This is a SGA thematic list (i.e. not recs) for stories in which a human character is transformed into a Wraith or Iratus bug hybrid, or in reverse a Wraith is made human. It lists both temporary and permanent transformations, physical as well as mental changes, and canon compliant episode tags as well as AUs.
These are not recs, but a thematic list. I'll link gen stories as well as all kinds of pairings, but at least initially it's biased towards pairings I read, e.g. I don't read John/Elizabeth so I'll need others to point out stories from those corners of fandom fitting the list criteria to me.
If you want a story added, your own or others, please send me the title, author, pairings (if any), summary, a public link (i.e. no f-locked or community member locked LJ entries and the like), whether it's a WIP, and under which topic it'll fit, so that I can list the story.
Last updated: August 18, 2008
Lantean Hive, by havocthecat
John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir, Lorne/Sheppard/Weir, Rodney McKay/Teyla Emmagan, Teyla Emmagan/Kate Heightmeyer/Elizabeth Weir, Ronon Dex/Kate Heightmeyer. Series. What if they hadn't found a cure for John? This AU is based off Conversion, but posits a higher-functioning, slightly more human-looking mutation, complete with, yes, mating urge, as well as the ability to spread the retrovirus.
Supply Run, by xparrot
Gen. 1,474 words. A trading mission goes south for the team.
Beautiful Disaster, by Beanie Sheppard
Carson Beckett/John Sheppard. 2,000 words. Carson should be caring for his patient and lover, but his mind is on other things...
Becoming Alien, by Keenir
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 1,300 words. Sheppard and Teyla's life after the events of 'Conversion' fail.
Before & After, by helena_eternal
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 3,610 words. Governments will push and push, but there are times when The People push back. Zelenka's POV.
Behind Enemy Eyes, by Splitbeak
Gen. 24,800 words. Feeling angry and betrayed by the Lanteans, Michael exacts justice in the most poetic way possible... by turning Sheppard into a Wraith, as he was turned into a human.
Better Off, by Layton Colt
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 3,260 words. Rodney's always found it slightly unsettling the way John can blend in.
Blue, by Sorrel
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Rodney McKay/Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard/Ronon Dex. WIP. AU from Conversion, where John's mind is saved from the retrovirus but his body stays the same. Not long after that they lose contact with Earth and have to fend for themselves.
Class: Insecta, by cupidsbow
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 5,400 words. John figures Beckett's magic pill will make all the side-effects fade away, so that he's just standard-issue John Sheppard again, all the way through.
Complex and Simple, by Waldo
Carson Beckett/John Sheppard. 465 words. Complex eyes, simple words.
Convergence, by kyrdwyn
Carson Beckett/John Sheppard. 2,800 words. Conversion and afterward from Beckett's point of view.
Conversion Trilogy, by Margie
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 3,600 words. Instead of Teyla, John is working out with Rodney at the beginning of Conversion
Corruption, by The Grrrl
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 1,540 words. Missing scene from Conversion.
The Crate, by rosemending
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 2,400 words. Rodney falls in love with a creature inside a crate.
A Different Rate of Conversion, by Ionaonie
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. WIP. AU from the end of Conversion. Sheppard doesn't get immediately cured and even when he does, still has some of the abilities he had acquired. He's also still blue. How does this impact Atlantis and the events that follow?
Elytra, by bluejbird
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 1,640 words. John didn't quite change back from the Iratus incident.
Ghosts With Just Voices, by let_fate_decide
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 1,309 words. "Conversion" AU. This is only the third day, yet agonizingly worse than the first two. Carson has told him, over and over it seems, that it will get better; that it should.
Goodbye, by lillyjk
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 629 words. set mid-Conversion -- "This turning into a bug nonsense. I expected better from you."
Hell, by golden starfish
Gen. 560 words. Sheppard related episode addition for Conversion.
Hunger, by Amireal
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 3,700 words. The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. --Joseph Addison
Looking a gift horse in the mouth, or, three possible futures after Common Ground, by Minnow1212
Gen. 850 words. Three snippets, all post-eps for SGA 3.7, Common Ground.
Nexus, by Tielan
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 4,300 words. Once, they were both human, with traces of Other - he of the Ancestors, she of the Wraith. Now, he is Iratus - precursor to the Wraith, and Teyla is still human with traces of Other.
Nomenclature, by Purna
Gen. 1,240 words. He looks no different.
One of Them, by Wildcat88
Gen. 885 words. None provided by author.
Out of Time, by darkhavens
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 2,500 words. John corners Rodney and gives him what he wants. And then gives him something more.
People are People (Except When They're Wraith), by Eleveninches
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan/Other. 24,000 words. Sheppard has a run-in with a Wraith. Things go downhill from there.
*new*
Relapse, by kriadydragon
Gen. 8,300 words. John falls gravely ill. Tag to the seed, mucho Shep-whump.
Revelation, by Bone
Ronon Dex/John Sheppard. 3,100 words. Oh, hell, let's call it the Revelation series. Sequel to Protection (and its Epilogue), Distraction and Eight Days. Set after 2.08 "Conversion."
Reverse Physiology, by Kriadydragon
Gen. 4,500 words. Sheppard recovers, but not alone. Tag for Conversion.
The Right Place, by Victoria Custer.
John Sheppard/Ronon Dex. 3,250 words. Caught flat-footed, John couldn't react for a second. He had known that when Fred tried to rejoin a hive, the other Wraith might not accept him, might kill him for having changed too much. Maybe he should have considered how that applied to him.
