Top 9 Long Time Loop Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with time loop and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.
Tea and No Sympathy
by who_la_hoop
It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter step
Game On, Your Move
by Ailora
Be on guard, my Lord, writes Abraxas Malfoy, the new transfer student intends to kill you.Except Abraxas has terrible penmanship, and kill and kiss look awfully similar in shoddy cursive.Naturally, things escalate. A lot.
the lathe
by palmviolet
"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
Once More, With Feeling
by beesandtoes
Akira's determined not to let Akechi die this time. Akira's determined not to let Akechi die this time. Akira's determined not to let Akechi die this time. Akira— well, he'll get it next time for sure.
Ghost Loop
by Nebulablu
Kokichi gets crushed under the press, and is suddenly a ghost. He witnesses the last two trials, but right as the remaining three step forward, he finds himself plunged into darkness.He opens his eyes to find that he's back in the locker that he first woke up in, with the robot he just watched explo
And The Next
by ienablu
Jyn looks to the disappearing horizon and thinks, The Force is with me, I am one with the Force. The Force is with me, I am one with the Force. The Force is strong with me, I am – Jyn wakes up in her Wobani prison cell, panting and a scream dying in her throat.~chapter 12: A course corrected.
The Jedi Stuck in Time
by WinterMoonlight
“Anakin finds himself gazing at Qui-Gon Jinn’s funeral pyre for the tenth time. At this point, he is absolutely positive the Force is messing with him.”Anakin Skywalker wishes for a chance to fix the mistakes he made but, instead, gets stuck in time and is granted the strange new ability to jump ac
(SI)^3
by Rosewater_Lemongrass
You are Shinji Ikari... (A quest-like narrative where you control the actions of a horny, egotistical, narcissistic, misogynistic Shinji, mysteriously sent back in time and inserted into the anime continuity)
Timeless FR
by Malfoy4ever
Draco Malefoy brise un Retourneur de Temps et commence à être projeté à différentes époques. Lorsqu’il découvre qu’il est marié à Hermione dans le futur, il est horrifié et fait tout son possible pour empêcher que cela n’arrive. Pendant ce temps, son futur lui revient dans le passé pour séduire Herm
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About Time Loop
A character repeats the same day, battle, or death over and over until they figure out how to break the cycle. Loops can be comedic, romantic — infinite chances to perfect a confession — or quietly horrifying as the repetitions grind a character down.
The loop is a pressure cooker for character study: infinite retries strip away pretense, and readers love tracking what changes and what the looper finally understands.
Common scenarios: A hero reliving the day their friend dies until they find the version where everyone lives, or two characters stuck in the same loop discovering it only on iteration forty.
About This List
This list of 9long Time Loop fanfics spans 669,407 total words. Kudos range from 6 on the newest entries to 57,587 on the most established. 56% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (3 of 9 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Time Loop · Time Travel · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence.
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