History Fanfic / CopycatIsntACompliment

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11487684/chapters/25766517 Copycat Isn't a Compliment]]'' is a Manga/OnePiece [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by NightFlowerLuv, based on and set in the popular ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' with the blessing of its authors. As the author herself put it, it is "fanfic-ception", as both Ami and Cross are aware that they are self-inserts and that she was put into ''This Bites''.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Embarrassing and / or unlucky mishaps befall Ami and Cross to the same degree.

Ami, or Hijiri Ami, has found herself in Loguetown and established a routine for herself while waiting for the Straw Hat's arrival. She does her daily rounds through town, she spots the most unexpected persons - not a certain grey-haired, chain-smoking (and decent) Marine. Rather it's a blond man with a grey Transponder Snail riding on his shoulder. A snail and a man she knows from one of her favorite stories. She can't believe it... But well, why not, given how great that particular story is?

* CastFromHitPoints: Like the Op-Op-Fruit, Ami's Copy-Copy-Fruit uses up her stamina. Justified in that Copy Essence, which she uses to copy objects, skills, and abilities, draws from her life force.

* DelayedOhCrap: Ami catches a package the Unluckies toss at her before they escape quickly.

** Ami uses Ms. Valentine as a makeshift throwing weapon to knock into Mr. 5, as well.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Because of different circumstances, Nami gives Cross his first DopeSlap, and only a DopeSlap because she’s merely annoyed at him. So while it knocks him down, it doesn’t knock him ''out''. Ami used the month she has already spent in the One Piece World to strengthen her body so she’s less brittle. The two of them still are relatively fragile compared to the others who, as natives, are MadeOfIron.

* NowYouTellMe: Nami only accidentally discovers that Cross is MadeOfPlasticine by giving Cross a DopeSlap, and Ami coming forward to reveal his and her shared weakness. Why didn't she tell so sooner when she knew and any of the crew could have accidentally injured them severely? She forgot.

*** Mr. 5 is hiding inside Going Merry, alone. That means that [[Main/DeathFromAbove Ms. Valentine will launch an attack from the air]].
*** After the group has dragged the two human agents into the jungle, they come back to now find the Unluckies waiting for them.

*** Ami recognizes [[spoiler: the symptoms of Cross' cholera seconds before he falls unconscious]].
*** several moments occur quickly one after another when a large part of the crew step onto deck and Nami and Zoro confront Ami on that Cross - who currently has no filter because of his fever - somehow knows about Vivi's relationships to both Alabasta's king and the rebel leader, their names, that Ami once said something about ''"spilling information she wasn't supposed to"'', and that she and Cross seem to know each other from somewhere. So they would like an '''explanation''' now.

* SecretUndergroundPassage: At least ''several tunnels'' lead from Iwai's shipyard to other places in the city, one each for some safehouses and one to Lala's bar and back. Fitting, as both have ties to Loguetown's underworld.

* UnreliableNarrator: Ami deals with severe anxiety issues and gets overstimulated easily, often missing crucial details and events like Carue boarding the Going Merry. At worst, her higher cognitive functions shut down entirely. It leaves her running on autopilot, unable to recall the events she witnessed. She also has trouble reading people and social situations in general, so she regularly jumps to the worst conclusions on the impressions she makes.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: That is Ami's reaction in chapter 1 as she recognizes Cross and realizes her self in the alpha dimension put her into Fanfic/ThisBites

* WhatTheHellHero: One of Ami's biggest points of contention with Cross is his tendency to [[BreakThemByTalking insult and / or manipulate people like Smoker or Vivi with his words]], even when the point he's making is true or it's to push events to a better path. For her, there are better ways than to emotionally break someone who doesn't deserve the harshness.

Ami, or Hijiri Ami, has found herself in Loguetown and established a routine for herself while waiting for the Straw Hat's arrival. She does her daily rounds through town, she spots the most unexpected persons - not a certain grey-haired, chain-smoking (and decent) Marine. Rather it's a blond man with a grey Transponder Snail riding on his shoulder. A snail and a man she knows from her favorite story. She can't believe it... But well, why not, given how great that particular story is?

* BookcasePassage: The reference room in Iwai's shipyard has several doors hidden in the bookshelves. One leads to Lala's bar, the others to several safehouses.

