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Best Kanera Slow Burn Fanfics

The best slow burn Kanera (Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.

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Blackbird

Slow Burn

by ThereAndGone

Hera and crew are sent on mission to recruit Kanan and Ezra, who operate as vigilante assassins fighting the Empire, into the rebellion. But Kanan’s dark past and darker tendencies make the chances of the mission’s success slim.It’s a good thing Hera, Ezra, and the crew don’t give up easy.

1,378 kudos 249,838 words 40/40 chapters Mature
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World Between Wars

by Mtab0064

“Ahsoka…” An all too familiar voice breathed out. Her eyes snapped open and she had flipped onto her feet, white blades raised defensively within an instant. Mostly because Anakin Skywalker was right in front of her, not Vader. But it was still the same man who was actively trying to put a lightsabe

2,435 kudos 30,912 words 9/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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I Didn't Believe Them/When They Called You/A Hurricane Thunderclap

by HkHk

Her hands covered her mouth even as she mentally processed what was going on right before her eyes. It was impossible sight. He was dead. He was dead. Nothing of him was left but the piercing cold. Anakin Skwywalker stood before her as if stepped out of a holovid, his brown hair swept back, blue eye

2,412 kudos 31,641 words 17/17 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Put Our Faces to the Sun

by YoungestThunderbird

Older versions of most of the Arcadia ‘verse, which now have their own oneshots and chaptered works in the series. This work is maintained for sentimental reasons, and will not be updates; all new content will be added to individual works in the Arcadia series.Check out the individual chaptered work

2,216 kudos 227,297 words 60/60 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Undeserving

by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude

Kanan is a mess after Order 66. It's not until he stumbles upon an abused Force-sensitive child that he realizes his own potential. OR Kanan encounters Ezra at a much earlier age.

1,980 kudos 239,795 words 66/66 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone

by bedlamsbard

Ten years after she vanished during an Imperial raid on a Twi'lek colony, Cham Syndulla sees his daughter Hera for the first time in a hologram -- now wearing the uniform of an Imperial agent and apparently working closely with a human Inquisitor. All Cham wants to do is to bring his long-missing c

1,957 kudos 361,502 words 30/30 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Frankly, We'd Have Preferred To Leave This Whole Saving-The-Galaxy Thing In The Hands Of Responsible Adults, But At This Point We're Not Picky

by jessicas_pi

For reasons unknown, the Force decides to send a handful of people back in time to their past bodies, to prevent the fall of all that is good and Light in the galaxy.For reasons even more unknown, it only picks the kids.(Kanan and Cal bond over not following the Jedi Code, Trilla starts a support gr

1,793 kudos 5,031 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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The Ghost of Our Future

by PadmeNaberrie

In the aftermath of Malachor, Kanan and Ezra get caught in the explosion and wake up in the middle of a battle, which wouldn’t have been too odd if the skirmish hadn’t been between outdated droids and odd-looking stormtroopers.OrTime travel, where Ahsoka, Ezra, and a newly blind Kanan wake up in the

1,761 kudos 107,708 words 19/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Taking Inventory

by SpaceWall

An early end to Order 66 leaves Mace Windu struggling to protect the remnants of the Jedi Order and the GAR. Fortunately, there’s more people to rely on than he could ever have anticipated. Also, along the way, he falls in love.Trigger and Content warnings in notes. The ‘official’ canon divergence o

1,599 kudos 16,683 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Well, The Galaxy Is Safe Now, But There's Still No Adult Supervision, So Don't Get Too Comfy

by jessicas_pi

If Ahsoka, Kanan, Cal, Trilla, and all the others thought saving the galaxy was the hard part about time travel, then they'd better think again.The hard part is knowing what to do with all the extra spare time they've got, now that they're done saving the galaxy. (Ahsoka journeys through the stars,

1,596 kudos 16,380 words 3/4 chapters General Audiences
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The Heart of a Rebel

by coldishcase

Kallus walks into a trap and is captured by the Empire. Thrawn has questions for him. The Spectres swoop in to save their new friend and Zeb gets an armful of ex-ISB agent high on truth serum.What secrets has Alexsandr Kallus been hiding from his best friend?

1,578 kudos 19,396 words 4/4 chapters Mature
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Execute Order Sixty-Five

by venator_signum

There was a shift in the Force. You wouldn’t have felt it unless you were looking for it. It was soft, silky, barely there. Only tiny little wisps of it at a time but should you gather them together, the picture was clear as day and rang out with the sound of millions of voices, echoing, ringing. Th

1,560 kudos 38,637 words 17/17 chapters General Audiences
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The Jedi Stuck in Time

by WinterMoonlight

“Anakin finds himself gazing at Qui-Gon Jinn’s funeral pyre for the tenth time. At this point, he is absolutely positive the Force is messing with him.”Anakin Skywalker wishes for a chance to fix the mistakes he made but, instead, gets stuck in time and is granted the strange new ability to jump ac

1,486 kudos 66,241 words 9/? chapters General Audiences
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i'm gonna get you back on time

by stormwarnings

Cody didn’t mean to join the Rebellion. It just kind of happened.(Ahsoka Tano's been gone for a while. It's not only herself she's bringing home.)

1,459 kudos 2,575 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Chest

by Anath_Tsurugi

Every race in the galaxy that is soulbound has its own way of identifying soulmates. Humans have fated words imprinted on their skin. Twi'leks and Togruta hear the voices of their partners in their dreams. Wookiees and Lasat see the world in black and white until the moment they meet their partner.

1,441 kudos 43,556 words 4/4 chapters Explicit
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Expertise

by author___chan

Ezra was always a fantastic actor, so it was pretty easy for the crew to forget the rougher parts of his history. But there are some things that they just flat-out didn't even know about. Ezra preferred it that way.But when did Ezra ever get what he wanted?-Something I wrote about a few years ago. I

1,352 kudos 4,787 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Episode ???: The Empire Strikes Back

by Flor_of_Desert

"Infinite sadness is what he feels when saying goodbye to Yoda (...) Ben wishes he could do more but he can’t move a rock if it doesn’t want to be moved. The only thing he can do is pray, pray to the Force that his Grandmaster finds his peace before he joins it, that he can find things to be happy a

1,270 kudos 66,435 words 6/6 chapters Not Rated
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we've come a long way from where we began

by MageOfCole

News of the return of a Jedi High General, the Negotiator herself, begins to spread like wildfire, and survivors of Order 66 flock to the Alliance; Rebellions are built on hope, after all.

1,212 kudos 17,549 words 10/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Five times Ezra met a Force Ghost and One Time he didn’t

by MinnieTheMoocherDA

Five times Ezra met a force ghost and one time he didn’t.

1,177 kudos 7,100 words 6/6 chapters General Audiences
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Pay it Forward

by MissLearn

A man broke a promise, a girl was left in the dark, and so began a series of events that "Old" Ben Kenobi wanted *nothing* to do with.

1,171 kudos 25,260 words 6/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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Why Slow Burn Kanera Fanfiction Works So Well

Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla — Rebels built a slow-burn between the hidden Jedi and the Ghost's Twi'lek captain across four seasons, confirmed it, then martyred Kanan with their son unborn. Fandom tends the family the show created and grieves the ending it chose.

Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.

A romance that grew in the margins of a kids' show ended up among Star Wars' most adult love stories. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. That's why slow burn Kanera fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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