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			<title><![CDATA[Does anyone know what Juraian writing looks like?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:09:17 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki" version, on the off-chance it makes a difference.<br />
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Asking for a possible story image.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mordor - unapproved entry methods]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:18:25 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fic Updates 61: LuXurIous edition]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:13:22 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=113">classicdrogn</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[More Alt+F4, with emotional payoff for all the shipteasing at last. In Alt's special way.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite> ratmilk: OH MY GOD HE'S ACCIDENTALLY MONOGAMOUS<br />
npc_karen: he'd just trip into a committed relationship like it was a pothole<br />
tv.dinner: 'WHY START OVER WHEN YOU'RE AVAILABLE' SIRRRRRRR<br />
cheap_aviators: 'available'?????? you mean 'a person'??????<br />
goblinresin: he said it like she's a subscription plan<br />
goblinresin: Mina: 'you mean... staying?' Alt: 'yeah why wouldn't i' BRO</blockquote>
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<a href="https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/altf4-saviour-savant-asshole-sword-art-online-oc.1259491/post-119092934" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">chapter link</a><br />
<a href="https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/altf4-saviour-savant-asshole-sword-art-online-oc.1259491/threadmarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Threadmarks link</a><br />
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Both on SB]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[More Alt+F4, with emotional payoff for all the shipteasing at last. In Alt's special way.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite> ratmilk: OH MY GOD HE'S ACCIDENTALLY MONOGAMOUS<br />
npc_karen: he'd just trip into a committed relationship like it was a pothole<br />
tv.dinner: 'WHY START OVER WHEN YOU'RE AVAILABLE' SIRRRRRRR<br />
cheap_aviators: 'available'?????? you mean 'a person'??????<br />
goblinresin: he said it like she's a subscription plan<br />
goblinresin: Mina: 'you mean... staying?' Alt: 'yeah why wouldn't i' BRO</blockquote>
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<a href="https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/altf4-saviour-savant-asshole-sword-art-online-oc.1259491/post-119092934" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">chapter link</a><br />
<a href="https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/altf4-saviour-savant-asshole-sword-art-online-oc.1259491/threadmarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Threadmarks link</a><br />
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Both on SB]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Archive of Our own will be down for maintenance on Wednesday]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14977</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:08:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to the page banner that went up at some point in the last 12 hours:<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>AO3 will be down for about 15 hours starting at 08:00 UTC on January 21 (<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AO3+Maintenance&amp;iso=20260121T08&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=15" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">what time is that for me?</a>) while we make some <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ao3org/806187128904155136/ao3-will-be-down-for-about-15-hours-starting-at?source=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">improvements to searching bookmarks and series</a>. Please follow our <a href="https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/rvdbqwjlhfdl" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">status page</a> for updates.</blockquote>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[According to the page banner that went up at some point in the last 12 hours:<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>AO3 will be down for about 15 hours starting at 08:00 UTC on January 21 (<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AO3+Maintenance&amp;iso=20260121T08&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=15" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">what time is that for me?</a>) while we make some <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ao3org/806187128904155136/ao3-will-be-down-for-about-15-hours-starting-at?source=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">improvements to searching bookmarks and series</a>. Please follow our <a href="https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/rvdbqwjlhfdl" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">status page</a> for updates.</blockquote>
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			<title><![CDATA[What would a cook with this cover be about?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:18:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=113">classicdrogn</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[A while back we had a pretty long thread of "what would this title be about" but this one kind of needs the description to go with it:<br />
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"The Smoking Gun"<br />
cover image is a revolver with a lit cigarette in the barrel<br />
<br />
I can't come up with anything better than a tropey noir detective mystery, but I'm sure someone can.<br />
<br />
And of course, chime in if you have any odd or interesting image/title/combos but nothing particularly hook-y of your own. It was a lot of fun the first time around even if it did eventually run out of steam, but a few years might have let some batteries recharge.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A while back we had a pretty long thread of "what would this title be about" but this one kind of needs the description to go with it:<br />
<br />
"The Smoking Gun"<br />
cover image is a revolver with a lit cigarette in the barrel<br />
<br />
I can't come up with anything better than a tropey noir detective mystery, but I'm sure someone can.<br />
<br />
And of course, chime in if you have any odd or interesting image/title/combos but nothing particularly hook-y of your own. It was a lot of fun the first time around even if it did eventually run out of steam, but a few years might have let some batteries recharge.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Stuff!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14933</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:10:41 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=295">Dark Seraph</a>]]></dc:creator>
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Instead of making a new thread for every shitty ficlet I write, here is the link to my Works page.<br />
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Short page long chapters, so easy to breeze though.<br />
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Enjoy!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/DenSeraph/works" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://archiveofourown.org/users/DenSeraph/works</a><br />
<br />
Instead of making a new thread for every shitty ficlet I write, here is the link to my Works page.<br />
<br />
Short page long chapters, so easy to breeze though.<br />
<br />
Enjoy!]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[STMPD’s Fanfic Promotion Thread]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14916</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:01:05 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=231">STMPD</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hello all! I’m limping back to being more active on this forum since I still like it as a digital space. I kinda faded from being here a whole lot after I fell off of working on my one Ranma / AMG fic Divine Patronage. But I’ve been doing plenty of other really cool stuff. And since I got permission from Bob to do a thread like this, I’m gonna shill completed projects, half-active projects I’ve been struggling to chug along on, and projects I keep kicking around. I don’t remember which of these projects I’ve brought up before but what the hell. Hoping people find them cool, that's all.<br />
<br />
I'm starting to get my screenwriting groove on, actually, so I might just let fanfic fall by the wayside and focus on that. We will see, I guess.<br />
<br />
Back in 2022 I lost interest in Divine Patronage and decided to go back to BGC. Two things I wanted to do were a) establish a fic that could be seen to take place in an AU that would constitute a second reboot of the franchise, with a timeline that could take off from the present and not feel wreathed in the retrofuturism of 2032 or 2040, and b) save Sylvie, as so many fics have, but then <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">do something with her.</span> The result was the only fic I’ve really, truly finished, after a little less than a year. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/40358838/chapters/101096490" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Anatomy of a Lovedoll</a> is about cybernetics and humanity and freedom and yuri angst and epic mecha fights. One of its key plot points will, I suspect, have to be retconned in an awkward way sometime soon but it’s no biggie.<br />
<br />
Later that year, I got really into Cyberpunk: Edgerunners despite not really liking the release version of 2077 for a multitude of reasons, and then into a fic that got big in the embryonic phase of the fandom called <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/41823054/chapters/104935506" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Group Chat</a> by Arrow S. Morgan. I ended up on the author’s Discord, hung out there a lot, made some friends of dubious merit, and went on to help write a pretty significant chapter in the fic’s back half. The fic starts off as horny screwball comedy and then becomes a bit more action-packed, and, yes, crosses over with the original Marathon trilogy in amazing ways. Very few longer Edgerunners fics hold up, to me, as more than pulpy adventures; Group Chat is one of them.<br />
<br />
In early 2023, I started watching the Madhouse Black Lagoon anime. Oddly enough, I’ve never finished all of it because of how unpleasant I find some arcs, but I love the characters, the world, the unhinged action. The pseudophilosophical monologues lack panache to me, but there’s some really excellent fanfics birthed by it (and more than a few atrocities against good taste). So as Anatomy wound down I quickly spun up <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/47744260/chapters/130111711" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Bubblegum Black</a>, which is the longest thing I've ever written by a country mile, an unhinged crossover in Roanapur, November, 2069, where the Knight Sabers are hired on by Sylia's sexy ex Balalaika to help her fend off a megacorporate takeover of the city, only for things to spiral out of control in true mecha-hyperviolence style. I love this fic, I want to do so much more with this fic, I have not updated this fic in nine months, I need to winnow this fic's ambitions down significantly. (And I'm envious of those who can sustain other fics longer and with more hits, even if I don't really enjoy their content. I have opinions! Judgements! Complaints!)<br />
<br />
Same with something I spun up a year ago with a pal. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/58288141/chapters/148438747" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">I Will Show You Fear In A Handful Of Dust</a> does a lot of very odd things as far as Edgerunners fanfic goes. It uses the BGC206X (The all-new, all-unhinged continuity for Anatomy and Black) timeline more than it does Cyberpunk's but still takes place in Night City; It's a pre-Sabers prequel involving Celia; It's also a 'Gloria lives and gets to do things' fanfic, since I seem to have an attraction to turning fridged heroines into badasses. I think the cowriter and I are onto something, but, again, time! The foe of all beautiful things, the high-octane fuel in the engine of entropy!<br />
<br />
Let's see, what else... <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/58142083" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Nene Romanova god of the internet</a> is a two-part atrocity against good taste where Nene and company deal with cyber-future 4chan and also Knight Saber real person fiction. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/65703196" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The New Wave Empress</a> uses interview format to imagine what it's like to talk to Sylia's public persona as a fashionista, especially when you're getting on her nerves. I like those shorts. They're pleasant chunks of nonsense. I think that's about it.<br />
<br />
