THE CAITVI BIG BANG

The posting may be over, but the magic isn’t gone! Every fic and piece of fanart from this year’s Caitvi Big Bang is now collected in one place on AO3: caitvibigbang2026

That said, we want to take a moment and thank every writer, beta, and artist who participated in this fest. The past nine months have been challenging and arduous, but we did it together! You worked so hard and persevered and created something truly beautiful.

When the mods embarked on creating this fest, we weren't sure that many people were going to sign up, let alone stick with it as long as you all have. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride!

With love,

Monday March 30th: The tide like ruined lace.

Author: @floating-lost-astronaut Beta: @thejunosaurus Artist: @brontollow & @spoofykoala

Tuesday March 31st: ButchWilde is live!

Author: @nightworldlove Beta: @/lucerni (AO3) Artist: @shhhkay & @wherethelightreachess

Wednesday April 1st: skin deep

Title: skin deep

Word count: 20,287

Author: @thehomelybadger

Beta: @/Lucerni (AO3) & @/Vatez (AO3)

Artist: @assassinlex

"I'm trying to fucking help you." "Didn't ask for your help," Vi said, as the sirens got closer, ever closer. "You wanna help, tell them I died in the crash." -- The players: a beat up boxer and a burnt out badge. The game: a hunt for answers and a thirst for revenge. The stakes: a dying man who she's desperate to save and a family legacy she never wanted. Welcome to Night City.

Title: ButchWilde is live!

Word count: 63,310

Author: @nightworldlove

Beta: @/lucerni (AO3)

Artist: @shhhkay & @wherethelightreachess

Caitlyn Kiramman has settled into her routine: Get home from work, slip into something more comfortable, and then get off to her favorite camming performer, ButchWilde. All of that changes when she runs into ButchWilde—or should she say, Vi—quite literally. What does one do when the cam performer of your dreams crashes into you while on a walk in the park?

Title: The tide like ruined lace.

Word count: 37,232

Author: @floating-lost-astronaut

Beta: @thejunosaurus

Artist: @brontollow & @spoofykoala

After the attack on the Council Tower, Caitlyn and Vi struggle to find their place in the world. The former battles through guilt and grief to become the woman she was always expected to be, while the latter – deprived of her sense of purpose – is determined to do just about anything to feel like she belongs again. The only thing that seems to truly matter is finding the most elusive criminal Piltover has ever known as a way to atone, a way to make amends. But the months go by, Jinx stays missing, and life has to carry on. Perhaps, sometimes, redemption is where you least expect it to be. Perhaps, sometimes, salvation is just an abandoned summer house by the sea, filled with forgotten memories and new beginnings.

Monday March 23rd: The Haunting of Kiramman Manor

Author: @thats-nifty Beta: @bumblebylesbian Artist: @emeraldemiree & @feusus

Tuesday March 24th: A Mountain Called Hunger

Author: @runephoenix6769 Beta: @multifandomlurkertrash Artist: @sleepy-eepy-femme

Wednesday March 25th: in as many worlds

Author: @undetaqted Beta: @/themightofsea (Twitter) Artist: @alexontoast

Thursday March 26th: Violyn: The Lost Myth

Author: @skippershark Beta: @coffered Artist: @alineartan & @sylairaa-commsopen

Friday March 27th: Back to back with you

Author: @/runningwiththestars (AO3 & Bluesky) Beta: @coffered Artist: @adriantheartistofrandom

Saturday March 28th: Slow Cooking

Title: Slow Cooking

Word count: 27,894

Author: @whiteravengreywolf

Beta: @stormy-calmness

Artist: @the-purple-duck

When Cait inherited Kiramman Industries, she was most excited by their sponsor program, to patron Piltover's smartest and brightest. This changed when she decided to sponsor Powder and Ekko and their time machine project. Since then, it seems that Powder has been doing nothing but waste time. But during a gala, Cait meets Powder's sister, Vi, who seems to be the only one who can keep her sister under control. Vi is a wannabe cook who uses her culinary talent to feed Powder, mostly, but when Caitlyn comes to her to ask for some advice, she might just have found someone else interested in her cooking.

