🏷️ Post Canon
64 entries tagged with this trope
Some Things Are Worth the Wait
Lollercakes · 2013
After the war, Katniss and Peeta slowly rebuild their lives and their relationship. Healing takes time, but love makes it worthwhile.
The Space Between
knittywriter · 2013
After the events of the trilogy, Four and Tris work to rebuild their world and their relationship. Sometimes the space between heartbeats is where love grows strongest.
Always Keep Fighting
MockingjayWriter · 2015
Katniss and Peeta's journey from the end of the war to building a life together. Recovery isn't linear, but love makes it possible.
Broken Chains
Trebia · 2018
Ben Solo survives and must live with the consequences of his choices while Rey helps him heal.
Like a Perfect Machine
HowDoesOneMooseGoose · 2019
Catra and Adora explore the universe together, finding new worlds and new ways to love each other. The domesticity is perfectly balanced with adventure.
Soft
Peppermintbrat · 2019
Post-canon domestic bliss with a side of learning how to be in love after 6000 years of pining. Pure soft romance.
Learning to be Whole
AnarchicMuse · 2020
Post-series recovery fic where Catra and Adora both go to therapy and learn how to have a healthy relationship. The mental health representation is excellent.
Investments
MontanaBohemian · 2016
Post-Crooked Kingdom where Kaz and Inej work through their trauma and build their relationship. The touch-aversion is handled beautifully and realistically.
Counting Nightingales
Jillians · 2016
Inej hunts slavers while Kaz runs Ketterdam. They stay connected through letters. The longing and eventual reunion is perfectly paced.
Once Around the Sun
eleventy7 · 2019
Post-canon. Fire Lord Zuko and Ambassador Katara navigate politics and feelings for a year. The restraint between them when they both know is agonizing.
The Painted Lady
RosesToPaint · 2020
Katara starts seeing the Painted Lady in her dreams. The spirit wants something from her — and it involves Fire Lord Zuko. Mythology-heavy and gorgeously atmospheric.
The Sea and the Stars
AnnaYolande · 2019
Post-series. Percy and Annabeth take on one more quest — just the two of them. Feels like coming home to Camp Half-Blood. Pure nostalgia wrapped in a new adventure.
A Court of Nightmares and Starlight
SilverLineage · 2020
Post-ACOSF. A new threat rises. Feyre and Rhys face challenges that test the Night Court. The political worldbuilding SJM fans crave, with Feysand at its emotional center.
After the Crooked Kingdom
NeverEnoughKanej · 2019
What happens after Inej sails away. The letters. The waiting. The moment Kaz learns to take off his gloves. Everything we needed after the duology ended.
The Wraith's Return
KetterdamKid · 2021
Inej returns to Ketterdam after two years hunting slavers. Kaz pretends he didn't count every day she was gone. The Barrel doesn't do reunions — but this one hits different.
Once Around the Sun
eleventy7 · 2020
Post-war. Katara visits the Fire Nation as an ambassador. Zuko is Fire Lord. The tension between duty and desire is palpable. Elegant prose and devastating restraint.
Such Selfish Prayers
andromeda3116 · 2008
A short, devastating post-canon piece about what could have been. Zuko and Katara chose duty over each other. The regret is quiet and overwhelming.
All the Wrong Things in All the Right Ways
aknightfornawt · 2016
Post-Crooked Kingdom. Kaz and Inej trying to figure out what they are to each other. Every touched finger is a battlefield. Slow-burn at the molecular level.
Such Selfish Prayers
andromeda3116 · 2016
Post-war politics demand a union between the Water Tribe and Fire Nation. Katara and Zuko navigate duty, desire, and a world that won't let them be simple. The political Zutara masterpiece.
Once Around the Sun
eleventy7 · 2019
A year in the Fire Nation. Katara as ambassador. Zuko as Fire Lord. The distance between duty and desire narrows with each season. Eleventy7's prose is luminous.
The Painted Lady
Lisse · 2010
Katara becomes the Painted Lady — not just a disguise, but truly. The spirit world bleeds into the mortal. Zuko is the only one who can reach her. Haunting and gorgeous.
Investments
thefudge · 2018
After Crooked Kingdom. Inej returns to Ketterdam. Kaz learns to be vulnerable. Every touch is earned, every word weighted. The most Kanej thing ever written.
The Barrel Never Forgets
inkandpages · 2017
A new threat forces the Crows back together. Kaz has to choose between his empire and the only person who matters. The Barrel always collects its debts.
Gloves Off
summertevens · 2017
Kaz takes off his gloves. That's it. That's the fic. And it will destroy you. Every Kanej reader knows this moment is worth more than a hundred explicit scenes.
A Thousand Cuts
TheRavenThatFlew · 2017
Kaz Brekker's slow, painful journey toward being able to feel. Each chapter is a cut that heals a deeper wound. Inej is patient. Kaz is trying. It's enough.
The Long Way Home
inkstainedfingers · 2017
After Crooked Kingdom, Inej returns from the seas. Kaz is still Kaz — except he's been counting every day she was gone. The slow healing of two broken people learning to touch.
Gloves Off
theinkstainsblog · 2020
Kaz takes off his gloves for Inej. Not all at once. Not easily. Each bare-handed touch is a victory against his past. The most Kanej thing you'll ever read.
Saints and Shadows
Midnight_Mourner · 2021
The Crows reunite for one last job. Inej has been hunting slavers. Kaz has been running Ketterdam. Coming back together means confronting everything they left unsaid.
Once Around the Sun
eleventy7 · 2011
Katara and Zuko navigate a political marriage after the war. The clash of cultures, the duty vs. desire tension, and the slow thaw between them is masterfully done.
