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Artificial Adaptation by Karatastrophe_Writes
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Mar 2024
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[The Loner] Wished to give [The Thinker] and [The Warrior] a gift for agreeing to exchange some [Shard]s.
[The Loner] was the only Entity to notice a strange world. One filled with Magic and beings that bent reality. It thought one of these magic users would be a good gift; lots of Data to be had there.
When it felt a being with more than one [Soul] try to travel quickly, it interfered and sent the odd being to one of the Earths that [The Thinker] and [The Warrior] were experimenting with.
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Or, Harry Potter accidentally apparates away from his abuse quickly, only to end up in the wormverse. As such, things change. -
His Will Be Done by Fishcombobulate
Fandoms: Highschool DxD (Anime), ハイスクール DxD - 石踏 一榮 | High School DxD - Ishibumi Ichiei
18 Mar 2024
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He used to be a casual fan, nothing special besides his home's circumstances. But after finding himself possessing the body of Diodora Astaroth, a minor villain destined to die a pointless death, suddenly everything started going wrong. With little more than his knowledge and eloquence, in order to survive and thrive... The new Diodora will take matters in his own hands.
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What happens when a single raindrop is given the chance to fall? To make its impact, its splash?
The younger brother of Nagato Uzumaki born at the error of Kami will not only overcome the world targeting their life, but irrevocably change the lives around them. With an otherworldly soul, ideals clashing with traditions set in place by the Warring States era, and a penchant of creating their own path their aim could not be clearer... peace!And it all starts with the Rain.
[Cries for salvation lost to the warm wind blowing green leaves—were they to be answered?]
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Sow the Tide, Reap the Storm by WearyBlues
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
17 Mar 2024
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Quen felt peculiar up on the dais, flanked by stags and lions and wolves.
The Usurper had once been a formidable man, with blazing eyes and a massive war hammer. Now, he was just a red-faced fat man, a pathetic drunk who ate as gracefully as a half-starved hog.
His Queen seemed to be a perpetually unhappy woman. Cersei Lannister was as beautiful as the singers said, though the woman had all the warmth of a dead fish.
She might have done well in the north, Quen thought, almost pitying.
(Or: The gods in their blind malice give Theon the feeble body of a woman.)
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Instead of Hagrid, one Quirinus Quirrell comes to fetch Harry from the Dursleys.
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Survivor's Guilt by Shadsie
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
16 Mar 2024
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The stars fell from the sky upon a lonely desert planet. The world was made of blood, sand and broken glass - and later on, gunsmoke. What could have been a paradise had become a violent world, one of hard-bitten, traumatized survivors...
Including... the most unexpected.
Ship 3, the single ship of the SEEDS fleet that had remained intact, took victims into their medical facilities in droves from nearby ships that were not so lucky in the early days after the Big Fall. One of the heavily wounded that came in overnight after most of the searches were coming up empty would change everything.
Rem Saverem had survived the apocalypse.
(Based in the universe of Trigun Stampede, with some borrowing from Trigun Maximum and Trigun '98 as desired).
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Paved With Mixed Intentions by DarknoMaGi
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Mar 2024
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Izuku was different from other kids. Nobody ever lost a chance to remind him of that. But nobody knew how deep the rift was.
He didn’t have a father. Not anymore.
He was Quirkless in a word where that word was meant for a dying breed.
He was incredibly smart, or smart enough to know that he should keep that as his official Quirk status.
He was sure that Villains didn’t deserve to live, and that the Heroes that kept the corrupt system alive weren’t any better.With a crystalline plan in his head, a vengeance burning in his heart, and enough guts to lie his way to the top, this kid will turn the world upside down.
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- Part 1 of Paved With Mixed Intentions
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Having successfully fled Kharbranth after learning a terrible truth, Kaladin struggles with the new role she has accepted, and the place she has found in the lives of others. In the town in which she was raised, a woman appears to spirit Kaladin's parents away to safety, no matter the costs.
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- Part 2 of Self-Soulcasting AU
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those who wander by ShadedEclipse
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
15 Mar 2024
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Lady Archeron is no fool. She has heard the stories: of mischief, mayhem, and hunger.
Just as she knows her fourth child is dead, she knows what this silent creature is and why it now lives and breathes within her trembling arms. A spark of emotion lights inside her—a dark loathing that feels ancient and centuries old.
The first words she spares towards this masquerade of a daughter are this:
“You should not be here.”
( Oh, she could not be more right. Wren is, among other things, a little lost. )
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Monkey D. Luffy never met his parents, and never thought much about it. But as we all know, his father is the infamous Revolutionary Dragon. So, what happens when he ends up getting more involved in his son's life?
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In a world where the Avatar wasn't found, the Fire Nation has taken over two nations and they strive to overcome the last one. Water Tribe warrior Sokka seeks to fight for his people's rights, but he's captured by his enemies. His life is no longer in his hands as he fights as a Gladiator, and his fate will eventually depend on the Fire Nation Princess, who needs him for her own ends...