The one idea I'm having if I can't justify keeping up with writing big serialized fanfic is rewriting an old OVA episode or two, or just writing something that could fit in an episode and has tight structure. Revenge Road sticks out in particular; I just finished the original The Warriors novel, the Sol Yurick one, the one far more freaky in the best ways than Walter Hill's movie (which is itself a forerunner spiritually to streets of fire, then to Megazone 23, then etc etc etc), and I keep thinking about the world it crafts and how well it gets inside the heads of its protagonists. There's something there.<br />
<br />
Hope this is interesting to someone!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello all! I’m limping back to being more active on this forum since I still like it as a digital space. I kinda faded from being here a whole lot after I fell off of working on my one Ranma / AMG fic Divine Patronage. But I’ve been doing plenty of other really cool stuff. And since I got permission from Bob to do a thread like this, I’m gonna shill completed projects, half-active projects I’ve been struggling to chug along on, and projects I keep kicking around. I don’t remember which of these projects I’ve brought up before but what the hell. Hoping people find them cool, that's all.<br />
<br />
I'm starting to get my screenwriting groove on, actually, so I might just let fanfic fall by the wayside and focus on that. We will see, I guess.<br />
<br />
Back in 2022 I lost interest in Divine Patronage and decided to go back to BGC. Two things I wanted to do were a) establish a fic that could be seen to take place in an AU that would constitute a second reboot of the franchise, with a timeline that could take off from the present and not feel wreathed in the retrofuturism of 2032 or 2040, and b) save Sylvie, as so many fics have, but then <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">do something with her.</span> The result was the only fic I’ve really, truly finished, after a little less than a year. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/40358838/chapters/101096490" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Anatomy of a Lovedoll</a> is about cybernetics and humanity and freedom and yuri angst and epic mecha fights. One of its key plot points will, I suspect, have to be retconned in an awkward way sometime soon but it’s no biggie.<br />
<br />
Later that year, I got really into Cyberpunk: Edgerunners despite not really liking the release version of 2077 for a multitude of reasons, and then into a fic that got big in the embryonic phase of the fandom called <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/41823054/chapters/104935506" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Group Chat</a> by Arrow S. Morgan. I ended up on the author’s Discord, hung out there a lot, made some friends of dubious merit, and went on to help write a pretty significant chapter in the fic’s back half. The fic starts off as horny screwball comedy and then becomes a bit more action-packed, and, yes, crosses over with the original Marathon trilogy in amazing ways. Very few longer Edgerunners fics hold up, to me, as more than pulpy adventures; Group Chat is one of them.<br />
<br />
In early 2023, I started watching the Madhouse Black Lagoon anime. Oddly enough, I’ve never finished all of it because of how unpleasant I find some arcs, but I love the characters, the world, the unhinged action. The pseudophilosophical monologues lack panache to me, but there’s some really excellent fanfics birthed by it (and more than a few atrocities against good taste). So as Anatomy wound down I quickly spun up <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/47744260/chapters/130111711" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Bubblegum Black</a>, which is the longest thing I've ever written by a country mile, an unhinged crossover in Roanapur, November, 2069, where the Knight Sabers are hired on by Sylia's sexy ex Balalaika to help her fend off a megacorporate takeover of the city, only for things to spiral out of control in true mecha-hyperviolence style. I love this fic, I want to do so much more with this fic, I have not updated this fic in nine months, I need to winnow this fic's ambitions down significantly. (And I'm envious of those who can sustain other fics longer and with more hits, even if I don't really enjoy their content. I have opinions! Judgements! Complaints!)<br />
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Same with something I spun up a year ago with a pal. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/58288141/chapters/148438747" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">I Will Show You Fear In A Handful Of Dust</a> does a lot of very odd things as far as Edgerunners fanfic goes. It uses the BGC206X (The all-new, all-unhinged continuity for Anatomy and Black) timeline more than it does Cyberpunk's but still takes place in Night City; It's a pre-Sabers prequel involving Celia; It's also a 'Gloria lives and gets to do things' fanfic, since I seem to have an attraction to turning fridged heroines into badasses. I think the cowriter and I are onto something, but, again, time! The foe of all beautiful things, the high-octane fuel in the engine of entropy!<br />
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Let's see, what else... <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/58142083" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Nene Romanova god of the internet</a> is a two-part atrocity against good taste where Nene and company deal with cyber-future 4chan and also Knight Saber real person fiction. <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/65703196" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The New Wave Empress</a> uses interview format to imagine what it's like to talk to Sylia's public persona as a fashionista, especially when you're getting on her nerves. I like those shorts. They're pleasant chunks of nonsense. I think that's about it.<br />
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The one idea I'm having if I can't justify keeping up with writing big serialized fanfic is rewriting an old OVA episode or two, or just writing something that could fit in an episode and has tight structure. Revenge Road sticks out in particular; I just finished the original The Warriors novel, the Sol Yurick one, the one far more freaky in the best ways than Walter Hill's movie (which is itself a forerunner spiritually to streets of fire, then to Megazone 23, then etc etc etc), and I keep thinking about the world it crafts and how well it gets inside the heads of its protagonists. There's something there.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Writing Self-Insert Characters]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>In 'Eyrie Thread 2: Overtech Boogie-Shoes', Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>Thirding the advice on being hard on your SI.  Actually... I have a whole list of advice for Self-Insert characters in my fic writer's guide... let me go grab the relevant section to save you some time and effort.  (Although, if you want to read the whole, incomplete thing, a not-quite-the-latest version can be found <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/guide/fwg.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">here</a>.)</blockquote><br />
These lists look to me like the perfect starting point for a thread about writing self-insert characters. I'll make my comments inline; if anybody else wants to share their experience writing SIs or similar characters, feel free to add to the thread.<br />
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My first comment: Many of these rules also apply to many isekai characters who aren't self-insert characters. While they don't know everything that the writer knows, <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Genre_Savvy" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">these isekai characters know more about the setting and characters than J. Random Native does</a>, so many of the same writing issues apply.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>xx.  Rules for Self-Inserts<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Your SI should be there to *supplement* the plot, not *supplant* it.  Help the other characters achieve their goals, do not achieve those goals for or instead of them.  Don't steal their awesome -- help them get *more* awesome.<br />
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Readers who look for stories set in their favourite works looked up your story to read about the characters and setting that they like. They aren't particularly interested in "The Amazing Adventures of Marty Stu and His Sidekicks from Some Story". Give the readers what they want and they'll stick around for the next chapter.<br />
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Yes, there are some Si characters and similar who have audiences of their own: Twister, Doug Sangnoir, Ed and Minerva, even (amazingly enough) Skysaber. But they started out as characters who were visiting other people's stories, and most of the characters that I listed  did their best to fit in rather than to run roughshod over the existing plots.<br />
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As an example, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span>'s Robu-san rarely defeats the Monster of the Week and never defeats the season's Big Bad; his main story role is to ease the canon plotlines despite trying to change them, and to find boyfriends for the Senshi who don't have them. Not only does that leave something for the Sailor Senshi to do (unlike in so many episodes in canon), it's actually more fun to write than a steamroller-over-canon story would be.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>No one likes a show-off.  Even if you are far more competent or powerful than the other characters, do not run roughshod over them.  Complement them.  (*Not* "compliment".)  If necessary, give yourself a valid and believable in-story reason why you can't just wave your hand and fix everything, even if that's actually in your power to do.  This is not to say you can't give your SI the occasional set-piece that shows off how powerful or competent they are, but don't do it too often, and *never* at the expense of the setting's heroes.<br />
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Which ties into the "supplement, don't supplant" rule above. If the Si is a better fighter than Son Goku, why would the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Dragon Ball</span> fandom care about reading your story?<br />
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(And everybody likes getting a compliment, Bob! It's an ego boost. Do it too often and you get a reputation of being a flatterer, though.)<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>At least some of the characters your SI meets and interacts with should *not* like your SI.  And I don't mean the bad guys -- that's a given.  Some of the *heroes* should find him suspicious, or too mysterious to be trustworthy, or just plain annoying (*especially* if he acts like a typical SI).  Conflict drives a story, and conflict among the good guys makes it *interesting* -- what good is knowing the entire plot if no one wants to listen to you?  And what I said about the bad guys a moment ago?  What if some of the bad guys *like* your SI regardless of his opinions on the matter?<br />
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This is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">especially</span> important in a deconstruction. Nobody has a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/100%25_Adoration_Rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">100% Adoration Rating</a>; there will always be <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">somebody</span> who doesn't like your character, because not everyone has the same concerns and interests that your self-insert has.<br />
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I'll point at <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span> for an example of the consequences of not following this rule: one writer actually dropped out of the project because one of the other writers introduced a character who had a good reason to not like the first writer's SI character. Both writers refused to budge on the conflicting principles.<br />
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A corollary: Nobody has a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/0%25_Approval_Rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">0% Approval Rating</a>, either. If almost everybody hates someone, iconoclasts and saints will at the least have pity for him.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>Similarly, your SI shouldn't automatically like all the heroes and hate all the villains, even if he's coming in with full knowledge and awareness of what's going on.  He may *want* to, but frankly, I can think of a dozen protagonists from as many genres whom I love to read about or watch but whom I would find incredibly irritating in person.  (I'm looking at *you*, Ranma Saotome.)  Let your SI dislike anyone who deserves it -- and when appropriate, *like* anyone who deserves it, as well -- regardless of their "side".<br />
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This is a simple case of truth in fiction. If there are people who you don't like, why wouldn't there be people who your SI doesn't like? The SI is based on you, after all.<br />
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In <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span>, there's a scene in "Like Calls to Like" where my SI lists what he likes the most about each of his residents. Ami notices that he had to think about what he liked about Kuroko...<br />
