Adaptation Relationship Overhaul / Fan Works

Adaptation Relationship Overhauls in Fan Works.

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The following have their own pages:

• BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant
• Despair Island
• Infinity Train: Wake Me Up
• Luz Clawthorne
• Son of the Sannin

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Crossovers

• All For Luz:
  • In the manga, All For One was the Big Brother Bully to his younger twin, Yoichi. In the story, flashbacks show he genuinely cared for his little brother, albeit in a Knight Templar Big Brother way and wasn't interested making a Heel–Face Turn.
  • In the show, Hunter has Blind Obedience towards his Evil Uncle Belos until near the end of Season 2. Here, thanks to All For One's meddling, he recognises him as someone the Boiling Isles needs to saved from and is actively plotting against him.
  • With Amity a regular customer of hers, Eda is more familiar and friendlier with the girl than in the show.
  • Unlike the show where they never interacted, Gilbert is friends with Eda who helped him cope with his husband's murder at All For One's hands during the war.
  • Because Amity's parents didn't force her to end her friendship with Willow, the two girls are on much better terms than in show's beginning. Willow is not only still friends with Amity at the story's beginning and is even friends with Boscha, of all people, who the triclops is closer friends with her than with Amity.
  • Amity has a better relationship with her mother, who has undergone Adaptational Nice Guy in the story, than her older siblings and father. Her relationship the other three are much more strained than canon, due to her having a Quirk instead of magic.
• In Amazing Fantasy, Izuku is hospitalized from a spider bite the day the Sludge Villain attacked and never learns All Might's Secret Identity or inherits One For All. Because of this, they never form the near familial relationship his One For All-wielding counterpart has. All Might's role as Izuku's mentor is instead supplanted by a universe-displaced Peter Parker.
• The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!:
  • Canonically, Lilith and Hunter are never even shown interacting onscreen, and she speaks negatively of their offscreen time in the Emperor's Coven together. Here, she takes on a mentorship role to him within the Coven.
  • Downplayed, but Luz and Amity start dating each other much earlier than in canon, where they got together in Season 2. In this story, the confidence from their adventures plus direct encouragement from their friends and families causes them to officially become girlfriends during Grom.
• 'And Thus...' (A MHA / XC2 Crossover):
  • In the anime Izuku Midoriya and Melissa Shields didn't know each other until the events of the first movie. In this story Izumi and her are already online friends at its beginning and regularly chat with each other.
  • In canon it's unlikely Inko Midoriya and Rumi Usagiyama even know each other. In this story they're dating.
• A Game of Cat and Cat: In this fic, Kazuya's surname is "Kawamoto" rather than Suou, which means that he's most likely unrelated to Tatsuya and Katsuya. That said, there was no indication of them being related in the games either.
• In The Confectionary Chronicles, while Hermione and Fleur were tolerant acquaintances at most in canon, here Hermione becomes Fleur's first true friend when they meet when Hermione is on holiday in France and helps Fleur against some bullies. Once Hermione reveals her worship of Loki, Fleur is so drawn in by Hermione's tales of her god that she asks to join Hermione in a ritual, becoming an acolyte of Loki with Hermione the High Priestess of her faith.
• Daria in Morrowind: Canonically, Sandi is the president of the Fashion Club and a rival to Quinn who pretends to be friendly. In the fanfic, the two openly dislike each other, and Sandi is not associated with the Fashion Club.
• A Divine (Romantic) Comedy: In the Hellaverse, due to legal issues, Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss aren't allowed to interact with each other at all. As such, the Sins' exact relationship with the Morningstar family is left unknown^note The most that's given is Charlie having Belphegor on her contact list, as seen in "Dad Beat Dad". Here, they're closer to a case of Evil Is One Big, Happy Family (albeit very dysfunctional) and are considered Charlie's honorary aunts and uncles.
• In "Donna Noble and the Magic Castle", when Donna Noble finds herself "regenerating" at the moment of death so that she is sent back to Cardiff in 1991 as a ten-year-old, she eventually makes contact with Jack Harkness as the only person she can contact who would know the dangers of asking for future information. As a result, the two go from casual acquaintances and former companions of the Doctor to Jack acting as Donna's legal guardian, even if he's aware that she's not actually a child.
• The Eminence in Shadow: The Shadow's Web: In canon, Cid is completely unaware that Shadow Garden is fighting the Cult of Diabolos and believes that his childhood friends are merely humoring him. In this fic, this version of Cid does believe in the Cult's existence and he takes an active role in leading his organization.
• Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters:
  • In canon, there's no evidence that Raythor and Lothar even knew each other, as Lothar was only introduced after Raythor was thrown in the Abyss of Shadows. Here, Raythor is Lothar's mentor, to the extent of an almost father/son dynamic.
  • In canon, Caleb and Aldarn are close friends, which never changes. Here their friendship breaks apart due to increasingly different views on how the Rebellion should be led leading to Aldarn trying to kill Caleb in a duel.
  • There's no evidence that Lothar and Tynar knew each other canonically, with Lothar seemingly dying (at the very least, he never shows up again) before Tynar's introduction. Here, Lothar and Tynar are close friends.
  • While not given much focus on in canon, Aldarn seems to have a good relationship with his father. In this story, Aldarn disowned his father years ago for leaving the rebellion.
  • Caleb had a good relationship with his father Julian in canon, and was happy to reunite with him. In this story, Caleb learning the morally questionable things Julian has done (like the destruction of Carhaiz) has ruined his image of his father. When Caleb and Julian reunite, Caleb confronts him on his actions and makes it clear that he's the leader of the rebellion now and he's making changes. By the end of Season 1, their relationship remain strained.
  • While the show's depiction of the two had plenty of Homoerotic Subtext that was never confirmed, in this story it's outright stated that Nerissa and Cassidy were girlfriends for several years prior to Nerissa's Face–Heel Turn and Cassidy's Accidental Murder.
• Harbinger (Finmonster):
  • In the movie, while Mitch does not heavily dislike Norman and is not mean to Norman directly, he disapproves of his brother's friendship with Norman and advises him not to hang out with Norman because of his reputation. In this story, he approves of Norman's friendship with Neil.
  • In the movie, Courtney is at first uncaring and aloof to Norman and is not above mocking him and trying to prove he's a liar. In this story, she is much kinder to him and is upset when everyone, including her boyfriend Dash, ridicules Norman.
  • In the film, Courtney had a crush on Mitch and it was their first time meeting. Here, they're childhood friends and she doesn't have a crush on him.
• "Heroes" Series:
  • In the mainline comics, Jason Todd's relationship with the rest of the Batfamily remains tenuous at best, to the point that he's even tried to kill several of them. In particular, his jealousy for anyone holding the Robin mantle after him is a defining part of his character. On Earth-38, he seems to be on good terms with the Batfamily with no ill will towards anyone, including Tim.
  • T'Challa choosing to take Bucky into Wakanda leads to a drastic overhaul of his relationship with the royal family. T'Challa defending him from the other tribes in spite of the scorn they were given makes Bucky so loyal to him that he considers himself a Wakandan even before a New Yorker, with T'Challa being both his king and honorary brother and the royal family considering him one of their own.
• HSETAU:
  • In canon, the Midnight Crew were a gang of mobsters who were never implied to be anything more than co-workers. In HSETAU, they're a polyamorous couple.
  • The five heroes of Problem Sleuth are a couple as well.
  • While there was some Ship Tease between John and Rose in Seer: Descend, it never went anywhere and Kanaya ended up dating Rose. Here, John has an explicit crush on Rose.
  • In canon, Equius and Nepeta are Platonic Life-Partners. In HSETAU they are husband and wife.
• Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger:
  • Thanks to Jaune's Force powers resembling her own Telekinesis Semblance, Professor Goodwitch ends up taking Jaune under her wing and makes him her apprentice, while he was just another student to her in canon.
  • This version of Darth Nihilus trained as a Jedi with Malek and was personally mentored by Revan. In Legends, they never meet and it's unclear whether Nihilus even knew Revan or Malek prior to his transformation.
  • In canon, Jaune was an Unknown Rival for Cinder and she considered him an insignificant footnote in her plans. Here, she takes more of an interest in Jaune after seeing his Force powers in action during the Breach.
• J-WITCH Series: In this story, Raythor has known Phobos since the latter was a boy, and he was the only one who believed the prince to be innocent of his parents' murder.
