Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 17

Winged!Krycek (ca. 2001). Old button from The Theban Band website.

Fans like to add wings to human characters in many types of fanworks. Fanfic in which a human character sprouts wings is called wingfic.

Characters who already have wings in canon are also popular subjects of fanworks. Fanfic written for a fandom in which the character canonically has wings (e.g. Good Omens) is usually not considered wingfic. However, as a response to a surge of wingfic, a Good Omens writer came up with wingless fic, wherein canonically winged characters suddenly and inexplicably lose them.

Wingfic can be whimsical, but it can also be much darker in tone.