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Going to <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span> for another example: Robu-san and Tuxedo Kamen don't like each other, but are willing to work together. The reason has only been hinted at in-universe, so I'll put it in spoiler markup here:<br />
<div class="spoiler_wrap"><div class="spoiler_header"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:if(parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display=='block'){parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display='none';this.innerHTML='&lt;img title=&quot;[+]&quot; alt=&quot;[+]&quot; src=&quot;/images/collapse_collapsed.png&quot; class=&quot;expandspoiler&quot; /&gt;Spoiler';}else {parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display='block';this.innerHTML='&lt;img title=&quot;[-]&quot; alt=&quot;[-]&quot; src=&quot;/images/collapse.png&quot; class=&quot;expandspoiler&quot; /&gt;Spoiler';}"><img title="[+]" alt="[+]" src="/images/collapse_collapsed.png" class="expandspoiler" />Spoiler</a></div><div class="spoiler_body" style="display: none;">Because of a bad first impression and Mamoru's reaction to the warnings he received from the future, Robu-san thinks Mamoru isn't good enough to be Usagi's boyfriend. And Mamoru has picked up on that.</div></div>The reasons for characters liking or disliking somebody don't need to be rational, but they should arise from the characters' personalities and the writer should know what they are.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>Even if your SI is deliberately there to get involved in the plot, don't drop him right in the middle of the action.  A self-insert story will play better if your character arrives on the outskirts of what's going on, and has to find his way to the fun -- or accidentally stumbles over it.  Your SI should also have interests and priorities that have nothing to do with the main plot -- like, for instance, *leaving* the story's world if he was sent there involuntarily.  If the only thing he does while there is dog the main characters' steps, he's going to look like a creepy stalker to them -- and maybe even to your readers.<br />
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Mentioning <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span> again: even after my SI gets powers and a geas to act in the face of injustice, he still leaves defending Love and Justice to Sailor Moon. He's a support character, not a front-line fighter, no matter how much he'd prefer otherwise.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>If your SI is allegedly unaware of what he's getting into, don't write his reactions with *your* knowledge.  The prime example of this is someone dropped into a whole new (and unfamiliar) world automatically sussing out who the good guys are and who the bad guys are without any thought or effort.  Only in the most black-and-white worlds should this be believable.  (For a great example of an SI ignorant of the world he's been dropped into feeling his way through it, check out the "Revolutionary Girl Utena" fic "Ma Vie et Roses" by Scott Johnson and Scott K. Jamison.)<br />
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For this one, I'll pull an example from Blade and Epsilon's epic <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Hybrid Theory</span>. While both of the SIs have some idea about the plots of some of the stories in that mega crossover, neither SI knows everything that's going on, and as a result each of them make mistakes that make it more difficult (and thus more interesting) for them to succeed. If fact, Blade's SI is <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Wrong_Genre_Savvy" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">so far off-base with his knowledge</a> that he effectively becomes the setting's Big Bad.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>No matter how powerful or capable your SI is, *someone* will at least *try* to get the better of him -- and you know, they should succeed at least once.  If you can't be beaten, you can't be truly challenged, and if you can't be challenged, you have no conflict to drive a story.  And remember -- they don't have to challenge you where you excel.  Just because you're invulnerable, can lift mountains, and can waltz invisibly into the bad guys' headquarters doesn't mean you can't be out-thought or out-planned.<br />
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As so many sports anime and manga show us, defeat is also a learning experience that opens up new storytelling opportunities.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>To re-emphasize the first point above, a quote from elsewhere in my guide:  <br />
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The First Commandment of Interventions:<br />
"Thou shalt not cockblock someone else's torrid affair with awesomeness."  -- Alistair Young</blockquote><br />
Tying back to the "no 100% Adoration Rating" rule, cockblocking the characters who are native to the story is a good way to get them to dislike your SI.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>And after that, I had this pasted in as something to draw inspiration from.  Several of its points already echo things I've said above, but there's other good advice here, too:<br />
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PsyckoSama's Rules for Self-Inserts<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/285562/PsyckoSama" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.fanfiction.net/u/285562/PsyckoSama</a><br />
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The Ten Commandments of Writing an SI:<br />
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I: The SI is not you. It’s a character based on you. Remember this and maintain a degree of emotional detachment at all times. Treat your SI like you would any other character.</blockquote><br />
Even if your SI was a carbon copy of you when you dropped them into the story, they stop being you at that point because their life experiences are different from that point forward.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>II: Know your strengths and flaws. If you can’t think of any, invent a couple. It’s only based on you after all.</blockquote><br />
This can be a difficult one to write. If your SI is based closely on you, then admitting what the SI's flaws are to the readers is the same as admitting to strangers what your own flaws are... and that's something that takes a certain level of maturity (and fearlessness) to do.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>III: Have a couple prereaders with good bullshit detectors who are willing to smack you upside the head when you approach the Sue Zone. Even just having someone to bounce ideas off of can do a world of good and help kill some very bad ideas.</blockquote><br />
I am extremely lucky to have Labster as a prereader. He catches problems that I thought were strengths when I wrote them. (And I don't thank Brent enough for his work on my stories, so thank you again, Brent!)<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>IV: You are not an ironclad badass. In most of these series you’d be the extra who gets eaten by the aliens/demons/zombies and write accordingly. People are paranoid, panicky creatures and chances are you are no different. Remember this. Things can change with time but that’s what character development is for (See Rule VII).</blockquote><br />
You can play with this one if you drop your SI into a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/World_of_Badass" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">World of Badass</a>, but even there, keep in mind the "supplement, don't supplant" rule.<br />
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And if the setting isn't a World of Badass, then some people – yes, the paranoid, panicky ones – will look at an ironclad badass and wonder whether they're a new villain.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>V: Life is a mixed bag. Shit happens and it happens to you, don’t be afraid to torture yourself a bit. That said, remember, the good comes with the bad.</blockquote><br />
I have an advantage here in that the writing style that I've developed over decades mixes drama and humour. If your writing style tends toward action, or drama, or comedy, or angst, you might have trouble mixing in the elements that you don't naturally emphasize.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>With that in mind remember the following two sub-rules.<br />
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Va: Avoid wish fulfillment. Good things can happen to you (see above) but your SI should never be an engine created specifically to allow you to be awesome, loved by everyone, and get all the chicks. If that’s what you really want, I’d suggest putting down the keyboard and reaching for a kleenex.</blockquote><br />
Wish-fulfillment can be done if you're willing to massively deconstruct it; see <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ah! My Goddess</span> for an example. But failing to take into account the downside of giving your SI what you think you really want leads to the stereotypical Mary Sue plot.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>Vb: Avoid wangst. While it's necessary for bad things to happen to create tension, drama, and to propel the plot forward, avoid throwing yourself a pity party. Someone who only has bad things happen to them is just as annoying as someone who only has good things happen. When you go too far it becomes obnoxious cartoonish.</blockquote><br />
Besides, listening to other people complain is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">boring</span>. Do this in your story – SI or not – in anything other than very-small doses and you'll drive away readers.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VI: Life goes on, with or without you. Do not make the universe wait on you, for life waits for no man. This is especially important in video game SIs. If you’re actually in the universe, treat it like a living breathing world. It’s not a magical playground that sits on its hands while you randomly run around and do awesome shit.</blockquote><br />
Pulling an example from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span>, the characters from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Yumeiro Pâtissière</span> set up shop and become successful <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">before</span> anyone who's supposed to help them acclimatize to the situation even know that they're in the setting.<br />
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And from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span>: Robu-san accompanies Ami on her first two trips to Castle Mariner and helps her start repairs on her yacht from the Silver Millennium. Then he spends a lot of time with Makoto while Ami finishes the repair work without him... which surprises him when she actually launches the ship. (He even comments that she breaks a stupid genre convention in that he isn't involved in everything that his friends do.)<br />
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There are dozens, hundreds, or maybe billions of other people in your story. They don't all wait for the SI's cooperation to do things. In fact, some of them, for their own interests, will do things that act against what your SI wants to have happen. This is a source of subplots, not a problem.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VII: Balance your flow of time. Don’t rush what you write. While you might want to skip to the good stuff, doing so can be jarring and make your character look like a Mary Sue. Show us your character is growing and making friends, don’t just tell us. On the same note, be careful not to get bogged down in the minutia. There is such a thing as too much detail. We don’t need to see everything. If you’re training, you can show a montage. If you’re looking at a long span of time where nothing out of a ordinary is going to happen, consider a time skip. Things are permitted to happen in the background.</blockquote><br />
Not skipping the "boring" stuff also leads to plot developments. Sometimes these developments are things that you as a writer didn't expect.<br />
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If I had rushed <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonliht</span> Chapter S and jumped straight from the first encounter between Kalonite and Rei to the raid on Mugen Academy, none of the characters would have developed and all of the Witches 5 would have ended up dead. Instead, some of the villains were actually rescued from being possessed, all of the Senshi ended up being willing to work together instead of at cross-purposes, and Hotaru didn't end up going through her canon fate.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VIII: Throw curve balls at yourself. Even if you’re in a rather tight setting, your presence can create butterflies. In a loose one, you don’t know what’s around the bend. Good or bad, better or worse, do you find something or don’t you? I suggest the use of a randomizer. Flip a coin, roll some dice, pull pieces of paper out of a hat. Don’t let this do you thinking for you, but it can point you in directions you’d never have considered, and having a good chance to standing tall or fall flat on their face will do much to keep your character honest. But remember, you're not slave to the dice. Just let it point you in a direction, think about it, and see what comes out. You can sometimes come up with some amazing ideas that you never would have considered this way, even if it in no way resembles the original dice result.</blockquote><br />
