Top 6 Epic Fuffy Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. These are reader-favorite long-form Fuffy fics — save them for offline reading.
Strings
by aliceinwonderbra
Buffy stumbles into a student group and a sexual identity crisis. When she turns to Faith for advice, things spiral.Starts after 'The Freshman' in a modified Season 4 where Faith never swapped sides in S3 and has remained in Sunnydale.
shadow of the day
by sevensevan
Faith wakes up just three weeks after graduation. She skips town with a knife in her belt, a warrant out for her arrest, and an unshakeable feeling that someday, somehow, she'll find her way back to Buffy.
Hypnopompia
by aliceinwonderbra
After a brief trip to an alternate dimension, courtesy of D'Hoffryn, Buffy's back home. She wants to make amends with Faith, but there's just the little problem of her coma getting in the way. Set in a modified Season 4.
To Live In The World
by IvorySteel92
2001. Buffy Summers is dead, and Faith is the only Slayer left in the world. After dreaming of Buffy's final words, Faith takes her advice to heart and returns to Sunnydale, to shake off her past and be the hero she wasn't before.Then everything gets harder when Buffy climbs out of her grave. Becaus
to hold off the lightning
by cinnamonfiglatte
There’s no burst of dust, the way Faith expects. Only blood at her hands and blood at the stranger’s lips and the chilling sound of a death rattle fighting its way from his lungs.Or: Faith kills Allan Finch. The Scoobies offer her the literal crumbs of support she needs in order to not give in to da
surrender your power
by paperwasp
Three and a half years after closing the Hellmouth, Faith is doing good. She’s living in Cleveland, taking care of her dog, and showing a new Slayer the ropes. There’s just one tiny problem. Buffy moved back in five months ago. And now the feelings she’s been (semi) successfully tamping down for yea
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Why Read Epic Fuffy Fics?
Epic-length Fuffy fanfics — over 100,000 words — are the format of choice for readers who want full novelistic immersion. These are the works people talk about for years, the ones with their own subreddits and tag clusters on AO3.
Many of the most beloved Fuffy fics in the fandom land in this range, because the slow build of trust, conflict, and resolution that defines the pairing needs room to breathe. Set aside a weekend (or several) and dig in.
About This List
This list of 6epic Fuffy fanfics spans 898,934 total words. Kudos range from 1,014 on the newest entries to 2,156 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (3 of 6 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Hurt/Comfort · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst · Bisexual Buffy Summers.
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