Run (My Chemical Romance fanfic)

Run is a novel-length Frank/Gerard AU by mrsronweasley that was written for the 2010 Werewolf Big Bang challenge on LiveJournal. It combines three popular tropes: werewolves, High School AU, and Heat Fic. The specific high school setting is particular to My Chemical Romance fic: a private school inspired by the music video I'm Not Okay.
The story is written from Frank's point of view. Frank is a teenaged werewolf who gets sexually frustrated before the full moon (moon-related friskiness is a common werewolf subtrope). Gerard is the new kid at school. They have a lot of sex, become friends, fall in love, and incidentally start a band. The story uses common fanon such as Basement!Gerard and Frank being neat. Like in many high school AUs, canon ages are adjusted to avoid unintended age difference tropes; in this fic, Frank and Gerard are only one year apart.
==Fan Reactions/Reviews==
The completed story was originally posted in nine parts on LiveJournal (due to the character limit on LJ posts). The Epilogue post had 192 comments.mrsronweasley. "Run" - Frank/Gerard, My Chemical Romance (bandom), NC-17, Epilogue, posted to livejournal 2010-11-09. (Accessed 30 August 2015.) For example:
The story was reposted a year later on AO3 at a time when livejournal fans were still using AO3 as a backup and not the only place to post fanfic. As a result, the fic does not have many comments on AO3, but still has the third highest hit count for Bandom werewolf fanworks.On 30 August 2015 there were 277 fanworks tagged with both Bandom and Werewolves (or one of their subtags). Go to the Werewolves tag works page, filter by Bandom, and sort by Hit count.
Elsewhere on LiveJournal:
* MCR Fanfic Reading Club! Run by Mrsronweasley! April/May 2012 post at mcr_daily_flail
On Tumblr:
The author's masterpost was bookmarked on Delicious 141 times. Some comments:delicious bookmark page. (Accessed 30 August 2015.)
* Achingly, desperately good.
* That delicious little werewolf AU where frank totally cant help himself and accidentally sucks gerard off in the bathroom that one time and then they totally start getting it on in the janitors closet
==Related Fanworks==
The first scene of what became "Run" was originally posted as a standalone ficlet called "That Sickly Feeling" in mrsronweasley's livejournal a few months before the challenge.mrsronweasley. Ficlet: "That Sickly Feeling" (MCR, Frank/Gerard, R or NC-17), posted to livejournal 26 May 2010. (Accessed 14 April 2016.)
For the original big bang entry, kidsxheroes made the art and maryangel200 made a fanmix. Unofficially, theopteryx posted a color drawing depicting a scene from the story (Frank and Gerard making out in the janitor's closet) as a reward to mrsronweasley for finishing the fanfic.
Two years later, argentumlupine made a six-hour podfic of the fic for Podfic Big Bang.entry at podficbigbang, AO3 entry, podficcer's dreamwidth account, June 2012. Audiofic Archive entry, September 2012. The cover art for the podfic, by aneas, was later recced for its use of collage in yet another challenge, Amplirecathon, by yue ix.yue ix posting in Amplificathon. Amplirecathon: late Podfic cover art recs (8 recs). Posted to dreamwidth Jul. 31st, 2013.
==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2010 Fanfiction‎