A corollary: Sometimes, the random number gods tell you what you really wanted to write in the first place. You say "heads this happens, tails it doesn't" and you're disappointed with the result? Deep down, you wanted to write the other option... so write the one you didn't know that you wanted to write.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>IX: Be careful with the use of meta-knowledge. Meta-knowledge should stay that. Meta. Be careful who you tell, and only tell those you trust. If you make what you know common knowledge, you will attract all sorts, and mostly for ill. No one likes a know it all, especially evil wizards, secret societies, and evil military dictatorships bent on total domination.</blockquote><br />
A corollary: Sharing the meta knowledge can invalidate that knowledge. Especially if your foes find out about the meta knowledge and change things up in order to lull you into a false sense of complacency.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>X: This rule is related to rule IV and Vb in many ways, but deserves restating. In most cases you are not the main character of the universe. Events don’t revolve around you. There are others for that. You are a secondary character, if not background extra. To make yourself a main character, either hang with the mains, or do something, stand up and make the universe pay attention to you. But do remember, being a member of the central cast is a mixed bag. It often means you have the protection of plot, but on the same note, it means your life is always going to be interesting, and there is a very good reason that the ancient Chinese used it as a curse.</blockquote><br />
This isn't to say that you can't tell an interesting story about your character even when they aren't the lead. Consider that Touma Kamijo is the main character in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Certain Magical Index</span>, but some of the most interesting stories in his world are about the girl who he doesn't realize is in love with him; those stories are told in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Certain Scientific Railgun</span>.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>In 'Eyrie Thread 2: Overtech Boogie-Shoes', Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>Thirding the advice on being hard on your SI.  Actually... I have a whole list of advice for Self-Insert characters in my fic writer's guide... let me go grab the relevant section to save you some time and effort.  (Although, if you want to read the whole, incomplete thing, a not-quite-the-latest version can be found <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/guide/fwg.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">here</a>.)</blockquote><br />
These lists look to me like the perfect starting point for a thread about writing self-insert characters. I'll make my comments inline; if anybody else wants to share their experience writing SIs or similar characters, feel free to add to the thread.<br />
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My first comment: Many of these rules also apply to many isekai characters who aren't self-insert characters. While they don't know everything that the writer knows, <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Genre_Savvy" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">these isekai characters know more about the setting and characters than J. Random Native does</a>, so many of the same writing issues apply.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>xx.  Rules for Self-Inserts<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Your SI should be there to *supplement* the plot, not *supplant* it.  Help the other characters achieve their goals, do not achieve those goals for or instead of them.  Don't steal their awesome -- help them get *more* awesome.<br />
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Readers who look for stories set in their favourite works looked up your story to read about the characters and setting that they like. They aren't particularly interested in "The Amazing Adventures of Marty Stu and His Sidekicks from Some Story". Give the readers what they want and they'll stick around for the next chapter.<br />
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Yes, there are some Si characters and similar who have audiences of their own: Twister, Doug Sangnoir, Ed and Minerva, even (amazingly enough) Skysaber. But they started out as characters who were visiting other people's stories, and most of the characters that I listed  did their best to fit in rather than to run roughshod over the existing plots.<br />
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As an example, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span>'s Robu-san rarely defeats the Monster of the Week and never defeats the season's Big Bad; his main story role is to ease the canon plotlines despite trying to change them, and to find boyfriends for the Senshi who don't have them. Not only does that leave something for the Sailor Senshi to do (unlike in so many episodes in canon), it's actually more fun to write than a steamroller-over-canon story would be.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>No one likes a show-off.  Even if you are far more competent or powerful than the other characters, do not run roughshod over them.  Complement them.  (*Not* "compliment".)  If necessary, give yourself a valid and believable in-story reason why you can't just wave your hand and fix everything, even if that's actually in your power to do.  This is not to say you can't give your SI the occasional set-piece that shows off how powerful or competent they are, but don't do it too often, and *never* at the expense of the setting's heroes.<br />
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Which ties into the "supplement, don't supplant" rule above. If the Si is a better fighter than Son Goku, why would the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Dragon Ball</span> fandom care about reading your story?<br />
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(And everybody likes getting a compliment, Bob! It's an ego boost. Do it too often and you get a reputation of being a flatterer, though.)<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>At least some of the characters your SI meets and interacts with should *not* like your SI.  And I don't mean the bad guys -- that's a given.  Some of the *heroes* should find him suspicious, or too mysterious to be trustworthy, or just plain annoying (*especially* if he acts like a typical SI).  Conflict drives a story, and conflict among the good guys makes it *interesting* -- what good is knowing the entire plot if no one wants to listen to you?  And what I said about the bad guys a moment ago?  What if some of the bad guys *like* your SI regardless of his opinions on the matter?<br />
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This is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">especially</span> important in a deconstruction. Nobody has a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/100%25_Adoration_Rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">100% Adoration Rating</a>; there will always be <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">somebody</span> who doesn't like your character, because not everyone has the same concerns and interests that your self-insert has.<br />
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I'll point at <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span> for an example of the consequences of not following this rule: one writer actually dropped out of the project because one of the other writers introduced a character who had a good reason to not like the first writer's SI character. Both writers refused to budge on the conflicting principles.<br />
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A corollary: Nobody has a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/0%25_Approval_Rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">0% Approval Rating</a>, either. If almost everybody hates someone, iconoclasts and saints will at the least have pity for him.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>Similarly, your SI shouldn't automatically like all the heroes and hate all the villains, even if he's coming in with full knowledge and awareness of what's going on.  He may *want* to, but frankly, I can think of a dozen protagonists from as many genres whom I love to read about or watch but whom I would find incredibly irritating in person.  (I'm looking at *you*, Ranma Saotome.)  Let your SI dislike anyone who deserves it -- and when appropriate, *like* anyone who deserves it, as well -- regardless of their "side".<br />
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This is a simple case of truth in fiction. If there are people who you don't like, why wouldn't there be people who your SI doesn't like? The SI is based on you, after all.<br />
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In <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span>, there's a scene in "Like Calls to Like" where my SI lists what he likes the most about each of his residents. Ami notices that he had to think about what he liked about Kuroko...<br />
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Going to <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span> for another example: Robu-san and Tuxedo Kamen don't like each other, but are willing to work together. The reason has only been hinted at in-universe, so I'll put it in spoiler markup here:<br />
<div class="spoiler_wrap"><div class="spoiler_header"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:if(parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display=='block'){parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display='none';this.innerHTML='&lt;img title=&quot;[+]&quot; alt=&quot;[+]&quot; src=&quot;/images/collapse_collapsed.png&quot; class=&quot;expandspoiler&quot; /&gt;Spoiler';}else {parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].style.display='block';this.innerHTML='&lt;img title=&quot;[-]&quot; alt=&quot;[-]&quot; src=&quot;/images/collapse.png&quot; class=&quot;expandspoiler&quot; /&gt;Spoiler';}"><img title="[+]" alt="[+]" src="/images/collapse_collapsed.png" class="expandspoiler" />Spoiler</a></div><div class="spoiler_body" style="display: none;">Because of a bad first impression and Mamoru's reaction to the warnings he received from the future, Robu-san thinks Mamoru isn't good enough to be Usagi's boyfriend. And Mamoru has picked up on that.</div></div>The reasons for characters liking or disliking somebody don't need to be rational, but they should arise from the characters' personalities and the writer should know what they are.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>Even if your SI is deliberately there to get involved in the plot, don't drop him right in the middle of the action.  A self-insert story will play better if your character arrives on the outskirts of what's going on, and has to find his way to the fun -- or accidentally stumbles over it.  Your SI should also have interests and priorities that have nothing to do with the main plot -- like, for instance, *leaving* the story's world if he was sent there involuntarily.  If the only thing he does while there is dog the main characters' steps, he's going to look like a creepy stalker to them -- and maybe even to your readers.<br />
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Mentioning <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span> again: even after my SI gets powers and a geas to act in the face of injustice, he still leaves defending Love and Justice to Sailor Moon. He's a support character, not a front-line fighter, no matter how much he'd prefer otherwise.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>If your SI is allegedly unaware of what he's getting into, don't write his reactions with *your* knowledge.  The prime example of this is someone dropped into a whole new (and unfamiliar) world automatically sussing out who the good guys are and who the bad guys are without any thought or effort.  Only in the most black-and-white worlds should this be believable.  (For a great example of an SI ignorant of the world he's been dropped into feeling his way through it, check out the "Revolutionary Girl Utena" fic "Ma Vie et Roses" by Scott Johnson and Scott K. Jamison.)<br />
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For this one, I'll pull an example from Blade and Epsilon's epic <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Hybrid Theory</span>. While both of the SIs have some idea about the plots of some of the stories in that mega crossover, neither SI knows everything that's going on, and as a result each of them make mistakes that make it more difficult (and thus more interesting) for them to succeed. If fact, Blade's SI is <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Wrong_Genre_Savvy" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">so far off-base with his knowledge</a> that he effectively becomes the setting's Big Bad.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite><ul class="mycode_list"><li>No matter how powerful or capable your SI is, *someone* will at least *try* to get the better of him -- and you know, they should succeed at least once.  If you can't be beaten, you can't be truly challenged, and if you can't be challenged, you have no conflict to drive a story.  And remember -- they don't have to challenge you where you excel.  Just because you're invulnerable, can lift mountains, and can waltz invisibly into the bad guys' headquarters doesn't mean you can't be out-thought or out-planned.<br />
