crossovers that actually work
All too often, crossovers are poorly executed and/or clunkily fitted together. But every once in a while, they work. They really work. This is a collection of those crossovers.
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Dandelion Puffs by localbogwitch
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2020
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Just a few little oneshots surrounding crossover ideas between Stranger Things and Umbrella Academy. Mostly (so far) about El, Five, and/or Klaus in different situations/encounters with people from either world. If I find enough inspiration (and if enough people like the idea), I'll probably make a longer version of some of them.
Chapter 1: Rather than the Demogorgon, Eleven encounters Five in the Bath, and together they become a little less alone.
Chapter 2: Eleven can astral project to an extent that transcends her own dimension. Klaus just believes 'Ellie' is a ghost. They become best friends.
Chapter 3: Five finds himself in the Upside Down. He and Will, another unfortunate soul, learn to survive together.
Chapter 4: The Hargreeves stop the apocalypse the first time around, and the Byers-Hoppers decide two rounds with the Upside Down were two too many. Five meets El and Will at school. They've all got problems of their own, but they help each other through them.
Chapter 5: Max is new in town, and Diego just wants to escape from time to time. They end up meeting and (begrudgingly) becoming something like friends.Series
- Part 2 of What If?
- Part 1 of Tripping On Daydreams
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Help for Hauntings by Ninjathrowingstork
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Umbrella Academy (Comics), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
22 Mar 2019
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When a junkie gets picked up by the 99th precinct, no one expected the wild, skinny man could actually see ghosts. Which, it turns out, is a useful skill to have around a police station.
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It's instant, like the click of a camera, a moment out of time captured and preserved. Even if he doesn't know why until now.
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In Nomine Diaboli by WerewolvesAreReal
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Jun 2015
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Sometimes Matt wonders what it would be like to take his daemon out with him in public. He hasn't been able to do it for twenty years.
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"Doesn't it creep you out, seeing a person without a daemon like that?"
"No. I think it would be creepier if the victim did still have a daemon, seeing as they're dead."
AU of Bones set in the His Dark Materials universe, where everyone has their soul made physical in the shape of a talking animal companion -- their daemon.
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The BAU has to deal with a serial killer who believes he's hunting vampires. The unsub's name, Dean Winchester.
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The Rest Is Silence by trinityofone for Siria
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
01 Aug 2024
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Louis had told Daniel the truth about what happens to a person's dæmon when they're turned into a vampire. Daniel had thought he understood.
Then he woke up in the Dubai penthouse, the taste of Armand's blood still in his mouth, and realized he didn't understand at all.
(A His Dark Materials fusion.)
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31 Jul 2024
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Louis had told him. About this, Louis was honest, Louis didn’t hold back. He said, blood pooling at the corners of his eyes, sharp-fingered hands dug deep into the ruff of fur at his jaguar dæmon’s throat, “And as I drank from Lestat’s wrist…that’s when I heard Léa speak to me for the last time.”
Daniel watched her lean into him, her sleek black body pressing close to her person’s leg beneath the table. On his own shoulder, Arsha’s talons dug into the fabric of his shirt until he could feel the prick.
“What did she say?”
“I want to be honest, Daniel,” Louis replied. His voice was steady, sincere. “I don’t wish to obfuscate or embroider…but some things must remain mine, I think.” He stroked his dæmon’s head and she looked up at him, silently, with shining green eyes. “At least this one thing.”
“I understand,” Daniel said.
And at the time, he thought he did.
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By the time he’d hit his 17th birthday, he’d sorted his life out.
It came down to this:
His name was Stiles Stilinski. He was the son of the Sheriff and his wife, deceased, and his best friend was Scott McCall, an ex-asthmatic werewolf with a nurse mother and an absent father. He was the cleverest in his class, after the strawberry blonde he had a crush on, and he had been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of seven. On full moons, he ran around and cooked for the local pack of werewolves. And he was a demon changeling.Stiles has managed to avoid Hell and its natives for near 16 years. He's almost managed to fool himself he's human. And best friend who smells of wet dog or not, he thinks he'd got a pretty good deal with this second chance at a life, and is planning to stick with it. But, unknown to Stiles, the new king of Hell has other ideas...
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- Part 1 of This Vicious Little World
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06 May 2018
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On page 5 was a drawing of hell, of horned devils and demons.
Age 10, Stiles saw it, and thought that’s what I am, as if he’d known it all along.
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can you find me? by constellaetions
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
13 Jul 2026
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Shane Hollander has made many mistakes in his life, but volunteering as tribute alongside his best friend during District 11's annual Reaping isn't one of them.
Or maybe it is - he doesn't know yet. He'll confirm or deny when his near-certain untimely end comes.
Shane isn't a fighter. He's not a lover either, despite what he's leading the Capitol to believe. He's just a young man that knows the earth, and by proxy the brutality of nature; human or otherwise.
He doesn’t quite know what to do with Ilya Rozanov, though. Unfortunately it’s clear Ilya knows exactly what to do with him.
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13 Jun 2026
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“You forgot.”
He swallows before he chokes on it.
“You forgot me.”
Ilya isn't sure whether it's blood or peach juice he can taste, insistent even all these years later, a burning reminder that kindness can be given and kindness can be taken away.
“It is okay, I remembered me,” he says. “I remember what you said.”
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Tony falls through the space between worlds. As a result, he can see daemons. It kind of freaks him out. (It's stranger and more beautiful than he could have ever imagined.)
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- Part 1 of elioenai
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“You’re not an animal,” Tony tells the cat one day, when they’re alone in his workshop with bits of the armor scattered around them.
“No,” agrees the cat. He’s amused, Tony can tell. He can tell a lot about the cat, these days. They’re growing closer together.
“But you’re not my soul either. Not all of it, anyway.”
“About half,” the cat agrees. “A little less, since Afghanistan.”
Six months ago, Tony would have laughed and thrown the damn thing out the window for daring to suggest that it was part of his soul. Now, though. Now, he’s seen the animals die, go up in dust the moment their person breathes for the last time. He’s seen them follow into fire, through knives and bullets and crumbling buildings. He’s seen them yell and fight with their humans, and seen them love them unconditionally.
They are souls, or part of them. The cat is part of Tony.
The cat blinks, languid, amused. And then, Tony gets it. He smiles. “What do you call yourselves?” he asks, and the cat shows him a row of tiny, snowy white teeth.
“Daemons,” he says, tail curling. “We call ourselves daemons.”