Fanfic Recs / Strange Magic

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Post Movie

Strange Hearts and Wild Things by Selkie _de_Suzie

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94 and Mersang
• Status: Dead; last updated July 2016
• Synopsis: A series of stories taking place immediately after the movie. Rating goes up in later fics
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne
• Warnings: Occasional in-depth descriptions of potentially triggering subjects, such as panic attacks. Story includes physically intimate scenes.

Turbulence by Galimatias

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis, provided by author: Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has cautioned that all aerial appendages be secured. We are now crossing a zone of turbulence. Please keep all arms and legs within a safe distance of your person. This message is brought in part by the fact that those with wings will often experience interruptions of smooth sailing. Have a pleasant flight and thank you for choosing Butterfly Bog.
• Synopsis, provided by troper: An exploration of the tensions that develop between Bog and Marianne as they grow closer and find, not only common ground, but points of contention. Has an ambiguous but happy ending.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Winter Queen by redseeker

• Recommended by Mersang
• Vanished from the internet. Please post a link if found.
• Synopsis: Marianne heads south for the winter with her family. Can the love she's just found with the Bog King withstand the time apart, and more importantly can it survive the forces working to keep them that way? Sometimes happily ever after is only the beginning.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

Your World by Eloquill

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Marianne has seen nearly every corner of the Dark Forest with Bog as her guide. Now he has a growing desire to visit the Fairy Kingdom to learn more about her. But, at the same time, Bog wants to spare her the inevitable criticism from her subjects.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Love and Serviceby lotus0kid

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: At the insistence of his mother, Bog performs a series of traditional goblin courtship rituals to be officially accepted as Marianne's intended. Things go hilariously awry.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Love Is Like A Heat Wave by MissSunFlower94

• Recommended by Mersang (and probably MissSunFlower94 if self-advertising were allowed)
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Beating the heat in the Dark Forest.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne
• Warnings: Innuendo, debatable nudity

In The Eye Of The Beholder by Selkie_de_Suzie

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Dawn and Marianne discuss eye color. Bog and Sunny give their own opinions. Pure fluff.
• Relationship(s): Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny, sisterly bonding between Dawn and Marianne

Though He Be But Little by Selkie_de_Suzie

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "... though she be but little, she is fierce." – A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 2. Because there's nothing wrong with some Sunny appreciation. Dawn gets her honor defended, and Bog and Marianne get a shock.
• Pairing(s): Dawn/Sunny, some Bog/Marianne

Strange Magic - Marianne and Bog by RavenDiablo Also available here.

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The movie ended too soon without many resolved issues. This is a continuation, beginning just after the final scene, concentrating on the romance between Marianne and Bog.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny, One of Roland's minions/The woman Roland was seen cheating on Marianne with

Bioluminescence by Saesama

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: What if in the Dark Forest..the very darkest parts, there are strange fey creatures that have bioluminescence, living in the darkness of the forest, in caves, the dark waters that run through the forest.(Bog shows Marianne one of the hidden wonders of his realm.)
• Pairing(s)" Bog/Marianne (not the focus of the story)

Green Man by MissSunFlower94

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: In which Bog molts in a very peculiar way ...
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne

Of the Birds and the Bugs by Saesama

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: When the Bog King is injured protecting an elf festival from a bird attack, it threatens not only his life, but his throne. Marianne, determined to help in any way she can, gets a crash course in the differences in the Seelie and Unseelie courts, learns a bit about Bog's past, and proves once and for all that she can take care of herself - and an entire kingdom, if need be.
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

The Very, Very New And The Very, Very Old by OwlQuill

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead (last updated July 2017)
• Synopsis: King Dagda followed his daughter Marianne, who set out to save her sister from the Bog King, and finds them declaring their love for each other. It is rather unexpected. Everyone involved updates everyone else on recent events, and first threads of a new collaboration between their realms are spun.
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

Long Live The King by RazormusPrime

• Recommended by Mersang
• Vanished from the internet. Please post a link if found.
• Synopsis: The people of the Dark Forest and Light Fields work hard to rebuild not only a new goblin palace but bonds between the kingdoms. It won’t be easy with tensions created after centuries of war and the most recent tragedy, the Great Migration fire, which took hundreds of lives including Marianne’s mother, Queen Moira and Bog's father, Dirk the Dragon King. Bog and Marianne must do what they can to unite their people because an old threat is returning, eager to destroy everything they’ve worked hard to build.
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

Canon Divergence

Crowns and Hearts and Broken Things by Selkie _de_Suzie

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94 and Mersang
• Status: Dead; last updated March 2018
• Synopsis: A Fairy still fell into the Forest, and a King still declared Love as dangerous. But she never witnessed the truth of her intended's character, and married him. Years passed, and then one fateful day, the Bog King of the Dark Forest met Queen Marianne of the Fairy Kingdom…
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny
• Warnings: Sympathetic portrayal of adultery

Taking the Feisty One by Forever-Furuba Also available here.

