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Harlivy

Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy went from animated-series gal pals to fully canon wives, one of comics' great slow-motion victories. Ivy is the steady ground Harley found after escaping the Joker, and DC's Harley Quinn show finally let them say it out loud.

9,000 works

What is Harlivy?

Harlivy is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy from DC Comics. With over 9,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.

Why fans love Harlivy

A chaotic sunbeam and a misanthropic botanist healing each other after terrible exes — fandom loves that the canon ending is actually happy.

Most Popular Harlivy Fanfics

The highest-rated Harlivy stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.

1

Murder Takes Two

by saltwaterselkie

“Sooooo there’s this dead body,” Steph says, as if this is a perfectly normal way to start a conversation over comms.---Or: When Steph and Cass discover the body of a murder victim during what was supposed to be a routine patrol, Oracle and the Batgirls must track down an old enemy they suspect is t

0 kudos 1,346 words ~6 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Action/Adventure Fandom Trumps Hate 2026 Canon Compliant
2

Zoe is the Harlivy baby?

by jboy44

Zoe jsut found out something shocking her parents are here foster parents. Who are her real parents? simple Posion Ivy and Harley Quinn

5 kudos 13,315 words ~54 min read Explicit
Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Implied/Referenced Sex
3

A Todd's Respect is Earned

by TheGingerLesbian

Sequel to No, Todd's the Cat Healing is not a journey one can accomplish in a predetermined amount of time. It's isn't linear. And no one can expect it of you on any timeline but your own. Like rings of a tree, you will run into the wound time and time again, but it's never a step back. Each time yo

364 kudos 19,522 words ~79 min read Mature
POV Tim Drake (DCU) POV Multiple Tim Drake is a Menace (DCU)
4

Gotham By Night

by Anastasian_Dreamer

Gotham by Night: A Podcast updated weekly on Sundays regarding Gotham, its inhabitants and the family of vigilantes that call it home. Or Two friends get isekai'd into a Batman universe and start a podcast once they get used to it. Five years later, neither really knows how their lives got this inte

268 kudos 31,176 words ~125 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Self Insert Podcast Social Media
5

dead on arrival

by musesacquired

To salvage Harley’s career after a crisis, her management team comes up with an idea against her will: she has to enter a PR relationship with actress Pamela Isley…who she just happens to completely despise. What could go wrong?

10 kudos 22,344 words ~90 min read Explicit
Alternate Universe - Celebrity Actress Pamela Isley Fake/Pretend Relationship
6

Red & Green's kid

Complete

by bblacknblue

Cassandra Cain is the daughter of assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva. Cut off from the outside world, the little girl was raised as an experiment to produce the world's greatest assassin. Deprived of speech during her childhood, so she would learn fighting and physical movement as her first languag

42 kudos 16,428 words ~66 min read Mature
7

A Hermetic Mage in Lady Gotham's Court

by Your_Stepfather

Fed up with the constant escapes from Arkham Asylum, A freshly awakened mage decides to do something about it----Could be considered a rewrite of my other fic, Gotham: The Ascension, but considering how I might continue that, it's not really a rewrite. More so, a different take on it.

107 kudos 28,835 words ~116 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Magic Self-Insert oc-insert
8

Passion

Complete

by Philosopherscribe

When Harley broke up with the Joker, Ive was there to help her pick up the pieces.

0 kudos 250 words ~1 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Double Drabble and a Half Femslash Implied/Referenced Abuse
9

DC lost media: Batman and his robes

by catlove99

A collection of scripts of episodes from shows and comic that already existed but would never shown on air or from shows that got cut from existing all togetherInspired by my episode ideas and an idea for a rogues sitcom made by user Aesthetic-Core on TumblrLink: https://www.tumblr.com/razzbarry/674

33 kudos 62,704 words ~251 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Fake Episode Screenplay/Script Format
10

Reborn as the first Nephilim

by Lord_Lathiathen

A man dies in our world and finds himself in the world of Tensura reborn as a new race: a Nephilim. As a fusion of angel and daemon and ten years before the events of the show he must now make his way in the world he saw through a screen. And maybe make a deal or two. Note: Only knowledge of Tensura