• Kir-Ben 10: Poyo Force:
  • In canon, Francisca and Flamberge have a relationship that borders on the two being Ambiguously Gay, being very fond of one another and Flamberge being furious in her first meeting with Kirby and company because they hurt Francisca. Here, however, they are much less friendly to one another, engaging in trash talk and infighting, much to Zan Partizanne's frustration.
  • Verdona takes far more interest in Ben than she did in canon due to him being revealed to have a Spark of his own (his was simply weaker compared to Gwen's, being described as an ember rather than a spark), and while Ben does take interest, he also ends up becoming more hostile due to Kevin pointing out that she hadn't spent much time with them, resulting in him erupting at her when unlocking his Anodite powers and laying out that she had neglected her family when they needed her, namely against Zombozo, Rojo, and the Yenaldooshi. Suffice to say, Verdona is regretful at how she neglected her family, apologizing to him and Gwen, but the two do make up.
• Loud Ed Drama In their home series, Marie had a crush on Edd, although the latter didn't like her back and tried to ignore her. Here, the two develop a relationship.
• Once Upon a Time/Mr. Right fanfic Love at First Sight (Once Upon a Time):
  • In canon, Emma and Regina, while eventually becoming friends, hated each other at first and constantly tried to kill each other. In this fic, the two get along great from their first meeting, instantly falling in love, and even after it is revealed that Emma is a former assassin, they don't really fight at all.
  • In the show, Emma and Neal feel in love with each other before the show aired and even had a kid together before Neal was forced to abandon her. Here, they have never met before and only interact one time while Neal is attempting to kill her before kidnapping her girlfriend, Regina.
• The Dragon and the Bow
  • In the film, Young Macguffin, Young Macintosh, and Wee Dingwall were Merida's potential suitors. Here, they're her Childhood Friends.
  • Because Hiccup ends up being romantically involved with Merida, Astrid instead ends up pursuing a romantic relationship with Fishlegs, whilst her relationship with Hiccup ends up more platonic.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: In How to Train Your Dragon and Encanto, Hiccup ended up dating (later marrying) Astrid while Mirabel was given no love interest. Here, Hiccup (after he and Toothless crashed in the Encanto) ends up befriending, dating, and later marrying Mirabel. When he remembers how much of a bully Astrid was to him compared to how he's treated by Mirabel and his other Encanto friends, he drops his crush on her completely. After her Heel–Face Turn, however, they become friends.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
  • Regardless of who Danny chooses as his perfect match, his relationship with Sam never becomes romantic.
  • For Danny to be on dates with Gwen Tennyson and Violet Parr, the relationship with their boyfriends are either broken up or they just haven't officially gotten together with them.
  • In order for Danny to be married to Kim Possible, her canon relationship with Ron Stoppable never developed into romance.
  • In all the other stories, Tucker Foley and Velma Dinkley are in a relationship. In TMDDF: Danny Chooses Alex After the Many Dates, Tucker did not get together with Velma because he didn't want to pursue a long distance relationship.
  • Instead of ending up with their respective canon love interests, Jake Long and Sabrina Spellman end up with each other in TMDDF: After Many Dates Danny and Kitty.
• The Marvelous World Of DC: Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are Like Brother and Sister instead of boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Metal Gear: Green:
  • In canon, Izuku holds a one-sided friendship with Bakugou. Here, after spending 10 years on Mother Base with the MSF, he views Bakugou very negatively and even with slight scorn.
    • He holds a very close friendship with Rody after the Soul family is rescued from Humarise.
  • In canon, Lady Nagant was hired by All for One to whack Izuku in the Tartarus Escapees Arc. Here, after Snake busted her out, she develops a friendly relationship with Izuku.
  • Spinner's canonical relationships with the League of Villains do not happen due to him joining the MSF.
  • Barring Nezu, Izuku's canonical relationships with 1A and the UA staff do not happen until Chapter 62. Even then, it's largely the same for most of the students and a few of the staff.
    • He becomes fast friends with Mei after finding out she swiped an MSF exoskeleton that was being unloaded and upgraded it in half an hour.
  • By Chapter 68, Bakugou's relations with his class begins to slowly but surely deteriorate as they realize he's not only full of himself, but is also an idiot.
• Mission To Silas: In The Craft, Sarah and Nancy go no further than friends, before becoming enemies over the latter half of the movie. Because this falling out doesn't occur in this timeline, Sarah and Nancy ultimately hook up, and become steady girlfriends for at least eight years. They are also a swinging couple, sometimes hooking up with a third partner; Bonnie and Rochelle are stated to have a "benefits" thing with them, which they also extend to Carmilla during their stay in Silas. Over the course of this story, Sarah and Nancy become romantically involved with Brigitte Fitzgerald.
• Ryuko and her father, Isshin, had a much better relationship prior to his death in the Kill la Kill/My Hero Academia fanfic, My Bloody Academia, thanks to him not sending her to a boarding school.
• The Parliament of Heroes: While Dipper starts off with a crush on Wendy like he did in Gravity Falls, a combination of Wendy's crush on Rose Worth, Mabel discouraging him from pursuing his feelings, and seeing just how close Rose and Wendy are, ultimately result in him letting go of his feelings earlier than he did canonically.
• In Helluva Boss, Striker possesses an unwarranted hostility to Moxxie. In The Prince and the Thief, they wind up striking up a brief sexual fling, the ending implying that the two of them might pursue some sort of relationship.
• Due to Mirellia revealing Malty's duplicity earlier than in The Rising of the Shield Hero, in A Special Kind of Magic Ren and Itsuki gradually end up becoming friends with Naofumi. It helps that Naofumi genuinely helps them and has others willing to believe him to explain things to them.
• Since Venom (2018) removes Peter Parker from the title character's origins, it's become common for fanworks crossing the film over with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (like this one) to have Eddie Brock and that universe's Peter Parker forming an Intergenerational Friendship in place of their traditional enmity.
• Weight of the World:
  • Salem does not want to capture or recruit Ruby and does not care about her any more than any of Ozpin's other "pawns". Since America is her target, Ruby did not defeat Cinder, and Silver-Eyes are a hindrance more than an asset Salem has no interest in Ruby Rose other than as another enemy.
  • Adam and Blake held no romantic feelings towards each other and were instead partners and friends before Blake left the White Fang. Adam's anger towards Blake is due to her betraying the White Fang and the personification of Menagerie rather than being a scorned and abusive ex-boyfriend.
  • Salem and Ozpin were never lovers in this series. Instead they were disciples of the Gods of Darkness and Light respectively.
• Honey and Vinegar: Seras and Integra were close friends by the end of Hellsing, and she possessed Undying Loyalty towards her master. In the fanfic, they're enemies/rivals and Seras only ever worked with Integra on an Enemy Mine basis.
• SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla III a.k.a Junior are antagonistic in Godzilla Vs Spacegodzilla with the former using the latter as a hostage to goad the second Godzilla into a fight. The Bridge shows them still in dire odds twenty years later Until it's revealed SpaceGodzilla was Good All Along and acting evil to try and toughen up his "little brother". It takes a long time in Equestria with influence from its inhabitants and a near-death 2v1 fight against Grand King Ghidorah, but they eventually bury the hatchet.
• Scoob and Shag: In canon, Penny is Inspector Gadget's niece. In the comic, she's his creator and mental template.
• Star Trek: Phoenix: In canon, Sunset and Twilight first meet as rivals and later become correspondents and long-distance friends, but play a fairly limited role in each other's lives outside of isolated incidents. In the story, they're adopted by the same family, consider themselves sisters, and share a very close emotional bond.
• Temporal Anomaly: In canon, Zero is completely hellbent on murdering the rest of the Intoners in order to prevent the Flower from fully blooming and destroying the world. She even refuses to view them as actual people, but aspects of herself brought to life thanks to the Flower. Here, now that she's presented a way to achieve her goals without needing to kill the other Intoners, her relationship with them is much more amiable, with her even being downright supportive of them at times and vice versa.
• we'll bury these old ghosts here looks at the characters of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the aftermath of the Snap (Avengers: Infinity War). With Amy one of the Snap's victims, Jake finds himself falling in love with Rosa over the following five years, and when Amy is returned to life, she, Jake and Rosa ultimately form a poly relationship as Amy and Rosa each recognise that Jake genuinely loves the other and feel that they cannot make him choose.

