History YouCantFightFate / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'' is novelized adaptation of [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild the original game]] and both of its [=DLCs=]. However, [[spoiler:Impa]] gets [[spoiler:her]] own arc centering on obtaining [[spoiler:the Frog Spirit of Kindness, a fourth heroic spirit]]. During this time, Tutsuwa Nima reveals to her [[spoiler:that the Great Calamity was inevitable because it was part of a LongGame by the Goddesses meant to destroy Demise's curse once and for all]].

** Namely, the assassinations of the main trio's mothers (Bloom and Stella) and the invasion of [[MagicalLand Magix]] by the [[TheLegionsOfHell Burning Legion]] (one key, unavoidable event is the extinction-by-Fel of Isis, Erphem, and Solaria's colony Edelyn). The runes say so and, well, Domino's ancient rune magic hasn't ever lied, which is shown when Trisha consults her own chapter in the Book of Fate only to find the pages about her visit to the past were blank. In all fairness, this result might be similar to what happened to her mother when she tried the same. In Bloom's case, it's because of an unfulfilled prophecy at play whereas Trisha's might be because she never got her mandatory rune reading at birth thus rendering a WildCard destiny-wise. However, it's later revealed not even magic-fueled time travel can set right what once went wrong (scientific time travel was employed first).

* Adrien/Chat Noir takes this attitude towards his relationship with Ladybug in ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev''. He's convinced that because the Ladybug and the Black Cat are 'meant to be partners', they're ''destined'' to be together, to the point that when Ladybug's rightfully enraged at him for lying about their relationship and helping spread rumors that they're dating, he outright refuses to apologize and tells her that there's no point in her denying it: they '''are''' going to be together someday. So why does she keep resisting...?

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* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25369093/chapters/61918576 The Phantom Thieves of New Game+]]'', [[VideoGame/Persona5 Akira]], [[GroundhogDayLoop after being forced to relive the events of his year in Shujin]], manages to stop Shiho from committing suicide after being raped by Kamoshida, and offer her a chance to bring down their common enemy. Unfortunately, a greater power refuses to accept this change, forcing Akira back to the start of another loop.
* ''Webcomic/Persona5AdultConfidantAU'': Fortune Teller Chihaya Mifune was initially a believer of this. After stopping Sojiro and the other Phantom Thieves from heading down to the train station before a train crashes into it when its conductor receives a mental shutdown, she felt that all she did was delay their inevitable deaths, whether by the disaster or by a Shadow that has captured her. Sojiro snaps her out of it, telling her that the Phantom Thieves will steal their future from fate by rescuing her and fighting for their beliefs.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Discussed and defied. During a conversation [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Shinji]] asks [[BrokenBird Asuka]] if she has ever wondered what would happen if [[PeggySue they had the chance to travel back in time]] and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong avert]] all what had gone wrong with their lives, including [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]]. Asuka automatically replies that they would be incapable to avert the end of the world, not matter what. Shortly after they met Asuka's future self who told Asuka that they CAN fix things and if her younger self thinks otherwise is because she is so thoroughly [[BrokenAce broken]] and [[DespairEventHorizon burned-out]] that she is afraid to try to.
* In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''A Rose and a Thorn 4'', Project: Mirage goes back in time to try and stop Ashura from causing the fall of the ARK. It turns out that BECAUSE she did this while knowing what was going to happen, she made Sonic blue, and gave birth to [[spoiler:Knuckles]]. The experiment she mated with fell in love with her ''because'' she was so determined to change things, and then released the Artificial Chaos ''because'' he'd been told it would happen (assuming that it would happen with or without him). She still couldn't save Maria even though she knew about it, but kept Shadow from being shot, and heard Maria's last words (as named in ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'').
** But she did manage to kill Ashura so that A Rose And A Thorn 3 didn't happen, breaking a time loop that may have been going around for centuries, and because it ''didn't'' happen, A Rose And A Thorn 5 happened instead. So there was a point to it after all.
* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'' is novelized adaptation of [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild game]] that adapts the main game, and both [=DLCs=]. However, [[spoiler: Impa]] gets [[spoiler: her]] own arc centering on obtaining [[spoiler: the Frog Spirit of Kindness, a fourth heroic spirit]]. During this time, Tutsuwa Nima reveals to her [[spoiler: that the Great Calamity was inevitable because it was part of a LongGame by the Goddesses meant to destroy Demise's curse once and for all]].
* Invoked in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2452681/1/Evil-Be-Thou-My-Good Evil Be Thou My Good]]'', when Pinhead notes that he spared Harry when Harry accidentally opened the Lament Configuration as a child because he recognised that Harry had been marked by Fate and Destiny, Pinhead explicitly stating that Fate and Destiny will sweep aside all who try to stand against them.
* Discussed in ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'', as Bo encourages Merlin to consider the idea that just because he’s been told it’s his destiny to serve Arthur doesn’t mean he has to do so, without suggesting that he actually turn against Camelot.
* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheNightmaresOfFuturesPast'', Harry manages to come back in time, with the idea of preventing his future from happening. However, there are still things that happen no matter what he does - Voldemort trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Ginny falling under the control of Tom Riddle's Diary, Sirius escaping Azkaban, Dementors posted at Hogwarts...which makes him despair that maybe he can't fight fate, and worries that everything may end as it did in his past. However, there seems to be someone that is trying to force things to happen as they did during the books.
* In ''Fanfic/TheThreeKingsHunt'' the Thief King comes back from the dead despite the Department's attempts to prevent this from happening.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Shinji wonders if this is the case when he's forced to be absorbed into EVA-01 to defeat Zeruel. It's ultimately averted since events start to majorly deviate from canon after that battle.

