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Love is Not a Victory March by alittlebriton

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU
Length: 5K – 10K
Rating: Explicit
Secondary Characters: Asmodeus, Azazel, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Maryse Lightwood, Ragnor Fell, Robert Lightwood
Secondary Pairings: Aline Penhallow / Lydia Branwell
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell
Themes: First Time, Friends to Lovers, Hazel-Eyed Alec, Historical, Hurt & Comfort, Injured Magnus, Injury, Magnus POV, Pining, Prince, Protective Alec, PWP, Relationship Milestones, Servant, Unrequited Feelings

Summary:


“Alec Lightwood? That boy puts family and duty before anything else. But he’s smart, Magnus. Very smart. And your succession is not as yet secure. You could do with someone very smart on your side. And someone whose brother is in the Palace Guard.”

“I can’t help but feel they’d be more on our side if we hadn’t just ordered them into servitude,” he retorted and turned back to the Lightwoods only to find Alec standing not two feet away.

“My lord,” he said and bowed.
 
Two years ago, Magus returned to his father’s kingdom to find his old friend – well, possibly more than a friend – Alec Lightwood pressed into service in his household. In those two years, Magnus has fallen deeper and deeper for him, but can’t break through Alec’s walls of propriety.

Now, in the run up to the Seelie Queen’s visit, more and more is happening within the court that could push Alec out of his grasp forever, from potential arranged marriages to his own father wanting to steal Alec to his own bed. And Alec still has no idea what a simple touch from him can do to Magnus – but is about to find out.

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Souls of Fire by saraubs*

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Other AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Catarina Loss, Jace Wayland, Maryse Lightwood, Robert Lightwood, Valentine Morgenstern
Secondary Pairings: Magnus Bane / Original Character
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Catarina Loss, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss
Themes: Alec POV, Angst, Blue-Eyed Alec, Cat-Eyed Magnus, Dragons, Established Relationship, Family, First Meeting, First Time, Historical, Hurt & Comfort, Injured Alec, Injured Magnus, Injury, Magnus POV, Pining, Prince, Protective Alec, Protective Magnus, PWP, Relationship Milestones, Slow Burn, Soul Bond, Soulmates, Telepathy, Travel, Unrequited Feelings, Winter

Summary:


A pacifist raised in a warrior culture, Aleksander has been the subject of his father’s ire since he was old enough to spurn the sword. But after years of scorn and abuse, Alek finally gathers the courage to do what he’s always wanted: leave. Equipped with information that could mean the salvation of an entire culture, Alek sets out to find the dreki – a race of magic-weilding shifters – and warn them of his father’s quest to eradicate their kind.

Magnus Bane, celebrated leader of the dreki, has given up everything in order to help his people. When he accepted the mantle of Drakkson, he did so knowing that life’s ordinary pleasures were forbidden to him. Magnus was happy to make the sacrifice and has never regretted that choice – until he meets Alek. Beautiful, brave, and shockingly innocent, he’s everything that Magnus didn’t know he wanted and the one thing that he can’t have.

Thrown together out of necessity, Magnus and Alek quickly move from open hostility to begrudging respect. But with war looming on the horizon and the dreki council breathing down their necks, forging a way forward together is impossible – unless both men are willing to turn their backs on everything they believe in.

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Love is a Gamble by la_muerta

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Human AU  
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating:

Explicit

Secondary Characters: Catarina Loss, Clary Fray,

Dot Rollins,

Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Luke Garroway, Lydia Branwell,

Madzie, Maia Roberts, Maryse Lightwood,

Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago, Sebastian Verlac / Jonathan Morgenstern, Simon Lewis, Valentine Morgenstern,

Victor Aldertree


Secondary Pairings:

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland,

Izzy Lightwood / Maia Roberts,

Lydia Branwell / John Monteverde


Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood,

Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland,

Alec Lightwood & Madzie,

Alec Lightwood & Maryse Lightwood,

Magnus Bane & Clary Fray,

Magnus Bane & Izzy Lightwood,

Magnus Bane & Madzie, Magnus Bane & Maia Roberts,

Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell,

Magnus Bane & Raphael Santiago

Themes: Alec POV, Angst,

Business Owner,

Crime,

Death,

Enemies to Friends,

Enemies to Lovers,

Family,

First Time,

Historical,

Hurt & Comfort,

Injured Alec,

Injured Magnus,

Injury,

Internalized Homophobia,

Law Enforcement,

Magnus POV, Pining, Relationship Milestones,

Secret Relationship,

Slow Burn,

Travel

 

