Fanfic Recs / Heathers

Proof that the remaining 10% is worth drinking a wake-up cup of liquid drain cleaner for here.

These are recommendations made by Tropers for Heathers (or its musical counterpart) fanfics, 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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Websites and Collections

The Veronica Exclusive

• Recommended by: Adele Potter
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: "In the year of 2015, Veronica Sawyer began documenting her senior year of high school through YouTube. She expected to spend another year in miserable anonymity. The Heathers have other plans. Veronica is sucked into the popular crowd, but she soon finds it's not what she pictured. Enter: Jane Dean." (A modern-day Web Video adaptation of the musical, with a Gender Flipped J.D.)
• Tags: Gender Flip, Setting Update, Butch Lesbian, Psycho Lesbian, Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!, The New '10s

Fanfic recs

Aftershocks by susieboo

• Recommended by: Adele Potter
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "AU. After graduating from Westerberg High alongside his girlfriend, J.D. joined the army. Years later, the war still has a stranglehold over J.D., and his relationship with Grace and Audrey, his twin daughters."
• Pairing(s): Veronica/J.D., but it's not the main focus.
• Tags: Shell-Shocked Veteran, Alternate Universe, Tragic Villain, Cry for the Devil

Worry, Don't Be Happy by psychomania

• Recommended by: A Splashing Koi
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Any day now, Veronica would like to stop having nervous breakdowns."
• Pairing(s): Veronica/J.D.
• Tags: Continuation Fic, Time Skip, Angst, Not Quite Dead (implied)

"They're all girlfriends" AU by notaguitarfret

• Recommended by: J Owens 4765
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: The "They're all girlfriends" AU (TAG AU) takes place sometime after the events of "Big Fun" only Veronica doesn't get kicked from the Heathers (and also hasn't met JD at the time of these events). Veronica is close to being kicked, had it not been for Heather McNamara helping Veronica out so that she could convince Heather Chandler to let her stay. Roughly a month passes, and the four of them remain "friends" for a bit (Veronica still... doesn't like them much, except for maybe McNamara) but it comes to the point where they're thrown into situations which reveal more about the Heathers that Veronica had been oblivious to.
• Chandler/Veronica, J.D./Veronica (one-sided, so far), McNamara/Duke

Thoughts On Power by deeplyshallow

• Recommended by: roseadagio
• Status: complete
• Synopsis: There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
  • A look at power from the viewpoints of different Heathers characters.

red lips, blue throat, empty insides by salty nap princess

• Recommended by: roseadagio
• Status: complete
• Synopsis: With all her heart, she wishes she could puke / So much for best friends – Heather Chandler-centric

The Favourite by DisasterLesbean

• Recommended by: HighfalutinQuelea
• Status: complete
• Synopsis: She’s going to start drinking from bottled water only.

A Realist Analysis of Relative Gain in the Context of Westerburg High by Comrade_Granite

• Recommended by: Broms
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: All Realists agree on the importance of three fundamental ideas: statism, survival and self-help.
• Pairings: Heather Duke/Veronica Sawyer
• Tags: Slow Burn, International Theory, Duke POV
  • Has a sequel - Summer and the Developmental Potential of Long Peace (Ongoing)

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