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Best Short Harlivy Fanfics

Harlivy novellas — 10k–50k words, perfect for a weekend. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

DC 10 short fics Avg 27,124 words 10,000–50,000 words

Top 10 Short Harlivy Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Harlivy fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

Boundaries and ways not to cross them

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 9/9 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
2

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 9/? chapters Mature
3

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 9/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
4

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 19/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
5

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 7/? chapters Explicit
6

The Daughter of Poison Ivy

by LeilansDream

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

68 kudos 17,522 words 7/15 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
7

Red & Green's kid

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 5/5 chapters Mature Complete
8

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 7/? chapters Mature
9

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 9/31 chapters Explicit
10

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 5/? chapters Explicit

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Novella-length Harlivy fics — roughly 10,000 to 50,000 words — let writers fully develop a single AU, trope, or relationship beat without sprawling. Plenty of time for setup, payoff, and a satisfying ending; not so much time that you're juggling fifty bookmarks.

Great for trying a new author or testing whether you'll enjoy a sub-genre before diving into something longer.

About This List

28,835
median words
20%
complete
1,191
top kudos
~1.9 hours
median read time

This list of 10short Harlivy fanfics spans 271,241 total words. Kudos range from 5 on the newest entries to 1,191 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 (4 of 10 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Mutual Pining · POV Multiple · Fluff and Angst.

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