Jaune X Blake Novels & Stories

Archive of Our Own is pretty much the central hub, hands down. The tagging system lets you filter for Jaune/Blake specifically, and there's a solid range from cute high school AUs to post-Volume angst. You get authors who really dig into their shared outsider status—Blake as a Faunus, Jaune as the underdog—and spin that into some surprisingly thoughtful dynamics.

Wattpad has a different vibe, more focused on high-concept premises like 'What if Jaune was secretly a Faunus?' or role-reversal stories. The quality varies way more, but I've stumbled on a few real page-turners buried in there, usually with tons of reader comments driving the chapters forward.

Honestly, I skip FF.net for this pairing these days. The categorization feels clunky, and most active writers migrated to AO3 years ago. You might find some older, completed epics, but for fresh material and engaged communities, AO3's the place.

Honestly, I feel like people default to romance and angst way too much for this pairing. Sure, those are big, but I've seen some really inventive stuff that gets buried. There's a whole subgenre of 'reluctant detective' AU's where Jaune and Blake team up to solve crimes in Remnant, playing off their contrasting personalities – his earnestness against her world-weariness. It’s less about the smolder and more about the weirdly effective partnership.

Another surprisingly deep well is the ‘role-reversal’ or ‘what-if’ scenario. What if Blake was the one who found Jaune after his embarrassing initiation? The dynamic shifts completely. I also think post-Volume 3 ‘fix-it’ fics that explore them both as survivors of trauma, not necessarily romantically at first, have some of the most nuanced writing. People sleep on the platonic-to-romantic slow burns for these two.

And you can’t ignore the weirdly popular ‘coffee shop/bookstore AU’ corner. It’s low-stakes and lets writers just explore them talking, which is where a lot of their appeal lies anyway.

Wait, is this pairing even a thing? I mean, yeah, I've seen a few stories, but it always seemed like such a weirdly specific niche compared to the usual stuff.

I think the central conflict a lot of writers latch onto is this idea of mirrored damage. They both carry this deep-seated guilt from their pasts—Jaune for Pyrrha and his whole fraud arc, Blake for the White Fang and Adam. The plot often becomes about two people who think they're broken helping the other see they're not, but in a way that's less sunshine and rainbows and more 'we recognize the scars because we have matching ones.' It's less about romantic tension and more about a grueling, quiet kind of mutual therapy, which honestly can be exhausting to read if it's not handled with a light touch. Some of the better ones I've read ditch the epic romance angle entirely and just explore them as two people who understand the weight of leadership failures without having to explain it, finding a weird peace in that shared silence over a cup of coffee in the dorm kitchen at 3 AM.

That said, a ton of fics push it into 'enemies to lovers' territory because of the whole Faunus racism angle, which feels forced to me. Like, Jaune's from a rural kingdom, maybe he had some backwards views, and Blake confronts him—it's a cheap source of drama that ignores both their later character developments. Feels like a plot from 2014.