* The ''Film/StarTrek2009'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' is about Fem!Kirk trying to follow her own path instead of falling in love with Spock like her counterpart did. But when she starts falling for him herself, and discovers that two other versions of herself fell for him, she eventually decides to just go with it instead of fighting back and making herself unhappy.
* Franchise/{{The Slender Man|Mythos}} fic ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'', Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky try to fight against the Slender Man's snowballing ascent to power, being the first protagonists to truly offer any resistance to it. Ultimately, though, their attempts to use the Slender Man's [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve meta nature]] against it end up backfiring and giving it the last power boost it needs to win.

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': ''Belief'' that this is true is a possible cause of Setsuna Syndrome (named for Sailor Pluto, who believed this in canon as time happened to be her area of expertise), wherein the person attempts to {{Railroad|ing}} canon events into place. This usually places them at odds with most other loopers, who tend to cause severe timeline changes out of boredom.
* In ''Fanfic/HowToDrillYourWayThroughYourProblems'' a crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Lagann cleans out Taylor's locker over the winter break. [[spoiler: She still triggers the first day back, and if anything, it's worse.]] Averted in the long run, since [[spoiler: Owl/Taylor joined Team Neo-Gurren, rather than the Undersiders]].

* The ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7621766/1/The-Gaikohima-Invasion The Gaikohima Invasion]]'' has a variation of this in Chapter 3, where Kurumu and Mizore, while [[GracefulLoser having accepted that Tsukune ended up with Moka]], decide to ask Yukari and Ruby if there was ever a possibility that one of them could have ended up with him instead. They're given looks at various alternate universes and timelines, but regardless of which one they see, only one of two outcomes happens, that Tsukune either ends up with Moka, or with no one. Basically, if Tsukune falls in love, it's always with Moka.
* {{Defied|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': fate isn't ridged and in fact Rota Fortuna, the Concept of Fate, is ''also'' the Concept of Free Will and outright says she doesn't force any fate on anyone: whatever fate one meets is the result of their actions and those of others. She makes the roads, but there are lots of them and everyone decides which one they will take. Ironically enough, those who ''think'' fate has to be fought against and resisted often play this trope straight because they're so preoccupied trying to avoid fate they lock themselves into their path, as opposed to someone who just lives their life and continues making choices normally. [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse falls victim to this, locking herself and every single one of her alternate selves into one fate (as she merged with every Twilight to become her at the moment of their transformation, meaning she effectively tied every last one to herself), so when she's defeated all her alternates are likewise doomed to be defeated as well.]] The irony is, Rota herself plays this trope straightest of all: she will ''always'' lose one of her wings that becomes the [[ClockRoaches Blank Wolf]] in some way, be it by Discord during the war of the gods (prime Rota), to intentionally create the Blank Wolf (her EG self), or countless other ways.
* Played with in ''Fanfic/YoungJusticeDarknessFalls''. Bart left his future 40 years in the future to stop the Reach from taking over. When he goes 5 years into the future, he finds almost the same conditions as before, only now it's Darkseid who's taken over. The only difference is that he can still go back and give it one more try first.

* This same attitude rears its ugly head in ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'', to the point that Chat grabs Ladybug and launches into an angry, blistering rant blaming her for all their problems:
-->'''Chat:''' "Why are you trying to ruin what we have together?! We're meant to be! The ladybug and the cat! ''Ladybug and Chat Noir!'' What do you have against ''destiny?!'' We're partners; ''special'' partners! We were ''chosen!'' We're ''soulmates!'' What's so hard about that?"
** This sparks off TheReasonYouSuckSpeech where Ladybug calls out his ItsAllAboutMe attitude, and is also what leads to him [[spoiler:losing the Black Cat Miraculous]].

* ''Webcomic/Persona5AdultConfidantAU'': Fortune Teller Chihaya Mifune was initially a believer of this. After stopping Sojiro and the other Phantom Thieves from heading down to the train station before a train crashes into it when its conductor receives a mental shutdown, she felt that all she did was delay their inevitable deaths, whether by the disaster or by a Shadow that has captured her. Sojiro snaps her out of it, telling her that the Phantom Thieves will steal their future from fate by rescuing her and fighting for their beliefs.
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Sufferers of Setsuna Syndrome can be firm believers in this, which is why they developed it in the first place. They often get rather annoyed with usual looper antics that cause their loop to go OffTheRails, believing something bad will happen if they diverge from the baseline. Some loopers suffering from it can get rather...forceful about staying consistent with baseline, causing them to be rather disliked by the other loopers.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' story "Traveling the Multiverse" has a rule that keeps the main multiverse-traveling Natsu from breaking up certain romantic pairings. The one specifically mentioned is one of the partners of his counterpart in universe 934417-J. Why this one in particular? The one partner specifically named is Grace Fullbuster - essentially a female version of Gray.