The Sentinel, by GivenToFly
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 2,430 words. Rodney watches. (Episode tag to 2.08 'Conversion', with references to 2.06 'Trinity')
Sequelae, by The Spike
Gen. 26,000 words. The weird thing was, when the knock came at his front door, he knew it would be John.
Shed Your Skin, by Jenn
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 6,140 words. Beneath the sheet, his hands twists together, trying to rub away the alien in him, like last time, that led to sedation and Heightmeyer and Carson's worried bandaging of blood-slick hands and promises of restraints once upon a few days ago.
Shed Your Skin (The Sledgehammer Remix), by Kassrachel
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 4,950 words. John had to know that pushing Rodney away was only going to make him find a way to break in. There's nothing like a barrier to make him want to push through.
Six crooked highways, by Sarah T.
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 2,000 words. I saw Colonel Sheppard before he ran. The odds are he didn't make it. And it would be better for him if he didn't.
Sounds of Sanity, by Waldo
Carson Beckett/John Sheppard. 421 words. The drugs in his system made him listless and foggy. The retrovirus that remained entwined with his DNA made him wakeful and agitated.
Synaesthesia, by alyse
Gen. 11,200 words. When he sleeps, he hears them in his dreams; skittering and chittering, just below the surface.
Take, by Ozsaur
John Sheppard/Rodney McKay. 3,000 words. As John starts to change, he begins to sense things like never before.
Taking the Long Way Home, by Sardonicsmiley
John Sheppard/Rodney McKay. 19,000 words. It starts with the fortune cookies, spilt soup, and more Johns than Rodney can shake a stick at. Or maybe that's how it ends.
The Taming of The Fly, by Quasar273
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 13,000 words. Rodney wants to regain the Colonel's trust, so he's going to help him get over that little mutating-into-a-bug problem.
Theory of Evolution, by Lavvyan
John Sheppard/Rodney McKay. 42,000 words. Stuck with a body he can't accept as his own, John withdraws - and Rodney lets him, certain that all John needs is time. But what if he's wrong?
Transformation, by Cesperanza
John Sheppard/Rodney McKay. 2,240 words. Rod has always thought Mensa!John didn't need anyone, until he (almost) turned into a bug.
Transition Point, by Martha Wilson
Gen. 2,500 words. Teyla said, "Go to see him, you will feel better." Rodney really doubted that.
Unconventional Beauty, by Jane Elliot
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 30,400 words. Obsessive scientists, menacing Kolya, and aliens: an SGA version of Beauty and the Beast.
Unexpected, by Madison
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 17,850 words. Rodney was a member of his team. You don't *eat* team members.
Uninvited, by Sarah T.
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 1,580 words. The dream of restless prowling through the corridors of the city, of the hunt, is not hers, but she recognizes it nonetheless.
Die Verwandlung, by Domenika Marzione
Gen. 2,075 words. The problem, Lorne realizes, is that Sheppard's actually read Kafka and knows that the transformation is the least of the tragedy.
A Different Kind of Duet, by manga_ghost
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. WIP. It was a Wraith stuck in the dart with Rodney instead of Laura Cadman. It's the Wraith's body they bring out, with Rodney in control. How will Rodney cope now that everyone is terrified of him? Spoilers up to "Duet".
Invulnerable, by Ellex
Gen. 16,400 words. Rodney McKay learns having an artificial ATA gene isn't all it's cracked up to be.
No Longer Human and Yet Never a God, by Puddle_Jumper
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard/Ronon Dex. WIP. There was something about mixing the DNA of a wraith with the DNA of a human...
Not A Threat (but not exactly human, either), by neery
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 12,000 words. Rodney turns into a Wraith.
The Third Deadly Sin, by Quasar
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 1,505 words. The third deadly sin is gluttony. Written for the sga_flashfic "Darkside" challenge. Very dark -- heed warnings. Vague spoilers through "Michael." Implied McShep.
Adaptation, by Greenconverses
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 1,450 words. John notices that Captain Emmagan isn't feeling quite like herself today.
*new*
The Language of Hard Nouns, by Siria
Gen, Teyla Emmagan. 47,228 words. Teyla raised shaking hands to her face and traced the lines of her cheekbones, along smooth skin that was suddenly cooler to the touch, running her fingertips over the two slits in her cheeks which had not been there before. A strange cry forced its way out of her throat, high and inhuman; and that, she thought, with a sudden, dizzying clarity, was appropriate. How could she be human now; what was she anymore?
Queen, by Xanthe
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 6,950 words. Sex or death...
Salve regina, by Sarah T.
John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan. 6,495 words. "What could the queen of so many hives possibly need from me?"
A Taste of the Past, by Za
Gen. 660 words. Kindred I, kind of AU from there...
after such knowledge, by Sarah T.
Michael/Teyla Emmagan. 7,500 words. Michael takes the blue pill.
I Am Not the Thing I Was, by brat farrar
Gen. 2,450 words. Michael makes a choice. John teaches him card games.
Missionary Position, by Trinityofone
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard. 3,000 words. Um. Kind of what the Season 3 premiere would be like, if it were written by Douglas Adams. And he was on crack.
People are People (Except When They're Wraith), by Eleveninches
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan/Other. 24,000 words. Sheppard has a run-in with a Wraith. Things go downhill from there.
Twelve Things They (Will Someday) Say in the Pegasus Galaxy, by Minnow1212
Gen. 2,800 words. Twelve Things They (Will Someday) Say in the Pegasus Galaxy.