** Chapter 6's ending, ''Join the Party!'': Robin crashes the crew's impromptu party on Whiskey Peak after they defeated all bounty hunters.

** Mr. 5 is hiding inside Going Merry, alone. That means that [[Main/DeathFromAbove Ms. Valentine will launch an attack from the air]].

* AscendedExtra: Miss Monday aka Lulu and Mr. 9 aka Charlie join the crew after Whiskey Peak. [[spoiler: Igaram is also on Merry because he didn't play decoy for Baroque Works and wasn't blown up by Robin]].

* CastFromHitPoints: Like the Op-Op-Fruit, and unlike most other Devil Fruit's, Ami's Copy-Copy-Fruit uses up her stamina. Justified in that Copy Essence, which she uses to copy objects, skills, and abilities, draws from her life force.

** Ami repeats the same feat in chapter 10.

* NoodleIncident: Little Garden ends up similarly chaotic as in ''Fanfic/ThisBites''. Ami finds herself having a picnic with the other Straw Hats, the giants, and Ms. Goldenweek, with her knocked-out Baroque Works associates surrounding them. She doesn't remember anything about how they ended up in this situation after saving Dorry and Broggy because she ended up overwhelmed, and Cross and Ussop's attempts at constructing a timeline of the events failed.
* NotHisSled: Ami immediately calls out Luffy when he attempts to break of Merry's mast as a makeshift weapon to get Laboon's attention. Nami violently makes sure to stop him.
** Because of Ami’s interference, Vivi reveals that she’s Alabasta’s princess hours before they arrive at Whiskey Peak.
** Miss Sunday alias Robin doesn’t wait until the crew leaves Whiskey Peak on the Going Merry. Rather she crashes the party they are having on Luffy’s insistence. [[spoiler: Igaram thus stays with Vivi, as he doesn't play decoy.]]

* OhCrap: In chapter 4, the Going Merry accidentally lands on Laboon's back while he was sleeping and rudely awakened him. He quickly sinks to get Merry off, then rises in front of the crew.
** In chapter 5, the Unluckies appear outside the control room inside Laboon's tunnels. [[spoiler: Cue tossed time bomb.]]
** In chapter 6,
*** Vivi's ditziness rears its head as she once again reveals the secret of who is Baroque Works' boss.
*** Miss Sunday makes an appearance much earlier than expected.
** In chapter 10, Mr. 5 is hiding inside Going Merry. That means that [[Main/DeathFromAbove Ms. Valentine will launch an attack from the air]].

** In chapter 11,
*** Ami recognizes [[spoiler: the symptoms of Cross' cholera]].
*** several moments occur quickly one after another when a large part of the crew step onto deck and Nami and Zoro confront Ami on that Cross - who currently has no filter because of his fever - somehow knows about Vivi's relationships to both Alabasta's king and the rebel leader and their names, that Ami once said something about ''"spilling information she wasn't supposed to"'', and that she and Cross seem to know each other from somewhere. So they would like an '''explanation''' now.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Because Cross didn't answer what Ami knew about his story, and [[NoSocialSkills she was too nervous to tell him]] ahead of time, [[spoiler: Cross still lands in the goo teeming with super-cholera bacteria on Little Garden and falls sick]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Ami deals with severe anxiety issues and gets overstimulated easily, often missing details and events like Carue boarding the Going Merry. At worst, her higher cognitive functions shut down entirely. It leaves her running on autopilot, unable to recall the events she witnessed. She also has trouble reading people and social situations in general, so she regularly jumps to the worst conclusions on the impressions she makes.

** Followed by Cross' realization that they are both self-inserts and that Ami was put into the fanfic ''he'''s part of.

Ami, or Hijiri Ami, has found herself in Loguetown and established a routine for herself while waiting for the Straw Hat's arrival, she encounters the most unexpected persons - a young man with a Transponder Snail on his shoulder. A snail and a man she knows from her favorite story... Well, why not, given how great the story is?

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11487684/chapters/25766517 Copycat Isn't a Compliment]]'' is a Manga/OnePiece [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by NightFlowerLuv, based on and set in the popular Fanfic/ThisBites with the blessing of its authors. As the author herself put it, it is "fanfic-ception", as both Ami and Cross are aware that they are self-inserts and that she was put into ''This Bites''.

