Murder Girlfriends Reading Orders
Overall reading order notes and brief thread summaries for the murder girlfriends (Fate/ Ellie). This doesn't centrally include non-murder gfs reading orders or recs.
This page contains light spoilers for some threads.
Standalone Threads - In Progress
These threads have no strong prerequisites on the glowfic site, though they might require some familiarity with a specific fandom and might reference other threads. They can be read in any order. Some are referenced by later threads in the "Peals" section.
These threads are in progress (or complete with an unresolved plot, pending a sequel).
In Progress
Pending Sequel
- tomorrow there'll be more of us: if you don't think eevee is the best pokemon you're lying to yourself tbh
- Warnings:
- kidnapping
- Settings:
- Pokemon
- Main Alts:
- Ellie Pine (Ellie)
- Intrepid Ellievee/ Eevee (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Flicker Ellievee/ Umbreon (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Garnet Ellievee/ Flareon (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Stilettoo Ellievee/ Jolteon (Fate ~ Hisame)
- Loyal Ellievee/ Vaporeon (Fate ~ Dragon)
- Espeon (Fate ~ Glint)
- Status: complete
- Plot: unresolved (pending sequel)
- Warnings:
- that freedom highway: you can't take my sis from me
- Warnings:
- incest
- sibling incest
- human experimentation
- past torture
- mental illness
- mind reading
- Settings:
- Firefly
- Main Alts:
- Ellie Tam (Ellie)
- River Tam (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Secondary Alts:
- Shepherd Book (2B)
- Jayne (A2)
- Anna Washburne (Anna)
- Captain Bina Miryala Reynolds (Bina)
- Zoe Washburne (Peggy)
- Sara Frye (Sara)
- Status: Complete
- Plot: unresolved
- Peals: unpealed
- Warnings:
Standalone Threads - Complete
These threads have no strong prerequisites on the glowfic site, though they might require some familiarity with a specific fandom and might reference other threads. They can be read in any order. Some are referenced by later threads in the "Peals" section. These threads are all complete, with more or less resolved plots.
- we never are what we intend: Heartless fairy Ellie is given a heart. She does not approve.
- Warnings:
- murder
- Settings:
- Heartless
- Main Alts:
- The Yew Queen (Fate ~ Hisame)
- Shade Eclipse Heart (Ellie)
- Status: complete
- Plot: unresolved
- Peals: lightning peal
- Warnings:
- yeah my love is sacrilegious: Infernal Ellie and Lunar Fate try to overthrow The System
- Warnings:
- murder
- slavery
- relationship conflict
- torture
- cannibalism (off screen)
- Settings:
- Exalted, Third Age
- Main Alts:
- Shimmering Wyldclaw/ Wyld (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Elucidation of Immanent Will/ 'Luc (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts:
- Shining Jubilation/ Jubilee (Naruto)
- Status: complete
- Plot: quasi-unresolved
- Plot is resolved in peals
- Peals: lightning peal
- Warnings:
- all witches burn: you had me at "let's burn down wizarding Britain"
- Warnings:
- murder
- torture (graphic)
- sadism/ masochism (explicit, consensual)
- underage (adult/17 y/o, consensual)
- past child abuse
- Settings:
- Harry Potter, Marauders' Era
- Main Alts
- ---/ The Dark Lady (Ellie) (out of canon nickname: Elliemort)
- Bellatrix Sekhmet (Fate ~ Hisame)
- Fay Reynolds (Fate ~ Ruby) (out of canon nickname: burn Fay)
- Secondary Alts:
- Lily Evans (Palpatine ~ Lily)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Notes: this can be read standalone, but was originally made as an AU of plan for noon and plan for night
- Peals: unpealed
- Warnings:
- hope is a knife: this is a scientific experiment in whether you can give a Force ghost a heart attack
- Warnings:
