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• Pretender by AutisticFaerie

  Fandoms: Elsbeth (TV 2024)  

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  01 May 2026

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  • Kaya Blanke/Elsbeth Tascioni
  • Kaya Blanke & Elsbeth Tascioni
  • Kaya Blanke
  • Songfic
  • No Dialogue
  • POV Third Person Limited
  • Autism
  • Autistic Characters
  • Speculation
  • Headcanon
  • Autistic Kaya Blanke
  • Pardon the Kaya/Cam bashing for the sake of Kayabeth
  • Episode: s03e17 High Class Problems (Elsbeth)
  • autistic headcanons
  • Backstory
  • Introspection
  • My First Fanfic
  • My First Work in This Fandom
  • My First AO3 Post
  • No beta we die like a whole lot of rich New Yorkers

  Summary

  Kaya thought undercover work would be less demanding of her than it was, after all she'd been trying to be what she wasn't for pretty much all her life. But as hell as it turned out to be, it might ironically have been the second-best thing that ever happened to her (behind meeting Elsbeth of course) because the fallout of having to become Denise Jackson just might help Kaya figure out who Kaya Blanke really is.

  Songfic to Pretender (Acoustic Version) by AJR exploring the POV of an undiagnosed-autistic!Kaya from my only-a-little-projecting-onto-the-blorbo headcanons of what her backstory pre-police was like up through (and a little slightly beyond) canon-up-to-S3E17

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