✨ fic recs for 2023′s nivanfield day ✨
hey!! i’ve noticed that there’s a lot of new people trickling into the RE6 community, so i thought it’d be fun to put together a little rec list of my favorite fics for the nivanfield fandom. they’re almost all fix-it’s, since that’s my own personal personal preference, but i think there’s a lot of variety regardless!
crossed out by deansparkles: this is my number one favorite nivanfield fic of all time. what can i fucking say about this that hasn’t been said before, honestly— this is a simultaneously horrifying but equally beautiful jacob’s ladder-esque nivanfield wild ride fix-it, which blasted my soul into the ether and crushed my heart in its fist. i read this in 2018 and immediately fell headfirst back into the fandom. this author is far too powerful, PLEASE read this one.
you, me, and the monster by akumastrife: i feel like everyone has probably read this but that won’t stop me from reccing it. this is an all-time favorite for me— i love writing from chris’s pov but this fic makes me want to explore everything about piers’ mutation from his perspective. comfort and hurt and comfort. also, sherry repeatedly smacking piers over the head.
daydreamer by captain_tots: another oneshot, ONLY hurt but the best kind. sherry’s pov, she and chris get coffee together and she spends a lot of time in her own head just wondering what it would be like if the people they’d lost were there with them. i come back to this fic a lot— i love the way sherry and chris interact, not saying much but not really needing to either. 1338 words of heartbreak.
nightlight by red_to_black: my favorite multi-chaptered nivanfield after crossed out! i’m not sure it’ll ever be finished, but i adore it regardless and routinely go back to re-read my favorite parts. it’s a really interesting look at the dynamic of the original alpha squad before edonia, and what chris and piers’ working relationship was like on and off the field. just an incredible balance of action vs downtime between missions, which was definitely an inspiration for a lot of the field work in my own fic.
the future is an open road by thevalesofanduin: post-re6-piers-lives-roadtrip au, aka the nivanfield fic you didn’t know you needed. only two chapters but extremely sweet, and just a really nice reprieve from a lot of the angst and grief that usually goes hand-in-hand with this pairing. there’s also this scene where piers makes a rookie mistake on his first mission back post-recovery and it will probably live in my mind rent-free forever.
happy reading!! and feel free to add your own favs if you don’t see them listed! :)
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Luck
“Thank you again, for everything your Son did. For me. For his team. For the world.”
He sighed as he wrapped up his annual visits. He felt it was only right to show up. To acknowledge, to remember those who had remembered him when he longer remembered himself.
The years would add lines to their faces and more sadness in their eyes.
He too, is just another battered veteran who refused to quit, because he owes it to those who could no longer fight, to fight.
Wrapping up, he headed to the lake. He’s far from the ocean now, but he wanted to reflect.
Reflect on what it’s like to have met hell at its depths, and emerge again. Alive, whole.
Alone.
Reflect on whether it was pure luck he’s still here.
No. It wasn’t just luck. Others wanted him to still be here.
He stood at the shore, looking down at the dark waters.
Even in the waters he saw the silver on his temples. Lines on his eyes, his cheeks.
It’s been a while.
What would it be like to feel young again?
Relaxing his shoulders, he took a rock, aimed and sunk it right into the lake when he was trying to skip it across the waters.
He’d forgotten how he’d used to do that.
He threw another. And another.
It worked! It skipped for a moment.
Memories are coming back, like the times in his youth, when he’d try to impress Claire.
He threw the rock, looking at it skipping across the lake. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.
He threw another. It didn’t skip so well.
He sat.
As he threw another, he heard another splash, as two rocks bounced, in a kind of short synchrony until they sank to the depths of the lake.
“You still had to be better at everything don’t you?” He said, still gazing over the waters.
Footsteps, somehow completely silent to him until now, headed towards him. An arm braced his shoulder as he sat.
Chris reached his arm around his shoulders, as he’d practiced so many times, pulling the man close, feeling the weight of his head resting on his shoulder as they sat side by side.
“I didn’t know if you were going to show.”
“I didn’t either. But I remembered this little speech…”
“One of mine?” Chris asked.
“Uh, actually, it was one of mine.”
“Here’s a man who’s far too in love with himself.”
“That’s not even half the love I have for you, but stop interrupting.”
“Oh, you’re going to lecture me again?”
“Well I kinda made myself the leading authority on not running away from your past, so-”
“Well you’re in the wrong place hotshot. This... ahem… is the present.”
“I… damnit.”
Chris smiled and celebrated his little success at making Piers falter. It’s hard to get the upper hand on him these days.
An elbow nudged him in his ribs. “Don’t you go all Master Sifu on me.”
“Well.” Chris said, proudly “I am after all, your mentor, your hero… it was meant to be me-”
“It’s us now.” Piers had cut him off. “It’s been ten years. I’ve made my peace.”
“I love that about you, always so optimistic.” He squeezed Piers’ arm, feeling his strength and wholeness.
“We’re survivors Chris. We both are. I only learn from the best.”
Chris looked down, catching the spark of mirth in those dancing hazels.
He had to remember to breathe, let alone whatever banter he was going to volley with, because those eyes are only making him feel one thing.
That Chris Redfield is the luckiest man in the world.
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half a step until the full song (Part 5: simmer | 27 June 2016 - 30 June 2016)
previous chapter here. part of my entry for 2023’s July1stNivanfieldDay.
chapter summary:
The last week of June rolled in. Tension rose. Piers tried to seek refuge in Chris, but there was only so much his boyfriend could do when things got personal.
author’s notes:
I warned you last time that shit is about to go down. I'll warn you again here in case you are not mentally prepared to tackle this chapter. This is where some of the tags related to real life start to apply, so if you wanna ask about more specific warnings, feel free to do so in the comments or contact me via my socials which I have linked at the end of the work.
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