- violence
- slavery
- brief torture
- Settings:
- Star Wars, sequels era
- Main Alts:
- Ellaita Dameron (Ellie)
- Anathema Jedi (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Anakin Skywalker/ Anakin Vendar (Fate ~ Anakin) (out of canon nickname: force ghost anakin)
- Secondary Alts:
- Lily Nobody/ Lily Vendar (Palpatine ~ Lily)
- Jacen Organa-Solo/ Lord Inkil (Jacen)
- Jaina Organa-Solo (Jaina)
- Tyrant (Tyrant)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Peals: foundations peal (smol peal)
- Notes:
- Not in continuity with "one girl revolution;" instead based off of planned reboot. Backstory as discussed on screen does not notably diverge, though
- Warnings:
- no hands of fate: The Lay of Leithian, murder gfs style
- Warnings:
- murder
- lack of free will
- Settings:
- Arda, Silmarillion, First Age
- Main Alts:
- Beren/ Mygwainor (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Luthien Tinuviel/ Ellin (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts:
- Sauron (Ares)
- Huan (Scarlet)
- Finrod (Naruto)
- Curufinwë Fëanáro (Jacen)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Peals: unpealed
- Warnings:
- her lips taste like a loaded gun: So you know how getting Fate Anakin to become Vader when her Ellie is a Jedi is annoyingly hard -
- Warnings:
- dead dove do not eat
- parent/ child incest
- accidental incest
- age gap relationship
- grooming
- Sith are not nice
- problematic as in bad praxis
- problematic as in infinite source of problems
- everyone in this thread is a terrible person including the authors
- underage
- underage drinking
- sadism
- masochism
- dissociation
- Settings:
- Star Wars, prequels era
- Main Alts:
- Darth Sidious/ Ellie Vendar (Ellie) (out of canon nickname: elessatine)
- Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Sangua (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Secondary Alts:
- Lily Palpatine (Lily)
- Mace Windu (minor heartsblood)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved (personal), unresolved (world)
- Notes: this can be read standalone, but was originally made as an AU of other Star Wars murder girlfriends threads, including one girl revolution and hope is a knife, and some of the character role swaps might make more sense with that background
- Peals: unpealed
- Warnings:
Series
These threads are part of a series with other threads, but do not include full peals. They are standalone for prerequisites, usually, but sometimes are referenced in later threads in the "Peals" section.
one girl revolution
Star Wars prequel rewrite. Features Fate as Anakin Skywalker and Ellie as her Jedi Master, Elesse Vendar. The base series is hiatused and will likely be abandoned in favor of a planned reboot, but it will remain canon to any threads downstream of peace is a fiction of our faith.
- Series overall:
- Status: hiatused
- Plot: unresolved
- Length: medium
- World: Star Wars
- Warnings:
- slavery
- violence
- Main Alts:
- Elesse Vendar (Ellie)
- Anakin Skywalker (Fate ~ Anakin)
- a voice yet waiting to be heard: every journey has a first step
- one last candle to keep out the night: when clones attack
- peace is a fiction of our faith: Occlus (Ellie) meets a redeemed Darth Vader (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Note: sequel to series, AU from original series plan
- Bonus Warnings:
- past forced pregnancy
- Main Alts:
- Ani (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Darth Occlus (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts:
- Luke Skywalker (Naruto ~ Luke)
- Leia Organa (Leia)
- Related Reading:
- Ascendancy: backstory for Darth Occlus
plan for noon and plan for night
Harry Potter series rewrite, featuring Ellie as the Girl-Who-Lived.
