Dykes of War is a series of online stories by XxhistorybuffxX. It's Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Lesbians fighting wars. It takes place in an Alternate Universe where every warrior has gotten a Historical Gender Flip. Each chapter focuses on a historical war, and follows the same basic premise: two enemy soldiers start out fighting each other and, for whatever reason, end up fucking each other. Think Deadliest Warrior meets Girl on Girl Is Hot.
List of chapters:
- World War II - War in Europe and Africa (Eastern Front)
- The War on Terror
- The Peloponnesian War
- The Vietnam War
- World War I
- The American Civil War
- The Crusades
- World War II - War in Europe and Africa (Western Front)
It can be read on Archive of Our Own here.
The game provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Since it's a series of all-female wars, naturally every heroic/neutral character is this.
- All Women Are Lustful: So lustful, in fact, that they're willing to neglect their call of duty and fuck right on the battlefield.
- Alternate History: The series is set in a universe identical to ours, except all warriors are women instead of men.
- Amazonian Beauty: All the characters beautiful female soldiers, but especially the Spartan, thanks to Full-Frontal Assault.
- America Won World War II: Averted. The Eastern Front is given its fair amount of spotlight.
- Anthology: Every chapter has a new time period, new war, and new cast of characters.
- Befriending the Enemy: Not just befriending — banging.
- The Beard: The Wehrmacht soldier explicitly describes her husband as this.
- Cast Full of Gay: Though some are bi, the main focus is a multitude of lesbian relationships.
- Chainmail Bikini: The medieval/ancient soldiers all have impractical, Fanservice-y armor.
- Chromosome Casting: Since the settings are all genderflipped battlefields, every single character in the entire series is a female.
- Cool Versus Awesome: Spartans vs. Athenians, Nazis vs. Soviets, Templars vs. Assassins...
- Dark Action Girl: The more villainous characters are this, like the Spartan, the Nazis, the terrorist, and the Ranger.
- Desert Warfare: The Crusades chapter and the Iraq War chapter. They both take place in the deserts of the Middle East.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Though generic foot soldiers are portrayed just as often, some elites are still depicted, like the British SAS and the Waffen-SS.
- Evil Versus Evil: In the Iraq War chapter, the American is an abusive rapist while the Islamic is a xenophobic terrorist.
- Faceless Mooks
- The Gas Mask Mooks of the World Wars.
- All the soldiers in the modern chapters, since all of them wear balaclavas.
- The ancient/medieval soldiers like the Greeks and the Templars, due to their helmets.
- Forbidden Love: All of the relationships are double this. Not only are they enemies meant to kill each other, but they're lesbians in especially homophobic time periods. The only exception is the Ancient Greece chapter, for obvious reasons.
- Some of them are even TRIPLE this, since some are interracial during racist times or adulterous.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: The soldiers are rarely villainized or heroicized, regardless of what side they're on.
- The Hashshashin: The Crusades chapter is Hashshashins vs. Templars.
- Historical Gender Flip: Technically every warrior in history gets this treatment.
- Karma Houdini: Corporal Bridges was one of the perpentrators of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal of 2003, but she's still a respected soldier in 2004.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: It doesn't get more wrong than a raging battlefield.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: The Islamic militants in the Iraq War chapter.
- Nazi Protagonist: Hannah and Elsa from the World War 2 stories. Though Hannah is just a Wehrmacht grunt, while Elsa is an SS officer, so more emphasis is put on Elsa's Nazism. Or lack of therefore, as she was forced to join the SS and is secretly disgusted by Nazi ideals.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Both the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS are portrayed. However, only the SS is explicitly treated as fascist war criminals.
- One-Woman Army: The Spartan.
- Prussians in Pickelhauben: The Imperial German Army in the World War 1 chapter.
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Stalingrad gets this treatment.
- Romanticized Abuse: Of the Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female variety. Though most of the sex is consensual, some of it isn't but is still treated all the same due to Rule of Sexy.
- Shown Their Work: There's a surprising amount of historical accuracy and detail per each battle, for smut at least.
- Sexy Whatever Outfit: Military armor, uniforms, and fatigues are sexualized to Hell and back.
- Sociopathic Soldier
- The terrorists in the Iraq War chapter, naturally.
- The Nazis in the Eastern Front chapter, also naturally.
- Also in the Iraq War chapter is the American, who sexually tortures POWs. She was even one of the war criminals behind Abu Ghraib!
- Storming the Beaches: What else but the D-Day chapter?
- Suicide Attack: The Middle Eastern terrorist tries suicide-bombing an American squad, but fails.
- Terrorists Without a Cause: The Middle Eastern Terrorists in the Iraq War chapter are never specified as to which Islamic movement they belong to. Bridges even says "Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS; They're all the same."
- Unkempt Beauty: Despite being dirty, bloodied warriors, all of the main characters are still explicitly gorgeous.
- Urban Warfare: The Eastern Front chapter takes place in Stalingrad while the Iraq War chapter takes place in a small, nondescript Middle Eastern village.
- Villain Protagonist: The Iraq War chapter is told through the perspective of a US Ranger, who turns out to be just as bad as the terrorists she's busting.
- Yanks with Tanks: The US military is the most portrayed in the series, from the Civil War, WW2, Vietnam, and Iraq.
