Abby Griffin/Raven Reyes

Pairing
Pairing:	Abby Griffin/Raven Reyes
Alternative name(s):	Doctor Mechanic
Gender category:	Femslash
Fandom:	The 100
Canonical?:	No
Prevalence:	Small
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Abby Griffin/Raven Reyes, also known as Doctor Mechanic, is the femslash pairing of Abby Griffin and Raven Reyes in The 100 fandom.

Fandom

Series Finale

In the series finale, Raven faced a godlike being who would decide the fate of humanity. The being appeared to Raven as Abby due to Raven's love for her. Although it is implied to be a familial love that Raven has for Abby, some shippers took this as validation for Doctor Mechanic.

Common Tropes in Fanworks

• Modern AU: modern setting, where they meet and begin a relationship
• Hurt/Comfort or PTSD: caring for one another after some of the traumatic events that have occurred in the series
• Age Difference: to combat the large gap in their ages sometimes Raven will be aged up, but often writers keep their canonical ages and make it a feature of their fanfiction
• Alpha/Beta/Omega: usually with Alpha Raven and Omega Abby, but that is sometimes reversed

Challenges

• Doctor Mechanic Week

Professional Fans

Many fans have suggested that it is likely that Meryl Wilsner's work 'Mistakes Were Made', started out as an Abby/Raven AU fanwork, which had the serial numbers filed off and was significantly reworked to become an original work. Wilsner has spoken many times about having written and read fanfiction, and has stated on social media that 'Mistakes Were Made' started out life as a fanfic, but stated they would not name the fandom because the fandom had "gone hard" with bury your gays issues.

[@merylwilsner]
fyi mistakes were made did start as fanfic and i am not embarrassed about that! but something to talk about never was fanfic i’m just a slut for boss/assistant ships!!!

[@Antania_24]
What show or movie was mistakes were made based off? Because I just told someone I wish it was a movie 🌈❤️

[@merylwilsner]
I don’t share it bc the original went so hard for burying their gays that they don’t deserve to be known or recognized in any way

Knowing this, fans explained that certain tropes, characteristics, and story-lines seemed to match the characters of Abby or Raven, or The 100 fandom:

[Quick-Philosophy-924]
I’m reading this right now! Did you know it was originally The 100 fanfic? I can’t get over that haha

[Commander_2000]
I’m reading this book right now and it FINALLY hit me why the story felt familiar. This had to have started as an abby/raven fanfic; there are just too many similarities with what happened in The 100 and this story. Doctor with a daughter who wants to be an artist, daughter accidentally hooks up with boyfriend of slightly older student who is a mechanic and wants to be an astronaut; daughter ends up friends with girl and they both dump the guy and so on. Raven had a necklace from Finn that she always wore, her mom was an addict and she didn’t know her father, etc. This absolutely started as an Abby/Raven fanfic

Fanworks

Fan Art

• Cuddle & Cooking, ^{Archived version} by fapaniniart
• you have to let me go, ^{Archived version} by missninjacookie
• Doctor Mechanic, ^{Archived version} by Fa Panini
• Doctor Mechanic Kiss, ^{Archived version} by barbie-shoes

Fanfiction

• We Don't Have to be Ordinary by K_AudreyLeto
• Wait For It by KnightInRainbowArmour
• On the Way Home by hummingbirdswords
• This Way Inside by Bal3xicon
• Frosty Friday by SydniDawn

Fan Vids

• Let Her Go by stina e
• you have to let me go by abigriffins

Other

• lost and found, playlist by rosensberg
• doctor mechanic: 8, 23, 39, ^{Archived version}: fluffy headcanons posted on tumblr by paiqeturco
• “Crash like a comet, how far must I fall?”, ^{Archived version}, a manip by my-mechanical-heart on tumblr

Resources

• Abby Griffin/Raven Reyes tag at Archive of Our Own
• Abby + Raven at FanFiction.net
• Tumblr Tags: Raven x Abby, Abby x Raven, Doctor Mechanic