The Sentient!Atlantis Fanfics ‘blog

Help from Unexpected Places by wild-force71 (author’s journal)

Main Character: John
Rating: PG-13
Genre: gen, eps fix-it
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Ever since John Sheppard stepped onto Atlantis, the city’s been waking. Now he’s woken something he can’t shut off.
Story length: ~58,600 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Teyla, Lorne, Zelenka
Means of communication Atlantis uses: hologram
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: helpful, protective
It’s unclear whether Atlantis takes any independant action.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

White Noise by Domenika Marzione (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: John
Rating: G
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Set in the first week of the Atlantis expedition (circa “Hide & Seek”), John Sheppard fails to avoid participating in an Athosian rite. He’s supposed to be thinking on his past ties, but instead ends up thinking about his newest relationship — with a city that kindamaybesorta talks to him.
Story length: ~3200 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
Atlantis does not take independant action that affects others, i.e. does not meddle.
Atlantis’ sex, if any, is unclear.

Where the Ocean Meets the Sky series by Khriskin (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: Atlantis
Rating: PG to PG-13
Genre: gen, AU, drabbles, darkfic
Author’s Summary or Teaser: For ten thousand years the city slept beneath the sea, dreaming of people she’d never met. Faces, names, lives all carefully teased from a mind in stasis, oblivious to her interrogation. Because Atlantis can wait, but she wants to know who she’s waiting for. – This is the story of the city that might have been. An AI created to guide the Atlantis Expedition Janus knew was coming. An electronic symbiote limited by the harsh lessons learned from the Asurans. A powerful ally, hidden safely away and waiting…
Story length: so far ten 100 word drabbles and one ~350 word ficlet; ~1,350 words for the whole series

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: others, Rodney
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental, avatar
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: possessive
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

The Welcome Wagon’s Greasy Wheel by Domenika Marzione (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: OC, John
Rating: PG-213
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: To the ATA carriers among the marines arriving in Atlantis, the city is one part eager puppy and three parts surreal hell.
Story length: ~3300 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: OCs, John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: direct
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: eager to chat?
Atlantis does not take independant action that affects others, i.e. does not meddle.
Atlantis is not regarded as female.

Watching John by Michele Cross (author’s journal)

Main Characters: Atlantis, everyone
Rating: G
Genre: gen, drama, ep related
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Atlantis’s perspective on the arrival of the Expedition.
Story length: ~9800 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Rodney, Elizabeth, Carson
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental, indirect
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: happiness, protectiveness
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is referred to as female.

untitled story by 20thCenturyVole (author’s journal)

(written for the ESP/telepathy challenge at sga_flashfic)

Main Character: John
Rating: PG
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Atlantis was grateful to him.
Story length: ~600 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
Atlantis does not take independant action that affects others, i.e. does not meddle.
Atlantis’ sex, if any, is unclear.

Strange Colors by Khriskin (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: Atlantis, others
Rating: PG-13
Genre: gen
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Atlantis has never seen colors…
Story length: 100 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: others, Lorne
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: curious
It’s unclear whether Atlantis takes any independant action.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

Sleepwalker by Layton Colt (author’s personal journal, fic journal and website)

Main Characters: John, Rodney
Rating: PG-13
Genre: gen, thriller
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Sometimes he thinks he can even hear people talking in the walls, and it sounds like they’re saying come home.
Story length: ~3500 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Rodney
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental, android
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: revengeful
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Rokeon (author’s personal journal, fic journal and website)

Main Character: John
Rating: PG
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Five dreams John Sheppard never had about Atlantis. Plus one someone else didn’t, either.
Story length: ~1200 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: indirect
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is referred to as female.

She Lights Up by Vega (author’s journal)

Main Characters: Team, Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: It was beginning to be a bit of a habit, finding formally-energy-based folks just lying around.
Story length: ~700 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: Elizabeth, John, Rodney
Means of communication Atlantis uses: hologram
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
It’s unclear whether Atlantis takes any independant action.
Atlantis is regarded as female.