Adventure Time

• Something More (Adventure Time)
  • In canon Finn and Marceline stayed entirely as friends and never really developed feelings for one another. Here Marceline becomes Finn's First Love, although they end up breaking up.
  • Finn at first hated the Ice King for kidnapping princesses and threatening him and Jake in his attempts to befriend them, and it took finding out his past as Simon Petrikov for the two to become friends. Here, Finn initially goes to stop the Ice King but, on seeing how miserable he is, begins to take pity on him earlier on and the Ice King becomes one of his earliest friends.
  • Martin in canon was a caring father once to Finn but later on became a neglectful deadbeat, implied to be a result of a head injury affecting him with him leaving the series by Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence while never really mending his relationship with Finn, here the two still see each other but their relationship is simply strained because of Martin's recklessness.

Amphibia

• Medicated:
  • In the show, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy were Childhood Friends, with Anne and Marcy having been friends long before meeting Sasha, and their meeting Sasha being shown in "The Second Temple". As the premise of the fic though is that the girls arrived in Amphibia as infants, none of them actually know each other before the present events of the fic.
  • In the show, Braddock and Percy are close friends of Sasha, and some of the first friends she made in Amphibia. Here, they are her adopted parents.
• A Moth to a Flame: Unlike canon, The Core includes some of Marcy's direct ancestors. It's because of this change, sets up the whole plot of Andrias and The Core taking a route in wrapping Marcy around their fingers, by turning her into their Dragon and bringing her in on their Evil Plan instead of merely an Unwitting Pawn via 'Proposition'.
• Sasha and the Frogs: In the original series, Maddie has no interactions with Ivy at all, even not knowing about her relationship with Sprig; here, she joins Sprig and Ivy together during the Firefly Formal even befriending the two properly.

Angel

• Tacos and Tea Parties starts with Fred being changed from a college student to a six-year-old girl when the gang rescue her from Pylea. As a result, due to her hero worship of Angel for saving her, he becomes her father figure rather than her initial crush, and after Fred saves Darla's life, Angel and Darla become 'Daddy' and 'Mommy' with Connor her adopted brother (prompting Fred to be slightly put out when Connor returns from Quor'toth and she's no longer the older sibling).

Animorphs

• All Assorted Animorphs AUs:
  • In "What if Tobias wasn't stuck in morph?", Tobias barely knows Ax because he doesn't live in the woods with him.
  • Marco was never parentified in "What if Eva was never a controller?", so he's less independent and doesn't worry about his father as much.
  • In "What if Tobias was stuck as a human in #33?", Tobias breaks up with Rachel and falls in love with Marco instead.
  • In "What if Jake was stuck in morph?", Jake isn't as romantically involved with Cassie. On the flip side, Rachel and Tobias are much more intimate.
• Dæmorphing features many characters interacting who either never met in canon, had minimal characterisation, or both.
  • Melissa never forgives the Animorphs for torturing Chapman in Abel or Cain, and she doesn't understand why they have to do such harsh things, so her relationship with Rachel is strained.
  • Tom becomes close friends with Ax, Tobias, and — crucially — the free Hork-Bajir.
  • Toby Hamee claims Tom is like a brother to her. She never even acknowledged his existence in canon. And while she respected the Animorphs to the end in canon, she has a major falling-out with them after their secrets get leaked in The Abyss.
• Eleutherophobia: In canon, the real Tom barely had the chance to interact with anyone. Here, he's close friends with Eva, begrudgingly gets along with Marco, helps Tobias deal with his grief, tries to fix Jake and Cassie's relationship, et cetera.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Absolute Trust: Alec's intervention often helps to smooth things over with certain characters.
  • When Alec painfully exposes Jet's fanaticism, the other Freedom Fighters abandon him, a little wiser and a little less hostile towards firebenders.
  • When the Gaang is led to Jeong Jeong's camp, Alec explains the situation and Aang reluctantly accepts that he's not ready to try firebending yet. But after a test of character, Jeong Jeong does agree to train Alec.
  • When the Gaang comes to the North Pole, Hahn makes a disgrace of himself to the extent that Chief Arnook calls off his engagement with Yue, whereupon her previous lover, Original Character Poduk, almost immediately proposes to her. Hence, Yue never bonds with Sokka.
  • When the Gaang meets General Fong, the guy obsessed with using the Avatar State to end the war, Alec fully explains the Avatar State and Fong's mindset to the Gaang, and they come up with a plan. Katara heals everyone in the base's infirmary and they decline a military escort to Omashu. This along with the promise that Aang will be ready by the end of the summer is enough to pacify Fong, and they part on amicable terms.
  • When the Gaang meets Toph, Alec smooths things over with her joining the group as much as he can, from first impressions to enticing her to join them to helping her and Katara get along. It helps that Toph is his favorite character.
  • When the Gaang visits Wan Shi Tong's library, Alec is respectful and upfront to the Spirit, bargaining with him instead of lying to him. The Gaang obtains the date of the Day of Black Sun and parts with Wan Shi Tong on neutral terms at worst, while Zei is permitted to stay.
• Deadshots: Mai fakes Zuko's death (and, soon after, her own suicide) following the disastrous Agni Kai. This changes quite a few relationships.
  • Obviously, Mai and Zuko are much closer much earlier, since they're on the run together. They end up joining with June, who in canon was just a random mercenary Zuko hired and who Mai never met. Pretty much everyone lampshades that she's basically adopted them.
  • Without Zuko around (even in exile) to take the full brunt of Ozai's disappointment, Azula has to face his "parenting" much earlier than in canon. Upon naming her his official heir, he promptly relaxes her guards so that she'll be toughened up by all the would-be assassins and rapists who think bagging the princess one way or another is a ticket to power. Azula becomes disillusioned with him very quickly.
  • In canon, Ty Lee ran away to the circus soon after Zuko's exile to get away from her six identical sisters. Here, seeing how close Azula is to breaking, she instead swallows her pride and summons her sisters to the palace to help. The seven of them end up as Azula's handmaidens, guards, assistants, and only friends.
  • Iroh becomes closer to Azula since Zuko isn't around for him to dote on, and he realizes that Azula actually needs protection from Ozai (in canon, he either didn't realize how toxic their relationship was or just felt like he couldn't do anything about it).
• Morality Chain:
  • Zuko and Azula share a healthy, loving sibling relationship instead of the rivalry of bitter envy and hatred from the canon series. Because of this, Azula is loyal to Zuko and actively helps him in whatever she feels would be in his best interest, like helping him chase down Aang, and later joining the Gaang.
  • Because Azula actually understands friendship due to her relationship with Zuko, her friendships with Mai and Ty Lee are much more genuine. She does still manipulate them, but they're nowhere near as afraid of her, and in fact several times Azula has trouble getting rid of Ty Lee because she just enjoys spending time with Azula.
  • Azula's relationship with Iroh is much more cordial. They're still hardly close, and she tends to think of him as a buffoon with flashes of insight, but she can at least understand his feelings over the loss of his son. She also involves him in the conquest of Ba Sing Se as a genuine gift, the bloodless conquest she thought he wanted, so that he will be redeemed and allowed to come home. She is shocked when he still turns traitor.
• The Last Firebender (sinistercinnamon): Zuko joins the Kyoshi Warriors and is a trusted subordinate of Suki, so they are very close. She is the one who suggests he goes off with Team Avatar, even though they don't know who he is (Suki does).
• In The Masks we Wear (JiggleWigs), Azula and Zuko don't have a Sibling Rivalry thanks to their different upbringing.
• The Stalking Zuko Series:
  • Aang and Katara. In canon, they eventually become the Official Couple, with Katara strongly believing that Aang can save the world. In the fic, they don't interact all that much apart from when Katara is training Aang, and she's generally somewhat annoyed with him most of the time. When he disappears just before Sozin's Comet arrives and causes Zuko no end of trouble by sparing Ozai, Aang becomes a Broken Pedestal to Katara. After getting a kiss from Katara at the end of the series, Aang decides he's not ready for a relationship and gives up on her.
  • Zuko and Mai, primarily their post-series relationship. In canon, they get back together in the last episode, Mai leaves Zuko in The Promise, and they're implied to get back again in Smoke and Shadow. In the fic, Zuko primarily gets back with Katara for the sake of honor, is miserable most of the time, and finally breaks up with her after learning that Mai had been spying on him.
  • Hakoda and his children. In canon, Hakoda does what he can to be a good parent to Katara and Sokka, even if their responsibilities often force them to be halfway across the world from each other. In the fic, he tries his hardest to be a "cool dad," which ranges from benign but somewhat embarrassing attempts to being a good father to actively trying to get Zuko and Katara to break up.

