Proof that the remaining 10% is worth being sent to the Abyss for here. These are recommendations made by Tropers for PandoraHearts, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.As always, new updates should be added at the bottom of the folder. You can also add to the current recommendations if you want. Refrain from posting Conversation in the Main Page though; that goes in the discussion page.
Reflection
, by beyond-the-winding-road
- Recommended by: Tuol
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Inspired by an AU concept discussed on another blog. Rachel Cecile adored her child. So it was hard not to notice when things got a little strange...
Beyond the Winding Road by Emori Loul
- Now with its own trope page.
- Recommended by: Souvenir Bookworm.
- Status: Dormant
- Synopsis: Post series. One hundred years have passed in a world full of life, color, and stories. It's time again for some familiar faces to join it.
Add Review- Comments: A slightly slow-paced but fascinatingly detailed interpretation of the Pandora Hearts universe and the daily lives of post-series Oz, Alice, and Gilbert. Despite its general light-heartedness, it doesn't shy away from the more bitter implications of the ending, and adds quite a few new aspects of its own. The author's true strength, however, lies in their ability to make the fairy tale-like land of Pandora Hearts seem like a real, tangible place in history. A criticism for those interested would be that, since the story appears to mainly be concerned with cleaning up loose ends, it lacks the high stakes, fast pace, and violence that characterizes the manga, and so this troper could easily see the more intense focus on quiet moments, worldbuilding, and interpersonal drama being a bit too slow for some readers.
Hare and Hatter by GRINtelligincer
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis:Because Break is Mad Hatter and Liam is March Hare. Which made it all inevitable in the end. Liam-centric. An interesting semi-AU showing a lot of background between events of the manga, back-story on the Rainsworth Trio, and the authors speculation on the power of March Hare before it was revealed. A story well worth reading.
A Theoretical Protector byGRINtelligincer
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: No matter how much Break tries to put him safely out of the way Liam always refuses to sit down and be protected. 50 sentence challenge, Break/Liam mixed with friendship.
by GRINtelligencer- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: As a spy Liam keeps quite a few secrets, the most important of which would be the fact that he is, in fact, a woman. A Lady!Liam AU. Also titled In Which Break is Mad Attracted to Mister Liam and Just as Attracted to Miss Liam too and is A General Pest About it.
byGRINtelligincer- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: By bits and pieces Break soldiers on toward his goals, even as his body decays around him. 50 sentence challenge for Xerxes Break. Spoilers for up to chapter 43.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis:A certain lack of communication about the powers of Liam’s chain means a hasty rescue party is sent back to Isla Yura’s mansion with a very specific search and rescue mission.
Soldiers in the Trench by GRINtelligincer
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis:Break and Liam sitting against a piece of rubble after the Isla Yura party. Neither has enough energy left to get up. Break has a bone to pick with Liam. An interesting conversation ensues. A fun read.
Flesh and Blood by GRINtelligincer
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: When the message comes that his brother was injured on Pandora business, Martin could do nothing but rush to his side. A look at more of the background of Liam/Reim, and generally in intersting fic.
The Forest at Night byGRINtelligincer
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Remember how Sharon sent Liam/Reim to Ada for safety during the Yura thing? Ada is alone when a dark flames appear in the air and dump a wounded man out onto the forest floor. Now Ada has to keep him alive until help gets to them.
- Recommended by Gamma Cavy
- Status Complete.
- Synopses: a sweet story in which Gil and Oz look back on the friendship between Jack and Oswald.
- ''Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Summary: Whenever Oz looked at Vincent, he flinched and shivered, for it felt like someone had walked over his grave.
A Hundred Cycles by Gamma Cavy
- Recommended by: Tiamat Dragon Queen, E.Nigma, A-No-Ma-Ly
- Status: Complete
- Summary:Human souls return to the earth after a hundred cycles. Chains are immortal. When Gil lies dying, Oz takes drastic measures to find his best friend again.
- Synopsis:A look at the possible long term issues of Oz being a chain, and a creative solution. If he must, Oz will wait forever. It diverges from canon after retrace 78, so anyone hoping for Alice will be disappointed.
- Now has two companion stories Walking the Years and Shards of Memory. The respective summaries: They are not friends. They can never be friends, mirrored as they are, each the image and opposite of one so long lost to the other. But they are the only ones left, and they remember. And: She's sure that most of those cursed with red eyes do not remember other lives, like the sewer rat outside. Ah, but then, she remembers quite well that he was never normal.
- Now has two companion stories Walking the Years
Unfolding Time by Starlit Skyline
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Summary: It begins where it ends, but it ends where it begins. Do you want to live forever, Jack?
- Synopsys: You could say this is kinda a character study of our favorite traitor, his brokenness, madness, goals, what drove him. He's a really interesting guy, isn't he? Anyway, the plot is done similarly to PH, so it's like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to work it through a bit before the picture becomes clear. An interesting work, and one that successfully caught him.
