Neferpitou X Kite Novels & Stories

Been looking through the Pitou/Kite tag lately, and honestly, it's so much weirder than I expected. I guess with how things ended in canon, a lot of writers start with straight-up revenge fantasies – like, Kite survives somehow and comes back for payback, which I always skip because it feels shallow.

What hooks me are the fix-its, but not the fluffy kind. The ones where Pitou, with their royal guard biology and weird child-like innocence, tries to ‘fix’ what they broke, literally trying to stitch Kite back together in some gothic lab scenario. It’s disturbing, but there’s this fascinating dynamic of monstrous caretaking that’s way more compelling than any romance plot.

Lately, I’ve seen a few that flip the script entirely, with Pitou as the one who’s broken after the palace invasion, and a surviving Kite having to deal with them. It’s niche, but I’m into that psychological unpacking of guilt and non-human concepts of atonement.

Okay, something I think gets missed a lot in Pitou/Kite fic is the sheer violence of the premise. They don't have a past to bicker about. One killed the other, literally tore them apart. The main conflict I see writers tackle isn't romantic jealousy or miscommunication—it's the horror and the grief, and whether any connection can be built on that. I've read a few where Pitou, after being 'healed' by Alluka, tries to atone, and Kite's resurrection is just as traumatic. The conflict becomes Kite wrestling with this phantom of their killer who now looks at them with something like devotion. It's less about resolving fights and more about whether forgiveness is even a concept that applies here. The tension is perpetual, simmering under every interaction.

I prefer the fics that lean into that uncomfortable ambiguity instead of smoothing it over. There's one where Kite ends up teaching Pitou to knit, of all things, because their hands need to relearn creation instead of destruction. The conflict is quiet, in every hesitant stitch and the way Kite flinches when those hands get too close. It never really gets 'solved,' and that's what makes it compelling to me.

Honestly, you're gonna get a lot of recommendations for Archive of Our Own, and it's solid, but I've found some real treasures over on Tumblr that never get cross-posted. The micro-fics and headcanon threads there capture their dynamic in these tiny, sharp moments AO3's longform stuff sometimes misses—like Pitou's confusion over human grief expressed through preserving Kite's body, treated almost like a morbid courtship ritual.

That said, the tagging system on AO3 is unbeatable for filtering. You can really drill down into 'canon divergence - Kite lives' or 'body horror' or 'unreliable narrator,' which is crucial for a pairing built on such a specific, brutal canon event. I'd start a search there, sort by kudos, then lurk tags on Tumblr to find writers who do more experimental, in-character stuff.

Just be ready for a lot of dead fics from like 2014. The 'Hunter x Hunter' fandom activity for this ship comes in waves.