Batman

• The Changeling Sequence:
  • Jason skips the hostility against his father and brothers as he's far too focused on bringing Damian back to Gotham without attracting Ra's al Ghul's attention. Inversely, he nurses a fierce grudge against Roy Harper — who became his best friend in the Outlaws series — for saying the wrong thing.
  • Consequence of his Adaptational Personality Change, Damian is much easily accepted by the Batfamily and treasured as The Baby of the Bunch instead of antagonizing everyone with his Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour and Axe-Crazy Spoiled Brat antics.
• Common People:
  • Jason is rather hostile toward Bruce out of resentment for missing the first thirteen years of his life. In canon, Jason looked up to and loved Bruce until the day he died. His hostility against his father and the rest of the Batfamily didn't start until after his revival, and a good chunk of it was due to lingering effects from the Lazarus Pit.
  • Consequently, his relationships with Dick and Tim are much better without Robin's succession to contend over and their shared blood forcing him to acknowledge that they are, indeed, his brothers.
• One Day at a Time:
  • Jason had absolutely no relationship with Carrie Kelley, Helena Wayne, or the McGinnis brothers in any canon due to either being dead or not existing. Here, he's their adoptive father and their Batman when each of them were Robin.
  • Damian's relationship with his siblings is a lot better, attributed to his young age and the different circumstances that are forcing him into his father's care. The only one he tries to kill is Jason, and that's to see if Jason is capable of protecting him.

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

• Did I Make the Most of Loving You?:
  • Where Adama and Roslin’s relationship didn’t have time to become more official than just lovers in canon, here Roslin immediately establishes herself as Lee and Zak’s stepmother, to the extent that Zak calls her ‘Mom’ as he’s growing up.
  • When explaining Kara to the children, Adama and Roslin initially claim that Kara was close to Roslin’s family before moving away, with the Adamas unofficially ‘adopting’ Kara to the extent that Liam considers her a big sister.
  • After Admiral Cain survives past her canon death, she becomes so close to the others that she is invited to Kara’s bachelorette party.
• The Other Side of Dawn reinvents Laura Roslin as childhood friends with William Adama's sister, and thus a long-standing friend of Adama and Tigh to the extent that she enlisted in the fleet with them. By the time of the Cylon attack, she is the XO of Pegasus, taking command of the ship shortly before reuniting with her friends.

Bleach

• Force of Souls:
  • Toshiro is Rangiku's subordinate rather than the other way around.
  • In canon, Ichigo only got into a relationship with Orihime, and only after the main series was over. Here, he's in a polyamorous relationship with her and Tatsuki, with Rukia eventually joining in.
• Thunderous Soul:
  • In canon, Sado, Tatsuki, and Orihime were simply friends, largely through Ichigo. Here, they're all dating.
  • Ichigo and Orihime are Amicable Exes rather than love interests.
• Vow of the King:
  • Candice Catnipp and Bambietta Basterbine are friends with Ichigo and company rather than enemies.
  • As Nemu was the one to give Ichigo his powers, Rukia is merely an acquaintence he fought once rather than one of his best friends. Similarly, Renji never becomes one of Ichigo's friends.
  • In canon, Isane is in love with Retsu, who doesn't reciprocate. Here, they're in a relationship with each other and Ichigo.
  • In canon, Nemu was completely devoted to Mayuri, who was proud of her despite how abusive he was. In Vow, Mayuri sees her as a worthless failure and Nemu grows to hate him after seeing how a proper father behaves.
  • Rather than not recognizing Uryu despite being in the same class, Ichigo is acquainted with him from the start due to their parents being cousins.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Btvs: Seasons Rewrite:
  • The Scoobies as a whole are closer. For starters, when Buffy returns from L.A., they're more sympathetic and caring for what Buffy went through after having to stake Angel, unlike in "Dead Man's Party," where they're distant from her, couldn't care less about her need to mourn Angel, and even get in a fight with her over running away right in front of dozens of their classmates.
  • Giles' paternal relationship with Buffy is also stronger. In the original episode "Helpless," he stripped Buffy of her powers for the Cruciamentum despite viewing the experience as an "archaic exercise in cruelty." Here, he outright refuses to put Buffy through the test, and only does so because Buffy chooses to go through with it to keep him as her Watcher.
  • Xander and Cordelia remain together throughout the first fic, whereas in canon they broke up during the events of Season 3 due to Xander cheating on her with Willow, which doesn't happen here. While they're broken up by the time of the Season 4 rewrite, they remain Amicable Exes.
  • Buffy and Angel remain together, and are even able to maintain a serious relationship, in part because the Powers That Be removed Angel's Curse Escape Clause. By the time of Season 4, Buffy's even moved into the Crawford Street Mansion with him.

Codename: Kids Next Door

• The Candygirl:
  • In canon, Cree and Numbuh 5 have a nasty Sibling Rivalry. Here, due to Cree never betraying the Kids Next Door, her and Numbuh 5 have a much healthy relationship, with Numbuh 5 openly regarding Cree as her Cool Big Sis.
  • As a direct result of the above, Sector V also as a much nicer relationship with Cree, as she's not a Teen Ninja and, thus, has no reason to be fighting with them, with them all enjoying her stories from her time as Numbuh 11.

Dark Moon: The Blood Altar

• My Deepest, Darkest Secret:
  • In the canon, Solon knows the werewolves and like his brothers, he considers them rivals. Here, they all only meet up now in the earlier chapters of the story (Enzy during the prologue and Khan, Najak and Tahel in the Nightball game) because of his brothers' overprotectiveness and after resolving a misunderstanding they immediately become fast friends, the werewolves accepting of his vampire half and Solon becoming a part of their pack in the epilogue. Enzy in particular is Solon's Love Interest and eventual boyfriend and then husband/mate later on.
  • Due to multiple deconstructions of their dynamic, Solon's relationship with his brothers is much more strained here, less so with Jino and Noa but more so with Jaan, yet at the same time, they're more protective of him, especially when it comes to potential romantic suitors. However, they do eventually make up and have a better relationship than before, the vampires even getting rid of their werewolf prejudice for him. On a more positive note, Solon doesn't argue with Shion here (unless you count the arguments with all his brothers).
  • Since Khan didn't see Sooha under the eclipse where a werewolf automatically falls in love with the first person he sees (as he was out in the forest with his brothers and Solon on the night of said eclipse), because of the former, he does not develop romantic feelings for her here, and as for the latter, the werewolves are barely even acquaintances with Sooha in this story.
  • The bonus chapter reveals that Solon is actually related to Dardan as his paternal grandson. It also introduces Marge, who wasn't the vampires' caretaker but head of a group of orphanages here, and due to that, plus combined with being more nicer and empathetic (if also still no-nonsense and more stoic than in canon), the brothers are more willing to listen to what she has to say.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• Irreversible Damage: In canon, there's no particular connection between the Heffley and Jefferson parents. In the story, the now-Mrs. Jefferson used to date Frank Heffley during high school, and the two never fully lost their feelings for one another.

