SPN Dystopia Bang

Challenge
Name:	SPN Dystopia Bang
Date(s):	2017 - 2022
Moderator(s):
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Type:	Big Bang - fanfiction, fanart
Fandom:	Supernatural
URL:	spndystopiabang
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SPN Dystopia Bang is a big bang challenge in Supernatural fandom, focused on dystopian fiction. Authors had to write a minimum of 10,000 words

Masterlists

2017

Title: Ain’t No Grave
Author: jhoomwrites
Artist: spoopernaptime
Rating: Explicit
Length: 53k
Pairings: Dean/Cas (Benny/Andrea, Dean/Benny)
Warnings: MCD, Torture, Canon Typical Violence, NSFW
Summary: The world falls apart on a Tuesday without much fanfare; the undead walk the earth, and the living must do their best to survive. Castiel’s at home when it happens, Dean’s at work, and the two are unlikely to ever see each other ever again. Dean does his best to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, doing terrible things and living with the knowledge that his husband and son would hate him if they saw what he’s become.

Title: Inherit the Earth, Suffer the Consequence
Author: PaperAnn
Artist: anyrei
Rating: Explicit
Length: 75k
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel, Sam Winchester/Gabriel (Jo Harvelle/Meg Masters)
Warnings: Graphic Violence, Explicit Sexual Content
Summery: Dean and Castiel hadn’t known each other until the Earth fell apart. Until California fell into the ocean, the volcanoes took out Washington - everyone fled towards the Midwest to weather the earthquakes. Until the ozone was so fucked that daring to be outside without head-to-toe coverage would instantly bubble your flesh into second-degree burns. It wasn’t simple global warning nor the burst pipelines and gas mains contaminating their water, the ice caps ice cubes. No, mother nature wasn’t fucking around anymore: she slammed down the self-destruct button. Cas and Dean hadn’t even liked each other until they realized their broken pieces fit perfectly in a broken world. They were damaged beyond repair, but the other filled in those gaps. In the real world, they never would have made sense: Dean had been an FBI agent, he’d been armed with intel before everything came crashing down. Castiel was a a hired bodyguard for those with enough cash, who weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty. That was all in another life that went up in smoke. And right now, Cas was currently pinning him against a wall with his hand down Dean’s pants. They had to make the most of the end, you know?

Title: All the Time in the World
Author: dreamsfromthebunker
Artist: bluefire986
Rating: Explicit
Length: 20k
Pairings: Dean/Cas/Sam, (Dean/Sam)
Warnings: Rape and Non-Con, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Explicit Sexual Content
Summary: Two hundred and one days have passed since the end of the world started. Thanks to the Boy King (Sam Winchester), his Knight of Hell (Dean Winchester), and Heaven. Society has broken down. Castiel, Crowley, Jody, Charlie and Garth are looking for a way to stop Sam and Dean. But Dean and Sam have other plans, hellbent on having Castiel by their side as they murder the world.

Title: For the End of that Man is Peace
Author: lux-tuli
Artist: lennelle
Rating: Teen
Length: 10k
Pairings: Gen-fic
Warnings: Temporary major character death and Mild violence
Summary: Earth is a shell of its former glory, devastated centuries ago by a war between Heaven and Hell. Dean Winchester is a seventeen year old without any family left, his baby brother robbed of his life by a mysterious stranger and his father lost from being consumed by a path of revenge. He is content to keep his head down and just live things out in Vegas, one of the human settlements under the protection of an archangel, but forces unbeknownst to him are determined to set him down a different path, one towards discovering the truth of that day when Sam was killed and so much more.

Title: Flesh and Steel
Author: braezenkitty
Artist: anonymousantonym
Rating: Mature
Length: 10k
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Warnings: None
Seemingly innocent people are being killed on the streets of San Francisco. Private Investigator, Dean Winchester, doesn’t give a shit until his brother shows up with what may be the next victim. Dean and Sam work to find out who’s killing people and why, while trying to keep Charlie, Sam’s coworker, safe from harm. When the killer shows up at Dean’s apartment, he’s shocked to realize he knows this man - and he’s nobody Dean ever expected to see again, let alone expected to see killing an innocent.

