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These are recommendations made by Tropers for The Boys (2019) fan fiction featuring the titular group, the Seven, and/or more. 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.
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Authors and Websites
General Fics
- The Many Deaths of Margaret Shaw
by imunbreakabledude - Recommended by Toxinvictory
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: A post-season-3, plot-and-feelings fic documenting what happens to Maeve (and Elena) after Maeve’s “death”. Living powerless and in hiding isn’t quite the happy ending Maeve thought it would be, and things get complicated when Ashley shows up, fired from Vought, offering Compound V in exchange for a team-up. Maeve must confront what she wants from life and what it means to be a hero far away from The Seven. Featuring loads of Maeve/Elena history, baggage, fighting and fluff, an unexpected bond between Maeve and Ashley, and lots of backstory for Maeve.
- Inevitable by LazyBaker
- Recommended by Toxinvictory
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A post Season 2, written before the release of Season 3, lengthy oneshot which explores a world where Soldier Boy is pulled out of retirement and put into the Seven. Homelander doesn't like it.
- little understandings of us by Bluebensie
- Recommended by tsukixkumori
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Annie finds herself accidentally confronting The Deep in a bathroom at Vought, and in her anger with him, uncovers more than she wished to. She finds herself able to sympathize with him, and yet finds herself angrier than ever.
Crossovers
- A Supe of a Man
- Recommended by Spectacular Troper
- Crossover with: Superman
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: A world where the Homelander might not be the strongest man in the world. After a freak meteor shower gives two Kansas farmers a child they always prayed for, the world will never be the same again. Explore how the corrupt and debauch world, handles the arrival of a superhero that is truly a Man of Steel and see how he is affected by the world.
- The Boys: Real Justice
- Recommended by redandready45
- Crossover with: Justice League
- Status: Complete (core story)
- Synopsis: As they plan their rescue of Ryan and confrontation with Stormfront, The Boys and Becca Butcher, find themselves transported to another universe. This new universe is full of superhero teams most prominently, The Justice League. Meanwhile, the League find themselves forced in a tenuous alliance with Vought International and the Seven.
Shipping Fics
- Of Blood and Flesh by x_cracking
- Recommended by Bluebell Blot
- Status: Hiatus
- Pairing: Billy Butcher/OFC
- Synopsis: Vought has a secret weapon that has been kept locked away and hidden for years. Despite multiple attempts to monopolize on the secret, it is ultimately to dangerous and unpredictable to put to use. When an unknown informant leaks crucial information to Susan Raynor, the weapon is finally intercepted by the Boys. However they find themselves with a much bigger problem on their hands than Compound V.
- Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline
- Truce by PhoenixTakaramono
- Recommended by Toxinvictory
- Status: Ongoing
- Pairing: Homelander/Billy Butcher
- Synopsis: When the whole world sees Billy jacked up on V-24, CEO Ashley Barrett defies expectations and makes a strategic business decision: reform the English ex-CIA operative/ leader of a terrorist cell into the new model superhero of America and make him co-captain of The Seven. Ryan is over the moon while Homelander—John—is less than enthused by the development. Until he realizes he’s developed a…fixation on William fucking Butcher, of all Supes. They were perfect as nemeses; now they were untouchable as gods.
- Tags: Post Season 3 AU, Foe Yay Shipping
- Weakness by RovingOtter
- Recommended by Toxinvictory
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: The Homelander-John/Starlight-Annie January, Hughie/Anne
- Synopsis: A moment of unexpected emotional honesty changes the trajectory of events. Canon divergence starting from Season 3, Episode 2, "The Only Man in the Sky." Explores an alternate take on Season 3 where Annie end's up having a degree of influence over a Homelander teetering on the edge of a psychotic break by way of her relationship with him which ends up being not as purely fake as canon.