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As so many sports anime and manga show us, defeat is also a learning experience that opens up new storytelling opportunities.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>To re-emphasize the first point above, a quote from elsewhere in my guide:  <br />
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The First Commandment of Interventions:<br />
"Thou shalt not cockblock someone else's torrid affair with awesomeness."  -- Alistair Young</blockquote><br />
Tying back to the "no 100% Adoration Rating" rule, cockblocking the characters who are native to the story is a good way to get them to dislike your SI.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>And after that, I had this pasted in as something to draw inspiration from.  Several of its points already echo things I've said above, but there's other good advice here, too:<br />
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PsyckoSama's Rules for Self-Inserts<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/285562/PsyckoSama" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.fanfiction.net/u/285562/PsyckoSama</a><br />
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The Ten Commandments of Writing an SI:<br />
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I: The SI is not you. It’s a character based on you. Remember this and maintain a degree of emotional detachment at all times. Treat your SI like you would any other character.</blockquote><br />
Even if your SI was a carbon copy of you when you dropped them into the story, they stop being you at that point because their life experiences are different from that point forward.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>II: Know your strengths and flaws. If you can’t think of any, invent a couple. It’s only based on you after all.</blockquote><br />
This can be a difficult one to write. If your SI is based closely on you, then admitting what the SI's flaws are to the readers is the same as admitting to strangers what your own flaws are... and that's something that takes a certain level of maturity (and fearlessness) to do.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>III: Have a couple prereaders with good bullshit detectors who are willing to smack you upside the head when you approach the Sue Zone. Even just having someone to bounce ideas off of can do a world of good and help kill some very bad ideas.</blockquote><br />
I am extremely lucky to have Labster as a prereader. He catches problems that I thought were strengths when I wrote them. (And I don't thank Brent enough for his work on my stories, so thank you again, Brent!)<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>IV: You are not an ironclad badass. In most of these series you’d be the extra who gets eaten by the aliens/demons/zombies and write accordingly. People are paranoid, panicky creatures and chances are you are no different. Remember this. Things can change with time but that’s what character development is for (See Rule VII).</blockquote><br />
You can play with this one if you drop your SI into a <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/World_of_Badass" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">World of Badass</a>, but even there, keep in mind the "supplement, don't supplant" rule.<br />
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And if the setting isn't a World of Badass, then some people – yes, the paranoid, panicky ones – will look at an ironclad badass and wonder whether they're a new villain.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>V: Life is a mixed bag. Shit happens and it happens to you, don’t be afraid to torture yourself a bit. That said, remember, the good comes with the bad.</blockquote><br />
I have an advantage here in that the writing style that I've developed over decades mixes drama and humour. If your writing style tends toward action, or drama, or comedy, or angst, you might have trouble mixing in the elements that you don't naturally emphasize.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>With that in mind remember the following two sub-rules.<br />
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Va: Avoid wish fulfillment. Good things can happen to you (see above) but your SI should never be an engine created specifically to allow you to be awesome, loved by everyone, and get all the chicks. If that’s what you really want, I’d suggest putting down the keyboard and reaching for a kleenex.</blockquote><br />
Wish-fulfillment can be done if you're willing to massively deconstruct it; see <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ah! My Goddess</span> for an example. But failing to take into account the downside of giving your SI what you think you really want leads to the stereotypical Mary Sue plot.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>Vb: Avoid wangst. While it's necessary for bad things to happen to create tension, drama, and to propel the plot forward, avoid throwing yourself a pity party. Someone who only has bad things happen to them is just as annoying as someone who only has good things happen. When you go too far it becomes obnoxious cartoonish.</blockquote><br />
Besides, listening to other people complain is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">boring</span>. Do this in your story – SI or not – in anything other than very-small doses and you'll drive away readers.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VI: Life goes on, with or without you. Do not make the universe wait on you, for life waits for no man. This is especially important in video game SIs. If you’re actually in the universe, treat it like a living breathing world. It’s not a magical playground that sits on its hands while you randomly run around and do awesome shit.</blockquote><br />
Pulling an example from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</span>, the characters from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Yumeiro Pâtissière</span> set up shop and become successful <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">before</span> anyone who's supposed to help them acclimatize to the situation even know that they're in the setting.<br />
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And from <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonlight</span>: Robu-san accompanies Ami on her first two trips to Castle Mariner and helps her start repairs on her yacht from the Silver Millennium. Then he spends a lot of time with Makoto while Ami finishes the repair work without him... which surprises him when she actually launches the ship. (He even comments that she breaks a stupid genre convention in that he isn't involved in everything that his friends do.)<br />
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There are dozens, hundreds, or maybe billions of other people in your story. They don't all wait for the SI's cooperation to do things. In fact, some of them, for their own interests, will do things that act against what your SI wants to have happen. This is a source of subplots, not a problem.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VII: Balance your flow of time. Don’t rush what you write. While you might want to skip to the good stuff, doing so can be jarring and make your character look like a Mary Sue. Show us your character is growing and making friends, don’t just tell us. On the same note, be careful not to get bogged down in the minutia. There is such a thing as too much detail. We don’t need to see everything. If you’re training, you can show a montage. If you’re looking at a long span of time where nothing out of a ordinary is going to happen, consider a time skip. Things are permitted to happen in the background.</blockquote><br />
Not skipping the "boring" stuff also leads to plot developments. Sometimes these developments are things that you as a writer didn't expect.<br />
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If I had rushed <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Isekai by Moonliht</span> Chapter S and jumped straight from the first encounter between Kalonite and Rei to the raid on Mugen Academy, none of the characters would have developed and all of the Witches 5 would have ended up dead. Instead, some of the villains were actually rescued from being possessed, all of the Senshi ended up being willing to work together instead of at cross-purposes, and Hotaru didn't end up going through her canon fate.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>VIII: Throw curve balls at yourself. Even if you’re in a rather tight setting, your presence can create butterflies. In a loose one, you don’t know what’s around the bend. Good or bad, better or worse, do you find something or don’t you? I suggest the use of a randomizer. Flip a coin, roll some dice, pull pieces of paper out of a hat. Don’t let this do you thinking for you, but it can point you in directions you’d never have considered, and having a good chance to standing tall or fall flat on their face will do much to keep your character honest. But remember, you're not slave to the dice. Just let it point you in a direction, think about it, and see what comes out. You can sometimes come up with some amazing ideas that you never would have considered this way, even if it in no way resembles the original dice result.</blockquote><br />
A corollary: Sometimes, the random number gods tell you what you really wanted to write in the first place. You say "heads this happens, tails it doesn't" and you're disappointed with the result? Deep down, you wanted to write the other option... so write the one you didn't know that you wanted to write.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>IX: Be careful with the use of meta-knowledge. Meta-knowledge should stay that. Meta. Be careful who you tell, and only tell those you trust. If you make what you know common knowledge, you will attract all sorts, and mostly for ill. No one likes a know it all, especially evil wizards, secret societies, and evil military dictatorships bent on total domination.</blockquote><br />
A corollary: Sharing the meta knowledge can invalidate that knowledge. Especially if your foes find out about the meta knowledge and change things up in order to lull you into a false sense of complacency.<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite><span> (09-15-2025, 12:44 PM)</span>Bob Schroeck Wrote:  <a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=229686#pid229686" class="quick_jump"></a></cite>X: This rule is related to rule IV and Vb in many ways, but deserves restating. In most cases you are not the main character of the universe. Events don’t revolve around you. There are others for that. You are a secondary character, if not background extra. To make yourself a main character, either hang with the mains, or do something, stand up and make the universe pay attention to you. But do remember, being a member of the central cast is a mixed bag. It often means you have the protection of plot, but on the same note, it means your life is always going to be interesting, and there is a very good reason that the ancient Chinese used it as a curse.</blockquote><br />
This isn't to say that you can't tell an interesting story about your character even when they aren't the lead. Consider that Touma Kamijo is the main character in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Certain Magical Index</span>, but some of the most interesting stories in his world are about the girl who he doesn't realize is in love with him; those stories are told in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Certain Scientific Railgun</span>.<br />
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You are the hero of your own story. You are not the hero of somebody else's story. Both stories are equally valid... but it's up to you as the writer to make the stories equally interesting.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Story Of A Fic That Never Happened...]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey.  Been a while.<br />
<br />
You ever listen to a song, only to have a scene burst, fully realized, into your head?  I did, back in 2017.  Problem was, the scene in question was part of a crossover fic that I wasn't writing.  Not an early part, either, but very very late.<br />
<br />
I tried on and off to write the story for years.  I must've tried to write the first scene a dozen times, but it never worked out.  It doesn't help that the primary setting isn't really my thing, and part of it is that I just didn't have the energy.<br />
<br />
Couple of nights ago, I listened to the song again.  The same scene hit again... but I was feeling inspired.  It was like being a dorf in a strange mood.  The words would not stop. Two hours later, I had the whole scene typed out.  Figured I'd share.<br />
<br />
This is the song.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjg3Ib-y54" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjg3Ib-y54</a><br />
<br />