240 kudos 301,018 words ~1205 min read Mature
Reincarnation Slow Build Slow Romance
11

Gotham's Guardian

by justalilyandajane

Marinette Dupain-Cheng wakes up in a Lazarus Pit... with no memory of her former life, superhero alter ego, or even her own name. But what she does have is this magical, glowing knife, so there's that at least.How will a nameless girl learn to navigate Gotham and its vigilantes, while discovering se

107 kudos 9,450 words ~38 min read Not Rated
12

Sentimental Heart

by Bleh0103076

A loud groan emits from the smallest bedroom in Joker’s apartment. Making Harley sigh, she thought Joker and Batman were going well! They’ve been fighting non-stop for the past few months. Joker hasn’t had any time to spend with Harley and Ivy because of it. He missed the day where they were suppose

11 kudos 3,276 words ~14 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Batjokes harlivy - Freeform Slow Burn
13

A Perfectly Brewed Crisis

by MotherJunction

Peter Parker lost everything. As in everything, everything.As in Aunt May, his friends, his own universe, everything. All because he trusted a guy wearing a fishbowl on his head. So really, nobody could blame him for hating this attractive idiot who insists on adding everything to his coffee at 2:26

262 kudos 6,651 words ~27 min read Not Rated
Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Crossover Crossover Pairings
14

I Can't Move On

by Little_Ravyn

"Pamela Isley pictured death often, in a vain attempt to come to terms with her eventual demise under the hand of humanity, another villain, or maybe even Batman. She had not pictured a slow excruciating death by frustration at the hands of Harley Quinn."   Title off Babydoll by Dominic Fike, fuckin

91 kudos 49,798 words ~200 min read Explicit
Idiots in Love Mutual Pining Shameless Smut
15

Is This Happiness?

by Notquitecontrary

Jason Todd, freshly out of the League of Assassins, decides to make the move to retire from the life of violence; now running a neutral ground cafe for Gotham’s rogues… Of course such a thing is bound to catch the attention of a few bats.

10 kudos 2,013 words ~9 min read General Audiences
Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Hurt/Comfort
16

Where You Belong

Complete

by KaptainArby

Peter Parker cannot stay in his home universe or he risks its destabilization, so Doctor Strange is forced to send Peter to an alternate dimension. Peter is thrown into the DC universe and wakes up as a young child in the home of Drs. Harleen Quinzel and Pamela Isley. They choose to raise him as the

86 kudos 3,319 words ~14 min read Teen And Up Audiences
De-Aged Peter Parker Post-Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Multiverse
17

Till Death Do Us Part

by BrakeForGideons

When Harley is kidnapped and Ivy is down Batman has a choice to make, Ivy or Joker. No matter what Batman won’t be the same. He hesitates leaving Harley guessing, fortunately for her someone wasn’t guessing.

7 kudos 5,599 words ~23 min read Not Rated
Hurt/Comfort Major character death - Freeform AU
18

The Hypothesis of Beautiful Things

by soundlessAsdots

Harley and Ivy are on a crime spree after breaking out of Arkham! But, they are also feeling kind of weird around each other, too? Like, the crimes they have been committing together brought out something sexy and feral in them? Anyway, things have gotten hella’ awkward. Harley is all there for it,

23 kudos 34,546 words ~139 min read Mature
POV Multiple Romance Fluff and Angst
19

Boundaries and ways not to cross them

Complete

by morallywrong

Bruce had known all day what was coming at him. Like watching a car crash in slow motion, he was unable to do anything about the situation.---Bruce was a man of many faces and he took care of whom he showed which side of himself. When the Justice League gives him the ultimatum to reveal himself or l

1,191 kudos 37,755 words ~152 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Angst with a Happy Ending Distrust does it count as
20

The Daughter of Poison Ivy

by LeilansDream

.... or that time Poison Ivy accidentally adopted a child.

68 kudos 17,522 words ~71 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Gotham City Sirens Adventure Drama

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What does Harlivy mean?

Harlivy is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.

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There are over 9,000 Harlivy fanfiction works on Archive of Our Own.

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