🏷️ Rivals To Lovers
9 entries tagged with this trope
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Romeo and Juliet retold in 1920s Shanghai with rival gangs and a monster in the river. Juliette and Roma once loved each other. Now their gangs are at war. Lush, violent, tragic.
Check & Mate
Ali Hazelwood · 2023
Mallory beats the world's youngest chess grandmaster and accidentally goes viral. Now she's back in the game she swore she'd left behind.
Until My Feet Bleed and My Heart Aches
Reiya · 2016
Yuuri and Viktor are rivals who can't stop thinking about each other. The ice becomes their battlefield and their confession booth. Figure skating has never been this sexy.
Until My Feet Bleed and My Heart Aches
Reiya · 2016
What if Victor and Yuuri were rivals instead of lovers from the start? Rivals AU that became the most kudosed YOI fic on AO3. The miscommunication is agonizing. The payoff is worth it.
The Mighty Fall
katsuki_explodes · 2019
Pro-hero era. Bakugou and Deku are forced to team up for a mission that goes catastrophically wrong. Stranded and injured, years of rivalry finally crack open into something real.
Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
A romance writer and a literary fiction writer become neighbors for the summer and challenge each other to swap genres. What follows is funny, heartfelt, and surprisingly deep.
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Two rival journalists in a world where gods wage war, writing letters to each other through a magical typewriter without knowing who's on the other end. The reveal will destroy you.
Ground Zero
PlusUltra · 2020
Post-canon. Bakugo and Deku are pro heroes and still can't figure out their feelings. Explosive fights that turn into something else. The rivals-to-lovers pipeline at its most combustible.
Yesterday Upon the Stair
PitViperOfDoom · 2016
Izuku can see ghosts. This changes everything — his relationship with death, with heroism, and eventually with Katsuki. One of the most acclaimed BNHA fics ever written.