Best General Audience Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The 5 most-loved general audience 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 5 General Audience Grief & Mourning Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with grief & mourning and rated General Audiences.
A Happy Medium
by buildoblivion
Klaus is okay. He's always okay. Nothing to see here, he's fine.Except Ben is gone, the whole timeline is royally fucked, and some asshole is out there wearing his brother's face.Now the Hargreeves are stuck in a 2019 that's the same but not quite, and while the rest of the Academy unites to get the
rage against the dying of the light
by shatteredwriters
“When I got the notice for the draft board, I knew–well, I thought I knew–what it entailed,” Hawkeye said, words cracking with subdued emotion. “War meant death, right? Blood and gore, loss, bombs and bullets, death and…more death. So much death.”B.J. stayed quiet, throat tight and eyes misty.“It wa
Fortune’s Favour
by Voyageuse
Nearly a year after the events in Devices and Desires, Kate Miskin and Adam Dalgliesh consider what they were to each other and what they could now be ... if only they are brave enough. Spoilers for series 3, episodes 5 & 6.
noun: grief (intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death)
by Allegro
There had been no spectacle after Yoshimitsu’s death, no grand ascension to the nether world, just a quiet that filled the halls like the morning after a storm. Everything wet, still, the sun a bleary shine on the puddled snow.Raven had not, in recent memory, experienced grief.
A thousand other words
by MDSpencer
In the wake of Beldaruit’s death, Qifrey wonders if he ever cared at all.
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About This List
This list of 5general audience Grief & Mourning fanfics spans 109,540 total words. Kudos range from 9 on the newest entries to 2,880 on the most established. 40% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is General Audiences (5 of 5 fics).
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