AstroGirl (original, archived link)

You wake up with no idea where you are, or who you are.

You wake up with no idea where you are, or who you are.

You wake up...

[Disco Elysium] the anticipation of the change by ariex09 (original, archived link)

Kim turns in his transfer paperwork, gets a tour of Precinct 41, and works on the Kineema. Harry helps.

[Disco Elysium] How to Return from the Sea by MaskofSilver (original, archived link)

The Pale. The thing that is eating the world. Piece by piece, moment by moment ... How do you know that it isn't consuming you right now? How do you know what has been lost – can you remember it all? Do you know what used to be there, but now is no more? There are questions you cannot answer, and maybe no one can. All you need is a way to survive it. A way to make it through, if you ever find yourself in a spot where you need it. Lucky for you, there's already a way to do this – using a Volta do Mar. But how does one do that? How do you make a Volta do Mar? Kim has a Volta. Jean has a Volta. It's time for you to find yours. Better make it fast.

[Disco Elysium] Shots from the Precipice by tydides (original, archived link)

What’s behind a new drug sweeping Revachol West? Romance, camaraderie, mini-mystery.

[Disco Elysium] One Last Call by blabbin (original, archived link)

Harry can't let go of the past.
He knows he can't win Dora back, he's already accepted that. But...

He has questions he desperately needs answers to.

[Disco Elysium] Nightcap by positiverolemodel (original, archived link)

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - A cafétéria automatique, or autocafé, is a type of restaurant that became popular in Revachol in the years following the war. From behind those locker-like machines, workers prepare hot meals, and patrons retrieve their desired food from the lockers by inserting coins into the appropriate slot.

[Disco Elysium] Little Pistol by por_queeee (original, archived link)

Harry buys Kim a gift, and shenanigans ensue.

[Disco Elysium] Trying Not To Be Pieces by nbfutureboy (original, archived link)

Harry and Kim are many, many things. The most important one is that they’re extremely compatible. The second-most is that they are anything but undeserving.

[Disco Elysium] THE HAUNTING OF PRECINCT 41 by confusedTraveler (original, archived link)

Eight months after Martinaise, an entroponetic experiment gone wrong lands Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor Harrier Du Bois in a temporary coma, and Precinct 41 finds itself saddled with twenty-four unusual new inhabitants.

[Disco Elysium] All in Due Time by Schattenspiel (Oxycontin) (original, archived link)

Time has come to wrap a lot of things into a package of secrets, all loaded onto Kim’s shoulders, like the fact that Harry is not the only one who’s had to piece himself back together from scratch, that he’s never been to Martinaise, and that he has spent the first twenty years of his life preparing to leave the only home he’s ever known.

(A reverse timeline AU)

[Disco Elysium] Static Contact by DanseDan, sybilius (original, archived link)

Two men, their lives running in parallel, take comfort in the camaraderie and technical intricacies of amateur radio. Over time, a connection sparks between them, modulated through the breaths and skips of their shared frequency.