What Are The Top Sun X Eclipse Wattpad Fanfiction Stories To Read?

You'll have better luck searching the ship name as one word, 'sunxeclipse', on the app. A lot of the newer ones don't bother with the space. I'm not sure I'd call any of them 'top' stories in a traditional sense, but 'A Thousand Years of Darkness' is a pretty iconic one in the fandom. It's a vampire/werewolf AU, super tropey but in the best way—Eclipse is the ancient vampire lord and Solar is the werewolf alpha who keeps invading his territory. It's all longing glances and tense standoffs in moonlit forests. It's also like, 80 chapters long, so it's a real commitment. The writing gets noticeably better after the first ten chapters, which is nice to see. I think the author was really learning as they went, and the later plot twists involving a shared prophecy are actually well-executed. It's the kind of fic you put on your phone for a long flight.

Search for 'Solaris Eclipse' too, sometimes they use that. Found a decent rockstar AU under that tag called 'Phase', complete at 24 chapters. Solid banter, good use of the 'rival musicians' trope.

Is it terrible to admit I prefer the fan-made fanfiction guides and trope tags for this pair over most actual stories? The dynamic is so specific—cosmic scale, destined opposition, forced proximity—that it's fun to see how people interpret it, but the execution often falters. There's one story, 'Coronal Mass', that I will recommend against all odds. It's a body-swap fic, which sounds like a crack premise, but it treats the concept with a startling amount of emotional gravity. The process of each having to live in the other's realm, understanding the pressures the other faces... it builds this incredible, grudging respect that feels earned. The prose is a bit purple at times, but it suits the grand, dramatic tone they're going for. It's not a quick read, and the pacing in the middle sags a little with worldbuilding, but the final confrontation chapter is one of the most satisfying payoffs I've read in fanfic, period. It feels like the author really understood what makes the conflict between these two compelling beyond just aesthetics.

It feels like looking for those stories is half the struggle these days. The pairing seems to have this weird pattern where the really dedicated writers all migrate off Wattpad after a while, so you find these amazing fics that are just... abandoned. Frustrating, but it adds to the weirdly melancholic charm of the ship. I dug through my 'saved' list and two titles that always come up in old forum threads are 'Constellations Collide' and 'Oblivion's Edge'. The first one is a modern AU with Eclipse as a barista, which shouldn't work but the author just nails the dynamic of Solar trying to order the most complicated drink possible. It's got that slow-burn energy. The second is more of a classic fantasy crossover sort of thing, but it hasn't been updated since 2022. Still, the existing chapters are worth it for the dialogue alone.

Honestly, the tag itself on Wattpad can be a mess of one-shots and weird crossovers, so I'd suggest searching by the author names that pop up consistently in the comments of the popular ones. There's a user called 'lunarsyntax' who wrote a sci-fi AU called 'Perihelion' that's genuinely clever—it reimagines the whole celestial dynamic as a spaceship AI and its pilot. It's complete, too, which is a minor miracle. The real trick is sorting by 'Completed' and then just accepting you'll wade through a lot of... let's call them 'enthusiastic first attempts' to find the polished ones. The ship thrives on that intense, almost antagonistic push-pull, and the best fics capture that without making either character purely villainous.