What Are Popular Blixer X Wave Fanfiction Plot Ideas?

Okay, blixer and wave from 'Just Shapes & Beats' – cute ship, honestly. The fanfics I’ve seen tend to run pretty standard setups with these two. A lot of people go for the 'enemies to lovers' angle, which feels almost too easy. Blixer’s a corrupted virus trying to get wave and their friends, wave’s part of the heroes. It’s right there. So you get a ton of stories where they’re still fighting but maybe get stranded together on a corrupted landscape and have to cooperate to survive, forcing some grudging respect that turns into something else. I like it when writers lean into their visual contrast, like having wave’s calming blue and smoother shape be a weird comfort to blixer’s spiky red aggression.

Another major one is a post-canon or fix-it where wave either heals or purifies blixer after the final battle. It’s a bit softer, focusing on recovery and care. I’ve seen some where wave is the only one willing to approach blixer afterward, teaching them what it’s like not to be driven by anger and corruption. Those can get really introspective. There’s also the opposite – dark AUs where wave gets corrupted instead, and blixer is the one who has to deal with the consequences of seeing what they’ve essentially created. It’s a bit rarer but hits hard when done right.

Some folks just ignore the conflict entirely and write slice-of-life in a human or high school AU. Blixer’s the grumpy delinquent with a secret soft spot, wave’s the optimistic art student who keeps dragging them into things. It’s classic, comfortable fanfic territory. The music element from the game sometimes gets translated into them bonding over a shared playlist or something. I’ll admit I sometimes skim those unless the character voices are really sharp; it can lose the game’s unique visual tension.

Honestly? Most of the popular plots feel kinda repetitive. It’s always redemption or enemies-to-lovers. I’m more interested in the weirder stuff people occasionally try. Like, I read this one that was a body-swap scenario – wave wakes up in blixer’s corrupted form and has to navigate being the villain, while blixer is stuck in wave’s peaceful body and is utterly baffled by not feeling constant rage. It was a hilarious take on identity. There’s also a small niche for ‘role reversal’ AUs where blixer is the guardian and wave is the corrupted entity, which flips the whole dynamic on its head.

I’ve noticed a few writers exploring the idea of them as two halves of a whole – like, blixer’s corruption is actually a fractured, corrupted version of the same ‘code’ that makes up wave. That gets into some existential, almost tragic romance. It’s less about cute dates and more about a painful, inevitable connection. Those stories are hit or miss for me, but when they work, they’re way more memorable than another ‘study buddies’ AU.

Frankly, I’d love to see more fics that really play with the game’s abstract, wordless nature. Instead of giving them human problems, lean into the surrealism. What’s a conversation between two geometric shapes made of light and sound even like? That’s the unique challenge this ship offers, and most plots just sand it down into a generic template.

Blixer/wave plots thrive on duality. Light vs. dark, aggression vs. serenity, corruption vs. purity. Popular ideas exploit that. Redemption arcs are huge, where wave’s inherent stability anchors blixer. Mutual pining during their clashes adds unspoken tension. A less common but gripping plot is ‘corruption as contagion’ – wave slowly being affected by proximity to blixer, fighting a internal battle. Others use the game’s mechanics: a fic structured like a level, with their relationship progressing through each ‘phase’ of a battle. The abstract nature of the characters lets writers project a lot of internal conflict onto them, which is probably why the ship has such lasting appeal despite the source material having zero direct interaction.