- Series overall:
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Length: Long
- World: Harry Potter, main era
- Warnings:
- past child abuse
- violence
- Main Alts:
- Ellie Potter (Ellie)
- Anathema Canta (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Fay Reynolds (Fate ~ Ruby) (out of canon nickname: noon Fay)
- Bellatrix Black (Fate ~ Hisame)
- Elodie Delacour (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts:
- Lord Voldemort (Orochimaru)
- Scarlet Be Thy Coat (Scarlet)
- Serpens Malfoy (Em)
- Lily Potter (Palpatine ~ Lily)
- Narcissa Malfoy (Mal)
- Lyra Malfoy (Lian)
- Peals: foundations peal (smol peal)
- Ellie Potter and the Sorcerous Anathema: Year 1 (Philosopher's Stone rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- possession
- attempted murder
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Serpent of Slytherin: Year 2 (Chamber of Secrets rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- possession
- attempted murder
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Hunting Star: Year 3 (Prisoner of Azkaban rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- aftermath of torture
- Dementors
- downer ending
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Triwizard Masquerade: Year 4 (Goblet of Fire rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- mind control
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Order of the Dragon: Year 5 (Order of the Phoenix rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- war
- torture
- mind control
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Tiger's Eye: Year 6 (Half-Blood Prince rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- war
- minor character death
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter and the Unhallowed Deaths: Year 7 (Deathly Hallows rewrite)
- Bonus Warnings:
- war
- major character undeath
- self sacrifice
- Bonus Warnings:
- Ellie Potter-Canta and the Dragon's Hoard: Epilogue
- Bonus Warnings:
- explicit sadism/ masochism (consensual)
- guardian/ ward + teacher/student relationship (consensual) (Ellie/ Fay/ Anathema)
- underage (adult/ 17 y/o) (consensual)
- adopted family incest
- something approximating internalized homophobia
- Note: while the story resolves entirely in Ellie Potter and the Unhallowed Deaths, and the Ellie/ Fay relationship can be treated as platonic all through the main seven stories, the epilogue is canon to later peals
- Bonus Warnings:
The Worst Genin Team
A small subcontinuity with drink up the entire ocean and its sidethread(s).
- drink up the entire ocean: The Worst Genin Team, take 2
- Warnings:
- child soldiers
- violence
- age gap relationship
- teacher/ student relationship
- Settings:
- Naruto
- Main Alts:
- Kaguya Elaise (Ellie)
- Amajina (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Asano Shinrei (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Elieyha of the Desert (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts:
- Asano Sayuri (Lily)
- Chihiro (2B)
- Uchiha Tobirama (Baby Anakin)
- Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto)
- Uchiha Jakkou (Jaina)
- Senju Tobirama (Su ~ Tobirama)
- Kankurou (Nine)
- Orochimaru (Orochimaru)
- Status: Complete
- Notes: this is a reboot of run between the raindrops (below), which contains spoilers for some of the plot twists in this thread
- Warnings:
- shimmering like a coin kept safe away: When she died, Uchiha Tobirama expected her family to meet her at the border to the Pure Land. But, there's only herself here...
- Warnings:
- Character death (by backstory)
- Low self esteem
- Neglect
- Settings:
- Star Wars
- Naruto
- Alts:
- Uchiha Tobirama (Baby Anakin)
- Anakin Organa-Solo (Baby Anakin)
- Status: Complete
- Notes: This is a side thread to drink up the entire ocean, which occurs during the chuunin exam invasion arc. It can be read at any point after the conclusion of that arc.
- Warnings:
Apocalypse
A small subcontinuity for baby love me apocalyptic, sequels, and sidethread(s).
- Series overall:
- Status: in progress
- Plot: unresolved
- Length: medium
- World: Exalted (First Age, Essence)
- Warnings:
- mind alteration
- ambient background bigotry
- ambient background slavery
- past slavery
- past child abuse
- past child neglect
- sadism/ masochism
- dominance/ submission
- sibling incest
- Main Alts:
- Gleam of Liberation (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Elathea Brightspear (Ellie)
- Luna (Fate ~ Glint)
- Secondary Alts:
- Shochi/ Micqui (Lily ~ Palpatine)
- Layla (Leia)
- Samira (2B)
- Peals: unpealed
- baby love me apocalyptic: someone needs to tell first age exalted ellie and fate that you're not supposed to select the same person for all of "bed, wed, behead"
- Bonus Warnings:
- Relationship conflict
- Child endangerment
- Domestic abuse
- Anger issues
- Possessiveness
- Status: complete
- Bonus Warnings:
- we might just live forever: now earn your happy ending (sequel)
- Status: in progress
- the stars will rearrange: the daughters of gleam and elathea have some growing pains (side thread)
- Status: in progress
- Reading order notes: occurs parallel to both baby love me apocalyptic and we might just live forever, beginning after Samira's Exaltation. Covers events referenced in the 'main' threads that impact the daughters more heavily.
