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• Every Lawyer Needs a Weirdgirl Assistant by Legallymean

  Fandoms: A Hat in Time (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  27 Dec 2025

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  • Mustache Girl & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • The Conductor & Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher's Minions & Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher & Snatcher's Minions (A Hat in Time)
  • Mustache Girl & Thor (A Hat in Time)
  • Mafia Boss & Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time)
  • Mafia Boss & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Thor & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher (A Hat in Time) & Original Character(s)
  • Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time) & Original Character(s)
  • Mustache Girl (A Hat In Time)
  • The Conductor (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher's Minion Characters (A Hat in Time)
  • Thor (A Hat In Time)
  • Mafia Boss (A Hat In Time)
  • Original A Hat in Time Character(s)
  • Post-Canon
  • studying law
  • Get this girl a proper legal education!!! She'd thrive!!!!
  • Mustache Girl is Called Mu (A Hat in Time)
  • full of headcanons
  • seriously I have so many headcanons about the A Hat in Time legal system it's not even funny
  • magic contracts
  • Found family except it's Found Workplace
  • And also maybe a Found Train Grandad
  • Mafia Boss is named Alfredo Pesci
  • Cut characters treated as canon
  • Mild to moderate legalese
  • Consensual Possession
  • Southern Thor (A Hat in Time)

  Summary

  Mustache Girl, after the utter failure of Time's End, decides to try to bring justice once more in the only other way she knows how: studying law. Unfortunately, the only lawyer on her planet is a murder-happy ghost man who has killed children before, and would probably kill them again, given the chance. Still though, Mustache Girl is no quitter, and she's going to do her best to bring justice, once and for all!!! (Even if it means dealing with a lot of boring paperwork....)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  19,122

  Chapters:

  6/?

  Comments:

  20

  Kudos:

  42

  Bookmarks:

  2

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• Travelling for "Family" Business by Legallymean

  Fandoms: A Hat in Time (Video Game)  

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  24 Dec 2025

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  • Cooking Cat/The Empress (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat & The Empress (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat & Mafia Boss (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat & Original Character(s) (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat (A Hat In Time)
  • Mafia Boss (A Hat In Time)
  • Original A Hat in Time Character(s)
  • The Empress (A Hat in Time)
  • Metro Cat | Nyakuza Gang Characters (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat is Called Cece (A Hat in Time)
  • Mafia Boss is named Alfredo Pesci (A Hat in Time)
  • Cooking Cat and Mafia Boss act like they're married but it's more of a lavender marriage situation
  • Mafia and Yakuza business
  • Love at First Sight
  • (In Empress's case anyway)
  • Food is a major plot point
  • Knives
  • Threats of Violence
  • Stalking (kind of)

  Summary

  The Mafia and the Nyakuza are having a bit of a disagreement, and Cooking Cat believes that she'd be the most efficient person to dissolve the tension. Under the cover of her television show, she travels to the Metro with her cameraman, a budgie named Perry, to covertly look for the Empress to negotiate. Unfortunately, the only things she knows about the Empress are via the Mafia Boss and her previous criminal history, so she has no idea what she looks like.
  Can Cooking Cat and her cameraman make it out of the Metro unscathed? Can she negotiate a deal with the Empress? Is the Metro food any good? She'll have to see.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,298

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  4

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• Law Students Don't Go To College Parties by Legallymean

  Fandoms: A Hat in Time (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  30 Sep 2025

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  • Snatcher & Walter (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher & Queen Vanessa (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher & The Conductor's Daughter (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher & Meowjima (A Hat in Time)
  • The Empress & Meowjima (A Hat in Time)
  • The Empress & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Queen Vanessa & Original Character(s) (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Queen Vanessa (A Hat In Time)
  • Walter (A Hat in Time)
  • The Conductor's Daughter (A Hat in Time)
  • Meowjima (A Hat in Time)
  • The Empress (A Hat in Time)
  • Original A Hat in Time Character(s)
  • Bullying
  • Unrequited Crush
  • From the perspective of the character that does not reciprocate
  • College
  • Alternate Universe - Human
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Snatcher is called Luka
  • Conductor's Daughter is called Amelie
  • Panic Attacks
  • Alcohol
  • Also Explosives????
  • Meowjima is called Goro
  • One-Sided Snatcher/Vanessa (A Hat in Time)
  • Vanessa Is Her Own Warning (A Hat in Time)
  • minor description of violence
  • It's not actually violence but he can still sue

  Summary

  Trying to make friends on his first term of law school, Luka Augusteau decides to go to a college party the mayor's daughter invited him to. He quickly regrets this decision.

  Series

  • Part 18 of Were-thing AU

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,025

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  2

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  37

• Hat Kid Gets Kidnapped by Legallymean

  Fandoms: A Hat in Time (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  08 Jun 2025

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  • The Conductor & DJ Grooves (A Hat in Time)
  • The Conductor & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • DJ Grooves & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Moonjumper & Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • The Conductor (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • DJ Grooves (A Hat In Time)
  • Hat Kid (A Hat In Time)
  • Moonjumper (A Hat in Time)
  • Kidnapping
  • angst-adjacent
  • Investigating a crime
  • Conductor is a good detective and an even better adoptive granddad
  • Cut Content Treated as Canon
  • (...Conductor telling stories on the ship. Why was that cut it's so wholesome????)

  Summary

  Here one day and gone the next, Hat Kid has gone missing! Will two birds and a lawyer be able to find her before they run out of time and the case goes cold? Will they even be able to work together as a functional investigation team? The trail of clues she's left behind points to something truly concerning...

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,284

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  26

  Bookmarks:

  3

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• She Came From Outer Space by Legallymean

  Fandoms: A Hat in Time (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  06 May 2025

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  • Snatcher & Walter (A Hat in Time)
  • Walrus Captain & Walter (A Hat in Time)
  • Seals & Walrus Captain (A Hat in Time)
  • Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
  • Walter (A Hat in Time)
  • Walrus Captain (A Hat In Time)
  • White Seal Crew (A Hat in Time)
  • I mean Hat Kid is also Technically in this but she's more a plot device than a character here
  • Aliens
  • Were-thing AU
  • The characters are better at science than the author is
  • References to Voice Actor
  • Human AU

  Summary

  When Luka Augusteau sees an unidentified flying object crash into the woods during a thunderstorm, he feels it's his civic duty as a paranormal investigator, law student, and reasonably prudent person to go investigate! Walter is... less enthusiastic about the new houseguest Luka seems to have brought home.

  Series

  • Part 17 of Were-thing AU

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,570

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  50