*******************<br />
<br />
The door to the Atlesian airship opened with a heavy <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thunk</span>, Roman Torchwick sauntering out onto the deck as if he didn't have a care in the world.  "Terribly sorry, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">kid</span>, but you won't be winning the day this time, whoever you are.", he monologued, looking off at the battles raging through Vale.  "There's far more going on", he continued, spinning on his heel as he waved a hand dramatically at the carnage, "-than any one Hunter can-"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Yep, he didn't even look at me.  Oh, this is gonna feel GOOD.</span><br />
<br />
Roman gaped, poleaxed for a moment, before regaining his composure.  "Y-you sure you wanna do this, kid?", he snarked, lowering his cane to the ground.  "From what I hear, you're not exactly top of the class over at Beacon.  Tell you what- this ship's got a few Bullheads on it.  If you wanna get on one, go back down there, and go be a hero with the rest of the class, go right ahead.  I won't stop you.  'Case you hadn't noticed, we're in the middle of the biggest Grimm attack in history.  Do you really need ME", he said, motioning with one hand to his still-impeccable white suit jacket, "to make it worse for you?"  <br />
<br />
I just grinned and planted my feet.  One hand reached up, grabbing a handle on my vest.<br />
<br />
Roman scowled.  "Stupid monkey... I GAVE you a chance!"  His cane lifted again- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">aiming at the ground in front of me- planning a warning shot?</span>- as he settled into a stance.  "What makes you think you can fight a master criminal like me?"<br />
<br />
I pushed in on the handle, twisting it.  With a short electronic <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">chirp</span>, the gravity engine deactivated.  "You said it couldn't get any worse, right?", I growled out, a feral grin on my face.  "Good."  My hands came down, fists clenched in front of me.<br />
<br />
Roman looked at my stance... then stood up and laughed.  "Th- ha!- that trick?  HA!  You think that- hehheh- SCREAMING a bit will- heh- actually help you?"  He snorted, brushing back his bangs with his free hand.  "Stupid monkey... we know all about your Semblance.  Doubling your power?  Don't make me laugh!  Twice nothing is still nothing!"<br />
<br />
My grin just widened.  "Let's test that, then."<br />
<br />
Then I reached into my spirit, and began to yell.  "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."<br />
<br />
The air on the deck- kept still by some Atlesian technomagic, no doubt- began to whip around us.  My Aura- my ki- flared to life, going from intangible to a visible glow.<br />
<br />
Roman blinked.  "Huh.  He's not stopping.  I didn't know he could do that."<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...."<br />
<br />
The airship began to shudder under us, the deck quaking.  Even over the rushing winds, we could hear the groans and screeches as the metal below us began to bend.<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"<br />
<br />
"Seriously, kid, this is getting rea-GAH!" Roman reached for his suit pocket, just before it exploded.  The burnt remains of his scroll were picked up by the wind, never touching the ground.  My own joined it- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">no big loss</span>.<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"<br />
<br />
As my ki reached its peak, the overstressed deck of the airship began to rip itself apart.  The sudden burst of power as I peaked finished the process, ripping panels clean off the ship.<br />
<br />
Roman, stumbling on what was left of the deck, looked up, his eyes wide.  "W- what the hell ARE YOU?", he demanded, voice shrill with panic.<br />
<br />
I smirked.  "What am I?  A Saiyan warrior", I replied, removing my fist from his gut.  "I'm going to go find a real fight now.  Try not to piss out all your blood!"  Then I crouched, and with a burst of ki- more than any three Huntsmen- launched myself into the sky.<br />
<br />
*****<br />
<br />
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Flight</span>, I mused to myself as I burned through the sky, spinning idly around a skyscraper at the speed of thought, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">is the greatest thing ever.</span>  I looked down, idly letting off a volley of ki blasts at a pack of Beowolves.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Seriously, my face is starting to hurt.  Why didn't I do this sooner?</span><br />
<br />
I stopped to think for a minute, swooping down and punching a Boarbatusk in half.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Oh, right.  Suppressing my ki so I didn't attract Grimm.  That.</span>  I spun my way up and around another building, suddenly alighting on an antenna, before barfing a blast up a pack of Nevermore circling the building.  <br />
<br />
As it- and they- exploded, I took off again, laughing like the cares of the world had fallen off my shoulders.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Cat's out of the bag now, Ozpin!  I'm free!  FREE!  Nothing's gonna get me down now... and my ki is laced with joy right now, isn't it.</span>  I came to a halt in midair, one hand swinging out to grab another Nevermore by the neck and squeeze.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...Ozpin, you magnificent bastard!  That was your plan ALL ALONG!  I'm having so much fun, the Grimm aren't even FEELING everybody else!</span>  Chuckling to myself, I looked down at the street- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ooh, fun!-</span> and swooped down to land near team RWBY.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Good to see them doing what they do best.</span><br />
<br />
Weiss noticed me first, following through on a<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> perfect </span>lunge with Myrtenaster, only to rip her from the disintegrating corpse of a Beowolf, and stomp up to me.  "Where have YOU been?", she demanded with a scowl, her eyes alight.  "I tried to call you, but your Scroll-"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Love to see you like this, Weissy, but we don't have time now.</span>  "Scroll's gone", I replied through my happy grin, crossing my arms.  My eyes lit up with ki, beams burning through the Grimm running up behind her.<br />
<br />
"How'd you manage that?  Drop it off an airship or something?"  She jumped, landing on a Beowolf, the tip of Myrtenaster landing directly in the back of its head as she landed.<br />
<br />
"Blew it the fuck up", I retorted, letting out a spinning kick.<br />
<br />
"What, did it have an <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">opinion</span>?", she snarked back, firing ice at something behind me.<br />
<br />
"That's your job", I replied, not missing a beat.  Weiss turned away for a second, before lashing out into the sky with a burst of fire at- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">are they EVER going to run out of Nevermore?!</span>  "Did I miss anything important?", I asked, jumping up to grab a Deathstalker by the tail, pull it over my head, and- WHAM- slam it into another pack of Beowolves.<br />
<br />
"Not much!", Yang chimed in, letting out a three-hit combo.  "Just that big dragon... thing... flying through town... OH!- and an emergency call from Beacon!"  She started firing at the ground in front of a charging Boarbatusk, forcing it to turn and slam into a nearby wall.<br />
<br />
"What dragon", I asked, puzzled.  "I didn't see any... <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">oh</span>."  The sentence died on my lips as I looked up, beholding the largest Grimm I'd ever seen.  "That thing is HUGE!"<br />
<br />
"Yep!" said the breeze zipping past me, death floating by on the petals of a rose.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I'm not sure any Huntsman could kill something like that.  It'd take enough firepower to destroy a city...</span><br />
My smirk returned in full force.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Firepower I just might have.</span><br />
<br />
"I've got a skill that can kill that dragon.  Problem is, I have to stand still and charge it first."<br />
<br />
Yang dropped out of the air next to me- "You need us to cover you, right?  How long?" -before leaping forward into a punch.<br />
<br />
I thought to myself, idly dodging a Grimm as it swiped where I was standing.  "Gonna take a bit.  Fifteen seconds?  Twenty?  Think you can do that?"<br />
<br />
Ruby blurred out of the air in front of me, Crescent Rose embedding itself blade-first in the road.  "Sure thing!", she chirped, letting out three shots at a distant Beringel.  "Ready?"<br />
<br />
I shuffled in place, lining myself up, and leaned forward.  "There's gonna be a five-syllable verbal chant.  I don't know how much backblast this one has, so when I hit four?  Brace."  I then leaned forward and to one side, cupped my hands together, and began to focus.  "Ready."<br />
<br />
Ki began to flow, curling into a ball, accompanied by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwO1uNuft78" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">a distinctive sound</a>.  "Kaaaaaa....." <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> This is so cool!</span><br />
<br />
A pack of Beowolves charged, only for fire and wrath to land in their path.  With a twirl, Yang dropped a vicious axe kick on the alpha's head, burying it in the ground.<br />
<br />
I stayed in place.  "....meeeeeeeeeeee....."  The swirling, warbling sound of the technique began to increase in pitch.<br />
<br />
A Nevermore dove for me, talons outstretched, only to fall apart in a swirl of wind.  The corpse didn't so much as touch my face.<br />
<br />
I looked up at the dragon- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">more like a wyvern, I think?</span>, and shuffled my feet slightly to one side, correcting my aim.  "Haaaaaaaa......."  The pitch of the technique increased even higher- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">it even SOUNDS ominous!</span><br />
<br />
A Griffon jumped from a nearby building, clacking its beak- only to slam that beak straight into a glowing white circle.  It recoiled, trying to take to the air, only for a pair of shadows to land on its back, tearing its wings from its body in identical strikes.<br />
<br />
I focused deeply, compressing the ki in my hands to its utmost.  "MEEEEEEEEEEEEE...."  To my satisfaction, everyone- RWBY first, followed surprisingly by the Grimm- cleared the area.  I even saw Ruby hit the deck, working her jaw and covering her ears.<br />
<br />
The sound stopped.  The world stopped.<br />
<br />
I swung my hands forward. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"<br />
<br />
Ki burst forth like a raging river, a wave of glowing blue soaring into the sky.  The pavement beneath me cracked, windows shattering in nearby buildings, but my eyes were locked on the tip of the wave-<br />
<br />
-which struck true.  The wyvern ROARED with earth-shaking force as my beam struck its shoulder, inky blackness bubbling and burning away under the irresistible light and heat of pure weaponized Life.  It turned its head to face me, red eyes burning hatefully, and opened its jaw.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">NOT QUITE RIGHT!  Gotta correct!  Should just need a little to the right...  </span>I twisted my hips slowly, walking the beam over to- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">THERE! </span>-land directly in its mouth, then dug deep.  "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"  The Kamehameha kicked again, almost doubling in size, as I poured even more energy into the wave.  The wyvern, bubbling and dying under the initial beam, tried to force its jaw shut-<br />
<br />
-only to instead swallow the added burst of power I threw at it.  The thing swelled up, looking for all the world like an overfilled balloon, as its entire hide began to bubble, then froth, then-<br />
<br />
BOOM<br />
<br />
-explode.<br />
<br />
I lowered my arms, panting.  "Grimm... murdered."  After a few seconds of catching my breath, something else popped into my head.  "Wait, Yang... you said there was an emergency at Beacon?  Is it still going?"<br />
<br />
Not even bothering to reply, my ki burst forth, launching me into the air like a rocket.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Gotta hurry... that's gotta be the mastermind...  </span>I put everything I could into it, burning through the sky like a comet- at that speed, it took mere seconds for Beacon to be in sight.<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">  Headmaster's in the tallest tower... I feel him and Pyrrha and- who is that?  No time to check- I'm going in!</span><br />
<br />
I aimed right at 12 o'clock on the clock face, bursting through the window in an explosion of glass- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">If I put myself in the middle, I should be able to- </span>-kicking the Headmaster's desk aside, skidding down the middle of the office- and snatching a black, glass arrow out of the air before it could reach my classmate.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">*Nailed it.*</span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey.  Been a while.<br />
<br />
