Best Cardan Greenbriar Pining Fanfics
The best pining fanfiction featuring Cardan Greenbriar (The Cruel Prince) on AO3, curated by popularity. The exquisite torture of loving someone from afar, especially when it's mutual but unspoken.
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4 pining fics featuring Cardan Greenbriar, followed by other top-rated stories.
Transmuted Desires (This Feels Like a Date)
Piningby Catbeanjrjr · Jurdan
A heathy communication rewrite starting at Chapter 21 of TWK (Taryn and Locke's wedding).A relatively small act of honesty and trust sends Jude and Cardan down a different path. Flirting and pining ensue. “Do not go to bed alone tonight.”He tilts his head and raises his eyebrows. “Is that— ” but I i
No One Mourns the Wicked
Piningby aprilWinters9 · Jurdan
In a reality in which Eva Duarte hasn't been murdered by Madoc and has agreed to return to Elfhame for the safety of her daughters, Jude and her sisters lead a slightly different life. Vivi is about to enter the Elfhame's Preparatory Academy, popularly known as the “Arena”, a place that has never ac
The Wicked King - Cardan's POV
Piningby Celestedmorrow · Jurdan
The Wicked King Cardan’s POV Fanfic inspired by the work of Holly Black.This is not a book format, but more like a read-along with the actual book, to give you more insight in to what Cardan was thinking or doing at the moment - as best as I can imagine it, based on the amazing work of Holly Black.
O vestido.
Piningby Dornelas · Jurdan
Quando pensava naquela coroação, jamais imaginaria que um vestido o levaria até a adega. Que se esconderia no álcool enquanto esquecia da própria família. Que aquele vestido, escolhido por impulso, o acompanharia no pior dia de sua vida. Ainda assim, se pudesse voltar no tempo, escolheria o mesmo te
homeland
by scarletaire · Jurdan
| Complete. |Cardan’s eyes flash open. “Why?” he repeats, and Jude feels the power shift between them. “Don’t you remember, wife?” he croons. “It was the Undersea that stole you away from me.” And Jude has only enough time to think, danger, before he lunges at her. or: Cardan and Jude work on remov
devil's finery
by scarletaire · Jurdan
| Complete. |Her husband, Jude swiftly realizes, has a thing for mortal clothes. Specifically: her in mortal clothes.
Queen in Exile
by destinies · Jurdan
Jude Duarte is the High Queen of Faerie, but few people know that. Married in secret then banished to the mortal realm, Jude has to find her footing again. She knows what she wants. She wants retribution. She wants what is rightfully hers. She wants a few other things she shouldn't want.More than an
covenant mine
by scarletaire · Jurdan
A year into their marriage, Jude presents Cardan with a wedding ring of his own.
132 Hours
by destinies · Jurdan
When a car accident claims the lives of her parents, Jude Duarte and her twin sister Taryn—both omegas—are swept away by their half-sister's father and raised among the alpha upper crust of society. It sounds like something out of a fairytale. It is a nightmare.Years later, after graduating at the t
Between Enemy Lines
by TheIndomitableSmartass · Jurdan
This is a collection of scenes from the trilogy - some that happened off page, some that I wish had happened. And Cardan's POV of the entire third book. This is super self indulgent. Excerpt:A faint brush against my palm. The gentleness of that touch frightens me, and I dare to break eye contact, gl
get me to the altar
by goodmourning · Jurdan
“Tell me,” she all but sneered, “how did I torment your sleep?”set two years after jude’s return from exile. (posted originally on tumblr @amandlas)
How Am I Going to Tell Him?
by ironicallyanemic · Jurdan
Jude has been feeling sick for a few days. The flu? Poison? It takes Taryn only a minute to realize the cause: The High Queen is pregnant. Note: Chapter 7 on features a very pregnant Jude getting into trouble and other late pregnancy adventures.
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Cardan Greenbriar in Pining Fanfiction
Cardan Greenbriar — The wicked youngest prince of Elfhame with a tail, a drinking problem, and a cruelty that masks how much he hates his own crown. His poisonous obsession with the mortal Jude curdles into the series' defining romance.
Pining — Unrequited or unspoken longing for someone, often with lots of internal anguish.
The exquisite torture of loving someone from afar, especially when it's mutual but unspoken. Cardan Greenbriar's (also known as High King of Elfhame) role in The Cruel Prince makes them a natural fit for pining storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in The Cruel Prince fanfiction.
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Cardan Greenbriar · Enemies to Lovers
Characters who start as adversaries and gradually develop romantic feelings for each other.
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Cardan Greenbriar · Fae & Fair Folk
The fair folk in all their beauty and menace: bargains with hidden costs, true names guarded like weapons, and courts where politeness is a survival skill. Fae fic draws on folklore rules — no thanking, no eating their food, no promises made lightly.
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