Best Short Coming of Age Fanfics
Coming of Age novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 12 Short Coming of Age Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with coming of age and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
A Liar's Truth
by internetpistol (orphan_account)
In which Sakusa Kiyoomi is raised to believe that gay people go to hell but then takes one look at Miya Atsumu and thinks, then why the hell did God make them so fucking hot?
under the sky in room 553 i discovered you and i
by spellfire
“Have you ever heard about the origami hearts tradition in the hospital?” Taking the heart, the child excitedly inspected it, nodding in glee. “Yes! My mama told me that when someone leaves the hospital to go to heaven, we all fold a paper heart for them! Like this, like this!” “That’s right,” chuck
Foundation (Build It Higher, Bury It Deeper)
by RayShippouUchiha
It’s just … he’d thought, given his fight against Neji and then his confrontation with Gaara, that someone would finally really acknowledge what he’d done. That beyond Iruka-sensei’s crushing hug and Kakashi-sensei’s absent pat, someone would actually notice that he’d won against both of them.That
Switched
by GhostsOnSaturn
Soulmates AU where your consciousness occasionally swaps places with that of your soulmate for varying amounts of time.Katsuki Yuuri was just six years old when it first happened. He had been minding his own business, quite happily drawing an interesting rendition of a bird perched outside his windo
maybe this thing was a masterpiece ('till you tore it all up)
by machiavelLiterati
Over the course of a few years, Damian slowly learns a few things about Anya Forger. (5 times Damian kept Anya’s secrets + 1 time he wasn’t able to)
Kilometer Zero
by internetpistol (orphan_account)
Oikawa Tooru falls in love with Iwaizumi Hajime and is dumb. Iwaizumi Hajime falls in love with Oikawa Tooru and is also dumb.Together, they are dumber.
(my god) don't look at your phone
by breezilis
This is a rewrite. I wrote the original story in 2019ish, and then got massively burned out and self-conscious. I deleted everything—even my old AO3 account, magicalmayhems. And now, four years older and a little wiser, I decided to start this story again. To be clear: I do not intend to abandon it
Stranger's Heart
by Tharja
Brando wasn’t supposed to go looking.He only wanted to know who the heart belonged to.A name turns into a street.A street turns into a house.And a house turns into a boy he can’t seem to walk away from.Wilson Evans died months ago.That’s what everyone says.Brando isn’t so sure anymore.He definitely
The Years That Made Us
by xXAnonymous2K4Xx
Cedar Hollow, the town where everyone knew everyone. Bright lights from the football field on weekends, the river that's packed on warm summers days, the lookout overseeing the town and every secret within it worth keeping. This is where Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and their friends grow up. Throu
A Storm to Wake the Frost
by Sleep_Till_Midday
For twelve hundred years, Lee Heeseung’s world tasted of nothing but frozen sandalwood and the bitter, rusted iron of a dying lineage—until a fifteen-year-old human from Okayama shattered the quiet with the scent of an impending storm. Heeseung: He was supposed to be a temporary disruption. Now, he
The River We Run From
by Sharpiemango
Youth is a funny thing. It’s the shortest part of our life, yet it’s the part we hold dear to our hearts. Looking back on the memories we shared with our childhood friends, some of whom are now either married, successful, or maybe even dead. But that’s okay because we’ll always have those memories
Holding On To Yesterday
by DevonOReilly
Zeus had a vision following the death of Typhon: Olympus in flames, and everything he'd killed for gone to ruin. Mortals forsaking Gods, lesser worms daring to rebel against them, and other possibilities far too inane to name...but he saw something else. Something worse. Something so vile that it ma
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About Coming of Age
A young character grows up on the page — navigating first responsibilities, first heartbreaks, and the gap between who they were told to be and who they are. These fics often expand the adolescence canon skipped over or compressed.
Growing up is the one story every reader has lived, and fanfic lets beloved characters do it with more honesty and time than canon ever allowed.
Common scenarios: A teen hero learning that saving the world doesn't exempt them from failing a math test, or a sheltered royal's first year away from the court that raised them.
About This List
This list of 12short Coming of Age fanfics spans 433,139 total words. Kudos range from 4 on the newest entries to 32,583 on the most established. 42% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (5 of 12 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Coming of Age · Angst · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Hurt/Comfort · Fluff.
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