Best Short Umbrella Academy Fanfics
Umbrella Academy novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 20 Short Umbrella Academy Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Umbrella Academy fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
The House That Built Them
by PetuniaViolet
“I’m pregnant, but nice leather jacket.” Diego dropped it and grabbed her shoulders to keep her steady, and Vanya flinched a little when he leaned down to face her closer. “You’re fucking what?!” he whispered harshly.-or: Vanya gets pregnant when she's 21 and it changes (almost) everything.[PRE-TRAN
Suffer a Similar Fate
by So_Runs_the_World_Away
After a month of silence, Diego's girlfriend showed up at 2:00 in the morning on Klaus' doorstep. "I need your help." Klaus blinked sleepily at her, still half-asleep and more confused than fearing for his life (considering she'd tried to kill his family). Then his bleary eyes took in the way she wa
'we watched our lives on the screen' | The Umbrella Academy reacts to the future
by Anxious_b1sexual_screaming
When Five jumps through the portal, he falls into a pocket dimension. He finds himself in a theater with his siblings and their younger selves. In order to get back home they must watch scenes from their futures and figure out what the hell happened.orThe siblings and their younger selves have to wa
remember when
by allucinoctis
whilst a lonely old man wanders through the aftermath of an apocalypse searching for his soulmate, you're left wondering why the hell yours is named after a fucking number. you regret holding that grudge because you soon find out he literally manipulated time to save the world, and find you. {au!fiv
Always the Traveler
by TheSageRaven
And truth be told, they were better off without him. They’d been getting on nicely in this new timeline. But Five wasn’t fit for a life of rest. When you spend your whole life running, crawling, grasping for an ultimate goal, how do you learn to stay still once you’ve achieved it? How do you learn t
my brain hurt like a warehouse (it had no room to spare)
by orphan_account
In a stroke of luck, Five managed to travel him and his siblings back to March 24, 2019 - exactly a week before the apocalypse. Allison decided that the best way for everyone to keep in contact was through a group chat that was well organized and used for emergencies only.Nobody else seemed to share
The Art of Memory
by redaurorarora
Five is missing when everyone exits the elevator into the reset universe. Not long after, Diego discovers why.Or Reginald takes to heart the saying to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And so, in his brand-new reset universe, he builds in a son – an only child who is as intelligent as
My Child Arrived Just the Other Day (He Came to the World in the Usual Way).
by hannahhook7744
Klaus Hargreeves-Herschberger-Katz had a life outside of the Umbrella Academy now and he wanted to live it without reopening any wounds from the past. Too bad his father had to go and die.
two and two together
by dendriax
Klaus is sixteen when he wakes up in the sixties.
Trade This Life
by PaddieCake
The Séance, lead guitarist and vocalist of the band COVEN takes time off from tour after an alleged mental breakdown in front of nineteen-thousand people at a recent show. While speculation and rumors run wild, the man behind the Seance, Klaus Hargreeves, has to come to terms with not only his curre
Wandering, But Not Lost.
by PotatoHuman17
Or the Umbrella Academy universe where years before reuniting with his siblings. Klaus joins a rock band and moves to England. *** “As of last night, the beloved mystery band The Wandering Souls has finished their world tour in their hometown of London at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. The six-piece
The Final Countdown
by sunflower_in_june16
The rewrite of season 4 of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy because I still refuse to accept that it's canon. (oh and it's mostly Five's pov) THE IDEA: Season 4 *but* Five gets a puppy (and everything makes sense). Read it or I'll haunt you in your sleep.Enjoy!
Dance Macabre
by seaside_cow
“They said you’d vanished,” he said, fingers interlocked, looking up at her from below. Number Eight studied his face for a few moments, unreadable — not a flicker of emotion crossed her features.“They weren’t wrong,” the girl replied after a pause, still watching him. Then she turned away from Five
The Apocalypse Archive (Of Our Own)
by Zuko_liz
A collection of connected chapters where Five gets 'classified files' about their lives through Diego's email to try and figure out any clues for the next apocalypse. Little does he know his anonymous helper is just a fanfic reader from another world sending their favourites to someone they assume i
Xavier academy or H-men: X-men umbrella academy crossover in 1964
by Wasteful_void
Take season 2 of umbrella academy and instead of Dallas, they end up in the x-men's 1964 New York.
Threnos: A Song for Mourning
by kuaptic
I think we've come too far for an epilogue. But this was once part of the epilogue (So; yay! We made it.) The gang, after growing up and leaving the academy, and then growing up some more, must come together to celebrate everyone's least favorite dead guy. Secrets, feelings and surprises ensue. This
Tales from Oblivion
by lycansbian
Following the near-miss apocalypse at Icarus, the White Violin is thrown into Hotel Oblivion alongside the remnants of Orchestra Verdammten. The Hotel residents take to the shift in their own way, divided between understanding and hating the Violin. Tate is the orchestra's third chair French horn, a
Spit In My Face
by Zuko_liz
The world didn't end. Ben died. Everything looks back to normal. But it isn't. They've been replaced by a completely new Academy, and nobody takes kindly to that. Right before they fight, Jayme spits hallucinogenic venom on Diego. It does something... different. Not the good kind of different. OR: J
Phobia | The Umbrella Academy |
by Sinfulxstories
On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the c
Once Upon An End
by Zuko_liz
The past holds everyone down, even after the end of the world. OR Learning to live, nurture, and find new meaning in a world that doesn't need you anymore.
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This list of 20short Umbrella Academy fanfics spans 484,176 total words. Kudos range from 4 on the newest entries to 1,746 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 (10 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Apocalypse · Original Character(s) · Number Five | The Boy Needs A Hug · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Klaus Hargreeves-centric.
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