Best General Audience Time Travel Fanfics
The 25 most-loved general audience time travel fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. The excitement of different time periods, the complexity of temporal paradoxes, and the possibility of fixing past mistakes or finding love across time.
Top 25 General Audience Time Travel Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with time travel and rated General Audiences.
Oh God Not Again!
by Sarah1281
So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.
Looping Back to the Beginning
by Feneris
Where Class 1-A finds itself in a time loop centered around their first year at UA. After getting over the usual angst, they decide that the best way to grow as heroes is by antagonizing dangerous villains for fun and amusement.
The Source of Grief
by withthekeyisking
No one had ever met Hadrian Gaunt before the man suddenly whirled into their lives and started fixing problems they didn't even know existed.And yet, not a single person regretted meeting him.
look at us now
by dreamtowns
The next switch happens during English in the following days. One moment, sixteen-year-old Yaoyorozu is dutifully reciting a passage for the class, and then Momo is there, dressed in a stylish pantsuit and holding a stack of papers, reaching for a phone that isn’t there as her eyes scan the meeting
bring the forgotten dawn
by poisedwalrus
“What is it?” Grover asks, “What’s with that weird look on your face?”“Just trying to figure out if turning me in will get us enough bounty money to buy our way to LA.” Percy says, craning his neck towards the news van.“We are not turning you in to the police.” Grover presses his head back into the
50 Years Ago (Live and Learn)
by Wenber
SONIC 3 SPOILERS “What’s going on?” Maria asked. “I don’t know,” Shadow replied, getting off the bed and walking to the door. After hesitating, Shadow opened the door and followed the sounds down the hallway to the main entrance. There were bolts of blue lighting dancing across the room, and guards
Twisted Fates
by CremeDeLaClaire
Akira Kurusu was supposed to be dead. Except, fate had allowed him to live and the chance to fix things this time. Fate was allowing him one more chance to bring justice to light.And maybe save someone else in the process. *based on first major bad ending*
In Due Time
by P_Artsypants
As another illness sweeps through Berk, Gothi needs another ingredient for her medicine...one that doesn't exist anymore. Fortunately, she kept that old spell book around for such an occasion. Big Hiccup is sent to five years into the past, and his younger self sent to take his place in the future.
Master Kenobi
by Perspicacia
Unfortunately, there really isn’t a good explanation for how Qui-Gon managed to return to Coruscant with two versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi. One is the dutiful little spitfire of a Padawan he left with. The other is a sarcastic, time-traveling General who comes straight from the thickest, most violent p
Simpler Times
by Haroldosaur
Squirrelpaw doesn't know what to do. Cats are dying, the forest is being torn apart around her, and her sister has just told her that, according to a prophecy from their warrior ancestors, she and her best friend will lead ThunderClan to destruction. In short: everything seems to be going wrong all
Chasing the Errant Cloud
by Anonymonsieur
Cloud Strife has been through a lot. Monsters, madmen, time travel (probably). But getting yeeted into a world where soulmates are real and colors only exist once you meet them? That’s new. Now, he’s stuck with a dramatic red-coated SOLDIER who won’t stop quoting loveless and insists they’re bound b
Lost in Time
by Forever_A_Thief
Fives touches something he shouldn’t have. It’s not his fault it was a Sith artifact! Cody, Rex, and Fives wake up thirty years in the future and run right into Din Djarin. Dad instincts kick in and he vows to help them get back home.
Top Guide (In This Town)
by Kieron_ODuibhir
The thing about survivor's guilt is it doesn't care if there's nothing you could possibly have done to change what happened when you were sixteen.The thing about being sent back in time to try anyway is that you end up having to save the world using such weapons as cookies, arson, and telling the tr
Frankly, We'd Have Preferred To Leave This Whole Saving-The-Galaxy Thing In The Hands Of Responsible Adults, But At This Point We're Not Picky
by jessicas_pi
For reasons unknown, the Force decides to send a handful of people back in time to their past bodies, to prevent the fall of all that is good and Light in the galaxy.For reasons even more unknown, it only picks the kids.(Kanan and Cal bond over not following the Jedi Code, Trilla starts a support gr
Well, The Galaxy Is Safe Now, But There's Still No Adult Supervision, So Don't Get Too Comfy
by jessicas_pi
If Ahsoka, Kanan, Cal, Trilla, and all the others thought saving the galaxy was the hard part about time travel, then they'd better think again.The hard part is knowing what to do with all the extra spare time they've got, now that they're done saving the galaxy. (Ahsoka journeys through the stars,
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
Futures Past
by WhiteWolf14
They won the war but lost so much in the process. The Saltzman twins go back to change the outcome of the battle against The Necromancer. They have only one goal: to save the lives of their parents, and friends. However, unexpected complications arise and the twins are forced to make a choice...Go b
(Re) Open Wounds
by Skywalkingonsunshine
Luke Skywalker woke from a sleep he did not remember entering with a splitting headache, and an unsteady sense in the Force—as though the entire course of life had shifted on its axis.The sensation was so jarring that he shot up to his feet from—from wherever he was, panting and in a cold sweat, as
Keeper of Lost Things
by DdSilver
A crash.A scream of metal.Then silence—until the sound of engines wakes her in another time. Denise Verstappen doesn’t know how she fell through fourteen years, or why the soulmark on her wrist—SV 23—burns when Sebastian Vettel looks her way. He was never supposed to be an option—too old, too famous
The Red Wolf Of The Dance
by Sammy_9674
A Tiniest Flaps of Butterfly Wings can cause massive change.A Smallest Snowball can turn into an Avalanche.Robb Stark was a Military Genius. But his honour caused his dishonourable death.But What If he got a second chance to make amends? Not in the Era of Five Kings but in the Time when the Roars of
▪︎Oops you lose! Try again?▪︎
by Chuwawaboo
Malleus draconia overblots , many are gravely injured most dead. The last ones left standing are the first years. Extremely traumatized ,they run from malleus but are each caught one by one Before their eyes close they each see a hand reach out from a mirror. They grab it. AND SUDDENLY THEYRE BACK
A second chance at everything
by Theblossomfandoms
On their way to Mapuzo, Ben Kenobi and Leia are transported to that past right in front of the Negotiator, Obi-Wan's ship from the Clone Wars. Now Ben has to face his failures, while having a opportunity to fix everything.
the time i'll spend with you
by ixcarus
“You—” Izumi chokes out, so surprised that his voice comes out two octaves higher than he wants, “You’re married.”Leo blinks, and then looks down at his hands. Against the porcelain of the cup, sure enough, is a thin, silver ring with blue topaz embedded at the center. Taking note of Izumi’s stunned
Days of Chaos
by CXA3
Aizen’s lips curved into a faint smirk. “Urahara Kisuke, do send my regards to Shiba Isshin.” He tightened his grip on Ichigo’s arm. “I will be borrowing his son for the time being.” The air split open at his command, reality tearing itself apart to form a dark passage. “Shiba-?!” Ichigo barely got
Parallel Ninja World: Which Naruto Will Leap Through Time Today?
by PinkSnakeFiction
A peaceful and tranquil ninja world... Should we send Naruto, the Seventh Hokage, back to the moment just before Minato and Kushina’s deaths, when he unmasks Obito’s true identity? Or maybe we send Naruto, the hero of the Fourth Great Ninja War, to the world of Boruto, reigniting the flames of Konoh
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About This List
This list of 25general audience Time Travel fanfics spans 2,006,541 total words. Kudos range from 270 on the newest entries to 84,348 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is General Audiences (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Time Travel · Time Travel Fix-It · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Fix-It.
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