Summer Love, Summer Fears is a Yu-Gi-Oh! GX AU written by Peach Wookiee and 15animefreak15.
Taking place in the setting Yu-Gi-Oh! GX the main distinction from canon is the romantic relationships that the main cast wind up forming, which winds up informing the narrative and changing their character arcs.
The main stories are as follows:
- A Guy's Worst Nightmare
: The first story . What happens when the Duel Academy boys desperately need sensitivity training and the girls think chick flicks might be just the thing to make them more sensitive? Complete at 9 chapters. - Summer Love, Summer Fears: A sequel to A Guy's Worst Nightmare. The teen couples go home for the summer to meet the parents and face challenges that don't involve saving the world; just helping each other. Complete at 89 chapters.
- The Genius and the Panty Raid: A prequel to A Guy's Worst Nightmare. When Atticus organizes a guys-only bonfire party, the guys start daring each other? But what happens when a Ra has a girl on his mind? Complete at 4 chapters.
- Nightmare Resurrections: A sequel to Summer Loves, Summer Fears. The gang have returned to Domino to get back to school. However, faces from their pasts may not allow that to occur. Will everyone survive? Complete at 20 chapters.
- Darkness Falls: A sequel to Nightmare Resurrections. The gang returns to Duel Academy, hoping for their senior year to be relatively uneventful. But Darkness will fall... Unfinished at 68 chapters.
In addition there are side stories set in the same universe:
- Serving Cruelty: Chazz duels Sartorius and does some soul-searching. One-shot.
- How We Met: A series of short stories telling how three Duel Academy couples met and fell in love. Complete at 9 chapters.
- The Path to Redemption: Zane makes a different choice in Episode 65. What are the effects? Complete at 9 chapters.
- The Picnic Incident: The gang decides to have a fun picnic together which results in an unfair detention and an attempted breakout from detention. Will the gang succeed or epically fail? Complete at 4 chapters.
- Love Through Lifetimes: A story of the past lives of the couples within the "Summer Love, Summer Fears" Yugi-verse! Complete at 12 chapters.
- Halloween Hysterics: Set during the events of Darkness Falls. When Jaden and Jesse raid the girls' chocolate stash, they are punished. And they find out about the ties that bind the gang together even in such a case. Complete at 7 chapters.
- Mr. Stein's Epiphany: Professor Stein, in the summer between Jaden's junior and senior year, decides to give teaching another try. One-shot.
- Rainbow Dragon Pride:While Chazz attends North Academy, he and Jesse Anderson are confronted with the ugly reality of hatred against homosexuals. Complete at 2 chapters.
This fanfic includes examples of:
- Darker and Edgier: The original series wasn't exactly all smiles and rainbows but most of those threats came at the hands of otherworldly forces. Here there is a depiction of numerous mundane and realistic horrors that happen every day. Some examples include physical and emotional abuse, a realistic depiction of violence, the struggle of people with permanent health conditions, etc.
- Engagement Challenge: Anyone hoping to court Rosa has to complete one given out by her father. Hassleberry winds up having having to beat the man in a fight and given that he's a seasoned bullfighter this is not an easy fight for him.
- For Want Of A Nail: Some events don't wind up happening the same way they did in canon.
- Intergenerational Friendship: The Duel Academy students wind up meeting and forming one of these with Yugi and his friends.
- Mood Whiplash: The stories tend to swing between wholesome slice of life moments and dark, violent set pieces.
- Shout-Out: Star Trek and Sailor Moon both exist in this story and Annie's deck is based on the latter.
