Annabelle Gesson Fanfic Novels & Stories

A quick search shows there aren't really 'original' Annabelle Gesson series, since she's a Wattpad author from 'Bad Boy's Girl' fame. The fanfic series about her characters or in her style would just be regular Wattpad fanfiction using her universe. Most of it is on Wattpad itself, because that's where her audience lives.

You might find some scattered attempts on Archive of Our Own under the 'Bad Boy's Girl' tag or maybe even 'Annabelle Gesson' as a character tag, but it's super niche. I tried looking once and the pickings were slim—mostly just reader-insert stuff inspired by her tropes, not a continuous series.

Honestly, if someone's writing a longfic series based on her work, they're probably doing it right on Wattpad under the same fandom category, hoping her readers will find it through related lists.

Okay so I saw this thread and had to jump in because I just finished re-reading the whole 'Nebula Ascendant' trilogy, and honestly? Annabelle's fanfic arcs are a total mess half the time. Everyone wants to write the 'dark, tragic queen' but they forget she's canonically pragmatic to a fault. They give her these sweeping emotional breakdowns over her arranged marriage to Prince Kaelen that she just... wouldn't have. Canon Annabelle would be calculating the political angles in her head while crying, not just weeping dramatically.

I think the best fics I've read lean into that contradiction. There's one called 'Cold Comfort' on Archive of Our Own where her arc is about mastering ice magic not for power, but for precision—to freeze the delicate mechanisms of political locks, to preserve evidence, to create unbreakable contracts. Her character growth isn't about becoming softer, it's about her intellect and her magic becoming more perfectly aligned tools. The climax isn't a big battle, it's her outmaneuvering the council by exploiting a loophole in a treaty she literally iced into existence. That felt true.

Most writers just graft a generic enemies-to-lovers template onto her and call it a day, which is a shame because her moral ambiguity is the most interesting thing about her.

Well, if you're looking for Annabelle Gesson fics, you've gotta be ready to dig. That ship is niche even within the 'Lockwood & Co.' fandom. The main spots are Archive of Our Own and FanFiction.net, obviously, but the tagging is a mess. Sometimes they're under the ship tag, sometimes just folded into 'Lockwood & Co. Fandom' with other pairings.

What worked for me was sorting by kudos on AO3 and then just... reading summaries for a while. A lot of authors will write for Lockwood/Lucy but have a fantastic Annabelle Gesson side plot in a longer gen fic. I found one of my favorites buried in a casefic that was mostly about George's research.

Also, don't sleep on Tumblr. It's more for snippets and headcanons, but some writers post links to their AO3 works there. The community is smaller, so if you reblog or comment on a post about Annabelle, you might get recommendations from other fans. It's how I discovered a really poignant one-shot about Annabelle visiting Lockwood after the end of the series.