Best Gray Fullbuster Slow Burn Fanfics
The best slow burn fanfiction featuring Gray Fullbuster (Fairy Tail) on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.
Top Gray Fullbuster Slow Burn Fic Recs
3 slow burn fics featuring Gray Fullbuster, followed by other top-rated stories.
Scales
Slow Burnby lesadfairy · Gratsu
The War with Alvarez was over, and Magnolia slowly started looking like itself again. But the mages of Fairy Tail and the inhabitants of Fiore still had to overcome their trauma.While everyone started to heal together and went back to normalcy, Natsu Dragneel was secretly dealing with a huge problem
Our love beyond their tales
Slow Burnby Fada sem rabo (aliviado) · Gratsu
𝑪𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒏ã𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆. 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒅𝒐. 𝑭𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒂. 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒂. 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒐𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏ó𝒍𝒊𝒂: 𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒅𝒂. 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒐𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒐𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒚: 𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂. É 𝒐 𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒂 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎 𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒔�
Grey Fullbuster, le chasseur de dragon stellaire
Slow Burnby Fairykey · Gratsu
Grey Fullbuster, personnage principal de cette histoire était un chasseur de dragon. Sa mère adoptive, Arcana, était un dragon stellaire. Elle avait enseigné à Grey les pouvoirs de mage constellationniste. Grey était ainsi théoriquement capable d'invoquer les divers esprits célestes issus d'une autr
The Last Cake
by Smoochynose · Gruvia
AKA: Freed and Juvia’s Support Group For The Hopelessly In Love.The one where Mirajane tries to play matchmaker, Freed and Juvia become Love Allies, and there are misunderstandings galore.
The Key(s) to Victory
by riddlethis · Gruvia
There was nothing she could do as she stood and watched in pure horror as 10,000 Dragons entered Fiore, destroying everything in their path. She got separated from the others during the initial attack, but the lack of magic and prideful shouts that she knows Fairytail was capable of confirmed her do
Everybody Knows Natsu Loves Lucy
by Bri_121 · Gruvia
The whole Guild knew that Natsu loved Lucy. That there was nothing Natsu wouldn't do for her. Well everyone except Lucy of course.
Ripples (Part One)
by therealnarnia · Gruvia
After dying in her original world, a girl goes to the Fairy Tail universe, hoping to change things for the better. But does her appearance there make it better, or worse? Fix-it fic. OC/Laxus, Nalu, Gale, Gruvia, Jerza, Elfever, etc. Spoilers for everything. Warning for Violence and Swearing.
Nalu - A twist in time
by Amara22 · Gruvia
Zeref sends Lucy and Nastu back in time years before they met to make sure that fairy tail is ready for the war that is coming so that Natsu can finally kill him.
Mark to Mark
by OnlyTheInevitable · Gruvia
Mirajane's match making attempt results in the Fairy Tail members becoming stuck to one another guild mark to guild mark. The only way they can separate is if they confess their true feelings.
Who's Lucy?
by madartiste · Gruvia
Natsu and Lucy were inseparable as kids, but he left to pursue his dream of music while she stayed to join her father’s company. Now a rock star, Natsu learns that a life of fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when a slip of the tongue ignites a tabloid frenzy -- and reunites him with the girl who
Someone to understand
by Muffindragon227 · Gruvia
The truth was Natsu needed this as much as she did, he needed to talk about it, to confide in someone. He just never thought that someone would be Juvia.
Sextember
by maebethistime · Gruvia
Time to sex up September! A series of short drabbles based on the smexy lives of various pairings from Fairy Tail. Bring on the angst, the humour, the character development, and especially the sexy times.
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Gray Fullbuster in Slow Burn Fanfiction
Gray Fullbuster — An ice-make mage with a compulsive stripping habit and a childhood buried under Deliora's rampage and his master Ur's sacrifice. His demon-slayer inheritance and his decade of not-noticing Juvia give writers angst and comedy in equal measure.
Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.
Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. Gray Fullbuster's (also known as Ice Princess, Gray-sama) role in Fairy Tail makes them a natural fit for slow burn storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Fairy Tail fanfiction.
Gray Fullbuster Ships
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Gray Fullbuster · Rivals to Lovers
Two competitors locked in an ongoing rivalry — athletic, academic, professional, or magical — gradually realize their obsession with beating each other has curdled into something much softer. Unlike enemies, rivals usually respect each other from the start.
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Gray Fullbuster · Humor
Fic written to make you laugh: crack premises played straight, group-chat chaos, banter-driven romcoms, and comedies of errors starring characters canon treats with deadly seriousness. One of AO3's biggest tags for good reason.
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