Best Epic Terminal Illness Fanfics
Terminal Illness fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 4 Epic Terminal Illness Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with terminal illness and falls in the over 100,000 words range.
Equanimity
by dkspeace
(n) evenness of mind, especially under stress. Eva Stratt relives Project Hail Mary eight times.
A Sky Full Of Stars
by wild_iwaslivid
It's March, and Viktor knows he doesn't have long left to live. His friends only know that his health isn't great, but not that he's dying. How could he tell them? What could he possibly say to Jayce? No, better to just keep quiet. Then the unthinkable happens: Ambessa Medarda, for reasons of her ow
A Life Rewritten (90 Aesdrew au)
by Twisted_Tongues
Andrew Kreiss, an only child to a mother whom has fallen terminally ill, begins his final year of schooling at a private catholic school.By miracle, he makes not one but four friends. All of whom are vastly different than any sort of person he could have imagined to meet.One boy is an embalmer by tr
Enlightenment by Degree
by Daegaer
Ni Jianyi is the youngest PhD in his university and finds nothing much is left as a challenge. He has no idea what to do next, until he realises there are other positions he could be the youngest ever to achieve.
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About Terminal Illness
A character is dying on a known clock, and the story is about what they — and the people who love them — do with the time. Some fics walk all the way to the end; others find a reprieve; all of them are clearly tagged for readers choosing how much heartbreak to sign up for.
A deadline makes every ordinary moment luminous, and these fics distill love to its essentials: presence, honesty, and the courage to stay.
Common scenarios: A bucket-list road trip narrated by the healthy partner who is not coping as well as they pretend, or a character spending their last months writing letters for every birthday they'll miss.
About This List
This list of 4epic Terminal Illness fanfics spans 543,677 total words. Kudos range from 41 on the newest entries to 977 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Not Rated (2 of 4 fics).
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