What Didn't Happen
- hand in unlovable hand (apocalyptic outtake): the original ending was too depressing to keep
- Bonus Warnings:
- domestic violence
- abuse
- suicidal ideation
- slavery
- dissociation
- depression
- panic attacks
- child endangerment
- Status: complete
- Reading order notes: this is an alternate ending to baby love me apocalyptic, diverging at the moment before Gleam invokes the oath.
- Other notes: This might be later canon to a bad end AU of the apocalyptic continuity
- Bonus Warnings:
Peals
Threads that contain or are centrally part of a peal.
lightning peal
This is a very large, complicated peal, and its reading order with related reading is separately written here. This was the first peal, and it includes the counter peal at the end, as well as some series and many standalone threads. The central peal likely won't show up again in other threads, though some universes might have a version peal to another peal, and downstream threads with depealed characters might continue into new stories.
- Peal overall:
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Length: very long
- Worlds: very many, see reading list above
- Splinter peals: miss malicious peal
miss malicious peal
Peal title might be changed at some point. Downstream of the lightning peal, following Acererak after she depeals. All threads within it are complete with resolved plots, but the peal is likely to double peal later.
- Peal overall:
- Status: quasi-complete
- Plot: resolved
- Length: medium
- Worlds: four
- Dungeons and Dragons, generic (mentioned)
- Rivalry
- Ars Doloris
- The Elder Scrolls, First Era
- Parent peal: lightning peal
- you can call me miss malicious: Acererak Fate and Rivalry Ellie
- Warnings:
- murder
- mass murder
- torture (graphic)
- slavery
- sadism/ masochism (explicit, consensual)
- dubcon (character consents, then has her memory of consenting erased)
- Settings:
- Rivalry
- Dungeons and Dragons, generic (mentioned)
- Ars Doloris (briefly)
- Main Alts:
- Acererak (Fate ~ Hisame)
- Eliese (Ellie)
- Lace (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Warnings:
- dead man's lie: sometimes a masochist is a solution in search of a problem
- Warnings:
- vampires
- shitty parents
- sadism/ masochism (consensual)
- Settings:
- The Elder Scrolls, First Era
- Ars Doloris (briefly)
- Main Alts
- Lace (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Elana (Ellie)
- Secondary Alts
- Lord Harkon (Palpatine)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Warnings:
counter peal
This is a medium sized peal that ultimately references only four base universes. It is complete and the plot is resolved.
- Peal overall:
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Length: medium
- Worlds: four
- World of Warcraft (mentioned)
- Arda, Third Age
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Cognoscente
- Additionally peals to: lightning peal
- ride on the wings of doom: Warcraft dragon Ellie drops on Arda dragon Fate
- Warnings:
- violence
- murder
- Settings:
- Arda, Third Age (The Hobbit)
- World of Warcraft (mentioned)
- Main Alts:
- Ellisaria (Ellie)
- Brisingr (Fate ~ Dragon)
- Secondary Alts:
- Russet Took (Naruto)
- Status: complete
- Plot: mostly resolved
- Warnings:
- wondering eyes, left behind: Ellie and Fate as the Elric sisters
- Warnings:
- harm to children
- harm to animals
- murder
- manipulation
- Setting :
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Main Alts:
- Bellona Elric/ Lion/ Mary Elric (Fate ~Lionheart)
- Elizabeth Elric/ El (Ellie) (out of canon nickname: elchemist)
- Secondary Alts :
- Akira Curtis (Su ~ Tobirama)
- Dante (Orochimaru)
- Jun Mustang (Tsunade)
- September Tucker (Naruto ~ September)
- Liliana van Hohenheim (Lian)
- Status: complete
- Plot: unresolved (resolves in howling ghosts they reappear)
- Warnings:
