Best Mature Found Family Fanfics
The 25 most-loved mature found family fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. The warmth of chosen family, characters finding belonging and unconditional support.
Top 25 Mature Found Family Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with found family and rated Mature.
The Force Works In Mysterious Ways
by Bryn_Delgado
Ben Kenobi had lived a long live. He had known love and joy, sadness and loss. He had survived the genocide of his people. Fought the man whom he loved like a brother, despite feeling his heart break. He watched helplessly as the Galaxy fell into the hands of the Sith, as the few who dared to object
Day by Day (Swept Away)
by rebelcongeriem
The one in which Harry decides to play magizoologist in Chile and ends up meeting a pair of vampires who promise him both a family and a place to belong.He accepts...eventually.
What is True, But Not Ideal
by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
In which Brienne meets the other Lannister first, becomes a bartender, makes a best friend, buys a convertible, and accidentally lives her best life.
Luster
by Sunruner
Taako is missing, but does it matter? When the world is your home you can feel at ease anywhere. When your brand is your name it’s nice to be recognized, to be wanted. But not like this. He never wanted this.
Blackbird
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.
Here We Go Again
by PollutedShades
The Bella and Caius buddy time travel fic absolutely no one asked for. Eventual Aro/Bella, once Bella and Caius are done slacking off. I mean plotting. When Bella saves Edward in Volterra, Aro realizes she is his long awaited mate. Before he can explain, the Romanians attack and Caius escapes with a
petrichor
by amarcellus
Pat is an overlooked nurse at Atalanti General Hospital. His days are filled with appointments, assisting doctors and caring for the unwell. Until someone attempts to assassinate President Atremenos. What follows is not definable, as Pat's anonymity comes to an end and he is thrust upon a pedestal l
Starting Over
by MargretLazer
Lost in his Dark Impulses, Mikey accidentally kills Takemichi instead of South during the war of the Three Deities. When Takemichi feels himself on the verge of dying he begins apologizing to everyone, due to this he somehow pulls everyone to the past with him. Takemichi, Mikey, Chifuyu, Draken, Baj
Well... better than the alternative!
by lostin_thewoods
Gojo Satoru is newly 23, newly single, newly sober, and newly the father to a troubled four year old. Satoru was living the high life. If you consider the high life getting high to avoid all of the troubled feelings about his troubled past. But, after the accidental murder of a certain well-known as
What Haunts the Veil
by SybilGraves
~ Final chapters are live! ~ She’s cursed to die. He’s already lost everything.When a haunted Seer crosses paths with Alucard—son of Dracula, reluctant heir to a ruined legacy—the last thing either of them expects is a shared fate. As ancient magic begins to stir, long-buried relics resurface—and wi
Four Idiots and One Shut-In Girl
by rtzmalheur
Four idiots.One creepy Ackerman house.One shut-in girl who clearly hates their existence. And then somehow: there is midnight tea, sleeping on the couch, emotional crises, and Connie being way too observant for anyone’s own good. Or: how Eren Yeager slowly becomes Mikasa Ackerman’s “safe place,” whi
Starstuck
by chryseliss
Jack Frost is good at exactly three things: snowball fights, causing trouble, and avoiding responsibility. So when winter suddenly vanishes and the magical world spirals into chaos, he is the absolute worst person to send on a mission to bring it back.Unfortunately, he’s also the Spirit of Winter.No
more than a feeling
by caasserole
Moving to Hawkins two years before graduations wasn't Rosella Henderson's ideal plan, but it's the one she's stuck with. Between living with her cousin, Dustin, trying to adjust to small town Indiana and figure out what her cousin's friends keep whispering about (what actually happened with Will Bye
To The Moon And Back
by Bingsoosoobin
Rule one: if your Alpha brings home an injured wolf, you ask questions later. Rule two: if that wolf turns out to be the Alpha's fated mate - amnesiac, convinced he's human, and likes to grab your fluffy ears like a feral toddler - you figure it out together. The pack has survived hunters, territory
Family ties
by AnimSoul
Takes place right after the end of The Red String of Fate. I suggest reading Part 1 first. Vox is back. Everything should be fine now that he is reunited with the other Vees in a timeline, where that fateful gala never happened. But the fact remains, that his time spent in the alternate Hell had cha
In the Quiet After
by Arastel
She'd expected being married off, but didn't think her mother would stoop so low. Now alone, with a baby she never wanted yet was responsible for, Octavia will need to lean on the people she once thought ruined her life.
The Shape of Ibasho
by how_to_be_a_heartbreaker
Watchpoint: Gibraltar was never supposed to become familiar. Hanzo arrives expecting distance, professionalism, and a temporary alliance at best. Instead, he finds himself surrounded by people who laugh too loudly, care too easily, and refuse to leave him alone long enough to disappear back into iso
Second Beginnings and Different Endings
by allupinsmoke
Slow-burn SQ. Henry has moved out. The mansion is empty. Regina decides to open it up to foster kids and offer them what Emma never had growing up — a home. Callie Jacob is a hardened and traumatized teen. She knows she is beyond love. Her only goal is to get Jude into a safe home, after which she c
The Name Beneath the Fire
by Jujureader
Yrina Hera Coralinus died with the rest of her family after the rebellion. At least, that is what Navarre believes. Taken by General Lilith Sorrengail and hidden for five years, Yrina is trained, shaped, and sent to Basgiath War College under another girl’s name: Violet Sorrengail. Her orders are si
Undertow
by emmacordeliacarstairs
Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn are chosen as the tributes for District 4 in the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games.
The Desert Heat
by sergiolover
JJ gets called to the State Department. How will Emily and their kids cope with the new changes in their family? Follow along the J-P family as they face new difficulties together. This can be read on its own, or part of the series! Enjoy!
Test Subject 47-R / Codename: Rose
by Hunttijuntti
She was only nine years old when she was taken. Over 160 years later, she wakes up on an operating table—terrified, mutated, and more powerful than anyone imagined. Her instincts unleash a storm of biotics and Force lightning that levels an entire research facility. Commander Shepard and the crew of
Victor, Mentor, Mockingjay: Mutts
by firehelpmeforget
The rebels managed to do the impossible. They broke the arena. They got Katniss Everdeen, their Mockingjay out alive! But they left behind Peeta Mellark, and they are about to realize what a crucial mistake that might just be! In the aftermath of the Quell our Victors are left to pick up the pieces
Beginning In The Past. To Shape A Future.
by CrAzYE
Aphrodite makes a trip back in time to pick up some help to save her latest project and throw a kink in Are's plans for the most recent reincarnation of Xena's soul.
Another Way
by Clare_Hope
At the last second, Lucretia doesn't go through with dropping her journals into Fisher's tank. The rest of the crew, their memories intact, agree to erase the Relic Wars from the consciousness of the people of Faerun to buy them some time while they figure out another way, a better way, to defeat th
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About This List
This list of 25mature Found Family fanfics spans 1,849,892 total words. Kudos range from 43 on the newest entries to 5,045 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Found Family · Slow Burn · Hurt/Comfort · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst.
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