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General Fics
And In The Dumpster You'll Stay
by YourlocalGentlemanScientist
- Recommended by: Phoenix Fire 69
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sometimes, even the biggest people falter, and that notion was true for one very well-known Addison in Cyber City. Taking a place in the mansion comes with special rules that one has to follow. Have fun, respect the pottery, and of course, don't venture into the giant-ass basement under the palace. And soon, that little Addison was about to find out what the price of breaking those set boundaries that were put into place. But what happens when one goes too far? What happens when the punishment doesn't match the crime? And what happens when someone is broken so much they begin to crumble..? After all, nothing good ever lasts.
Gold by A Cubic Island
- Recommended by: lalalei2001, Jeramiahsental
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Tomorrow has arrived. Even though it's a weekend and the school is closed, Kris wants to look for the chalk in the storage closet again. But before they can go, they need to make one very important stop.
Would you like me to teach you to ACT? by mezzosesu
- Recommended by: Neelh
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Through ACTing, even the most violent enemies can be defeated through various ACTs of kindness! Ralsei shows you the ropes on how to interact in his world, but really you're just interested in hugging him. AKA, my love for fluff and hugs knows no bounds.
Our Friends Do Not Look Fine by CourierNew
- Recommended by: Stillalive
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: It's raining somewhere else.
Numbers Game by coincidencless
- Recommended by: xThomas
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: At long last, the rest of the world was free!
Purpose of Existence by Socordiasomnia
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Sadly deleted, it seems.
- Synopsis: "Existence is a strange thing. The simple fact that something can once come from nothing is a baffling thought. So peculiar in every possible way, and yet, that is how most things come to be. Nothing becoming something, and then one day, that something can become nothing once again. Such is the cycle of life and death. Such is the cycle of existence."
Hypothesis by PartlyCloudySkies
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "Every great scientific inquiry begins by asking a question. Noelle asks a question."
we are all kris by kirishimaaa
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: ""Huh?" You say dumbly. "Huh?" Kris echoes back to you. You lean toward them, squinting. "Are... are you blushing?"
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Ralsei isn't completely oblivious. He knows he's never been speaking to the real Kris. But, now that he finally gets a chance to, just what is he supposed to say...?
MMKC2 by KoboldKing
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Two worlds. Two Alphys'. Two series of Mew Mew Kissy Cutie. Two radically different opinions on the same show. What prompts such radical departures between two similar universes? Perhaps our experiences shape what we like more than we realize.
- Recommended by: ZoicAlcelaphine
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The heroes of legend face the diabolical Knight at World's Edge. But can they face the TRUTH?
- Recommended by: stardewvalleys
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Noelle can't keep warm. An introspective fic about Noelle's experiences during the Snowgrave route.
A Kaard About Towne by 3wisellamas
- Recommended by: kklove689
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After he jumped out of Kris' pocket, Rouxls Kaard got up to quite a lot of trouble in Cyber City in his quest to become Queen's Left-Hand-Man, that we heard about but until now didn't get to see. The OTHER side of our adventures in Deltarune Chapter 2.
LEVEL UP by MAGNETIC_DOG
- Recomended by: Fauntleroy
- Status: Indefinite Hiatus since March 2022
- Synopsis: An alternate Snowgrave route where Berdly gets manipulated instead of Noelle. Very well written and feels scarily natural. continues past Chapter 2 to show some of the consequences as well.
Vessels by Riona
- Recommended by: mythmonster2
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Kris puts a stop to Snowgrave by doing the only thing in their power: tearing out their own soul.
Tributary by Boh_No
- Recommended by: Gamergirlexe
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: A collection of alternate universe what-ifs, some in the form of one-shots, others divided into multiple chapters.
Bramble Like a Wreath by Sol Magus
- Recommended by: thaines27
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: An introspective look at Noelle's mind while she internally struggles against herself to make sense of the madness happening around her in the dark world. After following Kris's increasingly vicious commands her mind spirals as she attempts to justify her actions.
A Snowgrave Story by czaristPrussia
- Recommended by: Brickmkan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Starts as an alternate take on the Snowgrave route (and the game as a whole) which follows the broad strokes but changes the fine details. Saying where it goes from there would spoil it. This story gives Noelle a lot more agency than she has in canon or in most other fics (for starters, "Kris" can't directly control her), but ultimately uses that to put her in new and exciting bad situations.
Colder, Yet Colder by doyouhearthunder
- Recommended by: Brickmkan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Beginning several days after the conclusion of the Snowgrave route, this story follows Noelle (and later Susie) as "Kris" continues to manipulate her in the light world. Very dark, featuring realistic psychological abuse.