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The Princess and the Prophet by Chuckling Ghost (Likes2Lllllurk)
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
15 Mar 2024
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Reiju is not amused with not knowing where she is, and it's becoming increasingly apparent the guy in the boat with her is insane. Luckily she has the gun and the upper hand (she hopes), but the more he talks, the more she wonders if he might actually be trying to help. Is this some kind of conspiracy, or is Bones somehow telling the truth when he claims to know the future?
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Heart of Light, Hero of Teyvat by RarepairKai22
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Mar 2024
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“...take a swan dive off the roof!”
Perhaps, in the abstract, he would’ve done that.
But in reality, he didn’t want to die.
Yet, he couldn’t have foreseen the railing giving way.
He didn’t want to die, but he is falling, straight down to his imminent death.
He should’ve died, but the powers that be intervened.
His soul is sent hurtling through time and space, and he wakes up in a different world, and in a different body, and with a beautiful young woman with white hair and eyes of the cosmos shaking him awake.
Faced with no other option, Midoriya Izuku is forced to navigate this unfamiliar world, reconcile the fact that he has powers, and attempt to answer the most pressing question of all.
Why is he here?
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Rewritten version of Take A Leap of Faith
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The Morrigan by Jerkus
Fandoms: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime)
14 Mar 2024
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At the end of hope, a mechanic and a Valkyrie make the choice to run. A Witch from Earth rushes on to her death and revenge, only to find her Thorn destroyed; its sister stolen. The students at Asticassia academy endure another day of classes and little else.
And the Witches of Quiet Zero begin their work, unimpeded.
A year later, Suletta Rembran tries to understand her sister, in the hopes that they can make peace. Two Enhanced Pilots take the first steps to make good their escape and revenge. And Dawn of Fold's new leaders use the only Gundam that works within Quiet Zero's sphere of influence to take back their home from any who would claim it.
The Three Witches' War has begun.
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- Part 3 of The Three Witches' War
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Those who Help the Heroes by Ckurab
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
14 Mar 2024
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"B-But i-its just, I, my dream, I a-always wanted to, to b-be a hero t-that saves other p-people with a smile, just like All Might! Just like you.”
“Do say, my boy, does that mean I am not people?”
“Uhhhh… what?”
“We spotlight heroes might help people out in the open for everyone to see, but Supporters are the ones that help and save us when no one can see it. They save us, and in doing so, they also save everyone else."All Might thinks a bit more about his answer and ends up offering Izuku an alternative that he never really thought about.
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Take A Leap of Faith by RarepairKai22
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Mar 2024
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“...take a leap of faith and throw yourself off the god-damned roof!”
Those were the last words he ever heard from his former childhood friend-turned-bully.
And now, with his dreams crushed and scattered to the winds, Izuku decides that it would be for the best if he did just that.
With only the wind as his witness, he takes a leap of faith, and falls to his death.
However, instead of dying, his soul leaves his body before it hits the pavement below. Sent hurtling through time and space, Izuku wakes up in a different world, and in a different body.
Faced with no other option, Izuku is forced to adapt and survive in this unfamiliar world, trying to make sense of why he is here, and answer the most pressing question of all…
Does he really want to go back home?
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The Wacky Adventures of the Earth Empress by Mr_A_Firebender
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Mar 2024
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2/7/24
After a brief hiatus
Act II returns.
Expect weekly releases (or better).
I have about 120 chapters to publish. Around 2 million words.
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The Hundred Year War is over. The Earth Empire has emerged victorious. The Fire Nation's crippled. The Water Tribes are in disunity. And the Air Nomads are made of one man.Meet the victors! The Avatar, a well-meaning pacifist who has no idea how world politics or intrigue work. The Fire Lord, stressed between being his father's son and being the Avatar's ally. And the most important one, because she said so herself and this book is telling us the truth, Toph, the Earth Empress.
Follow the Empress as she travels the Empire, trying to reform it (with earth pillars), fight bandits (with earth pillars) and help allies (with earth pillars).
The 'Age of Peace' is going to be far from peaceful.
Just remember, shout TEN THOUSAND YEARS! and your problems vanish.
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paved with blood and starlight by pensiveAbstraction
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
11 Mar 2024
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In another world, he bled and screamed and died in that darkness for one hundred years; who would question the murderous madman staying to haunt the world as a malicious spirit?
In this world, a young ghost - dead only twenty years - is too busy drinking to notice somebody listening in as she swaps gossip about the far too compassionate man under that silver mask that none of her friends will believe a word of.
It feels disrespectful to even consider, but the ghost king has no other leads, and the mere 'what if' of the situation drives a spear through his gut.
(Or Hua Cheng overhears a single person speaking kindly of the nearly two decades buried Fang Xin Guoshi and clinging to that fragment of hope is a good idea for a change.)
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In a universe where the lombaxes never completed the dimensionator, the cragmites have spread throughout Polaris - and they have now begun their conquest of Solana. Two leaders of the Resistance against the cragmite horde have a chat, discussing what might have been.
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Some days, you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Others, you wake up as a fish woman in the wrong world entirely.
Because sometimes when it rains, it doesn't just pour — it floods.
(Ranamon SI)