Fanfic Recs / Beastars

Proof that the remaining 10% is worth defying animal society for here.

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Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

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Craving more than you're given by doopstory

• Recommended by: Oecchi, Happyfrybreath
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Louis realizes his attraction to Juno stems from a repressed crush on Legoshi and decides to explore, while Juno tries dating Haru.
• Pairings: Legoshi/Louis, Juno/Haru
• Tags: Canon-divergent

The Wolf and the Reaper by Furryfurryrabbit

• Recommended by M1ghtypen
• Pairings(s): Louis/Juno
• Synopsis: Louis and Juno's relationship has gotten out of hand. No matter how he tries to convince himself that he doesn't need her, Louis is repeatedly forced to admit that he can't bear to cut her out of his life. If he isn't careful, he might not get the chance to tell her how he really feels. Life can be dangerous, after all, even for a carnivore...
• Status: Complete

Protector by BiconNigini15 and sirmeraki

• Recommended by ResonanceBrother
• Pairings(s): Bill/Pina
• Synopsis: Bill and Pina had gotten way closer since the shock egg incident, close enough for Pina to notice when Bill was going to do something stupid. As the two of them try to get closer to each other, a sinister force will try to burn Cherryton Academy to the ground
• Status: Ongoing
• Tags: Graphic Depictions of Violence, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, blood, and gore
• Has a page in this wiki

Warm Bodies by TrashKing (Vanya_Deyja)

• Recommended by ResonanceBrother
• Pairings(s): Legoshi/Louis
• Synopsis: A 'highly contagious viral strand of rabies' drove almost every carnivore mad with blood lust three years ago. Legoshi's is just as vicious as the rest of them till a chance encounter with wasteland prince Louis changes something in his brain. Confused and barely verbal but insanely protective Legoshi now has to convince Louis to let him escort the herbivore to safety.
• Status: Ongoing
• Tags: Zombie Apocalypse, some gore, some NSFW

Mamma Beast-ia by Therapybear

• Recommended by Happyfrybreath
• Pairings(s): Legoshi/Louis, implied Legoshi/Louis/Haru but she isn't here.
• Synopsis: The Shishigumi notice Louis's mood has been down lately, and take it to mean he misses someone. As such, they force Louis and the drama club to take a cruise to figure out who it is.
• Status: Completed
• Tags: AU, Romantic Comedy, Light Bondage & NSFW in the last two chapters.
• Comments: Spoilers for Tem's murderer, who does appear in this work. Spoilers for Louis and the Shishigumi.

Telepathy by TrashKing (Vanya_Deyja)

• Recommended by ResonanceBrother
• Pairings(s): Legoshi/Louis
• Synopsis: It's normal for soulmates to hear each other's thoughts but different partners come into this ability at different times and experience different ranges of capability. Louis starts hearing his soulmate during his second year at Cherryton and realizes, annoyingly, they're a male carnivore. But, hey, at least they're not Bill.
• Status: Completed
• Tags: Soulmate AU, NSFW.

Drunk Deer, Worried Wolf by Aubbie

• Recommended by Happyfrybreath
• Pairings(s): Legoshi/Louis
• Synopsis: It's Louis's birthday! How does he want to celebrate? By getting wasted. He doesn't have many friends to go with, so Legoshi insists on accompanying him to make sure he doesn't get into trouble. Drunk Louis proves to be a very flirty handful though.
• Status: Completed
• Tags: AU, The last chapter is NSFW

Romeo Style by TrashKing (Vanya_Deyja)

• Recommended by ResonanceBrother
• Pairings(s): Legoshi/Louis, Gosha/Yafya, Bill/Pina
• Synopsis: Legoshi and Louis are sworn enemies or, at least, they should be. They're members of the rival gangs of the Black Market- the Shishigumi and Dokugumi- part of a dispute over thirty years old. When the new Beastar forces the gangs to get along or else Louis and Legoshi meet for the first time. Interest turns to attraction and attraction threatens to spiral out of control and put them both in an awful situation.
• Status: Completed
• Tags: Mafia AU, NSFW

Please Don't Understand Me by Inconvenience

• Recommended by:
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Legoshi discovers Louis's dark secret, and Louis is none too pleased about it.

Like a beast hunting for love by cutiefemdom

• Recommended by:
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: In an alternate universe, when Louis discovers his soulmate is to be a carnivore, he spends the ensuing years trying to decide what to do.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance. And yes, somehow non shipping fics exist for Beastars. We're surprised too.

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The Camping Trip: a Farce in three acts by Bunny Rock

• Recommended by DeVos
• Pairings(s): Louis/Haru, possible Tem/Els, but it's not the focus
• Synopsis: Some time before his attack, Tem invites Legoshi to the Drama Club team-building exercise in the mountains in order to convince Els he's not prejudiced towards carnivores, and starts to strike up a friendship with him. Louis worries that the trip is under-prepered for the harsh mountain conditions. Legoshi tries not to get sucked up into drama, and fails. A tarot reading predicts disaster, but no one seems to notice.
• Status: Ongoing
• Comments: Anime continuity, not Manga

A little bit of light by Oliono

• Recommended by Happyfrybreath
• Synopsis: Funerals happen every day. Bodies lay cold; unmourned, and unremembered. Why should this one be any different? Dragged along to an unremarkable funeral, for an unremarkable employee, Louis finds the first seeds of a friendship that will change the lives of he, and his new friend, both. If only they can understand one another.
• Status: Ongoing
• Tags: AU, Gore
• Comments: Louis & Legoshi are younger and have a brotherly relationship. Spoilers on Legoshi's Grandfather from chapter one, but...
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Wanted life enough to risk the open field by jurassicqueer

• Recommended by: Happyfrybreath
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Legoshi manages to intercept the devouring of Tem and save his life, but is disturbed by the instincts brought about by Tem's injuries.