Title: Back to back with you

Word count: 21,111

Author: @/runningwiththestars (AO3 & Bluesky)

Beta: @coffered

Artist: @adriantheartistofrandom

Vi is lucky. She has a great job at the gym, she lives with her best friend, her hot, kind, sweet, thoughtful, caring best friend, and she happens to make bank while camming. Caitlyn is lucky. She is a kick-ass professional who graduated top of her class and is now working at one of the most prestigious law firms in Piltover. She also scored a great roommate situation with her best friend, Vi, who she absolutely does *not* have a huge, giant crush on (or so she says to keep her life from falling apart). Although her work is stressful, and she's trying to keep her feelings under wraps, she has one big secret that helps her relieve a lot of pent-up frustration. She secretly shows off her domination skills on a camming site, having gained thousands of loyal followers. Of course, being in the business had opened Caitlyn's eyes, so to speak, so while she got most of her fill in front of the webcam, she equally spent as much time watching a particular redhead on the camming site. The fact that she reminds Caitlyn of Vi is irrelevant. Their lives are happy, entangled, and relatively stress-free. Until they are forced to face the obvious.

Title: Violyn: The Lost Myth

Word count: 62,843

Author: @skippershark

Beta: @coffered

Artist: @alineartan & @sylairaa-commsopen

"Myth is not about what happened in past times, myth is about what happens to people all of the time." ~Michael Meade 425 BC, in classical Greece, a myth lost to time unravels. Follow as Caitlyn and Vi traverse the topography of Greek myths and stories as they forge their own Eternal Love story.

Title: in as many worlds

Word count: 20,042

Author: @undetaqted

Beta: @/themightofsea (Twitter)

Artist: @alexontoast

"But maybe there doesn't need to be a bigger reason, maybe I wasn't meant to do anything, to be anyone. Maybe I—" "Maybe you were meant to find me," says Vi to a wide eye. "And maybe I was meant to see you. Maybe not in this world, maybe not in the next, maybe in the one after. We will walk in the rain, and we will wake to the dawn, and I will show you the world if you will only let me in." Caitlyn's lips part. Her throat bobs in a swallow. "As many times as it takes. In as many worlds as there are," she whispers into the dim dark. "I will find you." They fly, they fall, they collide. A love letter to these two.

Title: A Mountain Called Hunger

Word count: 150, 301

Author: @runephoenix6769

Beta: @multifandomlurkertrash

Artist: @sleepy-eepy-femme

Sagarmāthā, aka Everest. The highest point on Earth. Five vertical miles of glory, shattered ambitions, and broken bodies. Mountaineers embrace suffering, and walk hand in hand with death. It's a risk all mountain climbers accept in pursuit of personal triumph, critical acclaim, or social media notoriety. Carrying a legacy, Caitlyn chases the end of a journey her father never got to finish. Vi climbs for the conquest, for the thrill, for the sheer defiance of it—flipping off the naysayers as she aims to carve her name into history. Their relationship exists in fragments: stolen moments between expeditions, fleeting warmth found at the feet of the most beautiful and brutal mountains on the planet. But Caitlyn has drawn a hard line: when this climb is done, she swears she’s hanging up her crampons for good. Where will that leave her and Vi? Vi lives for the mountains—for the danger, the triumph, the glory. Once they’ve reached the summit, will they choose each other, or go their separate ways? And will the mountain even give them the chance to choose at all? AKA The one where they are stubborn, ambitious idiots.

HAHAHA! YES!

