1 – 20 of 95 Works in Memory Loss
*Un-Time Travels Your Fix-It* by chermit
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
08 Aug 2026
Summary
You already know how the story goes: after dying at the hands of Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi wakes up in the body of his younger self years before the rise of the Empire. Having been given a second chance, Obi-Wan raises Anakin Skywalker to be slightly less homicidal, stops a number of Jedi from falling and/or dying, prevents the War, reforms the Jedi Order, befriends a Mandalorian or two, curbstomps Palpatine, etc. It takes many years and a few hundred thousand words of being very badass while pretending not to have PTSD around his loved ones, but eventually, Obi-Wan prevents a horrible future that only he knows about and gets a happy ending.
This is not that story.
This is the story of how, just before the grand climax of his time travel fix-it, Obi-Wan Kenobi loses a few decades of his memory, reverting him to the person he was at the age of thirty-six — the first time. Now no one knows about the horrible future Obi-Wan is supposed to prevent, least of all Obi-Wan himself. Whoops.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 33,086
- Status:
- In-Progress
Dizzy Edges by Jojo_Squires
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics)
07 Jun 2026
Summary
Tim Drake didn't quite know what he was agreeing to four years ago, but he tried to make the best of it! Using notes from his past (future?) self, he (somewhat messily) tried to help everyone his other self cared for. Now, it's four years later and he can mostly ignore the second set of memories lying in the back of his brain. It'd be much easier if Dick Grayson would just leave him alone. If Tim believed in destiny he might actually think that the universe cared about what was lost.
Dick Grayson has spent the last year feeling like he's veered off course. Something keeps itching at the back of his brain. He's missed some clue. Helena Bertinelli's promised to help him crack down on human trafficking, but Dick thinks her foster kid might actually be more help in that department.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 270,754
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
After one stupid decision, the world gets cursed to forget ever knowing who Harry Potter was.
Three years later, Draco Malfoy meets a mysterious, rude, very attractive stranger, and cannot help but become obsessed.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 132,986
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
What would you do if you woke up in an 12-year-old's body with adult memories and the knowledge that you're supposed to be a villain?
A 34-year-old mother from 2025 dies and awakens as Petunia Evans in 1971. She knows exactly how this story is supposed to go—Petunia becomes bitter, magic-hating, and crucial to Harry Potter's survival. So she tries to change nothing. Stay invisible. Let events unfold.
Then she gets Sorted into Slytherin.
Now she's mastering magic she's not supposed to have, forming impossible friendships across house lines, and discovering that erasing a child's memories comes with consequences no one warned her about. Her Seer visions are getting darker, her failed Animagus transformation is changing her into something inhuman, and her desperate attempts to preserve the timeline are creating entirely new disasters.
Some knowledge is too dangerous to keep. Some futures are too important to save.Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 95,124
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Anthology containing:
Shifting in the Sand
After the war, Draco makes the decision to come back to school for his eighth year, desperate to escape the walls of his home. Turns out, Hogwarts is just as tormented by the things he’d done. Overwhelmed with the memories, he tries to clean up the areas he’s ruined before he gives up the fight—only to be stalked, once again, by Harry Potter. The prick. If he only minded his business, they wouldn’t be in this mess.
Harry didn’t come back to school for any reason other than to desperately cling to the only home he’d ever known. Only to realize it doesn’t feel the same anymore. Maybe he no longer has a home. Needing to find a distraction from the walls that hurt to walk in, Harry finds himself following Draco Malfoy, who’s up to something, back to the Room of Requirement.
Only to break a Time Turner in a stupid fight. And get stuck in 1977.
Sorted into the wrong houses and forced to pretend to be friends, Draco and Harry have to confront the dead, the ghosts that haunt them, and their growing feelings for each other.
Roots in the Ruins
Two years after getting back in their universe, Draco Malfoy is perfectly content with his life. He volunteers at St. Mungo's, donates to wizarding charities, writes letters that jump across the universe, and in his free time, works at a muggle flower shop. He's well-rested, healthy and still going. And he is definitely not lonely.
With little else to do with his time, Harry Potter decides to help Hermione out on one of her fundraisers by picking up the flowers. There, he sees Draco Malfoy. Looking like the sun. When he learns Malfoy’s involved in Hermione’s werewolf fundraising event that takes place all through December, Harry can’t help himself. He wants to go, too. A strange niggling in the back of his brain isn’t leaving him alone, and—well, he’s never been very good at ignoring things like that.
When a hidden figure hits them with a rune that forces them to work together and solve a mystery, they'll both quickly learn that no one can hide from the past.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 215,445
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
It's been four months since the war ended and the Auror Department is still tracking down the remaining Death Eaters. They need information desperately and Draco Malfoy is willing to give it to them in exchange for his and his mother's freedom. There's just one catch: the only person he is willing to talk to is Harry Potter.
