what are your fav ryeji aus? PLS RECOMMEND 🥹🥹🥹
Howdy, anon. Thank you for the ask! It was an absolute delight to go through my bookmarks and remind myself of all the lovely ryeji fics I've read, but here are the AUs that have stuck with me the most.
Wheel, Snipe, Celly by lonewolflink
This fic has changed my life, no joshing. I am literally sitting at my computer wearing a Ducks jersey while waiting for the game to start right now because of this fic. Link's passion and knowledge of hockey shines so bright, that as someone who did not care about hockey or sports at all before this, I just had to get into it because of it.
One could argue that the ryeji aspect of this hasn't gone full throttle yet. But the build up and relationship building is there and it's so good and not only that, just a great ensemble fic featuring not only the ITZY girlies, but the TWICE girlies as well.
quiet afternoon crush by ddeongies
Another ongoing one, this one would definitely sate any ryeji-wants you might have. Vicariously live through Ryujin/Yeji as they experience all the sapphic-college-twists-and-turnabouts you didn't get the chance to experience.
Man, what a journey this one is. To me, it has all the feel-good, love to see stuff you get with a budding relationship between two (kinda) idiots, but without any of the unnecessary drama one might see with this kind of story? The ryeji in this is so incredibly sweet and soft, while also being super hot, oof. So good.
i'd rather your body (than half of your heart) by ghostheadlock
I don't know what to say about this one. Wouldn't call it a feel good fic, but man, this thing has continued to haunt me ever since I've read it.
A Ryujin character study about her liking Yeji and how that might manifest in different ways? Is that how I would describe it? I don't want to go too deep into this and I'm terrible at summarizing things.
Read this. It will latch onto you.
heaven is a place i know (when i'm with you) by anonymous
Ryujin is a fallen angel in Hell.
Yeji is an angel from Heaven that comes down to visit her.
give us a chance (please) by qaisal
I don't read a lot of soulmate AUs.
I love this soulmate AU. It's not a simple "Oh, hey, looks like we're soulmates, let's fall in love," and I think we get to see a lot more out of Ryujin and Yeji because of that.
where we are by snowddeong
There is SO much here that I want to see more of. I feel like anyway I could describe this fic would be a disservice to what it's actually about? Yeji's engaged to be married, but she has an affinity for Ryujin who's a phone sex operator and, like, huh???
This is only a one shot that kinda suggests a bigger world around it, but this thing is such a mood and I love it.
And I could go on, but at that point, I'd just be listing every AU I've ever bookmarked. I hope I was able to throw a couple of suggestions your way or maybe give you a chance to reread some stuff you've already read.
Ryeji is super important to me (it's the ship that got me into reading/writing Kpop fics), and these are the ones that I am just absolutely enamored with. I'm so grateful you limited your question to AUs, 'cause this list would've been impossible to make if it was just no-holds-barred.
I've yet to throw my hat into the ring when it comes to AUs, but I have a couple of ideas that will hopefully see the light of day one day. If not, as you can see, there is absolutely no shortage of amazing writing out there.
Anyway, thank you again, anon, for the ask and a big double thanks to all the ryeji writers out there! You're amazing folks and I love you all!!