* AscendedExtra: Miss Monday aka Lulu and and Mr. 9 aka Charlie join the crew after Whiskey Peak. [[spoiler: Igaram is also on Merry because he didn't play decoy for Baroque Works and wasn't blown up by Robin]].
* BatmanGambit: Ami takes the newspaper with Vivi's photograph from Loguetown in chapter 2 and shows it off to her crew mates in chapter 4 after catching the two bounty hunters. Cross will instantly understand what she's doing and at least one of the others will see the similarities between the photo and Vivi in her disguise.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Ms. Monday alias Lulu catches Ms. Valentine who attempts to crush her, then throws her directly into the flight path of Mr. 5.

* NoodleIncident: Little Garden ends up similarly chaotic as in Fanfic/ThisBites. Ami finds herself having a picnic with the other Straw Hats, the giants, and Ms. Goldenweek, with her knocked-out associates surrounding them. She doesn't remember anything about how they ended up in this situation after saving Dorry and Broggy because she ended up overwhelmed, and Cross and Ussop's attempts at constructing a timeline of the events failed.

** In chapter 11, Ami recognizes [[spoiler: the symptoms of Cross' cholera]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: Because Cross didn't answer what Ami knew about his story, and [[NoSocialSkills she was too nervous to tell him]] ahead of time, [[spoiler: Cross still lands in the pool of mud with the super-cholera on Little Garden and falls sick]].
* RelocatingTheExplosion: Ami [[spoiler: disposes of the bomb the Unluckies tossed at her by scrambling for the hatch leading to Laboon's back and shooting the package into the sky by undoing gravity on it]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Ami deals with severe anxiety issues and gets overstimulated easily, often missing details and events like Carue boarding the Going Merry. At worst, her higher cognitive functions shut down entirely. It leaves her running on autopilot, unable to recall the events she witnessed. She also tends to believe the worst of the impressions she makes on other people, so she has trouble reading them and social situations.

* AscendedExtra: Miss Monday aka Lulu and and Mr. 9 aka Charlie join the crew after Whiskey Peak, as does [[spoiler: Igaram because he didn't play decoy for Baroque Works and so wasn't blown up by Robin]].

-->“There’s no way this isn’t a bomb, is there?”

** In chapter 5, the Unluckies appear inside Laboon's tunnels. Cue tossed time bomb.

* RelocatingTheExplosion: Since the group is still inside Laboon, Ami [[spoiler: disposes of the bomb the Unluckies tossed at her by scrambling for the hatch leading to Laboon's back and shooting the package into the sky by undoing gravity on it]].
* SecretUndergroundPassage: At least ''several tunnels'' lead from Iwai's shipyard to other places in the city, one each for some safehouses and one to Lala's and back. Fitting, as both have ties to Loguetown's underworld.
* UnreliableNarrator: Ami deals with severe anxiety issues and gets overstimulated easily, often missing details and events like Carue boarding the Going Merry. At worst, her higher cognitive functions shut down entirely. It leaves her running on autopilot and unable to recall the events she witnessed. She also tends to believe the worst of the impressions she makes on other people.

* CastFromHitPoints: Like the Op-Op-Fruit, and unlike most other Devil Fruit's, Ami's Copy-Copy-Fruit uses up her stamina. Justified in that Copy Essence, that she uses to copy objects, skills, and abilities, draws from her life force.
* DelayedOhCrap: Ami catches a package the Unluckies toss at her. Both she and Cross note it’s likely a bomb. It still takes them a moment to react.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Ms. Monday alias Lulu catches Ms. Valentine who attempts to crush her, then throws her directly into flight path of Mr. 5.

* NoodleIncident: Little Garden ends up similarly chaotic as in Fanfic/ThisBites. Ami finds herself at the end of the fights - having a picnic with the other Straw Hats, the giants, and Ms. Goldenweek, with her knocked-out associates surrounding them. Ami doesn't remember anything about how they ended up in this situation because she was overwhelmed, and Cross and Ussop's attempts at a timeline of the events failed.

** Miss Sunday alias Robin doesn’t wait until the crew leaves Whiskey Peak on the Going Merry. Rather she crashes the party they are having on Luffy’s insistence.