Harry thinks Malfoy is just messing with him, one last chance to be an unbelievable arsehole to him for a lark. But as he visits Malfoy in Azkaban, he realizes that Malfoy has changed and that he just might be changing too. What starts as a plea bargain deal escalates into a perilous journey neither of them expected to take.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 145,283
- Status:
- Completed
A Strange Kind of Love by BarmaDumet
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Quest Series - Jude Watson, Star Wars Legends: Last of The Jedi Series - Jude Watson, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
26 Sep 2025
Summary
Jude Watson’s The Last of the Jedi book series picks up about a year after the events of ROTS. This fic revolves around a potential plot twist from TLOTJ Book 8:
What if Vader had succeeded in his plan to have his memories of Padmé erased, but in the process loses much more of his memory than bargained for?
You won't have to have read TLOTJ to read this fic. I've done my very best to recap any info from those books I felt essential to the story.
*
Ferus encounters a memory-wiped Darth Vader, who with no recollection of being Vader, is nothing more than a frightened and badly wounded Anakin Skywalker. Against his better judgment, Ferus begins nursing Anakin back to health, with the intent of returning him to his Master, Obi-Wan, all while wrestling with the harsh reality of who Anakin had been - an evil, masked Sith who had just recently murdered his husband.
Title inspired by:
A Strange Kind of Love - Listen on Spotify
A Strange Kind of Love - Listen on YouTubeShelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 228,965
- Status:
- Completed
Damian Wayne's Complete and Absolute Guide to Starting Over by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Aug 2025
Summary
To save the world from utter destruction, a person's memory was required. Not their memories, but everyone else's memories of them. They would be fundamentally erased from existence. Like they were never even there at all.
The moment Superman told them that, his face sunken and his eyes hollow, Damian knew it had to be him.
Or:
Damian Wayne is forgotten by the entire world. "Starting over" is more painful then he imagined.
[A guide with a... questionable success rate]
- Part 1 of Damian Wayne Fanfics
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 151,980
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
“It was his birthday yesterday. I got him a pair of Gouldian finches – he was so excited. You know, he used to hate birds? The peacocks terrified him when he was small.” Narcissa sniffled and turned back to Harry. “Twenty-six years old … and he can’t be left alone for ten minutes.”
“What happened to him?”
Narcissa took a sip of her tea; she pursed her lips and blew on the cup’s steaming surface.
“Draco tried to obliviate himself, Harry – last year on Christmas.”
“He …” Harry’s mouth gaped. “What? Why?”
“Why do you think?”
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 106,597
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
The plan was simple.
Absurd, but simple.
He’d wait until Draco left for his usual late-night library run. When the coast was clear, Harry would sneak over to Draco’s side of the dorm.
He wasn’t going to do anything. He wasn’t a complete lunatic. But Draco’s pillow? His blanket? That was fair game, wasn’t it? Just for a moment, just long enough to feel…
Harry groaned, dragging his hands down his face. This is insane, he thought. I’m insane.
But even as he berated himself, the plan solidified in his mind.
Steal Draco Malfoy’s pillow.
Or: In which Harry Potter loses a portion of his memories during the Battle of Hogwarts. When he returns for Eighth Year, he finds himself roomed with Draco Malfoy—a boy he doesn’t remember is supposed to be his enemy. And Draco Malfoy doesn’t know how to handle a Harry Potter who has forgotten to hate him.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 113,282
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
During a mission gone wrong, Jason watches as his brothers were seized by a pendant, crushed into clouds of golden dust before disappearing into the air. Then, Jason too was seized by the pendant... but rather than being lost to the ever-shifting darkness that death was, Jason... wakes up?
Oh dear god- again?!
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 32,844
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
"You're such a prick! I knew you hadn't really changed. You're just back to your old ways, torturing me." Harry can still feel Draco's hand around his arm. Their breath mingles as Harry's eyes rove around Malfoy's face. "You probably enjoy it too."
"Immensely."
They're so close that Harry could count Draco's eyelashes if he wanted to.
"You're the worst," Harry gasps out between breaths. His heartbeat pounds overwhelmingly loud in his ears as he loses his senses. His eyes drop to Draco's lips again, and he swallows loudly, interrupting the silence that is only filled with the sound of their heavy breathing. "Fuck you Malfoy."
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Harry is tired of being enemies with Draco. He has more important things to worry about. The most pressing of those being his real enemy, Voldemort, who is now at large.
And then Draco starts acting suspicious and Harry wants to know the truth. He always tries to believe the best in people, but Harry is starting to wonder if there is any good left in Draco at all.
(This story was finished in early 2021 and posted on another platform, but I'm finally posting it here.)
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 109,325
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
LS-819 aka Luke Skywalker had been with the Empire since he was ten. After deciding he was done being a weapon for the Empire he ran away to chase the life he had only read about from a book he had stolen from a Jedi.