Title: End of the Roads
Author: masterltnovak
Rating: Teen/Mature
Length: ~9k
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Jo Harvelle (Castiel/Meg Masters)
Warnings: (Major character death.)
Summary: The end of the world didn’t end the way they thought it would. It didn’t end in flames or in a strong, biblical light. No. Instead of that, a brother threw himself and Lucifer into the depths of Hell and the undead came back to life. It was the end of the world when Jo Harvelle appeared outside a diner in South Dakota and turned down sex with the only man she’d ever loved.

2018

Title: Apparent Magnitude
Author: vespivore
Artist: dreamsfromthebunker
Rating: Teen
Length: 26594
Pairings: Castiel & Dean Winchester
Warnings: Major character death, vague descriptions of torture
Summary: Dean is working as night security for Arcadia’s main R&D facility when one of the top-secret assets escapes. He chases it down to find it’s Castiel, Michael’s most highly-decorated soldier from the recent Apocalypse Wars. But something’s not quite right about Cas, and Dean has to make decisions that will end up affecting the entire galaxy.

Title: Road to Redemption
Author: Adestielable
Artist: Cenedra Riva
Rating: Explicit
Length: 34450
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester (Charlie Bradbury/Jo Harvelle/Gilda, Sam Winchester/Jessica Moore, Adam/Kelly).
Warnings: Graphic Descriptions of Violence
Summary: In a world torn apart by nuclear war, a being arose from the ashes and created a utopia for a small number of people, the Sinless. The rest, the Sinful, are left to fend for themselves out in the Wasteland. Dean Winchester was taken by Knights, bounty hunters, when he was fifteen, and is the only person to escape Heaven. When a new rebellion rises and tries to recruit him, he wants to do anything in his power to decline. He made a promise to his father to protect his family, and letting them join a rebellion isn’t protecting them. The leader of the rebellion makes it hard to keep his carefully and painfully crafted walls up, though. And Dean soon finds himself falling.

Title: The Fragility of Now
Author: Squirrel loves Wings
Artist: AnyRei
Rating: Explicit
Length: 16,971
Pairings: Dean/Cas
Warnings: None
Summary: The end of the world happened faster than anyone could have predicted and it took 98.8% of the population with it. The virus that killed the world only took a single week to claim its victims and then everything went silent. Castiel has lost everything and in his grief has started walking across the US, aimless, trying to forget everything that’s happened. When he’s ambushed by a group of bandits, Cas thinks his time’s finally up, but he’s rescued by a stranger who’s possibly more dangerous than the men trying to kill him. As he gets to know his savior, Dean, and he finds a new community to belong to, to help, he begins to long for even more. But a terrible secret threatens to destroy everything and enemies are poised to destroy Cas’ new, fragile life, and he will do everything within his power to save it.

Title: To Escape Inside
Author: TheDogsled
Artist: lotrspnfangirl
Rating: NC17
Length: 15679
Warnings: Non-con, A/B/O, Handmaid’s Tale AU, Mpreg, Forced breeding, Sexual Slavery, True Mates (and associated hormonal aphrodisiacs), Non-consensual voyeurism (though not sexual), Alpha!Cas/Omega!Dean.
Summary: Dean Winchester was once of the best damn supernatural hunters in the world. He’s also an Omega, and while the typical gender roles of society used to have him frustrated at the best of times, at least he was free; at least his choices were his own. Now the Seraphim have taken over things have changed drastically. Alphas command households and captured Omega are forcefully impregnated by their Seraphim Alphas. Dean didn’t make it across the border with his brother. He’s haunted by his near escape. Still, the coming of the Seraphim doesn’t seem to be a case at all. Humans are just that crazy. Or so he thought. When Dean joins Castiel’s household, things only spiral more out of control. Somehow as the Jacaranda blossoms fall in the garden, Dean falls against his better judgement for his new Alpha.

