Best Epic First Love Fanfics
First Love fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 10 Epic First Love Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with first love and falls in the over 100,000 words range.
Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce
by imagitory
Inspired by a post on Tumblr, this is a AU story set during Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, with one big, foul-mouthed difference. Instead of Horace Slughorn, the position of Potions professor will be taken on by...Gordon Ramsay.
It Was All Just a Game (Rewrite)
by write_me227
If there's one thing that Draco Malfoy yearns for, it's seeing Harry Potter in pain. How that happens, he doesn't care. When Potter's name is pulled out of the Goblet of Fire, Draco sees it as the perfect opportunity to fulfill his greatest desire. Except Saint Potter has luck swimming in his veins.
Winter Song
by proantagonist
The set of Yuuri’s mouth softened into a private smile as Victor squeezed his knee beneath the table. His hands were bare, free from the gloves he so often wore when they were together on the rink, and the heat of his palm burned straight through the denim of Yuuri’s jeans. He slipped his own hand b
The Dragon Cub
by alperez
Jaime realizes who Jon is after a visit to Winterfell, remembering a promise made to Rhaegar, Jaime and Jon will enter the game of thrones together.
Nearly
by gonattsaga
Sirius doesn't go after Peter Pettigrew on the night that Voldemort kills the Potters, but stays to look after Harry... This means that he is never wrongly accused and incarcerated for the murder of Lily and James, and instead he and Remus Lupin raise Harry as their own. When it finally becomes time
The Courage To Live
by infinitetwinkles
“Come on,” the alpha says. He tilts his head towards the water as Jimin gapes at him with fear in his eyes. “Get in.”Tonight Jimin listens.Whether because of the humid heat clouding the air or the insomnia induced delirium or something else entirely, Jimin's feet take tiny steps until he stands at t
Never Knew I Needed You
by EclecticIsMyMiddleName
Ace and Sanji didn't actually meet for the first time in Alabasta. They first met on Baratie, and haven't stopped running into each other since.
Sentinel
by Tovaras
Kaidan’s life has never been easy. BAaT nearly drove him to madness, life after was a struggle, but now… Now he is ready. For whatever life tosses at him. Or so he thinks.
Adventures in Babysitting
by nochick_fics
Sixteen-year-old Roy Mustang has his work cut out for him when he takes a job babysitting the well-known and much-feared local hellions, otherwise known as the Elric brothers.
Ten Days of Spring
by potterhy
Remembering the brief spring of our lives that once felt like it would last forever. A bond that began with an order to kill becomes repeated meetings beneath a cherry blossom tree, then a feeling that cannot be named, and eventually the only place they can both return to. The story of two children
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About First Love
The terrifying, all-consuming experience of loving someone for the first time — clumsy confessions, overanalyzed text messages, and feelings too big for the person carrying them. Often but not always set in adolescence.
First love is the only love with no map, and readers cherish the rawness of characters feeling everything at full volume with no defenses built yet.
Common scenarios: A first kiss ruined by nerves and immediately retried, or a character realizing they're in love mid-conversation and forgetting how sentences work.
About This List
This list of 10epic First Love fanfics spans 4,248,520 total words. Kudos range from 90 on the newest entries to 30,428 on the most established. 70% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (3 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: First Love · AU.
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