Dragon Ball

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • The relationship between Krillin and Android 18 is modified in the abridged series. Here, there is a mutual attraction that is far more obvious, much earlier on. The Relative Error downplay on Krillin's part is erased as well. This allows for the creators to make it more clear that they will get together, and even show them getting together in The Stinger of the final episode of the Cell saga. In fact, Krillin's relationship with Android 18 is used to erase a lot of the trappings of his Butt-Monkey mythos in the abridged series: his "Krillin Owned Count" is depleted and destroyed during their Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex in The Stinger.
  • Korin and Yajirobe are placed in a relationship during the Cell saga. They get married in Movie 8, but since the movies aren't strictly canon, it's unknown if they're married in the "canon" DBZA universe.
  • On a less romantic note, Tien is shown to be much closer friends to the other Z-Warriors (except Vegeta), with him and Yamcha even admitting they're Vitriolic Best Buds in the finale of Season 3. In the source material, once he separates himself from Tsurusennin/Master Shen, he sees himself solely as Goku's Friendly Rival, with everyone else being merely acquaintances he has no problem fighting alongside of as necessary.
  • Speaking of Tien, his Shin Kikoho stunt against Semi Perfect Cell permenantly earns him the bio android's ire to the point where he's the only one that Cell actively despises as opposed to thinking of him as an amusing toy or a challenge to overcome. It's even shown in HFIL that Cell considers never getting the chance to choke Tien to death to be his greatest regret.
  • Guru and Lord Slug are unrelated in canon aside from both being Namekians, but here Lord Slug is Guru's expunged good half, like Demon King Piccolo was Kami's evil half, and Guru calls Slug his brother. Additionally, all Namekians on the planet Namek by the time Freeza invaded consisted of Guru and his offspring in the source material, as Guru was the Sole Survivor of the calamity that befell Namek and spat out eggs to repopulate his species. In the abridged series, Guru was not the only survivor and instead led the other survivors of the drought that he caused, so the other Namekians aren't directly related to him. This means that in canon, Nail, Dende, and Mouri were brothers, while in this series Nail does not appear to be related to anyone and Dende is instead Mouri's actual son rather than a fellow brother who lives in his village.
  • Dr. Gero hates Goku because Goku destroyed the Red Ribbon Army in both versions, but the abridged series changes the context to make it more personal. In canon, Gero had a son who was a Red Ribbon Army soldier felled by an enemy bullet, and Gero viewed Goku's annihilation of the army as rendering his work and his son's death All for Nothing. In the abridged series, Bulma discovers from digging through files in the database of Android 16 (who All There in the Manual from Toriyama reveals is modeled after Gero's dead son) that Goku's assault on the Red Ribbon base killed his son.
  • In the original World's Strongest movie, Dr. Kochin was a loyal servant to Dr. Wheelo, who was the one who came up with the body theft plan. Here, Dr. Wheelo spends most of his screen time protesting Kochin's actions, while Kochin ignores his objections and thinks he's doing what Wheelo wants.
  • In GT, Nappa immediately tried to get revenge on Vegeta for killing him when he escapes from Hell alongside all the other villains, This is very much not the case in the abridged series, where he takes being accidentally revived by Mr Popo in strive, settling into more of a Vitriolic Best Buds relationship with Vegeta and is even treated as Trunks' Honorary Uncle.
  • Canon Krillin hated Vegeta's guts and even told him to his face that he wouldn't care if Cell killed him. Abridged Krillin on the other hand is one of the few people who actually likes Vegeta and makes an sincere effort to befriend him.
• Dragon Ball Reboot: The fan manga makes Gine and Fasha into sister-like Childhood Friends who shared a Friendly Rivalry, whereas the only known connection between the two characters in canon was being former squadmates on Team Bardock until Gine left due to not being cut out for fighting,

DuckTales (2017)

• Just a Normal, Boring Family;
  • Throughout the series, Louie has always admired and idolized his uncle for being the Richest Duck in the World but ever since him and his brothers has ended up orphaned and in the system that opinion has drastically changed. Now, he's much more bitter towards Scrooge for having so much money lying around and not doing a thing with it when he could give it to people who desperately need it.
  • Before in Canon, the triplets seemed to idolized Gladstone for his luck and fortune but here they've been in the system for quite sometime and their only living relative they know of haven't contacted them (though in his defense, Word of God heavily implied that he's been trapped in Lui Hai's casino). This leaves Huey resenting him for abandoning them though it's Subverted with Dewey who's more on the fence about him and completely Averted by Louie who's giving him the benefit of the doubt.
    Huey: Good riddance, like Uncle Donald always says.
    Louie: Hey, I'm sure Uncle Gladstone would help if he knew. We just haven't been able to get ahold of him.
    Huey: And how 'lucky' is that? He's leaving all the work of finding Uncle Donald to us!

The Elder Scrolls

• Sleeper in the Cave's author was so utterly squicked by the hints that Divayth Fyr considered his Opposite-Sex Clone as his "wives", the story firmly makes his relationship with the girls entirely platonic and fatherly.

Family Guy

• Family Guy Fanon:
  • Lois and Thelma get one. In the original, they rarely interacted, but when they did they were shown to be on friendly terms. Here, while they both had a bit of a rivalry alongside Peter and Francis early on, they grew to have a friendship and actually respect each other now. Even having episodes like "Chick Cancer" and "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" have Lois and Thelma ditch Peter and Francis to go on Las Vegas trips together. And this is revealed to happen often in the latter.
  Peter/Francis/Brian: (Peter/Brain points to Francis while Francis points to Peter) Stuck with him for a week? Aw man, not again!
  • Speaking of Thelma, she and Francis get one as well. While they never interacted in the original, they seemed to love each other if anything from Francis calling her a rose meant anything. Here, they come off as a couple still acting as newlyweds. Constantly calling each other sweet nicknames and sharing a few laughs together.

Fate Series

• In Fate/stay night, Rin Tohsaka and Saber are good friends in the Fifth Grail War thanks to Rin's alliance with Shirou, and in their respective routes, the other will support their relationship with Shirou. In Fate Stay Night Heirs, Rin is the one that summons Saber instead of Shirou, and their relationship goes from merely Master and Servant to a romance in full capacity.
• In Fate/Zero, Irisviel von Einzbern and Waver Velvet barely exhange words. The nature of the Alternate Universe in For Want Of A Relic sees them turn into Fire-Forged Friends as individuals whose life course is heavily influenced by the people they love. Eventually, this also includes Maiya and Ilyasviel.

Fire Emblem

• In The Ghost of Ochs, Leonie gets along with Monica a lot better than she does in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, primarily because Monica also has a more favorable relationship with Jeralt on account of him being her teacher's father. In the game, Monica was the victim of a Kill and Replace plot, but Leonie refers to Jeralt's actual killer, Kronya, as "Monica" even after both characters have been dead for a long time.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

• In the show canon, Frankie forgives Goofball when he shows her genuine gratitude for taking care of him at the end of the episode. In Frankie Rules she instead has hatred for him.

Girl Genius

• Raised by Jägers:
  • Agatha and the Jaegers, of course. While her relationship with them was never bad in canon, here she grew up with them and knows every single one by name.
  • Mamma Gkika ends up raising Agatha as a daughter. This also means that she doesn't meet Adam and Lilith until much later in life, and while she likes them, she doesn't see them as her parents.
  • Agatha goes by "Agatha Heliotrope" because she is supposed to be Van's cousin. They grow up very close.
  • Rather than being Beetle's Ditzy Secretary who he keeps around because of her family, Agatha is his Hypercompetent Sidekick and he doesn't know anything about her. She is able to avert much of the early parts of the comic by "accidentally" sending a message to the Baron about the Hive Engine, meaning Beetle doesn't get a chance to commit treason. Likewise, she has Merlot's (very grudging) respect.
  • Her relationship with Gil starts out much more positive, since they're able to skip the whole "killed someone in front of her and then kidnapped her" thing.
  • Her relationship with Tarvek has both upsides and downsides: Since he never participated in a plot to kidnap her, she doesn't have any major reason to distrust him. On the other hand, since he never helped her escape from some kidnapping, she doesn't have much reason to trust him, either. She gets a much less competent impression of him overall, since he's largely dragged along as Ducky's "souvenir."
  • Agatha is well aware that "Higgs" is one of her generals from the start, since without the Other in her head there's no reason to hide it.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed

• In Best of My Love, Meng Yao and Qin Su are close half-siblings rather than a married couple as in-canon... where they're also siblings.
  • In various adaptations of the MDZS story, Mo Xuanyu was kicked out of Koi Tower for either harassing Qin Su or Jin Guangyao. In the fic, Meng Yao is raising him with Qin Su's help.
• 'Lan Sizhui Sees Dead People'': Whereas Lan Sizhui and Wei Wuxian adored each other as child and brother figure, their relationship was distant due to Wei Wuxian dying at a young age and resurrecting when Lan Sizhui was nearly grown. Here, their relationship is of parent and child as Wei Wuxian managed to "survive" as a ghost and stayed to raise him.
• In Second Bite of the Cherry, since she was adopted by the Gusu Lan sect, Wei Ying feels much closer with the Twin Jades and their uncle, while she's distant towards Jiang Fengmian and his children.
• In Skin A Cat, Wei Changze and Jiang Fengmian's relationship changes from "servant and master with bonds of friendship" to "lovers".

The Great Ace Attorney

• A Case of Identity: Just like Enoch Drebber in the game, the characters Jefferson Hope, Joseph Stangerson, and Lucy Ferrier are brought from the Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet. Matching with Enoch's Adaptational Heroism in Great Ace Attorney, Hope and Stangerson are his college roommates and close friends, and both Stangerson and Lucy being Enoch's Secret-Keeper for his grave-robbing to cover his tuition. Enoch also helped hide that Lucy was sneaking into the university to be with Hope, a stark contrast to the original story where Enoch forced Lucy into an abusive marriage and drove her into suicide. It was actually Stangerson that came to Herlock Sholmes to request help in finding Enoch after he had gone missing.

