Best One-Shot Evangelion Fanfics
Evangelion one-shots under 10k words — complete reads in one sitting. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 One-Shot Evangelion Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Evangelion fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
But It's Better With You Here
by WindupChronicle
'...but what surprises Misato the most is the overwhelming amount of trust that she seems to have suddenly inputted into the Creepy Kid with Mysterious Past Kaworu Nagisa Fund.' Four different people look at Kaworu and Shinji's relationship. Kaworu and Shinji are too busy being smitten with each oth
To Find Heaven
by morthael
Despite his best efforts, Kaworu just can’t seem to get Shinji to smile for him. He’s about to rectify that. He hopes.
Bringing You Happiness
by morthael
Three ways that Nagisa Kaworu manages to make Shinji happy. A fic in three parts, spanning the three canons, shameless smut involved.
made it to the coastline
by lisettedelapin (rushes)
Their time together gets closer and closer to seeming an awful lot like the dates he hears the girls at school talking about.
graduation day
by phollie
Two time-travelers meet at the in-between of two different worlds, but their purpose is forever the same - to make their precious person happy. [Kaworu and Homura form an unlikely friendship. Evangelion+Madoka crossover. Kawoshin, Madohomu. Mentions of self-harm.]
On the Courting Rituals of Angels
by lady_daedalus
In which the reader may observe the Angel Tabris in his efforts to attract a sad boyfriend that he can turn into a happy boyfriend. Put on your David Attenborough pants and marvel at this rite of nature.Or: An Alternate Qniverse in which Shinji learns his lesson, everything is Kawoshin, and nothing
meteoric
by forgotthemilk
Steeling himself, Shinji blurted out, “Can I walk you to your room? It wouldn’t… It wouldn’t be a very good date otherwise.”--Smut set in the middle of 3.0.
Awake Forever
by tsutsuji
Kaworu makes Shinji nervous, only not in the usual way.
seeing him for the first time (again)
by machinamuros
Hopped up on anaesthesia after a wisdom teeth operation, Kaworu falls for Shinji all over again. Shinji is embarrassed.
Tired.
by SinisterAmix
It had always been the same. Another loop = another failure. There was no way out of this dead end.
angel of small deaths
by HalfApocalypse
ancient language, speak through fingers, the awful edges where you end and I begin.-Shinji wants to see Kaworu naked. How embarrassing! (A collection of one shots that explore explicit sexual themes.)
Random hcs!
by joemarucanon
updates whenever i feel like it
on purpose, this time. (KawoShin Week 2026)
by HalfApocalypse
"Yes. My answer will always be yes." (Short drabbles in celebration of KawoShin week 2026)
Nephilim Uprising
by 1_Parzival_1
Nothing with the Evangelion units was ever expected, nor were most of the pilots’ actions.When the pilot of EVA Unit 02 Asuka Langley Sohryu brought her fellow pilot into Unit 02’s cockpit to battle Gaghiel, no one had anticipated the mental contamination from duo-synchronization, and no one had sus
Forget-Me-Nots & Paper Flowers
by KarmaWritesStuff
Work at a flowershop didn't seem all that bad to Shinji. Studying for it, on the other hand, was anything but a bed of roses. A familiar ashen haired man named Nagisa Kaworu turned out to work in the bookshop next door, helping Shinji learn about flowers and their language.
Gnosis
by Evangelion Fanfic Salvage Technician (SailorHaumea)
Knowledge of man is knowledge of God. Shinji/KaworuThis fic was written by Adam Kadmon and published on October 29, 2006. It is reposted with the explicit permission of the author.
Love Justifies The Sin
by Anonymous
Commander Nagisa visits a comatose Shinji and commits a terrible sin. Out of love, obviously.(based off the EOE hospital scene)
Accept Yourself
by AngelEdgar
shinji wants to be able to love kaworu and be okay with himself for it. kaworu helps him
Runner's blues
by daikahieu
How long can Shinji run (away) for?
All I Want
by deathbringer374
After TI fic. Asuka tries to bake Shinji a cake. Hilarity ensues. I mean, sort of, I don't have a single funny bone in my body, but I tried. As always, AXS. RXR?
Very Everything, All at Once
by katsuragi_espresso
People don’t always think rationally when they’re in love, so when Ritsuko unexpectedly finds herself pregnant, she sees it as an opportunity. Gendo sees what she’s trying to do, but agrees to play “happy families” with her – on the condition that she passes an impossible test. The universe sees the
I Am a Cat
by Meg_Y
Kaworu is a cat.He does have a name, but Shinji has never called him by it. In fact, Shinji does not even seem to realize that he has become Kaworu’s master.In this life, all of the Angels have descended to Earth as cats.A loosely connected collection of one-shot episodes about Kaworu, who only want
Ode To Joy
by n3on_rat
No summary provided.
Novelization Of Evangelion
by Dorothy_Doubt
Novelisation Of Evangelion aims to bring Neon Genesis Evangelion, the 1995 anime that changed the mecha genre, to a purely written form. That's about it really. The plots will remain pretty much the same, the only difference being some manga plots or story details may be implemented in places where
If I Said
by PiscesOrchid
He would answer who he was. He would have many words to describe you and I.
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This list of 25one-shot Evangelion fanfics spans 119,701 total words. Kudos range from 12 on the newest entries to 4,110 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (9 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Fluff · Fluff and Angst · Angst · Smut · Alternate Universe.
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