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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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Top Cardan Greenbriar Pining Fic Recs

4 pining fics featuring Cardan Greenbriar, followed by other top-rated stories.

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Transmuted Desires (This Feels Like a Date)

Pining

by 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

1,588 kudos 115,707 words 48/? chapters Mature
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No One Mourns the Wicked

Pining

by 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

23 kudos 4,330 words 3/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Wicked King - Cardan's POV

Pining

by 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.

21 kudos 9,916 words 6/16 chapters Not Rated
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O vestido.

Pining

by 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

1 kudos 1,507 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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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

5,478 kudos 25,515 words 6/6 chapters Explicit
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devil's finery

by scarletaire · Jurdan

| Complete. |Her husband, Jude swiftly realizes, has a thing for mortal clothes. Specifically: her in mortal clothes.

4,854 kudos 16,838 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
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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

3,799 kudos 41,260 words 8/8 chapters Mature
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covenant mine

by scarletaire · Jurdan

A year into their marriage, Jude presents Cardan with a wedding ring of his own.

3,078 kudos 2,331 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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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

2,844 kudos 52,900 words 15/15 chapters Explicit
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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

2,374 kudos 51,811 words 11/11 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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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)

2,368 kudos 2,962 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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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.

2,247 kudos 21,730 words 11/11 chapters General Audiences

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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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