Title: 4545
Author: anyrei and misspoogy
Artist: amberdreams1960
Rating: Explicit
Length: 120k
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel, Sam Winchester/To Be Revealed, Past One-Sided Dean Winchester/Benny Lafitte, Past Gabriel/Kali
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Character Death, Past Torture, PTSD, Explicit Sexual Content
Summary: Albert Einstein predicted that, while he didn’t know with what weapons World War III would be fought, World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. He wasn’t far off. Humanity is surviving in a world without daylight, in a society where emotions are a luxury no one is allowed to have. But how important is surviving when you have nothing to live for? Two hunters find the answer to that question when they stumble over a miracle in the shape of a strange, blue-eyed man in a beige coat bearing… chocolate? Whatever that is.

Title: Stand By Me
Author: Whelvenwings
Artist: Threshasketch
Rating: Explicit
Length: 31k
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Warnings: Alcohol Use, One Mention of Implied Suicidality
Summary: Dean Winchester has been alone for a long, long time.
When he and Castiel happen to find each other - a couple of survivors in a world that’s been all but wiped clean - Dean’s looking for his brother; Castiel is looking for something to look for. They stick together, because neither of them much wants to be alone. They hate each other at first, of course. Dean hates Castiel for being weird and quiet and ironic and antagonistic and proud. Castiel hates Dean for being blunt and reckless and coarse, for drinking, for refusing to talk about how he feels and just pretending everything is fine. Most of all, they hate themselves and each other just for being alive. What right do they have to be alive? No one else seems to be. But against his own will, Dean starts to notice things about Castiel that he likes. Starts to hope that Castiel might like him, too. And together, they start to fight for a world where they’re both alive - and that’s a good thing.

Title: All It Matters
Author: Cilare
Artist: winchesterchola
Rating: Teen
Length: 19,254 words
Pairings: Loki (Gabriel) /Mary Winchester, Bobby Singer/Karen Singer
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summery: Mary Winchester is a Hunter, one of the travelers of the new world order that bring news, protection and help to the few human settlements that remain free from the angels’ influence. She is also seeking the demon that killed her husband years ago, so as soon as she gets a clue of the demon’s next location, she rides in search of a yet-unmapped settlement. There she finds distrust, instead of the warm welcome hunters are usually given, and a pagan god that’s willing to work with her in order to rescue a mortal man and get revenge on the very same demon Mary seeks. And while Mary is well aware that trusting a pagan god is a very bad idea, the plan is set into motion.

Title: The Elysium High
Author: ellen-of-oz
Artist: idjitsaviors
Rating: Mature
Length: 44690 words
Pairings: Sam Winchester/Ruby, Castiel/Dean Winchester
Warnings: No archive warnings.
Summary: In the not-too-distant future, climate change has wreaked havoc on the city of Los Angeles. When sea levels rose, and the Los Angeles Basin began to flood regularly like many coastal areas around the world, the population of the city moved up, off the ground and into the scrapers. Many years later, the city is divided into three rough zones: the Topzone, where the very wealthy live in the sunlight; the Midzone, where those of the less-well-off population live amid the flying traffic, the smog and their coffee addictions; and the Groundzone, what’s left at close to ground level—dim, grimy and occasionally very wet. Sam and Dean Winchester are drug investigators in the LAPD. During a bust, Dean is saved by Castiel, one of the mysterious Angels, the elite fighting unit of the LA City Council. When Castiel insists on taking Dean to Paradise because he says they have work for him, Dean has little choice but to go along. But when a new drug, “Elysium”, hits the scene, people all over the city start dying. The brothers and Castiel must work out where the drug is coming from and stop its spread before it’s too late. Loosely based on Supernatural season four, with shades of The Fifth Element and a touch of Magicians.

2020

Title: Bite The Hand That Feeds
Author: hit_the_books
Artist: Anyrei
Rating: Explicit
Ships: Castiel/Sam (Sastiel)
Expected word count: 20k
Major warnings and tags: Graphic depictions of violence
Summary: Two centuries ago, a great cataclysm hit the Earth. Monsters poured forth from a tear in reality, and the insidious energy from this rift turned much of the Earth into wasteland. Humans now survive in a handful of guarded megacities, like New Lawrence, while some live out in the wastes. But what if there was a way to finally close the rift for good and save the Earth? That’s what Castiel hopes when he happens upon Sam Winchester, a powerful psy—a human mutated by the energies of the rift. Yet other psys have different plans. The cult of Azazel sees a newer, deadly future for the tear in the world and the rest of humanity. Banding together with Sam’s brother Dean, Castiel and Sam set forth to heal the world once and for all, along with some help from old friends. The Plan? Survive. Save the world. Fall in love.