Harry Potter

• The Chosen Six:
  • Unlike in canon, Snape isn't respected by the Slytherins, as pure-bloods tend to see him as a traitor and thus tell their children not to trust him. Additionally, due to only teaching potions to fourth years and up, he's had limited contact with Harry and his friends, generally only observing them from afar. This ironically leads to him having a slightly less antagonistic relationship with them; though they still don't like each other, Snape is at least willing to concede that Harry is not James, and the Six have a higher opinion of Snape due to not having suffered from his unprofessional behavior.
  • After a year-long apprenticeship, Trelawney begins acting more professionally and sheds her theatrical teaching methods, which are hinted to have focused on fraudulent forms of divination. As a result, she isn't at all close to Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil, as the latter two refuse to accept that the stereotypical divination practices they're familiar with are in fact phony.
• Eden, by Obsessmuch: In canon, Lucius and Hermione only had one notable interaction during Chamber of Secrets and it was clear the two had an equal amount of distaste for each other. The closest they ever had to second was during Goblet of Fire, where he sent a Death Glare that made her uncomfortable. This story centers around them becoming more personal with one another, ranging from hatred to companionship to love. They also have a son, something their canon selves would more than likely never do.
• The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harry gets along differently (usually better) with several characters, but perhaps the most notable is Professor Snape, whose personality is largely similar to canon, but who is impressed by her talent and passion for his subject. He has a hard time believing that he's taken on Sirius Black's son as a protegé (and he wouldn't be any happier if he knew she's actually James Potter's daughter), but she's just too skilled and dedicated for him to ignore.
• Seven Favours For Harry Potter: Hermione in canon isn't very close to the other Gryffindor girls. Here, in addition to befriending Harry and Ron after the Halloween, she also warms up to Lavender and Parvati, spending a lot more time with them and even having "girl days" with them. Turns out that the "girl days" are mainly spent trying to uncover Lavender's mysterious past.

Hellaverse

• Almost everybody's relationships are completely overhauled in Owl's Hell That Ends Well:
  • The big one is that Blitzo & Stolas have swapped daughters. As a result Loona has little to no opinion on Blitzo or any of the imp of I.M.P., nor does he have any feelings on her, but has a very loving relationship with Stolas and a bitter rivalry eventually turned into awkward friendship with Stella. And Octavia now has a very loving and close relationship with her adopted father Blitzo, and gets along well with Moxxie & Millie, especially the latter, but HATES her father, believing he got rid of her for being worthless, replacing her with a better daughter, after years of abuse and hardship at the hands of her kidnapper.
  • Stolas was also given an Origin Overhaul, this time being a Fallen Angel who was an adult when he fell, and thus never met Blitzo as a child, much less befriended him. Instead, Stella takes that role in Blitzo's life, which makes their relationship much more bitter and tragic than in canon, as the princess believed he abandoned her to her cruel mother, when he really thought she was dead. This, understandably, has caused the imp plenty of regrets.
  • Stella is not fond of her brother Andrealphus, who seemingly is able to get away with anything and even tried to sleep with her shortly after Octavia's kidnapping; and then making her the would-be rapist in the scenario. This had been established long before the release of Western Energy, wherein Stella and Andrealphus have a very loving and amicable sibling relationship, and possibly even some Incest Subtext, despite the Marquis occasional frustration of his sister's short-sightedness.
• Unraveling Emotions:
  • Vox is explictly in love with Alastor here, which poses a problem mainly because The Power of Love can cause Sinners to lose their Resurrective Immortality. Alastor tried to Break His Heart to Save Him, and mistakenly believed he'd succeeded, subsequently straining his relationships with everyone else when he publicly broadcasts a recording of Vox's Love Confession. Charlie, Rosie, and basically all of Alastor's friends and allies rip him a new one for that.
  • Vox died in the 1990s here, and wound up working for Husk while the latter was the Gambling Overlord. Husk became very fond of him over time, becoming a sort of surrogate father figure to the younger Sinner. This also makes Husk resent Alastor even more, as Alastor pettily prevents him from having any contact with Vox.
  • Rosie is closer with Vox and Husk, being a Secret-Keeper for the former and helping Husk find a workaround for Alastor's efforts to keep him cut off from Vox.
  • Vox isn't romantically entangled with Valentino here; as he puts it, the two of them made out once while he was "high as shit and drunk as fuck", and while Valentino keeps offering him "stress relief", he isn't especially interested. The Vees are more of a tight-knit Family of Choice here, with Valentino willingly putting his life on the line after Vox's vulnerability is exposed to all of Hell.

High School D×D

• All over the place in The Roots Of Hope. To name a couple of examples.
  • Rossweisse, while starting with a student-teacher relationship with Issei, eventually fell in love with him, becoming one of his fiancées. Here she falls in love with Dorian and remains amicable with Issei.
  • Similarly, Xenovia doesn't pursue Issei to have a strong child, her target being Kiba instead.

How to Train Your Dragon

• In The Grimborn Sister, Heather goes from being a semi-distant ally of the Riders to being explicitly romantically involved with Fishlegs.
• Since Hiccup and Astrid are heirs to a pair of Feuding Families in Rivalry, Hiccup and Astrid's dynamic pre-Toothless is much more hotblooded than in How to Train Your Dragon, especially when compared to their non-existent interactions in the film.
• In How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup and Astrid's relationship was never really established until she discovered Toothless. In What Lies Beneath, they were friends as children before "[their] interest took [them] in different directions". While their canon counterparts eventually Marry for Love at the end of the third film in their twenties, here it was arranged for them by their parents, their feelings developing at some point after the ceremony.

Inuyasha

• Bonds Through Time: The Adventures of Inuyasha and Kagome: Inuyasha and Kagome manage to reach an understanding and become friends much sooner than in the anime and manga, where their early relationship was defined by constant bickering and Teeth-Clenched Teamwork.

Invader Zim

• Re: My Hostage, Not Yours: One of the biggest changes between the original version of the story and this version is Dib and Gaz's relationship. In the original, Gaz was quite aloof towards her brother, and rarely showed care for him. Here — reflecting the canonical Character Development Gaz had in regards to her feelings towards Dib in the movie, which was released long after the first version of MHNY — they're quite close due to years of having only each other to rely on, with Gaz making it clear she does care about Dib.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

• In A Thousand Answers, Robert E.O. Speedwagon is initially dismissive of Jonathan Joestar when they first meet, thinking him just another spoiled rich kid on a ship full of them (though eventually warms up to him as the story progresses). He actually ends up developing sibling-like relationship with Erina (disguised as a boy named Erin) more quickly. This is in sharp contrast to canon, where Speedwagon quickly develops nothing but admiration for Jonathan's character and isn't shown interacting with Erina at all until the sequel series.

Jurassic Park

• In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the Indoraptor stalked and terrorised Maisie Lockwood the moment it first saw her, only being stopped from killing her by the intervention of Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Blue. In "My Father's Sins", Maisie meets the Indoraptor when she's younger and the creature 'recognises' her as Sister due to their shared existence as clones, to the extent that Maisie names the Indoraptor 'Jack' (she overheard a scientist compare the creature to Jack the Ripper) and Jack in turn acts to protect her when he has previously been violent to all humans getting close to him.

Kill la Kill

• Natural Selection:
  • In canon, Satsuki and Ryuko didn't learn they were sisters until the 18th episode of the anime. Here, they grow up together from the beginning.
  • While Satsuki and Nonon's friendship at the beginning of the story is similar to how it was in the series, prior to then they had a falling out. Canonically, they remained best friends throughout their lives.
  • Canonically, Ryuko and Mako were best friends. Here, they become girlfriends prior to the start of the story.
  • In canon, Ryuko and Nui are bitter enemies. Here, they enjoy a sisterly relationship.
  • While Nui was treated as Ragyo's daughter in the main series, she's officially adopted into the Kiryuin family here rather than treated as separate from them.
  • Mako and her family all loved each other in the anime, but thanks to their Acquired Situational Narcissism from Mako becoming a Three-Star and reaping the benefits in this story, her relationship with them is far colder, if not outright broken.

The Legend of Zelda

• The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Unlike the original canonical game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mipha and Link were confirmed to be romantically involved and even have a kid together.