It's definitely an inside joke amongst the writers, an easter egg of sorts that the majority agreed to sneak into their fics. We're so glad you caught that :)

Title: The Haunting of Kiramman Manor

Word count: 52,000

Author: @thats-nifty

Beta: @bumblebylesbian

Artist: @emeraldemiree & @feusus

Vi's life was a self-fulfilling tragedy of misfortune after misfortune. She lost her family as a child. She was thrown into Stillwater for more years than she could count. It didn't seem like good luck even knew her name. So when her hands found a discarded newspaper advertising a desperate need for a manor groundskeeper, Vi figured she could handle whatever strings were attached to it. But no one ever mentioned it was haunted. The eerie, isolated home was a blight among the townsfolk of Holdrum, filled with mysteries and oddities that kept Vi awake in the depths of the night. Perhaps more is going on at the Kiramman Manor; especially with its lone occupant–the daughter of the recently deceased Cassandra Kiramman.

Monday March 16th: about you

Author: @anexcellentshot Beta: @jazzmosis12 Artist: @smltskl

Tuesday March 17th: Sunk Cost Fallacy

Author: @gretaglasses Beta: @salixkai Artist: @eienieee

Wednesday March 18th: What We Hold, What We Keep

Author: @ateliereos Beta: @mutantqueer Artist: @nonamel

Thursday March 19th: Two Strays

Author: @/writingonadream (AO3) Beta: @wixhing0nastar Artist: @emeraldemiree & @heeeygracie

Friday March 20th: I Am The Night.

Author: @innamorament0 Beta: assassinlex.bsky.social (Bluesky) Artist: @mpmrpjb

Saturday March 21st: Sweat & Glitter

Title: Sweat & Glitter

Word count: 42,855

Author: @u-tonium

Beta: @not-another-npc

Artist: @midgesdoodles & @eienieee

“Let’s try this again. What’s your dance background, sweetheart?” Caitlyn twisted her fingers in her lap. “Classical ballet." “Whew! Not many ballerinas down here.” Babette gave Caitlyn a knowing look. “You’re from upstairs.” Caitlyn nodded, feeling found out. “And why do you want this job? You know what we do here, right honey?” “Yes.” Caitlyn swallowed against her squeaking voice. “I have some idea of that, yes.” Dancing. Stripping. Sex work. She’d gathered from the collection of stages, poles, and back rooms that this venue was more than your average nightclub. “There’s something…missing from my dancing right now,” Caitlyn went on. “Vi is helping me find it. She suggested I start here.” As if on cue, Vi returned to the office with two flimsy strips of fabric dangling from her index finger, the sight of which made Caitlyn’s face blanch. Did they expect her to wear that? “Well let’s see how you look all dressed up and go from there.” Unable to meet Vi’s gaze, Caitlyn took the silky fabric from her roommate’s finger and slinked behind the partition. OR The Dance Academy AU where Caitlyn and Vi are pas de deux partners and then some.

Title: I Am The Night.

Word count: 27,974

Author: @innamorament0

Artist: @mpmrpjb

One year ago, a bomb exploded at the City Council, killing Caitlyn’s mother. A few months later, her father, unable to cope with his grief, took his own life. Orphaned and alone, Caitlyn—the only surviving Kiramman—became a masked vigilante at night while still working as a detective for Piltover during the day, seeking justice for her dead parents. Vi, torn between her secret identity as Superman and her civilian journalist persona, riddled with guilt over her runaway sister's gruesome actions, was a hero for those in need. One day, either destiny or an accident brought them together, forcing them to navigate their newly blooming feelings, despite Caitlyn's hunger for justice and the fact that her mother's killer was someone closely related to Vi.

Title: Two Strays

Word count: 39,120

Author: @/writingonadream (AO3)

Beta: @wixhing0nastar

Artist: @emeraldemiree & @heeeygracie

One year after the end of the war, Vi is living Topside with Caitlyn, helping to rebuild the sister-cities, and trying to reconcile the life she had with the life she has. Between elite Piltover ceremonies, family tensions, and the weight of Jinx’s absence, Vi stumbles into something she isn’t prepared for: a terrified street dog in Zaun who needs more care than she thinks she can give. As Caitlyn considers a future Vi isn’t sure she is ready for, she confronts her fear that loving something has to mean losing herself and learns that care can’t be forced, only accepted.