History FanFic / ItsMyLife

!!The various fanworks of ITS MY LIFE! (excluding those by [=ASBusinessMagnet=], which have [[FanFic/ITSMYLIFEExpandedUniverse their own page]]) providee examples of:

** Then there's the past ''in relation to'' "the past", in which, despite the fact that Hogwarts exists, everyone's riding woolly mammoths.

!!The [=MSTings=] provide examples of:

* Blog/TheHalfWorld MST:
** BigNo:
--->OH GOD NO
--->PLEASE NO
--->NOT A [[HighSchoolAU HIGH SCHOOL AU]] FIC
--->NOOOOOOOOO
** DrivingQuestion:
--->'''By Chapter 9 of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', when the [=TF2=] characters are first met:''' Also, is this the BLU team or the RED team?
--->'''By Chapter 10, when the evil clones are met:''' So is this the RED team or the BLU team?
--->'''By Chapter 2 of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'':''' "He waved an we got red for school." So I guess they’re the RED team, then?
*** It is revealed, however, that they became the BLU team, and then "Redman" cloned said team and made the RED team a.k.a. "Team Fortress 2". (The BLU team also called themselves "Team Fortress 2".)

* Library of the Damned MST:
** MissingStepsPlan:
--->So GLaDOS’ super-effective plan was;
--->
--->1. Give Chell a brain damage relapse so she would Booty Quake
--->2. Force Wheatley to watch Chell Booty Quake without him knowing he was being forced to do so.
--->3. Tell Marissa about the zombie-making potatoes curing brain damage.
--->4. ???
--->5. [[strike:Profit!]] Marissa’s Emo-Gothification and the death of everyone!
** PorkyPigPronunciation:
--->Marissa laughs at [=GLaDOS=], reminding her that she is immune to the nero …. nerdro … neuro … icky green farts.
** RunningGag: If we believe the [=LotD=] interpretation of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', Marrissa has never dropped anything that she picked up, and therefore always has a whole bunch of stuff in her hands. This, of course, is persistently brought up.
--->Marissa shows up out of nowhere, carrying all manner of futuristic crap including her portal gun, Companion [[strike:Boob]] Cube, and Wheetly’s robocorpse, and no one reacts to it?
* The Unfortunate Discovery of Marissa Roberts:
** DrivenToSuicide: Both Space Core ''and'' Wheatley attempt to escape the story by jumping into a bottomless pit.
** TheDogBitesBack: Wheatley, treated as the local ButtMonkey, after reading "time streem paradoks" ''almost'' rattles of the "This sentence is false" paradox. It is possible that he attempted this ''on purpose''.
** LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The characters make several vague references to other Portal fanfics and even the story itself.
* [=MarrissaTheWriter=] Second Anniversary "Reading":
** InsistentTerminology: Despite being an MST, it is never called such.

* HighSchoolAU - Portal High School in general. Known characters are Gabe Jonson, Doug Rattmann, Caroline, Team Fortress 2 and human!Wheatley.

* NeverTrustATitle - ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE''. Snape does die, but the big bad is actually Gobo Fraggle.

* RetCon - Whenever its pointed out that Marrissa got a character's name (or [[CriticalResearchFailure gender]]) wrong she makes up a story about how the character was originally named her misspelled name before they changed it to the canon version for some incredibly convoluted reason.

** RunningGag: If we believe the [=LotD=] interpretation of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', Marrissa has never dropped anything that she picked up, and therefore always has a whole bunch of stuff in her hands.

Due to its popularity, it has spawned a series, which ends up touching on [[MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover many more fandoms]] than just ''Portal'':

* TrollFic - Was confirmed to be such. Insane Guy of Doom (also known as Creator/SueMary) mentioned he wrote ''ITS MY LIFE!'' because he wanted Portal to have its own FanFic/MyImmortal.

* ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE'': [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2750948 (Archive of Our Own)]] [[http://insaneguyofdoomblr.tumblr.com/tagged/HARRY-POTTER-AN-THE-KILL-OF-SNAPE (Tumblr)]]

* ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE'', the fourth fic, is set during the same timespan as ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' and elaborates on Wheatly, who also is actually Literature/HarryPotter (don't ask). He participates in his own shenanigans, eventually meeting the [[Videogame/BioShockInfinite the "Lettuce" twins]].

[[caption-width-right:350:But I thought the fence around District 12 was higher than 3 feet. (Artwork by [=ASBusinessMagnet=])]]

--->"Chaptar 2" is up, which is actually chapter 3, which is actually chapter 4. [[WritersCannotDoMath Marrissa is not good with counting.]]

