Best Mature Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The 10 most-loved mature 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 10 Mature Grief & Mourning Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with grief & mourning and rated Mature.
Percy Take the Wheel
by KittySmith
A freak accident with Arthur's enchanted Ford Anglia causes a minor explosion and a major change in the Weasley household. With Arthur in a coma and Molly having passed away, Bill and Charlie can't afford to quit their jobs and must support the family from afar. Thus, it falls to Percy to handle the
Ballad of the Golden Phantom
by Nebrasska
For years now, Sonic has been presumed dead. Shadow carries his grief heavily with him. Unspoken feelings and secret attractions all remain clutched close to his chest as he struggles to move on from a tragic love. The world is bleak without Sonic, and because of this, Shadow finds himself purposele
The Late Llewellyn Drake
by wanna_have_fun
BILLIONAIRE DOOFUS DRAKE FOUND DEAD IN MANSION ON ANNIVERSARY OF WIFE’S DISAPPEARANCE; PRESUMED SUICIDE Webby stared at her laptop screen in shock. She knew that name, though she hadn't heard it in years, since before... well. Before a lot of things. Before everyone got quiet and started walking on
The Waves Will Carry You
by bowditch
After AWE, Elizabeth and James fall together and try to find a future amidst so much death. She's not sure what she wants, and he's learned what he can't have-- they're left figuring out what they can piece together and who they are after everything. Or, a story in which Elizabeth sleeps a lot and l
A Man of Good Fortune (ONE-SHOT)
by Elizabeth19Parker
After his death, Dream wakes in the waking world as a man. Cold, hungry, mortal, and without a kingdom that recognizes him, he goes to the only person who might understand what it means to live beyond all logic: Hob Gadling.
It Comes In Waves
by FluffyMae
When Hitoshi’s mom dies he feels like he’ll spend the rest of his life grieving, but when his dad decides to fly home for the summer to visit his sister and Hitoshi’s cousin, Kyoka Jiro, he falls in love with the only boy on the island that he isn’t allowed to have.
The Silent Diamond – The Courage to Choose
by NocturneWisteria
Crowned the “Silent Diamond” of the Season, Genevieve Ashbourne has turned her trauma and silence into the ton’s favourite spectacle. When Lord Trewellan uses her past in Bath to blackmail her family, Benedict Bridgerton—restless artist and unexpected ally—refuses to treat her as a prize to be won,
We're in for the long drive
by InsomnicaBat
"There are over a thousand streets in this city," I start, standing in front of the window, "You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place. I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes, and I'm yours, no matter what. Anything happens a minute on either si
i’ve given all i can, it’s not enough
by Anonymous
two days before vecna makes his final move, steve makes a choice that will change the party forever
A Tab too Far
by Ash_is_Scattered
Red Hood has stepped back from his mission to kill Joker, sure it was his end goal, but he needed to regroup and assess, especially knowing Bruce wasn't going to kill for him. Jason has realised that his work controlling drugs in Gotham has done a lot of good, but the lingering thoughts of his late
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About This List
This list of 10mature Grief & Mourning fanfics spans 450,927 total words. Kudos range from 15 on the newest entries to 6,328 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (10 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Grief · Angst · Hurt/Comfort · Grief/Mourning.
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