Mourning — Tag Meaning
A canonical tag closely allied with Grief/Mourning, tending to emphasize the outward observances of loss: funerals, rituals, black clothes, the public performance of grief alongside the private kind. Many authors use the two tags interchangeably.
What to Expect From "Mourning" Fics
Characters in the formal or social aftermath of a death. Quiet, heavy, and usually more sad than graphic.
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Grief/Mourning
The canonical tag for fic centered on loss and its processing — funerals, anniversaries of deaths, the long ache of absence. Some of fanfiction's most acclaimed character studies live under this tag, as writers give characters the space to mourn that serialized canon rarely allows.
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Funerals
Gathers characters to bury someone — canon deaths given the on-page mourning the source skipped, or original losses that reshuffle the survivors. Fanfic funerals are about the living: eulogies that say too much or too little, estranged characters forced into the same pew, and grief cracking open conversations long avoided.
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Character Death
A canonical freeform tag for death in a work, used when the Major Character Death archive warning is too strong or the author wants to flag mortality without specifying whose. It covers a broader territory than the official warning.
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Death
A broad canonical tag for works where death, as event or theme, is central, sometimes literally so in fics that personify it. It is less specific than the character-death family and often marks meditative or philosophical treatments of mortality.
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