** The present doesn't make that much sense either, as modern pop culture elements such as Music/JustinBieber, Music/WhitneyHouston and Website/{{Facebook}} and history facts (Britain still has a queen) are combined with the distant future timelines of ''Portal 2'' and ''The Hunger Games''.

** And let's not mention that the events of Literature/TheHungerGames (at least 74 years after a rebellion after a series of disasters, including flooding) are only a few months away from the events of the end of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' (Britain still has a queen, London is still above sea level).

* PurelyAestheticEra - See AnachronismStew above. It's not clear ''what'' era [=MarissaTheWriter=] was trying to emulate while writing "the past", but it's pretty much obvious she failed.

-->'''Skepkitty (in his MST):''' = Marissa has a very weird set of morals. Shooting your sister in the head because she’s brain-damaged = [[BlatantLies fine]]. Leaving your zombie sister who wants to eat your flesh in android hell, where she will presumably be fine since she’s not an android = WE MUST SAVE HER?!

* As usual with badfic, there are at least several DramaticReading[=s=] of the stories. A complete dramatic reading of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' can be found at [[http://www.youtube.com/user/seaweedprincess/videos seaweedprincess's YouTube channel]] and at [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYRgitUcrsIbu6upI8UR_prVx9rz6lXQb Marionetta Susette's YouTube channel]]. A reading of ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' [[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmgvdoLb70qO0udTPtIwtA/videos can also be found]].

-->Apparently, [=MarissaTheWriter=] thinks that if it’s “the past”, just any old person from the past can be written into the story. Next she’s going to have [[Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]] give everyone printing presses.

** From Blog/TheHalfWorld [=MSTing=]:
--->Marissa has a very weird set of morals. Shooting your sister in the head because she’s brain-damaged = [[BlatantLies fine]]. Leaving your zombie sister who wants to eat your flesh in android hell, where she will presumably be fine since she’s not an android = WE MUST SAVE HER?!

-->“Since, you know, high school students often invent sentient AIs.”

--->S’taht a ecin sdrawkcab eman uoy evah ereht, Assiram Strebor. [[note]]If you take all the words and reverse them one by one, you get "that'S a nice backwards name you have there, marissA robertS."[[/note]]

* VillainBall - Why are "Altas" and "P-Boy" so evil? Who knows!
** At one point it's stated they became villains after Marrissa accidentally left drugs and beer with them, they then smoked the drugs and drank the beer which turned them into "jersk".
*** And said drugs and beer were from future broken Wheatley's body, making ''Wheatley'' the villain ball.
**** And they were only ''in'' Wheatley's body because [[StableTimeLoop of peer pressure from Atlas and P-Body]].

* ButtMonkey - Whichever characters Marrissa chose to be a CopycatSue of are in for a very bad treat. [[Videogame/{{Portal2}} Chell]] is a brain-damaged, Booty Quake-dancing test subject turned into a zombie turned into a fusion with [=GLaDOS=], while [[Literature/TheHungerGames Kantess Evergreen]] has "feekal incontinence", rendering her unable to volunteer for her sister, and is sold as a "sexing slave".

* ButtMonkey - Whichever characters Marrissa chose to be a CopycatSue for are in for a very bad treat. [[Videogame/{{Portal2}} Chell]] is a brain-damaged, Booty Quake-dancing test subject turned into a zombie turned into a fusion with [=GLaDOS=], while [[Literature/TheHungerGames Kantess Evergreen]] has "feekal incontinence", rendering her unable to volunteer for her sister, and is sold as a "sexing slave".

** Thankfully averted with British England in ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE''.

''ITS MY LIFE!'' is perhaps the most infamous ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' fanfic, and has been compared to ''MyImmortal'' and the like. It begins by telling the story of [[MarySue Marrissa Roberts]], a test subject in Portal Labs who is seemingly Chell's sister, has [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands "speshul powers"]] and is [[ArtisticLicenseBiology somehow pregnant with Wheatly's "robot ball/human baby"]], putting her against the "[[EmoTeen goth emo]]" [=GLaDOS=] and the [[DrugsAreBad drugs-smoking and beer-drinking]] Atlas and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin P-Boy]]. And that's just the first chapter. Along its course it also involves [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch copious British insults]], time travel to a HighSchoolAU version of the past of "Portal Labs", evil twins, evil clones and a fusion of Chell and [=GLaDOS=].