sami · Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics
2 childhood friends to lovers fics by sami in our database, ranked by kudos. Nobody knows you like the person who watched you become yourself, and readers melt at love built on a lifetime of already choosing each other.
sami is an AO3 author writing in the Genshin Impact fandom, best known here for "And Time Is But a Paper Moon", which has earned 28k kudos on AO3. Our database tracks 4 of their works totaling 379k words.
Best Childhood Friends to Lovers Works by sami
sami's childhood friends to lovers fanfiction on AO3, sorted by kudos.
"Mother, I have to go, with or without you. Please come with me.""A-Zhan, you're five years old," she says."With or without you, Mother," he pleads. "Please come with me."Lan Wangji starts again from the beginning.
"Are you the same Jiang Yanli I have known since infancy?""Yes.""Have you ever been anyone else?""No.""So you've lived another life... but as yourself. You had a child. And you were dead.""Yes."Jiang Yanli starts again from the beginning.
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Why Read sami's Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics
Childhood Friends to Lovers — Two people who grew up side by side — sandbox, sleepovers, shared scraped knees — realize somewhere along the way that what they feel stopped being friendship years ago. The history is the romance: every memory becomes evidence in hindsight.
Nobody knows you like the person who watched you become yourself, and readers melt at love built on a lifetime of already choosing each other. sami has earned 40k kudos across the 4 works tracked in our database, totaling 379k words.
Their childhood friends to lovers works alone have earned 12k kudos, making them a go-to author for readers who love this trope in Genshin Impact.
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sami · Fix-It
Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
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sami · Time Travel
Characters travel through time, either to change events, escape danger, or by accident. Romance may span different time periods or involve changing the past.
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sami · Healing
Stories centered on recovery — physical, emotional, or both — where the plot is less about what broke a character and more about the slow, nonlinear work of putting themselves back together. Often paired with a patient love interest or a supportive found family.
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sami · Canon Divergence
The story follows canon faithfully up to a chosen moment, then branches: one different decision, one survived death, one secret told early, and everything downstream changes. One of AO3's largest tags, because almost every 'what if' is a divergence.
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