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Top 22 Short The Cruel Prince Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length The Cruel Prince fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
homeland
by scarletaire
| 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
| Complete. |Her husband, Jude swiftly realizes, has a thing for mortal clothes. Specifically: her in mortal clothes.
Queen in Exile
by destinies
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
How Am I Going to Tell Him?
by ironicallyanemic
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.
Come on Love, Draw Your Swords
by maximumtrash
Sing to me, MoonlightFor you, dear, are honey-tonguedI dream just for you.The one where Jude finds out she's pregnant and Cardan begins collecting a thousand plants. (Written before TQoN).
To Dance With Danger
by slightlyrebelliouswriter
Anon asked: “Can you write something about how Jude gets hurt somewhere and the court of shadows and Cardan go looking for her and then the ghost/roach/bomb finds her and brings her to Cardan. +cute Jurdan moments”Danger was Jude’s constant companion. Cardan would call it her closest friend if he kn
Confused by the Past of the Future
by Taken_by_fictional
Taryn, Vivi, Madoc, Prince Balekin, Prince Dain and Locke.Together they end up in the future, years after the coronation.-----This fic is Edited (05/03/2025)
Lies across my skin
by aaabbbcccddd
Soulmate AU where Cardan starts getting Jude's lies across his skin.
Ensorcelled
by MeBeKiki
(v.) To bewitch or enchant.Jude may not be a fae, but she has Cardan wrapped around her partially chewed finger.A series of oneshots and/or drabbles that take place throughout/after the Folk of Air trilogy. MULTISHIP and a variety of character studies, but mostly Jurdan & Cardan POVs of him loving J
Sarcasm and Espresso
by Anonymous
A Modern Folk of the Air AU Jude hated Cardan from the moment they met, and the feeling was clearly mutual. But then he failed to show up at the start of the semester, and she assumed she'd never need to think of him again. Everything seemed to being going her way — if you ignore the fact that she g
A Potion for True Love
by aaabbbcccddd
Jude drinks a potion meant for Cardan and they start dating in secret.
dangerous woman
by wolfieriddleee
Jude Duarte's destiny was to become High Queen. There was no doubt over the fact she was perfect for the role alongside her ever loving consort Cardan Greenbriar, last living son of Elder Greenbriar. Yet, there was something grander at play that totally derailed the tapestry of the Fates.At a young
The Princess of Secrets
by ppAperclip
What if Cardan and Jude had fallen in love the summer before TCP takes place and got married? How will they navigate their now entwined lives while still keeping their relationship a secret? Can Jude accept a roll in Dain's Court of Shadows while still remaining loyal to her husband and his feeling'
The Cruel Prince One-Shots
by aubadoirr
One shots about the Folk of the Air series!
Dex
by RisottoGary
Cardan could not remember ever having wanted to fuck a person before.Girls, sure.Bodies, yes.Not a person.With a certain timbre to her laugh.A specific eye color.A name. Not until now.
Between the Two of Us
by thewickedkings
Rivals Jude and Cardan are forced to partner up for a high school history project, and drama ensues.
I See You in the Stars
by jellysqueaks
I started writing this because I wanted something specific from the Cardan POV fics during Jude's imprisonment in the Undersea but then I just kept going further back in the timeline so uh here's all of The Cruel Prince from Cardan's POV. My goal is to make this a three-part work with each part corr
Dark as a Starless Night
by im_someone_i_guess
They say if you want something, get it so Cardan kidnapped his wife, threatened her brother in return for cooperation and made her his personal sex slave. If you want something, take it. (tags added with each chapter) Prompt: “I kind of like Dark Cardan, where Cardan is possessive and jealous, could
come as you are, as you were
by teaabuddies
Jude is in her early twenties, struggling to adjust to adulthood and make ends meet. Despite her coming out about a local hit band's singer, Locke, sexually assaulting her, the rest of the scene turns a blind eye. She takes things into her own hands, swearing with a vengeance that she will become a
The Prisoner's Throne but make it Jurdan
by jude_cardan158
Basically I took some chapters of "The Prisoner's Throne" and rewrote it in Jude and Cardan's pov. Some of the chapters are placed somewhere in between the canon plot when we don't see them but I tried to keep it as close to what could have possibly happen then as I could.
The Cursed Prince
by ppAperclip
"He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne....Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise.” Cardan Greenbriar has been fated since birth to bring destruction upon his kingdom, and the prophecy that is usually a blessing for a young Greenbriar is instead a curse
Unsuited for Splendor
by For_the_Fun880
Selene is only human. But Faerie does not forgive mortals for curiosity. Elfhame is not kind to mortals. And the more she tries to avoid the court, the more it seems determined to notice her. The courts believe they understand mortals. If Faerie is determined to keep that opinion, she intends to tes
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This list of 22short The Cruel Prince fanfics spans 568,106 total words. Kudos range from 9 on the newest entries to 5,478 on the most established. 41% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (7 of 22 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Post-Canon · Post-Book 3: The Queen of Nothing · Canon Compliant · Pregnant Jude · Fluff and Angst.
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