Title: I’m All Yours My Love
Author: DWImpala67
Artist: EmmaTheSlayer
Rating: Mature
Length: 33121
Pairings: Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles
Warnings: No Major Archives warning Apply
Summary: They live in a world where a love marriage was a taboo and more so for male carriers. Jared is one of them. His father has arranged for his marriage with Jensen Ackles, whom he doesn’t know from Adam. Unfortunately for him, he falls in love with another man. He’s happy and they keep it under wraps until they can seek Jared’s parents’ permission. But, his secret is exposed and his guy is sent packing and Jared is married off to Jensen Ackles forcefully to honor his family name. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever be able to forget his first love and move on. Jensen Ackles was a romantic. He always believed his married life would be one full of love and belonging, of togetherness. He took one look at his husband and fell hard and fast for him. His husband is the single most treasured and important person to him in the entire world. He’ll do anything to make his husband happy. But what he gets instead is a husband who’s given his heart away already. So, Jensen decides to help his husband find his true love. Only, Jared has other ideas… Will Jared get his happily ever after? Or will they both find something to soothe their battered soul?

Title: A Town Called Rhoda
Author: smalltrolven
Artist: MidnightSilver
Rating: Explicit
Length: 24,937
Pairings: Sam/Dean, (Dean/Original Binary Character)
Warnings: Brief mentions of past torture, enslavement.
Summary: It’s the end of the world, and Dean believes Sam is gone along with the rest of San Francisco. When the nukes began to fall they were separated by hundreds of miles, and now there’s no point. He tries his hardest to move on, living in a small town in the redwood forest of Northern California. This is the story of what happens when Sam eventually shows up after enduring an epic journey just to reach Dean.

Title: Brother Take My Hand
Author: MidnightSilver
Artist: MissJenniferB
Rating: Explicit
Length: 40K
Pairings: Sam/Dean
Warnings: sentient animal sex (Sam and Dean are wolves), Sam is 17 at the start of the fic, attempted non con, Magical roofies, minor character death, canon level gore and violence
Summary: All Sam has ever known is Yellow Eyes’ rule and life within the Pack, but he is sure there has to be more. The young wolf questions everything he’s been taught. Why is he the only one fascinated by old ruins? Is human nature really so evil that it justifies using other creatures as slaves? And why can no one else see the benefits of using hands? Dean loves Sam but he doesn’t have any answers. In fact he wishes Sam didn’t have so many questions. On the summer equinox fate will force Sam to make some choices and Yellow Eyes is already showing far too much interest in him. So what will the young wolf do when he has to choose between the Pack and his conscience?

Title: The Sounds of Hope Shall Never Fade
Author: Hannah-deserved-better (Hannah_girl)
Artist: Duck (majesticduxk)
Rating: Mature
Length: 14,215
Pairings: Hanstiel Squared (Castiel/Hannah/Castiel’s female vessel/Hannah’s male vessel)
Warnings: Abuse, torture, medical experimentation, attempted artificial insemination, captivity, pregnancy, emotional trauma, psychological trauma, Evil!Sam, Evil!Dean, major character death (sort of)
Summary: Castiel and Hannah fall into an alternate reality where they encounter their counterparts in this world. Castielle (Castiel’s female vessel) and Hana (Hannah’s male vessel) have endured decades of torment at the hands of these humans. Castiel and Hannah meet Sam and Dean, but these aren’t the Sam and Dean they know. They are a twisted, cruel, uncaring version of their real-world counterparts and they see the angels and their powerhouse supply of angel grace as commodities. The Angels power their underground world after a comet strike destroyed life on the surface. Now, this small underground civilization, one of many all over the world, has running water, food, power, and other necessities all powered by angel grace. Sam and Dean will do whatever it takes to hold onto their four precious powerhouses, and have long since given up on caring about the comfort of their angelic captives. Castiel, Hannah, and their counterparts must endure endless medical experiments, painful grace extractions, and deplorable living conditions, and somehow they must find a way to survive because the future of heaven may hang in the balance.