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead (last updated December 2017)
• Synopsis: Marianne didn't leave the dance floor in time, so she was the one dusted, stuck in a sack and kidnapped as a hostage. Can feelings induced by a potion become real? (Spoiler: yes.) And what will Dawn think of Sunny's attempt to magically make her love him?
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne, possibly Dawn/Sunny

Might As Well Face It by MissSunFlower94

• Recommended by Mersang (and probably MissSunFlower94 if self-advertising were allowed)
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: AU where Tell Him never happened and Marianne and Bog go their separate ways after the main events of the movie.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

The Wasp King by karakael

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead (last updated August 2017)
• Synopsis: When Roland discovers a strange new power at exactly the wrong moment, Marianne and Bog are forced apart. With their two kingdoms on the brink of war and Marianne inexplicably back to marrying Roland, its a race against time for Sunny, Dawn and the Dark Forest denizens to figure out what happened and stop Roland before its too late.
• Pairing(s): Roland/Marianne (temporary; brainwashing-induced), Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny
• Notes: There is a lot of world-building. Arguably different enough to qualify as Alternate Universe, except nothing in the story directly contradicts any aspect of the movie's canon save for the specific point of divergence.

The Dark King's Folly by spirrum

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: It's time for the annual Spring Ball in the Fields, and of course he's expected to attend, nevermind the fact that he's got about as much patience for fairy celebrations as he has for watching the slow descent of sap down the trunk of a tree. And at the heels of the broken royal engagement that's been the talk of the realm, it's bound to become a painful affair. What Bog doesn't count on, however, is the jilted Princess herself, and that there's more to the Fairy King's court than song and dance. A 'what if' fic about what could have happened if the two kingdoms weren't so at odds with one another, and where Bog happened to be present to witness the events of "C'mon, Marianne!"
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

Stand By You by Pikuna

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead (last updated January 2017)
• Synopsis: Due to a harsh winter both kingdoms are weakened and need the help from each other to avoid increasing loss. But relations between Fairies and Goblins were always tense, so the Queens decided to strengthen the new alliance with the engagement of the young crown princess Marianne and the Bog prince. The engagement and alliance persist until the eighteen birthday of princess Marianne, where she will decide if she wants to marry the Bog prince or not.
• Pairing(s): eventually Bog/Marianne

Wild Briar Rose and the Holly Tree by EndoratheWitch

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: On her eighteenth birthday Marianne accidentally stumbles into the dark forest to meet her first goblin.
• Pairings: Bog/Marianne

Different: That's What I Like! by MagicalStranger13

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: The infidelity was discovered, and Roland was kicked to the curb, but the plot to steal the Love Potion didn't occur so promptly. Instead, Marianne becomes the badass Fairy Queen a few years later and goes through with her original plan to go into the Dark Forest and talk to them.
• Pairings: eventually Bog/Marianne

Moonrise by command_query

• Recommended by Mersang
• Vanished from the internet. Please post a link if found.
• Synopsis: When the king of the Fae dies suddenly, foul play is suspected. In the midst of a political uproar, Princess Marianne struggles to control her court, her temper, her Talent, and her sudden inexplicable attraction to a dark visiting dignitary. The death of her father has left her shocked, heartbroken and unprepared for what lies ahead. There are whispers of rebellion on the horizon, and there may just be fire burning merrily away beneath all this smoke.
• Pairings: eventually Bog/Marianne

Satisfied by MissSunFlower94

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead; last updated August 2016
• Synopsis: In order to set up better relations with the Dark Forest, King Dagda suggests a political marriage with his daughter and the Bog King.
• Pairings: Bog/Dawn (legally), Bog/Marianne (emotionally)
• Warnings: Sympathetic portrayal of adultery (still hasn't happened in story, but heavily implied for the future)

Alternate Universe

All That Jazz by Selkie _de_Suzie

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94
• Status: Dead (last updated September 2016)
• Synopsis: Bog is a 1930s Mob Boss who runs the infamous nightclub The Dark Forest, where Marianne performs as a Chanteuse. Tensions arise, danger is flirted with, and what the hearts wants can't be denied...
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Changing of the Seasons by Abutterflyobsession

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: The Autumn people have always been reclusive and territorial but to preserve the peace their alliance with Summer must be strengthened. For the first time in generations, the Autumn King leaves his home and visits the Summer Kingdom to attend their annual ball . . .
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Art School AU by Abutterflyobsession

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94
• Status: Dead; last updated October 2017
• Synopsis: One day Bog is looking for his power tools so he can finish his sculpture and instead finds a feisty brown-eyed girl hiding in a cupboard. Much nerdiness happens. Possibly glitter.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne, Dawn/Sunny

An Awful Fix by Rosewaterwitch

• Recommended by MissSunFlower94
• Status: Dead (last updated October 2017)
• Synopsis: What was meant to be an average summer spent rehabilitating an abandoned mansion takes a dangerous turn when Marianne discovers that the house stands on a fairy mound.
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

HIDEOUS by EndoratheWitch

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Marianne agrees to play cleaning lady to a recluse after her sister picks a primrose. (Beauty and the Beast story structure; yes, there is supernatural involvement.)
• Pairing(s): Bog/Marianne

Bushel and a Peck by Humanities_Handbag

• Recommended by Mersang
• Status: Dead; last updated May 2016
• Synopsis: A story in which wives leave husbands and husbands miss wives, children are had and then children are lost, a tree is a nuisance, an arm is broken, a nurse is perky, and love is found. AKA the Single Father AU no one asked for.
• Pairing(s): eventually Bog/Marianne