Little Red by sushishorts

• Recommended by: Happyfrybreath, Moonflower2
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A brief Oneshot where Louis determines to perform the Taboo "Little Red" play... with a certain bashful Wolf as his co-lead.
• Pairings: Legoshi/Louis.

The Afterlife of a Lion by pentail

• Recommended by: Moonflower2
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: He was supposed to die that night. Instead, fate offered him a second chance. But even for a lion that has lived one life in the underworld, the afterlife may still hold a few surprises.
• Comments: Manga continuity - Heavy spoilers for anime-only fans and those keeping up with official translations. An AU in which Ibuki survives and goes on to start a new life outside the Shishigumi.

Bone White, Blood Red, Gunmetal Gray by Baeowulf

• Recommended by: tytoman
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: When Haru was in the lair of the Shishigumi, she thought that her life was at an end. She was helpless yet again, and this time, nobody was here to save her. By the end of the night, she'd made a decision - she wasn't going to need anyone's rescue ever again.
• Pairings: Haru/Legoshi/Louis
• Comments: In which Haru decides it’s time she Took a Level in Badass and Louis goes to war with The Conspiracy behind the black market. Diverges after the Meteor Festival, with spoilers for Tem’s murderer and the Shishigumi. Graphic violence, occasional torture, and some non-explicit NSFW scenes.

The Hands of History by Daniel Goldhorn

• Recommended by: Foxtrot-Zero9
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: Now, for the first time ever, a human student is accepted to the ranks of Cherryton Academy, meeting Legoshi, Jack, Haru, and others along the way. Meanwhile, a Human rights movement grows more aggressive by the day. Soon, they will collide, with consequences for the entire animal world.
• Pairings: Haru/Legoshi, Juno/Louis
• Comments: An AU fic where humans exist, and are caught between Herbivores and Carnivores, and feared by many. A well written fic on their effects on the world, and how they are treated. Contains minor spoilers for Season 2, but nothing major. No spoilers beyond Chapter 118 of the manga. Focuses heavily on OCs but still pays time to flesh out canon characters.

Mongrels by HassouToby

• Recommended by: Foxtrot-Zero9
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: On the Day of Depravity, Melon gets shot by Free unceremoniously ending the turf war. In the following weeks, the suppliers of the Black Market's meat called The Butchers turn on the gangs with brutal bombings. It's up to Legoshi and Louis to find the truth and prevent the city from collapsing.
• Pairings: Haru/Legoshi, Juno/Louis
• Comments: A much more action focused AU. Spoilers past season 2.

Black Flame by BlueMetal99

• Recommended by: Foxtrot-Zero9
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Now, for the first time ever, a human student is accepted to the ranks of Cherryton Academy, but there’s a catch. Alex Kelly is not happy about being forced into attending Cherryton for the sake of improving relations between his human country of Sanctuarium, and the United Animal Republic. But his uncle is certainly happy to exploit the criminal elements of the UAR for his own gain.
• Comments: An interesting story about the Culture Clash between a xenophobic human nation and the world of Beastars.

Crossover

The 40 by The_Ravenclaw_Werewolf.

• Recommended by Potential 1900
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: A Massive Multiplayer Crossover with 39 other media series, Legoshi woke up in an unknown dimension with 39 other characters to witness the future events of their respective journeys.
• Tags: "Let's Watch Our Show" Plot

Avatar: The Lost Reptile Bender by Therapybear

• Recommended by: frasmotic75
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: A crossover combining the settings of Beastars and Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra. The Avatar reincarnates through a cycle of species rather than element, with benders of all four elements appearing in each animal clan. After the last Avatar passed nearly two decades ago, they were expected to be reborn as a reptile. With no sign of a reptilian Avatar and the tenuous inter-clan peace beginning to crumble, Legoshi must navigate the last years of his adolescence as a pro-bending fanboy with barely-passable earthbending abilities while keeping his komodo ancestry and its spiritual consequences well away from a society that frowns upon interspecies romance. He doesn't do the best job of it, but he's managing to make it work.
• Pairings: Louis/Legoshi, Riz/Tem, Bill/Els, Kibi/Tao
• Comments: Some background knowledge of the Avatar setting recommended to better appreciate the element bending / spiritual side of this fic, but the author does an excellent job weaving exposition into the narrative to make it look like a story and not a textbook. The Cherryton cast, namely Gon, the 701 boys, and the Cherryton drama club (largely transplanted into the pro-bending league) get a lot of the focus alongside Legoshi and Louis. The author specializes in mental health, emotional intimacy and communication, and seamlessly blends the quirks of the two settings to make a story and world that flow like they were meant for each other.