Title: When Worlds Collide
Author: LilyAnson
Artist: AnyRei
Rating: General
Length: 18500
Pairings: Mick Davies/Arthur Ketch, Matt Anderson/Hilary BeckerWarnings: No warnings really apply
Summary: Ketch is halfway across the country when the Croatoan virus break out. Worried about his boyfriend he races as fast as he can to find out if Mick is still alive or not. Upon arrival he finds something new. A strange, floating object, seemly made out of what appeared to be glass shards hovered nearby. Matt is a traveler from the future bent and determined to save his world. If that means he has to use the people around him, so be it. That is, until he falls for one of his fellow teammates. Now he must decide whether or not saving the potential future is worth losing the one person he’s ever loved. Otherwise known as what happens when dinosaurs and the supernatural meet.

Title: Fabulous Monsters
Author: ellispark
Artist: nickel
Rating: Mature
Length: 10k
Pairings: Dean/Castiel
Warnings: Canon-typical violence, references to torture and brainwashing, references to war crimes
Summary: It’s been a year since Dean last saw Castiel — a year since he was captured and reprogrammed by the angels, trained to be a torturer. When Charlie escapes the angels, she tells him Cas can still be saved. Dean rushes to Cas’s rescue, unsure of what he’ll find. Will Cas be the loyal friend he lost, or the emotionless killer the angels turned him into?

Title: WEDLOCKED
Author: spnsmile
Artist: oddsocksandstuff
Rating: Explicit
Length: 50k+
Pairings: Castiel/ Dean Winchester
Warnings: Noncon, graphic violence, torture…
Summary: Dean Winchester, the leader of the Southern Resistance, makes a decision to stay in the capital keeping his brother alive, meeting his new husband with a promise to never break. Castiel Novak, a Skywalker, has just returned to Discordia from his trip to outer space. Trained by the best Capacitors from VOLTS, the paramilitary officers, he finds himself with a new mission— to connect with a rebel and transform him into a submissive member of the society. Can Castiel convince Dean to stay by his side? Or will he turn against the society threatening Dean?

Title: Feathers On My Breath
Author: navajolovesdestiel
Artist: kuwlshadow
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Warnings: Drug use
Summary: The world following the apocalypse was a very different place than before. After Sam said yes to Lucifer, after he and Michael had fought the final battle, the angels won. They retreated to heaven after locking Lucifer away again, sealing heaven. There were a few angels who were left behind, trapped forever on earth. Some humans had survived. They lived in small groups, foraging for food, medicine, necessities. But human beings are resilient. They prospered, grew in numbers as babies were born. One thing they all had in common was their hatred of angels. If they ever trapped one it was swiftly put to death, or worse.

Title: Fields of Freja
Author: Emblue_Sparks and tfw_cas (punk-is-notdead)
Artist: shealynn88
Rating: Explicit
Length: 65k+
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester (Past Dean/Benny, Claire/Kaia, Sam/Eileen)
Warnings: MCD (Dean only), Graphic Violence, Juvenile Soldiers, Juvenile Deaths
Summary: Bolivian-born Dean Winchester is a seasoned soldier, having served courageously in the rebellion against an immortal and tyrannical visionary. Yet his greatest fight begins the day his life ends. Dean awakens to a beautifully winged, albeit sardonic man, claiming him for Valhalla. Only problem: Like Helheim is he going. Not until Sam’s safe from the Bright One in New Lebanon, tech beacon of the broken world, resting within the arctic circle. As the only male Valkyrie in existence, Castiel Sigurd is an outcast tasked with purpose, yet denied companionship. Called to claim the only soldier to refuse the honor of Valhalla, intrigue paints his otherwise colorless eternity. Castiel journeys with Dean to find Sam, who’s been lost to the winds for years. With nothing but a clue-filled journal and an oath to ascend upon ‘mission accomplished,’ Dean embarks on this last harrowing quest, experiencing adventure beyond his wildest fantasy and heart’s desire along the way.