Such Selfish Prayers
andromeda3116 · 2015
Years after the war, Zuko and Katara keep finding reasons to be near each other. The unspoken feelings, the political weight of their positions — the pining is exquisite.
The Sea and the Stars
greenconverses · 2013
Post-series. Percy and Annabeth navigate life after the wars. New quests, new challenges, and the relationship that survived literal Tartarus growing deeper. Exactly the continuation you wanted.
A Court of Nightmares and Starlight
bookofstars · 2020
Post-ACOSF continuation. New threats to the Night Court, expanding worldbuilding, and Feyre and Rhys being the power couple we need. Reads like an actual SJM book.
We Are Not Saints
inkandowl · 2016
After Crooked Kingdom, Kaz and Inej navigate what comes next. Every small touch is earned. Every moment of vulnerability is monumental. Kanej as only Kanej can be.
Don't Let Me Be Gone
writingisbreathing · 2017
Inej returns from the sea. Kaz is still Kaz — except for the ways he isn't. The reunion fic that handles their trauma and tentative reconnection with grace.
A Dangerous Game
valkyriegail76 · 2018
A new threat to Ketterdam pulls the Crows back together. Kaz is more dangerous than ever. Inej is more powerful than ever. Their dynamic is everything.
The Tides That Bind
colubrina · 2018
Years after the war, Katara returns to the Fire Nation court.
The Architect and the Sea
wisegirl · 2018
Building a life together after all the monsters.
Ketterdam Nights
crowsrow · 2018
Kaz and Inej learn to touch without flinching.
Wraith and Barrel
dregs · 2019
One more heist. One more chance to say it out loud.
The Hanging Tree
mockingjay · 2018
Peeta and Katniss come back from the war. It takes years.
Kyoshi Warrior
boomerang · 2019
Sokka and Suki try to make it work across a healing world.
The Court of Nightmares
cosmicbrownie_me · 2022
Post-ACOSF. Feyre and Rhys navigate the Court of Nightmares. Political chess and devastating intimacy.
The Price of Survival
AnomalyAngel · 2020
After Crooked Kingdom. Kaz and Inej navigate what comes next. Every small touch is a war won. Devastating and patient.
Crows Don't Cry
StarlightInHerEyes · 2020
The Dregs after the war. Kaz learns to be human. Inej comes home. The others watch it happen.
The Barrel Never Forgets
KetterdamFinest · 2021
One more heist. The stakes are personal. Kaz and Inej working together again, older and more dangerous.
A Ghost of Ketterdam
ShadowSinger_28 · 2021
Someone is targeting the Dregs. Kaz hunts. Inej returns to help. A mystery wrapped in unresolved feelings.
Your Heart, A Lantern
JadeEnchantress · 2020
Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji build a life together after everything. Domestic, sweet, and exactly what the novel's ending needed.
The Fall of the White Lotus
Boo-82 · 2011
Post-series. A conspiracy threatens the peace. Zuko and Katara's alliance becomes something more. Epic political fantasy.
Once Around the Sun
eleventy7 · 2019
Katara becomes Fire Nation ambassador. A year of festivals, politics, and falling for the Fire Lord. Quietly devastating.
Such Selfish Prayers
Zutarabby · 2021
Katara is married to Aang. She's not happy. Zuko has always been there. The guilt and longing are unbearable.
A Court of Nightmares and Starlight
manonblckbeak · 2018
Post-ACOWAR. Feyre and Rhys navigate peace, parenthood, and Court politics. The domestic Feysand content we were robbed of.
The Broken and the Whole
inkandowl · 2016
After Crooked Kingdom. Kaz learns to reach for her without his gloves. Inej learns to stay. Every touch is a revolution.
The Crows Come Home
SevenCorvus · 2017
The Crows five years later. Inej captains her ship. Kaz runs Ketterdam. They find their way back to each other. Found family at its best.
Gloves Off
essie_stardust · 2016
Kaz without his armor. Each chapter is a moment where the gloves come off — literally and figuratively. Devastating in the best way.
Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma
Nnm · 2019
After the apocalypse. Aziraphale and Crowley finally have freedom. Processing 6000 years of unspoken love. Therapeutic and beautiful.
The Space Between
diasterisms · 2017
Ben comes back as a Force ghost. Rey learns to live with him on the periphery of her existence. A meditation on grief and presence.
Restoration
Aelys_Althea · 2014
Post-war rebuilding. Zuko and Katara work together on a treaty. The gradual thaw between them is everything. Lush worldbuilding.
Sea Glass
Litvak · 2015
After the war. Katara comes to teach waterbending in the Fire Nation. The collision of their worlds, post-peace, is stunning and achingly romantic.
Little Earthquakes
GreenWithAwesome · 2019
Percy and Annabeth at college. The small, quiet moments of building a life together after saving the world twice. Beautifully soft.
Salt and Fury
theprincessed · 2017
Inej returns to Ketterdam. Kaz has been waiting, in the way Kaz waits for things — by pretending he wasn't. The reunion is everything.
Homecoming
SevenCorvus · 2017
Every time Inej comes home, Kaz learns one more new way to let her in. Small moments. Enormous stakes. The most tender Kanej fic in the fandom.
Of Crows and Saints
agirlnamedchuck · 2016
Inej's faith and Kaz's irreverence. How love can look like arguing about saints in a city that doesn't believe in anything. Gorgeous prose.
A Place Called Home
CeruleanSky · 2013
Post-war. Sasuke returns. Sakura doesn't make it easy for him, nor should she. The redemption arc is earned beat by beat. Exactly what the ending deserved.
Learning to Breathe
midwinterspring · 2017
Aang and Katara build a life after the war. Adventures, small joys, the occasional near-death experience. The domestic Kataang content the fandom needed.