Summary:

Upholding law and order in gold-mining town Nephilim Falls, population 1,700 souls, is the responsibility of Sheriff Alec Lightwood. As it is, Alec already has his hands full with the saloons and whorehouses making tempers rise and the men rowdy when the day’s mining goes badly, and the constant threat of bandits in the hills. The last thing he needs is some no-count gambler setting up a gambling hall in his town. And what kind of name is ‘Magnus Bane’, anyway?

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Of Splendour in the Grass by Lecrit*

Chapters:

Chaptered Fic

Genre:

Human AU

Length:

50K – 75K

Rating:

Explicit

Secondary Characters:

Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Luke Garroway,

Lydia Branwell, Maia Roberts, Maryse Lightwood,

Max Lightwood,

Meliorn,

Raphael Santiago, Robert Lightwood,

Sebastian Verlac / Jonathan Morgenstern, Simon Lewis


Secondary Pairings:

Camille Belcourt / Magnus Bane,

Catarina Loss / Ragnor Fell,

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland,

Lydia Branwell / John Monteverde,

Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood


Additional Relationships:

Alec Lightwood & Catarina Loss,

Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland,

Alec Lightwood & Max Lightwood,

Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss, Magnus Bane & Izzy Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Jace Wayland,

Magnus Bane & Max Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell, Magnus Bane & Raphael Santiago


Themes: Alec POV,

Angst,

Arranged Marriage,

Author,

Domesticity,

Family,

First Time,

Friends to Lovers,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,

Historical, Hurt & Comfort,

Injured Alec, Injury,

Magnus POV,

Military,

Pining,

Protective Alec,

Relationship Milestones,

Secret Relationship,

Slow Burn,

Soldier,

Travel,

Winter

          

Summary:

Alec couldn’t remember the last time the Lightwood mansion had been so spirited. Even when their parents were away on business, the Lightwoods often had guests staying at the mansion, although it usually wasn’t for longer than for a night of festivities in the peak of the summer. Apparently – or so he had gathered from Isabelle’s fondly annoyed and persistent claims – this guest was special, not only because he wasn’t meant to stay for a single night, and not even because he wasn’t a potential business partner.

“He is a celebrity,” Isabelle told him when he lifted an eyebrow at her, silently leveling her with a dubious look.

The Victorian AU no one asked for, where Magnus and Alec fall in love through chess, poetry and whispers in the night, but nothing is that simple.

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We Belong to the Sea by Scarlett_Rogue

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU / Other AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating:

Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood,

Ragnor Fell,

Raj
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships:

None
Themes:

First Meeting,

Flirting,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,

Historical,

Hurt & Comfort,

Injured Alec,

Injured Magnus, Injury,

Magnus POV, Merpeople, Protective Alec, Relationship Milestones,

Transgender Alec,

Travel

 

Summary:

When a sleepless night weakens Magnus’ judgement he finds himself lured in by a mournful song and shipwrecked on an island surrounded by deadly sirens. Magnus soon finds an unlikely alliance when Alec arrives to stop his clan mate from killing Magnus, and that alliance blossoms into something neither of them expected.

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The Kingdom By the Sounding Sea by la_muerta

Posted for Team Green during the Mid-3A Shadowhunters Flash Bang

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:

Other AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating:

Mature
Secondary Characters:

Dot Rollins,

Izzy Lightwood,

Jace Wayland,

Maryse Lightwood, Max Lightwood,

Raphael Santiago, Robert Lightwood

 


Secondary Pairings:

Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood

Additional Relationships: None
Themes:

Angst, Assassin, Coming Out,

Death,

Family,

First Meeting,

Historical,

Magic Use,

Magnus POV,

Prince,

Protective Alec,
Relationship Milestones,

Travel,

Unhappy Ending

 

Summary:

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That lived a prince that the gods had made
To love and be loved by me.
We loved with a love that was more than love
In this kingdom by the sea,
And the angels – not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying him and me.