Looney Tunes

• Space Jam 2 Across The Serververse: Even more so than both of the Space Jam movies, the Looney Tunes are a tight-knit family unit, while still maintaining their wacky personalities. The dialogue between the Tunes constantly refers to them as "brothers and sisters" or "family".
  • In an odd twist, Bugs and Lola, who are portrayed as mutual love interests in other Looney Tunes properties, see each other as "found siblings" off-screen in this story.
  Al-G-Rhythm:You consider Lola Bunny a sister? I thought you were dating.
  Bugs:Eh...That's in canon, Doc. This is 'off-stage' so ta speak.

The Loud House

• Flowing Star:
  • Downplayed with Stella and Lincoln. The two kids form a friendship here, but they are also partners in this story.
  • Stella and Luna never meet each other in canon, but these two form a small friendship here.
  • Lincoln is estranged from his family in this version after something happened that made him be sent into a reformation camp.
  • Lucy and Luna's relationship was neutral at best in the original show, but the two sisters apparently formed a partnership here.
• Moving In: In the show, Lincoln and Clyde have been best friends since kindergarten. Here, they didn’t meet until fifth grade when Lincoln moved to Royal Woods and when Principal Higgins chose Clyde to become Lincoln’s new student guide. Furthermore, Lincoln is the newest addition into his canon friend group, instead of Stella.

Love Live!

• When One Becomes Many:
  • Instead of being separate people in an idol group, all of the members of the group are instead alters within a specific system.
  • While the idol groups never interact with each other (outside of SIF), here they are already online friends with each other at the start of the fic.
  • Honoka and Tsubasa (the µ's and A-RISE systems) are dating.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• Because I Knew You opens with Wanda Maximoff deflecting the spell to erase all memory of Peter Parker (Spider-Man: No Way Home), with the result that she becomes the only person on Earth who remembers that Peter even exists. When she goes to New York to work out the reason for the spell, although she and Peter had barely interacted before then, the two swiftly become so close through their mutual losses that they all but explicitly state that they now consider the other a sibling. As well as this, the sequel sees Wanda working to protect America Chavez as opposed to her being the one hunting the girl in canon.
• In born of hell('s kitchen), courtesy of the Age Lift, Peter has no relationship whatsoever with Tony Stark, being merely in awe of his scientific mind. Also, his MCU teenage self never met or even interacted with anyone from the Netflix series before Spider-Man: No Way Home, whereas here he is the son of Matt Murdock and Jessica Jones and is essentially adopted by the other Defenders.
• In If I Could Start Again, the canon MCU gave no indication that Thanos or Odin even knew of each other. Here, they are old enemies from Odin's conqueror days.
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tony knew Peter's secret identity from the very start, Peter going to great lengths to impress Tony who in-turn initially remains aloof out of a desire to protect him. In Peta Parker, Peta becomes Tony's intern with him completely unaware of the fact that she's "Spider-Man". He sees Spider-Man as a mystery he struggles to decode while coming to see "him" as a true hero focused on the little guy and Peta as the snarky second-opinion capable of keeping up with him intellectually and casually.
• In canon, Spider-Man is portrayed as a Fanboy desperate to become a member of the Avengers with Iron Man keeping him at arms' length. In The Devil's in the details, it is the opposite, with Tony trying to get Peter involved in the Avengers Initiative and getting a restraining order put against him in the process.

Marvel Universe

• A Prize for Three Empires: Carol Danvers and Gladiator start a relationship. In the canon Marvel Universe, they hardly know each other.
• Ant Man And Spider Man Earths Mightiest Scientists sees Peter Parker become Hank Pym's intern, which leads to Spider-Man and Ant-Man becoming partners in the field before Hank even becomes involved with Janet van Dyne, when the two have rarely interacted in comics. Not only does this give Peter a reliable source of income from a more supportive source than Jameson, but he and Hank also encourage each other to improve as heroes, such as Peter's actions prompting Ant-Man to go out and deal with more street-level crime instead of focusing on pure scientific research.
• The New Teacher: Peter Parker successfully applies for a teaching position at the Xavier Institute, and at first only Logan is aware that their new teacher is Spider-Man. Over time the rest of the staff and students become friendly with their new colleague, until Peter admits his real identity after helping stop the Brotherhood's latest attack on the Institute (although a few others learnt his secret beforehand, such as Kitty walking in on him changing out of his costume and Rogue recalling memories she absorbed from Spider-Man in a previous encounter). While Peter isn't an official member of the X-Men, he is far closer to the team than he has ever been in canon, to the extent that he and Mary Jane essentially adopt X-23 and the X-Men help rescue Peter from a twisted alliance of his four main Goblin-themed enemies (Norman Osborn, Roderick Kingsley, Jason Macendale and the Demogoblin, two of whom had been resurrected for this assault).
• Spider Man The Young Avenger: In canon, Spider-Man is a professional acquaintance of the Young Avengers at best; here (in a continuity mixing elements of the comics with the MCU), Peter Parker is not only a member of the team but has a long-standing friendship with Cassie Lang that leads to them forming a relationship when they both realise the other's secret identity.
• The Weaver features an alternate take on the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Peter Parker is the only person aware of a universal reset after Spider-Man: No Way Home. With other changes to this universe including him being friends with Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn, a particularly significant shift is that Emma Frost is now Peter's neighbour and was briefly his history tutor, when Peter and Emma have never really interacted much in canon.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Crimson and Noire:
  • The love square between Marinette and Adrien is reversed, with Lady Noire having feelings for her partner Crimson and Adrien having a crush on Marinette.
  • Due to the kwami swap, Tikki is now the caring Parental Substitute for Adrien while Plagg is the snarky but protective partner for Marinette.
  • On a general basis, past Ladybugs had often mistreated or distrusted their partner Black Cats. This not only causes Plagg to be very protective over Marinette, but also suspect the worse out of Crimson Beetle despite evidence to the contrary, something he never showed to Ladybug in canon.
  • In canon, Kagami had feelings for Adrien and had a tense Love Triangle with Marinette before they became friends. Here, Kagami has feelings for Marinette and eventually asks her out in chapter 38, while she and Adrien have a Friendly Rivalry for Marinette's heart from the start.
  • Luka and Adrien were just friends in canon, while here they enter a relationship in chapter 41.
  • Adrien and Chloé have a Like Brother and Sister dynamic instead of Chloé wanting him romantically like in canon. She even finds the suggestion of any sort of romance between them ill.
  • While in canon Chloé had admiration for her mother (despite how she often forgets her own name), here Chloé outright loathes Audrey for cheating on her father.
  • While initially as cold and hostile to her half-sister Zoe like in canon, this time because she associated her with her mother's affair, Chloé in chapter 41 starts to bond and form a healthy relationship with her sister.
  • Thanks to never finding out that Lila is a liar, Marinette starts a friendship with the seemingly friendly transfer student. Likewise, Lila never targets Marinette as a threat and instead wants the other girl all to herself.
• Dad Villain AU:
  • Due to Marinette switching to largely being homeschooled so she can help out at the Dupain-Cheng bakery more after her mother's passing, she's much more detached from her classmates, not feeling particularly close to any of them. The biggest exception to this is Rose; while they aren't super tight-knit, Rose admires and appreciates how Marinette supported her during an especially harsh time at the hospital.
  • While Chloé gloated about the role she played in driving Marinette out of Francoise Dupont, she got a rude wake-up call when Tom sued her family over the harassment, with her father forced to jump through several legal hoops to keep his daughter out of juvie. For her part, Marinette is no longer intimidated by Chloé; while she'll put her grudge aside when the Bourgious hire her, she also readily defends herself and fires back against any nasty remarks the blonde makes.
  • Neither Marinette or Tom is particularly fond of Kim after the cruel prank he played on her. All the more so since Kim staunchly refuses to acknowledge how much he hurt her, brushing it off with Just Joking Justifications.
  • Since Marinette doesn't attend school as often, Lila doesn't see her as a major threat to her plans. In fact, she sees Marinette as a potential ally in her crusade against Chloé...as well as a potential provider of free baked goods.
  • Adrien winds up becoming much closer to both Marinette and Tom here, to the point of volunteering to help at the bakery.
  • Zoé is specifically Audrey's illegitimate daughter here, whom Audrey refused to acknowledge as her own. As a result, she stays with her father in New York, only visiting Paris in order to fight for child support.
  • It's revealed that Nathalie was originally yearning after Emelie, and her crush on Gabriel developed from her admiring his devotion to his wife. After reality is reset, she gradually falls out of love with Emelie after recognizing how she was using her crush to manipulate and string her along, and develops a crush on Tom instead.
• A Different Miraculous Set of Circumstances...:
  • Unlike in canon, Marinette does not hold any romantic feelings towards Adrien. Instead, he's the one who developed a crush on her after the umbrella moment. Therefore, he's the one looking for any opportunity to spend time alone with her. Also, he's quite possessive and a Crazy Jealous Guy when it comes to her.
  • Marinette's lack of crush on Adrien also doesn't make her do anything to call Lila out on her lies. At best, she quietly dislikes her in the background. So they never become outright enemies.
  • It's stated that Sass is Mullo's Kwami partner akin to the dynamic between Ladybug and Black Cat Kwamis.
• In Which the Fox Flees: In canon, Marinette and Lila are sworn enemies. Here, thanks to Marinette wanting to make up for Volpina, they become friends and later girlfriends. Lila is also on better terms with Adrien, Alya, and Nino.
• In the cartoon series, Marinette, Kagami, and Adrien are stuck in a three-person Love Dodecahedron; Marinette and Kagami are love rivals over their crush on Adrien, who in turn has a crush on Ladybug (unaware that she is Marinette) and settles with Kagami when he (as Chat Noir) is turned down by Ladybug (who does not know that he is Adrien). In Lady Fairy, both Kagami and Adrien are crushing on an unaware Marinette.
• Lady Luck: Chloé and Adrien, while still Childhood Friends, have a Like Brother and Sister dynamic, rather than Chloé having a crush on him. This gets reflected in their hero life as Lady Luck (the fanfic's Ladybug) and Chat Noir, thanks to a Something Only They Would Say moment on their first day as heroes.
• Leave for Mendeleiev explores a world where Marinette is transferred to Mendeleiev's class at the start of the school year, before she becomes Ladybug. As a result:
  • She's no longer in the same class as Chloé, who continues to feel entitled to her favorite victim and tries to keep harassing her through whatever means she can use.
  • Adrien has no interest in helping this random schoolmate get out of the rain, so there's no Together Umbrella moment between them and no burgeoning crush as a result. Adrien/Chat Noir still has a crush on Ladybug, but Mari has no interest in either of his identities.
  • Instead of her canonical classmates, Marinette forges friendships with Aurore, Jean, and Ondine, growing particularly close to Aurore with how she unflinchingly stands up for and supports her.
  • Since Alya's no longer her classmate and close friend, Ladybug has much less patience for her reckless antics and sees her attempts to expose her Secret Identity as a much greater threat.
  • Rather than being an Ignored Enamored Underling, Nathalie is more of a Sassy Secretary to Gabriel, not afraid to talk back to him or snark about his more ridiculous demands.
• Recommencer:
  • Instead of being cousins, Félix is another of Adrien's Childhood Friends, whom Gabriel forcibly tore apart when they were younger, falsely telling Adrien that Félix's family had moved to the UK after his father's death.
  • Chloé is making honest efforts to improve herself; as a result, Marinette is willing to grant her more benefit of the doubt, forging a tentative friendship.
• Scarlet Lady:
  • Having to deal with the insanely self-absorbed Scarlet Lady makes Adrien much less tolerant of Chloé's shenanigans, and he's much more assertive with her, openly treating her as an Abhorrent Admirer.
  • Adrien's relationship with his father is similarly altered; he's far more willing to talk back and stand his ground... and show his defiance by dyeing his hair.
  • Nathalie shows no particular interest in Gabriel as anything other than her (often exasperating) boss.
• In to lose someone, Adrien isn't placed in Miss Bustier's class. As a result, the only one of her students he winds up befriending is Marinette, due to her design work catching the eye of his father. This means he's less of an Extreme Doormat, with no vested interests in "keeping the peace" in Bustier's class, and is more than happy to inform her classmates of just how much his father estimated her work to be worth.
  • Both Adrien and Marinette are also closer to Kagami, as evidenced by how she shows up alongside Adrien, rises to Marinette's defense despite not really understanding what's going on, and mentions how she's looking forward to Marinette joining them later.
• Villain Of Your Own Story: After Alya makes her reality-altering Wish, she finds herself in a world that has changed dramatically from what she knew:
  • Alya herself found the Butterfly Brooch and became this reality's Hawkmoth, working alongside Adrien.
  • Adrien is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who secretly despises the rest of their classmates, blaming them for how Chloé's Karma Houdini Warranty ran out.
  • Marinette is happily dating Luka and Nino in a well-balanced, three-way relationship.

