General Fanfiction Recommendations

seitora

Well-Known Member
#76
Death Note fanfiction

All You Need is Love

Light Yagami tries his hand at a normal relationship, unfortunately for Naomi Misora he's been taking lessons from her Myspace stalkers.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Humor - [Light Y., Naomi M.] - Chapters: 81 - Words: 162,070 - Reviews: 689 - Favs: 361 - Follows: 243 - Updated: Mar 4, 2014 - Published: May 5, 2010 - id: 5949144
Naomi Misora is a bit character in Death Note who gets offed when Light realises she's too close to deducing his identity as Kira. In this fic, she lives. It sounds like the point of divergence is she doesn't get too close to figuring out who Kira is, or that Light doesn't realise it fast enough. In reality, the point of divergence is half the characters in this fanfic are assholes, and complete, total jerks. Naomi knows Light is Kira but doesn't have evidence, L is just interested in trying to date-rape Light, Light is just this immense troll who likes to send stalker-ish love letters to Naomi, and he also gets dragged into everyone else's antics against his will. At one point, Matsuda decides to adapt the Kira Taskforce's antics for a TV soap opera.

My description doesn't do it justice because despite how it sounds like another one of those edgy fics, it is actually really damn funny. But it certainly is one of those fics that needs an acquired sense of humour to find general assholeishness funny, as well as when bad things happen to bad people.

As you can see from the update date, it hasn't been worked on in 7 years. It's quite a ways in to its own adaptation of DN, into part 2 easily, so I would at least give it a rec.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#77
Getting back into The World God Only Knows stuff. I'll probably read that fic @MastaofBitches recced earlier, too.

A Certain Romance

Keima gets closer to Haqua and ends up 'conquering' her. However, something suddenly happened and breaking their bond. Frustrated by this, Keima wanted to quickly end his contract his demon buddy so that he could go back to his old usual gaming activity. How will it turn out? -NOTE: Beta-edited by Organization Number 15. Cover drawn by me, colored by PRONTO3000.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - [Keima K., Haqua] - Chapters: 16 - Words: 42,158 - Reviews: 91 - Favs: 139 - Follows: 106 - Updated: Mar 15, 2014 - Published: Apr 27, 2012 - Status: Complete - id: 8063731
A Keima/Haqua fic. There's not an enormous amount of divergence from canon. The two get together shortly before the start of the Goddess Arc, and the story cuts off with the destruction of Vintage being the end of drama, as opposed to Satyr showing up as well.

It's not really that good, in all honesty. It relies on some lazy scenes like Haqua accidentally overhearing Keima's practice confession, and there's really not actually much writing of the two together after the midpoint. But I'm starving for Haqua content so I take what I get.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#78
Noel

Almost two years after the arrest of Kira, Near has finally succeeded L, but his reign hasn't gone unchallenged. Faced with an unsolvable string of murders threatening both his position and his life, the third L must seek help from an unlikely (and unlikable) source: his imprisoned predecessor, Light Yagami.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 13 - Words: 51,639 - Reviews: 156 - Favs: 392 - Follows: 204 - Updated: May 30, 2015 - Published: Dec 29, 2014 - Light Y., Near, Halle L., Roger - Complete

Resurrection

(Sequel to Noel) Three years after teaming up to solve the Janus case, Light and Near have settled into an improbable partnership. But when a new Death Note falls to earth, Light must confront his legacy as Kira head-on…and decide how deep his newfound loyalties run.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 14 - Words: 56,556 - Reviews: 205 - Favs: 184 - Follows: 153 - Updated: Dec 29, 2018 - Published: Jan 21, 2016 - Light Y., Ryuk, Matsuda T., Near - Complete
Two Death Note fics. The first follows the premise of the ending of the manga, except that Near takes Light as a permanent prisoner instead of Light dying to the Death Note (this is unbeknownst to the Japanese Task Force). Both basically settle into Near and Light working together on cases that come close to getting Near directly challenged and killed both times, and they make for good reading. I can also certify there isn't any gay undertones in here at all, because a lot of the fics in this fandom throw that in unadvertised.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#79
RWBY

A Rabbit Among Wolves

Jaune wanted nothing more than to become a hero – and in a way he got his wish. One man's criminal is another's hero and the faunus of Remnant need a champion. Who better to take the mantle of leader of the White Fang? Not a faunus? Not a terrorist? No aura, training or leadership skills to speak of? Minor details. All hail supreme leader Jaune Arc. Long live the resistance!
Rated: Fiction T - English - Humor/Parody - Jaune A. - Chapters: 63 - Words: 348,095 - Reviews: 8,516 - Favs: 6,439 - Follows: 7,314 - Updated: Jun 7 - Published: Oct 29, 2019 - id: 13420487
In which Adam gets shanked by pre-Beacon Jaune by sheer dumb luck, and Jaune gets pressed into taking over Vale's White Fang.

I blew through this in the last day. It feels fairly close to ending, so probably done by the end of the year.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#80
Death Note

Motivation

By: blackash
Matt was perfectly fine living in Mello's shadow, comfortably ensconced in third place, but L just had to shove his ugly letter where it wasn't wanted and undertake the impossible task of getting Matt to give a damn.
Rated: Fiction M - English - Matt, Light Y. - Chapters: 13 - Words: 57,539 - Reviews: 430 - Favs: 429 - Follows: 442 - Updated: Jan 20, 2014 - Published: Jun 1, 2009 - id: 5105596
Pretty much a deadfic at this point, but I still enjoyed it. Matt, the third place kid at Wammy's House, gets forced out 'undercover' to Japan, where he ends up meeting Light Yagami. The two butt heads, with Light slowly forcing Matt to actually 'give a damn' per the summary and stop trying to repress himself because he doesn't want to be on the top.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#81
wrong thread
 
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