For the Shadowhunters Hiatus Flash Bang #1 – Bingo
Square #12: Royalty AU

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The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Humansunshine

Part #1 of the TLTDNSIN series

Posted during the Shadowhunters Big Bang 2018

Chapters:

Chaptered Fic
Genre:

Human AU
Length:

10K – 25K
Rating:

Mature
Secondary Characters:

Dot Rollins,

Maryse Lightwood,

Ragnor Fell, Robert Lightwood,

Simon Lewis
Secondary Pairings: Alec Lightwood / Simon Lewis,

Dot Rollins / Magnus Bane 
Additional Relationships:

Alec Lightwood & Maryse Lightwood
Themes: Alec POV, Angst,

Break Up,

College,

Death,

Family,

First Meeting,

Flirting,

Grief,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,

Historical,

Internalized Homophobia,
Magnus POV,

Physical Abuse, Pining,

Relationship Milestones,

Slow Burn,

Travel

Summary:

The year is 1894, and queer culture is quietly thriving in London and across Europe. Magnus Bane, an important and highly intelligent diplomat from Batavia, is nervous and thrilled to have been selected to negotiate greater freedoms for the people of his home country. Alec Lightwood is the eldest son of the Foreign Secretary, a dedicated student at Oxford University, and is writing his dissertation on international relations between the Dutch East Indies and the surrounding countries.

They’ll have a lot to talk about when they meet in a society gala at the Houses of Parliament. Magnus has spent his life focussing on honing his mind so he can ignore his heart, and when that mind is met with the mind of Alexander Lightwood’s, his heart cannot stay silent any longer. Alec has spent the better part of his youth exploring his identity as an openly queer man in the microcosm of his college, and refuses to accept that Magnus, a successful diplomat, can’t have his cake and eat it too.

Or: A mundane!Malec AU set in 1890s England and Amsterdam.

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Promises Are Shapers of Fate by Inrainbowz*

Part #11 of the In Any World – Malec AU series

Chapters:

Chaptered Fic
Genre: Other AU

Length:

25K – 50K
Rating:

Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:

Catarina Loss, Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Luke Garroway,

Max Lightwood,

Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago, Robert Lightwood,

Simon Lewis,

Valentine Morgenstern

Secondary Pairings:

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland,

Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood

Themes:

Alec POV,

Angst,

Break Up,

Death,

Drained Magic,

Family,

First Meeting,

Grief,

Growing Up Together,

Historical,
Hurt & Comfort,

Injured Alec, Injury,

King,

Magic Use,

Magnus POV,

Pining,

Prince,

Protective Alec,

Relationship Milestones,

Secret Relationship,

Unrequited Feelings

 

Summary:

5. King And Villager AU

Part 1 – Running off to the woods is the only way young Prince Alexander can have some time to himself. And meet people he shouldn’t be meeting.

Part 2 – Years later, it takes a war for them to find each other again.

Part 3 – All’s well that ends well (after some confusion).

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Anonymous asked: Hi do you know if there is any fic where Alec time travels and meets Magnus from the Infernal Devices era?

Hi! There are two that have already been recced that fit your request, although Alec spends varying amounts of time in that specific time period depending on the fic. Here are the links to those:  

There are two other fics that fit it as well. Their recs will be posted this afternoon, but you can use the links below in the meantime:

I hope that helps! Happy reading! 🙂

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Winter Upon Our Hearts by Evil_Keshi

Chapters:

One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU
Length:

1K to 5K,

5K – 10K

Rating:

Mature
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Luke Garroway, Raphael Santiago,

Seelie Queen,

Valentine Morgenstern

Secondary Pairings: Clary Fray / Magnus Bane
Themes: Alec POV, Angst,

Arranged Marriage,

Domesticity,

Established Relationship,

Historical,

King,

Marriage Proposal,
Office, Pining,

PWP, Relationship Milestones,

Secret Relationship,

Soldier,

Unhappy Ending,

Wedding

 

Summary:

Tonight, Lord Bane looks pensive and Alec can feel in his bones, in his heart, that this marriage proposition might end up in an actual deal instead of failing, like they all have before. His heart and hands clench painfully. The pommel of his sword leaves a deep indent in his palm.