Best Explicit Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The 9 most-loved explicit grief & mourning fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive.
Top 9 Explicit Grief & Mourning Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with grief & mourning and rated Explicit.
Homefront
by copperbadge
Steve Rogers is a capable leader, a kind and cheerful man, a good friend, a strong role model, and a loyal soldier. He's also teetering on the edge of suicide.
Let The River Run
by astolat
The deep satisfaction of having made the right choice; of having found a clear-flowing wellspring of true honor to protect.
Halcyon
by Crownofpins
A story about walking in place to get where you are already.Written prior to S2.
honey and vodka
by kizishere
Ilya Rozanov built his life on control. As the heir to a powerful company, he knows exactly who he is supposed to be: ruthless, untouchable, and far away from anything that could make him weak. Shane only needed one more shift. One night covering for a friend at the club he swore he would never retu
Semper Fi
by Hiruko_chan
Jack Abbot finds himself feeling oddly protective over the new night shift attending. He tells himself it's natural. You were the young widow of a Marine, a military spouse who brought the greatest sacrifice for her country - your husband. He watched you push on with gritted teeth, haunted by your o
Make Me, Face Me, Look At Me
by DrainedOfDaylight150
Tom Riddle meant to drain the life out of Harry Potter when the boy first began to write to him. He soon discovered why he shouldn’t.Tom did not understand why the boy who had supposedly vanquished his older self was living in a cupboard, and why no one seemed to notice.Soon enough, confusion become
Y fuiste tú mi baile inolvidable
by Freakizoid
Some months after defeating Chuck and saving the world once more, the Winchester brothers are pulled into an FBI investigation in Wolf Trap, Virginia, where a series of ritualistic murders begins to imitate a case already closed.
Sleepless Deprivation
by LucidPercy
Anthony can now see Elijah’s ghost, but Elijah isn’t doing so great. None of them are really. There are a lot of things they need to work out, but I’m sure they will be okay. They have no choice but to be.
Overcoming
by dave_178
Jisung doesn't talk to strangers. Ever. He doesn't talk much at all, really. Not since what happened with his parents.Minho doesn't care. After the loss of his girlfriend, he hasn't really cared about anything or anyone. Not even his closest friends, who keep asking him questions he can't answer.But
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About This List
This list of 9explicit Grief & Mourning fanfics spans 485,049 total words. Kudos range from 10 on the newest entries to 15,123 on the most established. 44% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (9 of 9 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Grief · Recovery · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence.
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