Violet Torment by Raconza
- Recommended by: YoKaiShoubiao
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Hometown's own fearsome bully plans to meet her best friend for some late night misdeeds. When one of them doesn't show up on time, Kris learns that not all monsters have a favorable view of humans, and Susie may end up having to endure more than one kind of pain.
Shipping Fics
[100% Off] TO A [[Loving Home]] by Anonymous
- Recommended by: Phoenix Fire 69
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Spamton is in a particularly desperate situation. You are someone in Cyber City who takes in abandoned dolls/plushies, patches them up, and gives them a good home... and well, he is a puppet.
- Pairing: Spamton/Reader
Dare to Dream by NoelleHolidayStanAccount (TerminalMiraculosis)
- Recommended by: kklove689
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Noelle decides to be a bit bolder on the ferris wheel ride with Susie. After all, it's a dream, right? It's not like the Susie in the real world would know what happened. There'd be no consequences. Not even if Noelle kissed her. A canon divergent story where Noelle kisses Susie while on the cyber world ferris wheel, and the, not always predictable, development of their relationship from there.
- Pairing: Susie/Noelle
if this is a romcom, kill the director by ClausLucas
- Recommended by: kklove689
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Susie and Noelle discuss their crushes without realizing they're talking about each other. A sort-of slow burn.
- Pairing: Susie/Noelle
Sweet Surprises by Acting4Hope
- Recommended by: Nerd-with-a-Pencil
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Excitement is in the air. Unlike the usual calm monotony of life at school, things recently have been quite… electric. Not because of the portal to the Dark World hidden behind the door of the closet, or the adventures had by a select group of students through the portal in the Librarby a few days ago. No, this isn’t about that. This is about the Sadie Hawkman’s Dance.
- Pairing: Kris/Berdly
Take this broken wing by Wordbending
- Recommended by: Nerd-with-a-Pencil
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Noelle's acting strange, and Kris has been acting even stranger. But Noelle seems almost afraid of Kris now, and in Berdly's view, there's only one conclusion to make. They've finally taken their pranking too far. Well, this time, Berdly's going to give them a piece of his mind. He's going to make sure they apologize even if it kills him. But when he confronts Kris, it turns out Kris has a lot more to confess than Berdly ever expects.
- Pairing: Kris/Berdly
You Could've Been A True Love Of Mine by BlueWay
- Recommended by: mythmonster2
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: They're older now, a lifetime it feels like in between childhood and now, both of them currently making their way awkwardly through the Dark, but they're not strangers to each other. Far from it.
- Pairing: Kris/Noelle
Distant Third Place by Friendly Frankenstein
- Recommended by: Orbiting
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After the events of Chapter 2, Berdly seeks out Alphys for advice on a matter of the heart.
- Pairing: Kris/Berdly
- Recommended by: Tsukiyo
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After the fun gang saved the world, they're back to living their ordinary lives, with a bit of a twist: the dark world and the light world exist as one. The friends' newest challenge is surviving the upcoming school dance, possibly even finding ways to make it fun for themselves! But don't bet on it.
- Pairing: Kris/Ralsei, Susie/Noelle
HELL'S ROAR by johnchurch
- Recommended by: Wanderverse
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A series of drabbles chronicling Jevil's fall from grace and his estrangement from his lover. Poetic, bittersweet fics that focus on Seam's despair.
- Pairing: Jevil/Seam
Fan Comics
Paper Trail by lynxgriffin [1]
- Recommended by damon117
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The continued adventures of the Fun gang!
Deltarune Salt Route by beabigshot [2]
- Recommended by stardewvalleys
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: A comic/AU based around a strange dream that the creator had, wherein a secret route can be unlocked via collecting an item called "salt stains" wherein Spamton is forced to kill the citizens of the Cyber World by the player in a Snowgrave-like fashion.
GONERWORLD by gonerboy [3]
- Recommended by paaaigepaaaige
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: GONERWORLD is a Deltarune spinoff told from the perspective of the discarded vessel. The year is 206X. Welcome back to Happy Town, a world filled with incomplete bodies and broken minds. Join Percy—an unusually insightful Goner—as he chases the light, discovering what it means to be human.
Crossover Fics
Noelle Holiday, the Spectacular Spider-Doe by doyouhearthunder
by doyouhearthunder- Recommended by Nerd-with-a-Pencil
- Crossover With: Spider-Man (Fusion Fic)
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Noelle Holiday is an ordinary citizen of New Home City—she attends East Monsterhattan High, interns at Gastcorp, idolizes local superhero Spider-Human, and does her best to juggle a plethora of family problems. On the day Noelle presents her final project to Gastcorp's enigmatic founder, everything goes to blazes; in the chaos that ensues, she ends up with a nasty spider bite. You already know where this is going.
- Pairing: Kris/Noelle, but it's not the main focus.