Ambidextrous, by Nadramon, can be found Here or Here.
- Recommended by Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Original summary: No matter how many times he changed his name, Gilbert would never belong anywhere. He simply hopes that his master can be saved. The question is: does he still have one? [Alternate continuity from Retrace 74 onwards.]
- Warning: Important manga spoilers.
- Synopsis: An alternate continuity from retrace 74, Ambidextrous is the story of Gil coming to terms with the whole "I'm a Baskerville in service of Glen" thing, and then choosing to save Oz anyway, because Glen's become far to much of a Well-Intentioned Extremist, and doesn't care about the fact that theB-rabbit is a person who doesn't want to hurt them, only that it's a Chain that can destroy Baskervilles. Glen is also jealous of the fact that Gil s now loyal to Oz, so it's unclear whether the decision to destroy B-Rabbit is only because the chain can cause destruction, or if there's some of "if he's dead Gil is mine" going on as well. Naturally Gil won't let Oz be destroyed, and couldn't care less that his master is a Chain. Oz, however, wants Gil to save Alice. So as Sharon and Break rescue Oz, Gil braves the Abyss to find Alice, and make a contract with her. They then hatch a most intriguing plan to remove Oz from Jack's control. After all, chains can make contracts... and if Glen and Vincent can have more than one Chain, so can Gil carry three.
- recommended by: Gamma Cavy.
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis Break grieves.
- Comments: A heartbreaking what if story in which Break stops the second sundering of the world-chains, at a cost he had no desire to pay, because he was the only one who could do anything at all. Skyline caught his more serious face and grief very well.
- Then an absolutely amazing author wrote a sequel that fits perfectly, and brings into consideration something often overlooked. If you're going to read Undone you should read Cavy's sequel too! Mending can be found here: Mending
- Then an absolutely amazing author wrote a sequel that fits perfectly, and brings into consideration something often overlooked. If you're going to read Undone you should read Cavy's sequel too! Mending can be found here: Mending
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy.
- Status: Complete
- Original summary: Leo wondered just what he was to Elliot Nightray. Sometimes the answer seemed troublingly close to ''everything.' 'Elliot had an awful tendency to lean on weak reeds, and then to blame them when they broke.
- Synopsis: After Oz's second coming of age ceremony in chapter 56 Pandora tries all the child contractors. Unfortunately for them the Oz faction aren't going to let anything happen to Leo. Eliot in particular is upset at this farce of a trial for his servant. It borders on hysterically funny at times and is well worth a look.
The Passing of an Era by Gamma Cavy
- Recommended by: Tiamat Dragon Queen
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The world belongs to humans now, and the last survivors of the age of the abyss have a choice to make. Linger forever in the world, shadows of forgotten a time that can never die, or face an uncertain future.
- Recommended by: Tiamat Dragon Queen, A-No-ma-ly
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Once a year they may meet, one seeming made of golden sunlight and leaf-green shadows, the other of shadows and moonlight, keeping their endless vigil over the world.
- Comments : Short, sweet, and poignant as many of Cavy's others, the 537 words take the space of a hundred thousand.
The Devil May Care by metisket
- Recommended by: Lyra_Dhani
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The embarrassing thing about this is that it’s not even about the Abyss. This man is just a random mugger, and Oz just wandered down the wrong alley at the wrong time. God, if he gets killed by a mugger, he’s really…He’s really going to die laughing, because how ridiculous is that?
None yet.
Countervalue of Truth by Icylady- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Crossover: Harry Potter
- Original summary: When Chains start to appear all over Great Britain, Pandora cannot let it slide. AU story
- Synopsis: Chains begin to appear in Great Britain, and Pandora's best agents are sent to deal with this. it's somewhat AU to both original works, one because a character who should be dead isn't and the other because it isn't the same fifth year as usual. Oz, Eliot, Alice, and Leo are sent undercover as students, with Gil and Break pretending to be body guards, while they search for the contractor. By the time they leave Britan, the Ministry is in shambles, Voldemort is not ever coming back, it's discovered that Baskerviles are very hard to kill even by wizarding methods, and Hermione might be engaged to Elliot. All in all a fun story, and well worth reading at least once, if only for the novelty of a fifth year with no Umbridge.
To Summon Destruction by Gamma Cavy
- Recommended by: Tiamat Dragon Queen
- Status: Complete
- Crossover: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
- Synopsis: A sorcerer out to destroy the world succeeds in summoning the incarnation of destruction. Oz is not amused. The Slayer is confused.
If I Fall Forward, You Fall Flatby ryuko1
- Recommended by Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Original summary: Winter is long, hard, and isolating for a creature out of it's element. But Elliot's winter of discontent might have a few upsides as well. Avian/Mer AU
- Synopsis: Winter is long, hard, and isolating for a creature out of it's element. But Elliot's winter of discontent might have a few upsides as well. Or the one where Elliot has wings but is unable to fly for the winter migration as all avians do, and Leo is a merperson, and they strike up an odd friendship.