- howling ghosts they reappear: the Elric sisters land on Arda
- Warnings:
- harm to children
- murder
- war
- mind control
- emotional abuse
- vague suicidal ideation
- dissociation
- Settings:
- Arda, Third Age
- Fullmetal Alchemist (mentioned)
- World of Warcraft (mentioned)
- Main Alts :
- Bellona Elric/ Lion (Fate ~ Lionheart)
- Elizabeth Elric/ El (Ellie)
- Agon (Fate ~ Lionheart)
- Ellisaria (Ellie)
- Brisingr (Fate ~ Dragon)
- Secondary Alts:
- Estel (Aragorn)
- Russet Took (Naruto)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Warnings:
- fearfully and wonderfully made: Fate and Ellie as monsters in Cognoscente
- Warnings:
- murder
- torture
- sadism/ masochism (consensual)
- Setting:
- Cognoscente, Earth
- Main Alts:
- Ellie Walker/ Nyx (Ellie)
- Burning Ruby Tiger Decima/ Ruby (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Status: complete
- Plot: unresolved (resolves in she and her furry friends)
- Warnings:
- she and her furry friends: the Elric sisters meet Ruby and Nyx
- Warnings:
- sibling incest
- underage drinking
- panic attacks
- dissociation
- past trauma
- Settings:
- Cognoscente, Space
- Arda, Third Age (briefly)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (mentioned)
- Main Alts:
- Bellona Elric/ Lion (Fate ~ Lionheart)
- Elizabeth Elric/ El (Ellie)
- Burning Ruby Tiger Decima/ Ruby (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Ellie Walker/ Nyx (Ellie)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Warnings:
smol peals
Peals involving at most two or three source worlds/ pairs. Some smol peals might eventually peal to each other.
- foundations of the world:
- Warnings:
- Sadism/ masochism (consensual)
- Lifestyle D/ S (consensual)
- Anakin's backstory: slavery, abuse, depersonalization, forced pregnancy, suicide, murder
- Worlds: two
- Star Wars, sequels era
- Harry Potter, main era
- Parents:
- Main Alts:
- Knife polycule
- Anakin Skywalker/ Anakin Vendar (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Anathema Jedi (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Ellaita Dameron (Ellie)
- Noon polycule
- Anathema Potter-Canta (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Ellie Potter-Canta (Ellie)
- Fay Reynolds (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Other
- Darth Occlus (Ellie)
- Knife polycule
- Secondary Alts:
- Lily Vendar (Palpatine ~ Lily)
- Tayab Sellech (2B)
- Brin/ Lord Sicaria (2B)
- The Clones (The Collective)
- Non-Murder Ships:
- Lily/ 2B (Lily Vendar/ Tayab Sellech)
- Ellie/ 2B (Darth Occlus/ Lord Sicaria)
- Ellie/ Lily (Darth Occlus/ Lily Vendar) (pre-ship)
- Status: complete
- Plot: resolved
- Peal name (out of canon): foundations peal
- Warnings:
Hiatused and Abandoned
What Didn't Happen - threads and series, including large roll-back outtakes from other threads, that have been abandoned or likely permanently hiatused. Some of these have been or will be rebooted.
Some of these are less permanently hiatused (in 'hiatused' section) and might be picked back up.
Hiatused
- like marbles on glass: River Tam Fate and Psion Ellie
- Warnings:
- past torture
- unreality
- uncontrolled mind reading
- Settings:
- Psion
- Firefly (mentioned)
- Main Alts:
- River Tam (Fate ~ Ruby)
- The Empress (Ellie)
- Status: hiatused
- Warnings:
- make a supersonic woman of you: Ellie gets picked up by a planet-hopping bard
- Settings:
- Spelljammer
- Main Alts:
- Ellie Drake (Ellie)
- Villanelle (Fate ~ Ruby)
- Secondary Alts:
- Tyrant (Spelljammer Magic AI) (Tyrant)
- Status: hiatused
- Settings:
Abandoned
- run between the raindrops: Ellie, Anathema, and Lily are The Worst Genin
- Warnings:
- child soldiers
- violence
- Setting:
- Naruto
- Main Alts:
- Asano Shinrei (Fate ~ Anakin)
- Kaguya Elaise (Ellie)
- Amajina (Fate ~ Anathema)
- Secondary Alts:
- Asano Sayuri (Palpatine ~ Lily)
- Status: abandoned, rebooted
- Warnings: