Search for Highschool DxD stories - sans Issei

PCHeintz72

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#1
I have genrally horrible luck with search requests, but figure this should be a generic enough one to get some results.

Looking for recommendations on decent to good Highschool DxD fanfiction. However, I want Issei to either ideally not be present in it at all, or be a bit part character, the smaller the better.

The universe interests me, as do some of the characters... but I view him as the most worthless waste of a anime person character I've seen in some time. I find myself constantly wishing he would sod of and die for good. The cast of Macross Frontier (not counting Alto and the 2 girls) comes to mind. Ditto the case of TTGL.

Crossovers are fine, though depending on the series I would not bother with it.

I've read very little Highschool DxD Fanfiction at all... only ones to come to mind are a couple Ranma crossovers (like 'Gods and Devils and Wild Horses, Oh My' by Vimesenthusiast) and a few FSN crossovers ( 'Knights and Swords' by kujikiri21, 'Lord of Sword' by anton.evan.31, and 'Steel Savior' by Knight of Kesem). I've started to read one ZNT crossover with it (called 'Familiar of Devil' by ralf07).
 

Emerald Oracle

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#2
A large problem with the DxD fandom is that fics that don't have Iseei tend to have him replaced with be a glorified self-insert. Rather than develop a character whoever is the new MC, Naruto, Shirou, an actual OC, whoever, ends up being a case of "Look at this guy see how much better he is than Issei?"

There are a couple Dresden Files crossovers, one of which is by Gabriel Blessing for good or ill. He also did a SAO cross that was kinda ehh, but interesting in conception. There's a Fate/Stay Night cross with a post war Shirou called A Demon Lord's Hero by Fahad09 which was alright, even if it played fast and loose with continuity on both sides of the crossover. It does reduce Issei to the position of general nonentity so there's that? There's a Demon Among Devils by The Crimson Lord which is a Persona cross. It still has Issei in it, but he's a supporting character rather than a protagonist.

I hope that helps.
 

PCHeintz72

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#3
Thanks...

I just read 'High School DxD Fool of Change' by King of the fake World. Pretty good, though sadly I know little of the Persona universe.

As for the others... I doubt I would read the Dresden cross, as I do not care for it... SOA I know only a little about, but that did not stop me from reading the above one.
 

FinalMax

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Yeah, starting this thread off by mentioning a fic by a guy who went on record as outright stating he hated the entire High School DXD series does not bode well. Of course I am referring to Vimesenthusiast, whose writing follows a pattern of feeding his "Ranma" warm bodies to bed. Especially when you see so many fics that go in the same damn direction, including the removal or even death of Issei to justify the inserts.

I've long said that one should at least like the series you wish to write about or with for a crossover. Now that isn't to say that there aren't stories that go too heavily in the opposite direction, that being to make Issei some kind of personalized hero that's just the character in name only. Some of those might even be okay to read if not good, but the majority are too much of the "must make edgy" variety.

Of what I can recommend, I know of at least one cross with Is This A Zombie? that would work. Kore wa Akuma desu ka? R is a rewrite of a previously done version from its author. I kinda like it because the writer took the time to do something interesting with Issei, while still having a bit of goofy charm to it. I could have recommended the same Persona crossovers previously mentioned, but one has fallen into the WH40K disease territory that I just don't like.
 

PCHeintz72

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FinalMax said:
Yeah, starting this thread off by mentioning a fic by a guy who went on record as outright stating he hated the entire High School DXD series does not bode well. Of course I am referring to Vimesenthusiast, whose writing follows a pattern of feeding his "Ranma" warm bodies to bed. Especially when you see so many fics that go in the same damn direction, including the removal or even death of Issei to justify the inserts.
I mentioned it as I had read it so no one else would bother mentioning it as a possible read, not because I was recommending it or even thought it good. It did, at least so far, meet the loose requirement I listed. At the moment, Issei is a minor character, and not really overly relevant to that story.

As for the recommendation, thanks, I'll look into it.
 

MastaofBitches

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End Game Version R, after the "stations of canon" looks to be focusing on the political side of things. Issei's a minor character from what I recall, and "Naruto" is basically an OC though.
 

PCHeintz72

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MastaofBitches said:
End Game Version R, after the "stations of canon" looks to be focusing on the political side of things. Issei's a minor character from what I recall, and "Naruto" is basically an OC though.
I thank you for the suggestion, and it sounded good until I saw 'Naruto'... but I will not read fan fiction if Naruto is present in it.

Keep em coming.
 

MastaofBitches

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PCHeintz72 said:
MastaofBitches said:
End Game Version R, after the "stations of canon" looks to be focusing on the political side of things. Issei's a minor character from what I recall, and "Naruto" is basically an OC though.
I thank you for the suggestion, and it sounded good until I saw 'Naruto'... but I will not read fan fiction if Naruto is present in it.

Keep em coming.
Then don't worry, even if his name and appearance are similar to Naruto, he most definitely isn't Naruto. At all.

Kur0kishi pretty much always write a serious, cynical and crippled blond haired, whisker faced protagonist with bits and bobs of Naruto's own history thrown in and ignored.
 

Lord Raa

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#9
Hmm...

Not actually seen Highschool DxD, but I have downloaded it. Perhaps I will be inspired rather than insipid.
 

PCHeintz72

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Lord Raa said:
Hmm...

Not actually seen Highschool DxD, but I have downloaded it. Perhaps I will be inspired rather than insipid.
Having trouble plowing through even season 1... the problem is not the supernatural beings, or their superior attitudes, or the 3 way war, or the fights, or the fan service, it is my dislike for the human male protagonist.
 

Lord Raa

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PCHeintz72 said:
Having trouble plowing through even season 1... the problem is not the supernatural beings, or their superior attitudes, or the 3 way war, or the fights, or the fan service, it is my dislike for the human male protagonist.
Must...resist... compulsion...for... crossover...

I see three candidates to replace the lead male.
 

PCHeintz72

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Lord Raa said:
PCHeintz72 said:
Having trouble plowing through even season 1... the problem is not the supernatural beings, or their superior attitudes, or the 3 way war, or the fights, or the fan service, it is my dislike for the human male protagonist.
Must...resist... compulsion...for... crossover...

I see three candidates to replace the lead male.
Hmmm... someone unusual, someone with a backbone, someone whom is not nessecarily overpowered but could be trained, someone Lord Raa could deal with. The immediate candidates to come to mind would probably be:

- Mikoto Mizuhara from El Hazard
- Chitose Hitotose from Happy Lesson
- Kazume from Kaze no Stigma
- Yoichi Karasuma from Asu no Yoichi
 

Lord Raa

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They weren't the names that came to my mind.

But you have given me another option that I hadn't considered: Eikichi Onizuka...
 

PCHeintz72

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Lord Raa said:
They weren't the names that came to my mind.

But you have given me another option that I hadn't considered: Eikichi Onizuka...
too old.
 

Lord Raa

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If I'm mangling the series, I might as well do it properly.

Who's to say that they couldn't be student teachers looking to study under the Great Teacher Onizuka?

But for an age-appropriate suggestion:

Sousuke Sagara.

No promises though, I still need to watch the show to get a feel for things before something readable emerges from the keyboard.
 

PCHeintz72

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Lord Raa said:
If I'm mangling the series, I might as well do it properly.

Who's to say that they couldn't be student teachers looking to study under the Great Teacher Onizuka?

But for an age-appropriate suggestion:

Sousuke Sagara.

No promises though, I still need to watch the show to get a feel for things before something readable emerges from the keyboard.
My mistake, thought you were talking about a direct replacement, not someone else coming in as a different capacity.
 

PCHeintz72

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Started reading 'A Demon Lord's Hero' by Fahad09 which was recommended by Emerald Oracle. I'm 6 chapters in so far, and for the most part pretty good (loved the Shiro/Sona interaction, not so much the Shiro/Rias interaction), but this author sure rambles on in the beginning and end notes.
 

PCHeintz72

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PCHeintz72 said:
Started reading 'A Demon Lord's Hero' by Fahad09 which was recommended by Emerald Oracle. I'm 6 chapters in so far, and for the most part pretty good (loved the Shiro/Sona interaction, not so much the Shiro/Rias interaction), but this author sure rambles on in the beginning and end notes.
As a FYI, I had finished reading this the other day... but forgot to comment on... really well written, if you do not mind long beginning and ending author notes on chapters and some characters being OOC... I liked it.

I wanted to note, it just updated this morning with a new chapter.
 
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