You ever listen to a song, only to have a scene burst, fully realized, into your head?  I did, back in 2017.  Problem was, the scene in question was part of a crossover fic that I wasn't writing.  Not an early part, either, but very very late.<br />
<br />
I tried on and off to write the story for years.  I must've tried to write the first scene a dozen times, but it never worked out.  It doesn't help that the primary setting isn't really my thing, and part of it is that I just didn't have the energy.<br />
<br />
Couple of nights ago, I listened to the song again.  The same scene hit again... but I was feeling inspired.  It was like being a dorf in a strange mood.  The words would not stop. Two hours later, I had the whole scene typed out.  Figured I'd share.<br />
<br />
This is the song.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjg3Ib-y54" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjg3Ib-y54</a><br />
<br />
*******************<br />
<br />
The door to the Atlesian airship opened with a heavy <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thunk</span>, Roman Torchwick sauntering out onto the deck as if he didn't have a care in the world.  "Terribly sorry, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">kid</span>, but you won't be winning the day this time, whoever you are.", he monologued, looking off at the battles raging through Vale.  "There's far more going on", he continued, spinning on his heel as he waved a hand dramatically at the carnage, "-than any one Hunter can-"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Yep, he didn't even look at me.  Oh, this is gonna feel GOOD.</span><br />
<br />
Roman gaped, poleaxed for a moment, before regaining his composure.  "Y-you sure you wanna do this, kid?", he snarked, lowering his cane to the ground.  "From what I hear, you're not exactly top of the class over at Beacon.  Tell you what- this ship's got a few Bullheads on it.  If you wanna get on one, go back down there, and go be a hero with the rest of the class, go right ahead.  I won't stop you.  'Case you hadn't noticed, we're in the middle of the biggest Grimm attack in history.  Do you really need ME", he said, motioning with one hand to his still-impeccable white suit jacket, "to make it worse for you?"  <br />
<br />
I just grinned and planted my feet.  One hand reached up, grabbing a handle on my vest.<br />
<br />
Roman scowled.  "Stupid monkey... I GAVE you a chance!"  His cane lifted again- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">aiming at the ground in front of me- planning a warning shot?</span>- as he settled into a stance.  "What makes you think you can fight a master criminal like me?"<br />
<br />
I pushed in on the handle, twisting it.  With a short electronic <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">chirp</span>, the gravity engine deactivated.  "You said it couldn't get any worse, right?", I growled out, a feral grin on my face.  "Good."  My hands came down, fists clenched in front of me.<br />
<br />
Roman looked at my stance... then stood up and laughed.  "Th- ha!- that trick?  HA!  You think that- hehheh- SCREAMING a bit will- heh- actually help you?"  He snorted, brushing back his bangs with his free hand.  "Stupid monkey... we know all about your Semblance.  Doubling your power?  Don't make me laugh!  Twice nothing is still nothing!"<br />
<br />
My grin just widened.  "Let's test that, then."<br />
<br />
Then I reached into my spirit, and began to yell.  "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."<br />
<br />
The air on the deck- kept still by some Atlesian technomagic, no doubt- began to whip around us.  My Aura- my ki- flared to life, going from intangible to a visible glow.<br />
<br />
Roman blinked.  "Huh.  He's not stopping.  I didn't know he could do that."<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...."<br />
<br />
The airship began to shudder under us, the deck quaking.  Even over the rushing winds, we could hear the groans and screeches as the metal below us began to bend.<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"<br />
<br />
"Seriously, kid, this is getting rea-GAH!" Roman reached for his suit pocket, just before it exploded.  The burnt remains of his scroll were picked up by the wind, never touching the ground.  My own joined it- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">no big loss</span>.<br />
<br />
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"<br />
<br />
As my ki reached its peak, the overstressed deck of the airship began to rip itself apart.  The sudden burst of power as I peaked finished the process, ripping panels clean off the ship.<br />
<br />
Roman, stumbling on what was left of the deck, looked up, his eyes wide.  "W- what the hell ARE YOU?", he demanded, voice shrill with panic.<br />
<br />
I smirked.  "What am I?  A Saiyan warrior", I replied, removing my fist from his gut.  "I'm going to go find a real fight now.  Try not to piss out all your blood!"  Then I crouched, and with a burst of ki- more than any three Huntsmen- launched myself into the sky.<br />
<br />
*****<br />
<br />
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Flight</span>, I mused to myself as I burned through the sky, spinning idly around a skyscraper at the speed of thought, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">is the greatest thing ever.</span>  I looked down, idly letting off a volley of ki blasts at a pack of Beowolves.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Seriously, my face is starting to hurt.  Why didn't I do this sooner?</span><br />
<br />
I stopped to think for a minute, swooping down and punching a Boarbatusk in half.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Oh, right.  Suppressing my ki so I didn't attract Grimm.  That.</span>  I spun my way up and around another building, suddenly alighting on an antenna, before barfing a blast up a pack of Nevermore circling the building.  <br />
<br />
As it- and they- exploded, I took off again, laughing like the cares of the world had fallen off my shoulders.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Cat's out of the bag now, Ozpin!  I'm free!  FREE!  Nothing's gonna get me down now... and my ki is laced with joy right now, isn't it.</span>  I came to a halt in midair, one hand swinging out to grab another Nevermore by the neck and squeeze.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...Ozpin, you magnificent bastard!  That was your plan ALL ALONG!  I'm having so much fun, the Grimm aren't even FEELING everybody else!</span>  Chuckling to myself, I looked down at the street- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ooh, fun!-</span> and swooped down to land near team RWBY.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Good to see them doing what they do best.</span><br />
<br />
Weiss noticed me first, following through on a<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> perfect </span>lunge with Myrtenaster, only to rip her from the disintegrating corpse of a Beowolf, and stomp up to me.  "Where have YOU been?", she demanded with a scowl, her eyes alight.  "I tried to call you, but your Scroll-"<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Love to see you like this, Weissy, but we don't have time now.</span>  "Scroll's gone", I replied through my happy grin, crossing my arms.  My eyes lit up with ki, beams burning through the Grimm running up behind her.<br />
<br />
"How'd you manage that?  Drop it off an airship or something?"  She jumped, landing on a Beowolf, the tip of Myrtenaster landing directly in the back of its head as she landed.<br />
<br />
"Blew it the fuck up", I retorted, letting out a spinning kick.<br />
<br />
"What, did it have an <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">opinion</span>?", she snarked back, firing ice at something behind me.<br />
<br />
"That's your job", I replied, not missing a beat.  Weiss turned away for a second, before lashing out into the sky with a burst of fire at- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">are they EVER going to run out of Nevermore?!</span>  "Did I miss anything important?", I asked, jumping up to grab a Deathstalker by the tail, pull it over my head, and- WHAM- slam it into another pack of Beowolves.<br />
<br />
"Not much!", Yang chimed in, letting out a three-hit combo.  "Just that big dragon... thing... flying through town... OH!- and an emergency call from Beacon!"  She started firing at the ground in front of a charging Boarbatusk, forcing it to turn and slam into a nearby wall.<br />
<br />
"What dragon", I asked, puzzled.  "I didn't see any... <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">oh</span>."  The sentence died on my lips as I looked up, beholding the largest Grimm I'd ever seen.  "That thing is HUGE!"<br />
<br />
"Yep!" said the breeze zipping past me, death floating by on the petals of a rose.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I'm not sure any Huntsman could kill something like that.  It'd take enough firepower to destroy a city...</span><br />
My smirk returned in full force.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Firepower I just might have.</span><br />
<br />
"I've got a skill that can kill that dragon.  Problem is, I have to stand still and charge it first."<br />
<br />
Yang dropped out of the air next to me- "You need us to cover you, right?  How long?" -before leaping forward into a punch.<br />
<br />
I thought to myself, idly dodging a Grimm as it swiped where I was standing.  "Gonna take a bit.  Fifteen seconds?  Twenty?  Think you can do that?"<br />
<br />
Ruby blurred out of the air in front of me, Crescent Rose embedding itself blade-first in the road.  "Sure thing!", she chirped, letting out three shots at a distant Beringel.  "Ready?"<br />
<br />
I shuffled in place, lining myself up, and leaned forward.  "There's gonna be a five-syllable verbal chant.  I don't know how much backblast this one has, so when I hit four?  Brace."  I then leaned forward and to one side, cupped my hands together, and began to focus.  "Ready."<br />
<br />
Ki began to flow, curling into a ball, accompanied by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwO1uNuft78" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">a distinctive sound</a>.  "Kaaaaaa....." <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> This is so cool!</span><br />
<br />
A pack of Beowolves charged, only for fire and wrath to land in their path.  With a twirl, Yang dropped a vicious axe kick on the alpha's head, burying it in the ground.<br />
<br />
I stayed in place.  "....meeeeeeeeeeee....."  The swirling, warbling sound of the technique began to increase in pitch.<br />
<br />
A Nevermore dove for me, talons outstretched, only to fall apart in a swirl of wind.  The corpse didn't so much as touch my face.<br />
<br />
I looked up at the dragon- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">more like a wyvern, I think?</span>, and shuffled my feet slightly to one side, correcting my aim.  "Haaaaaaaa......."  The pitch of the technique increased even higher- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">it even SOUNDS ominous!</span><br />
<br />
A Griffon jumped from a nearby building, clacking its beak- only to slam that beak straight into a glowing white circle.  It recoiled, trying to take to the air, only for a pair of shadows to land on its back, tearing its wings from its body in identical strikes.<br />
<br />
I focused deeply, compressing the ki in my hands to its utmost.  "MEEEEEEEEEEEEE...."  To my satisfaction, everyone- RWBY first, followed surprisingly by the Grimm- cleared the area.  I even saw Ruby hit the deck, working her jaw and covering her ears.<br />
<br />
The sound stopped.  The world stopped.<br />
<br />
I swung my hands forward. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"<br />
<br />
Ki burst forth like a raging river, a wave of glowing blue soaring into the sky.  The pavement beneath me cracked, windows shattering in nearby buildings, but my eyes were locked on the tip of the wave-<br />
<br />
-which struck true.  The wyvern ROARED with earth-shaking force as my beam struck its shoulder, inky blackness bubbling and burning away under the irresistible light and heat of pure weaponized Life.  It turned its head to face me, red eyes burning hatefully, and opened its jaw.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">NOT QUITE RIGHT!  Gotta correct!  Should just need a little to the right...  </span>I twisted my hips slowly, walking the beam over to- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">THERE! </span>-land directly in its mouth, then dug deep.  "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"  The Kamehameha kicked again, almost doubling in size, as I poured even more energy into the wave.  The wyvern, bubbling and dying under the initial beam, tried to force its jaw shut-<br />
<br />
-only to instead swallow the added burst of power I threw at it.  The thing swelled up, looking for all the world like an overfilled balloon, as its entire hide began to bubble, then froth, then-<br />
<br />
BOOM<br />
<br />
-explode.<br />
<br />
I lowered my arms, panting.  "Grimm... murdered."  After a few seconds of catching my breath, something else popped into my head.  "Wait, Yang... you said there was an emergency at Beacon?  Is it still going?"<br />
<br />