But freedom comes with a cost. Like wearing a mask to hide yellow eyes and the unbearable heat of the two Tattoine suns.
Hiding out in Tattoine, Luke hoped to simply disappear and be forgotten. But his plans go sideways when he protects a Mandalorian and his child.
A Mandalorian who asks him, “Are you a Jedi?”
With a new purpose, training Grogu, Sith Luke Skywalker travels with the Mandalorian all while trying to solve the mystery of where he came from, who he really is, the identity of the Jedi who owned the book before him, and Din Djarin.
Who is just as reluctant to remove his mask as he is.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 219,954
- Status:
- Completed
Paradigm Shift by WindySkyes
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Aug 2024
Summary
A newly reborn Shigaraki pursues the beacon of One For All, just as the voice in his head urged him to. When he catches up to find Izuku, however, he learns something that flips his world upside down: he's not the only one with new bells and whistles. Tomura believes he's stumbled onto a terrible secret, one that not even the kid himself knows about.
This changes everything.
Or:
Shigaraki comes to some... interesting conclusions about Izuku's past upon seeing that he's not the only one holding a new quirk, and decides to act on them.Shelves: My Hero Academia
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 78,128
- Status:
- In-Progress
Rex quondam, Rex futurus (The Once and Future Rex) by HiddenEye, Zarz
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
07 Jun 2024
Summary
Once upon a time, on a faraway planetoid (or maybe moon, or possibly asteroid – the tales disagreed), there was a man. Some versions of the story said “soldier,” others “leader,” and one or two went as far as “king.” Regardless, this leader, and some of (a few of, many of, hundreds of) his followers were there, asleep. Waiting. In the galaxy’s darkest hour, when all hope was lost, they would wake from their slumber and return, defeating all evil that threatened the galaxy.
Rex never intended to become part of a fairy tale. But with Order 66 happening around them and all the troopers of the 332nd about to kill them, Rex and Ahsoka are willing to do whatever it takes to keep everyone alive. A slightly different trajectory through space leads to a very different landing for the 332nd, and a very different trajectory for Ahsoka, Rex, and the galaxy.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 36,593
- Status:
- Completed
lover, your back is bruised from what you carry Anthology by noverture
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
12 May 2024
Summary
A story about heroes and gods who are sick of being heroes and gods, and just want to be people again.
World-saving is a profession that doesn't pay well.
Anthology containing:
In the face of your light
"Here lay the world in tatters and ruins, littered with the remains of once mighty armies and terrible cities. Brought to its knees by the Dread Wolf. The Dread Wolf who was all pride and no wisdom, all guilt and no atonement."
---
Inquisitor Lavellan saved the world, lost the world, then saved it again - loved and lost, loved and lost. Cruel joke upon cruel joke piled atop each other under the disguise of destiny and fate, until the curtains fell on him and Solas with their blades piercing the other's heart. It was a disgustingly poetic end.
And because his luck was rotten, he wakes at the moment before it all began.
A second chance or a second doom? Lavellan wasn't sure which he preferred.
---
"Uncover the past, little raven, the Wolf is not the liar here. Those who walk the shadows never leave."
[Complete]
Three points of a constellation
This is a continuation of 'In the face of your light'
| Part 1 can be found here! |---
A year after Corypheus’ defeat and the revelations of Lavellan’s past, the world continues to turn.
But the journey is far from over. Lavellan now faces the ripples of the changes he’s made and the waves that they can become, while an old friend returns, challenging everything he knows of the world and of himself.
But their old friend doesn’t return quite right…
Hopefully, this time, things will come together instead of falling apart.
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"We have always been here."
A tapestry of stars
Side pieces written for 'In the face of your light'
Shelves: Dragon Age
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 909,442
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Three things happened after the war.
Hermione lost her memory.
Ron didn’t handle it well, started to wear lots of black, work-out relentlessly, fix up Sirius’s motorbike and sleep around.
And Harry let homeless, ex-con Slytherins move in with him until their homes and Gringotts accounts were released. Because, he's a f--ing idiot.
Oh, and Andromeda made him take parental classes - in order for him to have Teddy overnight.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 102,041
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
A life partly forgotten; a love story remembered out of order. Harry resents this past version, the one he can’t access on demand. The one who looks at home in Draco Malfoy’s arms.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 109,214
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Five years after the war, Harry, listless and depressed, stumbles upon Draco Malfoy playing the violin in an underground bar in Muggle London. The catch? Draco lost his memories five years ago. Ignoring his friends’ advice, Harry befriends an unwitting Draco, overlooking the fact that their mutual attraction might not survive if Draco’s memories return.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 54,659
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
When Draco Malfoy shows up at your doorstep in the middle of the night, drenched in rain from head to toe and shivering violently, what do you do?
"Malfoy Manor has not felt like home for a long time now. Or perhaps it still does, but I don't feel safe there and that's almost worse."
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 51,095
- Status:
- Completed