#declanhenry

Good TRC fanfic is honestly a very wide range, so I’m going to focus on the Declan element of this and rec you the best Declan fics I know of (because lord knows it’s hard to sift through his AO3 tag). Some of these are ship fics, so YMMV depending on shipping preferences. (Also the first fic I’m reccing isn’t a Declan fic, but he’s in it and he’s great and it’s also the best TRC fic I’ve ever read.)

A is for apple, b is for boy, c is for carrying the weight of dreams by Mici (noharlembeat)

Because civilization is a specific code of social interactions, and because Opal isn't in a dream anymore, civilization has to occur.

But a year of kindergarten doesn't teach precisely what one had hoped.

(or: Opal is sent to school)

one shot, complete, I WANTED THIS STORY TO BE THE OPAL SHORT STORY. JUST PRINT THIS IN THE BACK OF TRK. anyway it makes it onto this list because... you’ll see. declan is just great in this and everything this author has written with him as a character is making it onto this list

the savage price of piety by Mici (noharlembeat)

There are secrets that the Lynches keep, and Declan might be the best-kept one of them all.

one shot, complete, i will unconditionally rec this until the day i die

since you've been home, see what you have become by Mici (noharlembeat)

Adam goes touring colleges, and Ronan comes along. And Opal, well. She stays with Declan.

one shot, complete

Rúin by Razzaroo 

Niall Lynch may have taught Declan how to be a liar but it was Aurora who taught him to keep secrets.

one shot, complete

i see the stars, they're in your eyes by Razzaroo

Declan and Ashley hardly have what can be a called a fairy tale relationship

one shot, complete

more to lose than gain by spikenard

He stood up gracefully, and flashed Declan a smile. It made him look approachable.

Cheng had as carefully and masterfully manufactured a public face as Declan himself did.

one shot, complete, this was written for me for the trc holiday exchange and i am SO eternally grateful for it

but like 2% milk, or seitan beef, i almost taste the same by goodbyechunkylemonmilk

As far as Gansey can tell, Devin's only interests are meticulously-researched biographies of U.S. presidents, whispered arguments with her father, and boys. This gives them roughly one and one-half things in common, two if Gansey has gone long enough without a date to forget how pointlessly distracting she finds the whole process. That's one and one-half to two more things in common than Devin has with either of her sisters, which seems to partially but not at all satisfactorily explain why she doesn't fit with the rest of the family.

rule 63/genderswapped, one shot, complete

The Falconer by jouissant

Declan and Gansey, before the beginning.

one shot, complete

I’m going to be that person who recs my own fics once again

House With No Windows by QueenRiza

Ronan doesn’t question much about his family before his father dies. Hogwarts AU.

maybe the best “ship with two people we don’t see interact in canon” conceivable. ik people have talked a lot about their mutual love of having great hair, which is fantastic, but also they’re really the only two characters in the series who could really be able to understand what the other has been going through re: the magical artifacts business. there are a lot of parallels there (an interesting dynamics with declan being in business with seondeok) and they deserve to be explored damn it!