Not even bothering to reply, my ki burst forth, launching me into the air like a rocket.  <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Gotta hurry... that's gotta be the mastermind...  </span>I put everything I could into it, burning through the sky like a comet- at that speed, it took mere seconds for Beacon to be in sight.<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">  Headmaster's in the tallest tower... I feel him and Pyrrha and- who is that?  No time to check- I'm going in!</span><br />
<br />
I aimed right at 12 o'clock on the clock face, bursting through the window in an explosion of glass- <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">If I put myself in the middle, I should be able to- </span>-kicking the Headmaster's desk aside, skidding down the middle of the office- and snatching a black, glass arrow out of the air before it could reach my classmate.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">*Nailed it.*</span>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Horus Heresy Isekai]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14897</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:56:36 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=295">Dark Seraph</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm writing cringe, enjoy<br />
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<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/67286629/chapters/173809927" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://archiveofourown.org/works/672866.../173809927</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm writing cringe, enjoy<br />
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<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/67286629/chapters/173809927" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://archiveofourown.org/works/672866.../173809927</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Looking for fanfics where Sailor Mercury gets power-ups]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14892</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:59:32 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=23">robkelk</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Above and beyond what she gets in canon, that is.<br />
<br />
Here's what I have so far:<ul class="mycode_list"><li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1418906/1/Shattered_Ice_Super_Sailor_Mercury" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Shattered Ice: Super Sailor Mercury</a></span>, by shanejayell<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Sailor-Moon/Sailor-Moon-AX/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Sailor Moon AX</a></span>, by Rob Barba, Libby Thomas &amp; Studio YOGIPIGS<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://shifti.org/wiki/Ami%27s_Song" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Ami's Song</a></span>, by an unknown person in the Xanadu project (technically not Ami, but shapechanged-into-Ami is close enough)<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14508" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Isekai By Moonlight</a></span>, by y.t.<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=10" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</a></span>, by a bunch of folks with accounts here <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">(and this is the story that I need the list of stories for)</span><br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
Anybody have any more? I need the links to the stories as wellas the stoy titles, please.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Above and beyond what she gets in canon, that is.<br />
<br />
Here's what I have so far:<ul class="mycode_list"><li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1418906/1/Shattered_Ice_Super_Sailor_Mercury" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Shattered Ice: Super Sailor Mercury</a></span>, by shanejayell<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Sailor-Moon/Sailor-Moon-AX/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Sailor Moon AX</a></span>, by Rob Barba, Libby Thomas &amp; Studio YOGIPIGS<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="https://shifti.org/wiki/Ami%27s_Song" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Ami's Song</a></span>, by an unknown person in the Xanadu project (technically not Ami, but shapechanged-into-Ami is close enough)<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14508" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Isekai By Moonlight</a></span>, by y.t.<br />
</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=10" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character</a></span>, by a bunch of folks with accounts here <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">(and this is the story that I need the list of stories for)</span><br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
Anybody have any more? I need the links to the stories as wellas the stoy titles, please.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Need a name for a fictional cake shop]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14856</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:10:38 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=23">robkelk</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Preferably a punny name. Definitely a short name.<br />
<br />
I had come up with "Just Desserts"... but today I learned that <a href="https://www.justdesserts.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">that's a real cake bakery in San Francisco</a>. It's almost as old as I am. So... no good for the story.<br />
<br />
Any ideas for a replacement?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Preferably a punny name. Definitely a short name.<br />
<br />
I had come up with "Just Desserts"... but today I learned that <a href="https://www.justdesserts.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">that's a real cake bakery in San Francisco</a>. It's almost as old as I am. So... no good for the story.<br />
<br />
Any ideas for a replacement?]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Own Fan fics]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14853</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:15:59 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=447">AvrosRaven</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey yall finally figured out how to make a post, so im just gonna say that you can find my fan fics under AvrosRaven on AO3, I currently have 3 up, 1 is complete work (Albeit very short), and the other two are unfinished. Im working on a fourth in conjunction with the other im working on. now, for descriptions<br />
<br />
<br />
Isekai'd to the West: Ordinary girl gets isekai'd to the American Wild West (using my terrible geography knowledge), where she meets two new friends and sees some very recognizable anime and manga characters (at least to her). Currently finished with the first little arc (about 10k words). Working on arc 2 now. <br />
<br />
A Ranma Self Insert fic, why not: about as chaotic as it sounds, its mostly my "get the funky writing brain cells out now so we can do other writing later" and its somehow kinda evolved into something really oddly convoluted. if it makes no sense, its kinda on purpose. also, fair warning, lots of cursing and language.<br />
<br />
Steris Ladrian vs. The Advertising Robots: A quick 400 word fic that i wrote when a friend of mine on a discord server (17th shard, actually, im a brando sando nerd) was complaining about getting these spam bots in the comments of her fics that she'd posted. so i did this in honor of that and hopefully to cheer them up. <br />
<br />
Inuyasha: Path of Light: Ok, this one isnt up on AO3 yet, and im still working on the first chapter, but its recently broken 1k (yay!) and its a question of "what if Naraku had a redemption arc?" (more specifically Onigumo, the human that kinda kept Naraku together) Ive always loved Inuyasha since i started it, and Naraku is just such an interesting character. He's a total mad lad, and its wonderful. this story will follow the canon fairly tightly. Or at least as well as I can remember.<br />
<br />
yup! thats all of them! If i end up writing anymore fics, ill let you guys know.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey yall finally figured out how to make a post, so im just gonna say that you can find my fan fics under AvrosRaven on AO3, I currently have 3 up, 1 is complete work (Albeit very short), and the other two are unfinished. Im working on a fourth in conjunction with the other im working on. now, for descriptions<br />
<br />
<br />
Isekai'd to the West: Ordinary girl gets isekai'd to the American Wild West (using my terrible geography knowledge), where she meets two new friends and sees some very recognizable anime and manga characters (at least to her). Currently finished with the first little arc (about 10k words). Working on arc 2 now. <br />
<br />
A Ranma Self Insert fic, why not: about as chaotic as it sounds, its mostly my "get the funky writing brain cells out now so we can do other writing later" and its somehow kinda evolved into something really oddly convoluted. if it makes no sense, its kinda on purpose. also, fair warning, lots of cursing and language.<br />
<br />
Steris Ladrian vs. The Advertising Robots: A quick 400 word fic that i wrote when a friend of mine on a discord server (17th shard, actually, im a brando sando nerd) was complaining about getting these spam bots in the comments of her fics that she'd posted. so i did this in honor of that and hopefully to cheer them up. <br />
<br />
Inuyasha: Path of Light: Ok, this one isnt up on AO3 yet, and im still working on the first chapter, but its recently broken 1k (yay!) and its a question of "what if Naraku had a redemption arc?" (more specifically Onigumo, the human that kinda kept Naraku together) Ive always loved Inuyasha since i started it, and Naraku is just such an interesting character. He's a total mad lad, and its wonderful. this story will follow the canon fairly tightly. Or at least as well as I can remember.<br />
<br />
yup! thats all of them! If i end up writing anymore fics, ill let you guys know.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Question about posting to AO3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14835</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=23">robkelk</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[While I wait for my invitation to be issued later this month, I went looking for a couple of my older fics... and actually found one that I wasn't completely unhappy with. So I figured I'd post it to AO3 once my account's set up.<br />
<br />
I see that publication dates can be backdated. <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">How far</span> can they be backdated? I originally posted the fic in question to USENET, on 1999-01-17...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While I wait for my invitation to be issued later this month, I went looking for a couple of my older fics... and actually found one that I wasn't completely unhappy with. So I figured I'd post it to AO3 once my account's set up.<br />
<br />
I see that publication dates can be backdated. <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">How far</span> can they be backdated? I originally posted the fic in question to USENET, on 1999-01-17...]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eyrie Productions website down]]></title>
			<link>http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14828</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:30:30 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=1">Bob Schroeck</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just tried to go to the EPU forums a few minutes ago and it was down; Down For Everyone or Just Me? confirmed that it wasn't just me.  <br />
<br />
Now this is the second, maybe third, time in the last few weeks that I tried to hit EPU only to have it be down.  Does anyone know what's going on with them?  Has the site been down constantly?  Or have I just been unlucky the last couple times I tried to connect?<br />
<br />
EDIT:  Never mind.  I find I can reach EPU just fine at <a href="http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/</a> .  Trying to use <a href="https://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi</a>, like I used to, doesn't work any more for some reason, and just gets me "This site can’t be reached - <a href="http://www.eyrie-productions.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">www.eyrie-productions.com</a> refused to connect." in Chrome.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just tried to go to the EPU forums a few minutes ago and it was down; Down For Everyone or Just Me? confirmed that it wasn't just me.  <br />
<br />
Now this is the second, maybe third, time in the last few weeks that I tried to hit EPU only to have it be down.  Does anyone know what's going on with them?  Has the site been down constantly?  Or have I just been unlucky the last couple times I tried to connect?<br />
<br />
EDIT:  Never mind.  I find I can reach EPU just fine at <a href="http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/</a> .  Trying to use <a href="https://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi</a>, like I used to, doesn't work any more for some reason, and just gets me "This site can’t be reached - <a href="http://www.eyrie-productions.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">www.eyrie-productions.com</a> refused to connect." in Chrome.]]></content:encoded>
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