My Hero Academia

• In canon, Bakugou respects All Might and sees him as the greatest Hero in the world. In #14, Bakugou despises All Might enough to want to kill him when they first meet and avoids him as much as possible. This is due to Bakugou seeing All Might's rejection of Izuku's dream as part of the reason the latter committed suicide.
• 1-X:
  • As Tatsuma has the students introduce themselves by their actual names rather than jump straight into the Quirk Apprehension Exam, Ochako never mistakenly believes Izuku's name to be "Deku". Without her redefining the name for him, the two initially remain just classmates compared to quickly becoming best friends like in canon. This is something Ochako laments about after she can only watch Izuku be accosted by Bakugo in the cafeteria since she wants to be friends with Izuku, but hasn't had the chance to do so. They slowly begin growing closer following the USJ, even if not to the extent in canon, as Pony takes the position of Izuku's best friend instead.
  • Due to never getting the chance to stand up to him in the battle trials, Izuku is initially still skittish around Bakugo, considering him his tormentor. After Pony stands up for Izuku and helps build up his confidence though, up to even beating Bakugo in the Sports Festival, Izuku comes to accept the "Kacchan" he knew is long gone, and stops using the old nickname in favor of calling him Bakugo.
  • As Tatsuma put him in her class to spare him from dealing with Aizawa, Aizawa's original perception of Izuku remains unchanged, considering his being at UA a mistake and deriding any of his efforts during the Sports Festival, openly admitting on the air that had Izuku been in his class, he'd have expelled Izuku on Day 1, All Might and Midnight having to talk Tatsuma down so she wouldn't maul him. Honenuki even tells Izuku that Aizawa constantly badmouths him to their class. As a result, it makes Aizawa look vindictive and petty over being unable to expel Izuku.
• Coyote does this with Midoriya and Bakugo. Since Bakugo was Midoriya's Only Friend prior to entering U.A. (to use the term loosely), their relationship is complicated, since while Bakugo bullies Midoriya, Midoriya still admires Bakugo, and there are some hints that Bakugo does care about Midoriya in his own way. Here, it's much simpler. Since Midoriya has a true friend in Riley Coyote, Midoriya doesn't care for Bakugo, while Bakugo's being even crueler in this fic means the feeling's mutual.
• A Green Dragon's Hoard:
  • Inko and Hisashi simply had a drunken one-night stand, unlike canon where they're married.
  • Nemuri is Inko's wife and Izuku's stepmother rather than just the latter's teacher.
  • Mitsuki is Katsuki's daughter rather than him being her son. Mitsuki is also Izuku's girlfriend.
  • Rather than a minor villain, Manami Aiba is Izuku's childhood babysitter, semi-adoptive sister, and another of his girlfriends.
  • Inko is a friend of Manami's via an online forum they both frequent.
• Ochako and Bakugo are mostly on neutral terms in canon. Not so much in Green Tea Rescue, where Ochako loathes Bakugo with every fiber of her being, since she went to Aldera Junior High for her last year of Middle School and personally witnessed how he brutally bullied Izuku. Also, Ochako and Izuku's bond is much stronger than in canon due to meeting and befriending each other a whole year before attending UA.
• The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock: Izumi’s tendencies to adopt individuals either figuratively or literally, among her more outgoing and extroverted personality in comparison to canon Izuku, causes compounding changes in personality among many characters, which further alters canon relationships:
  • Izumi, Himiko, and Jin are adopted siblings in this universe, this having happened after Izumi found them in her second year of university. Having joined a raid on human traffickers, she found Himiko and Jin amongst the victims, and the three quickly became attached.
  • Izumi and Melissa meet well before I-Island's I-Expo that happens during 1-A's first year at UA, and are in a romantic relationship before the start of the story, as revealed in chapter 13.
  • Due to Izumi and Melissa's closeness, Izumi has also taken to Mellisa's habit of referring to All Might as "Uncle Might", and has a similar relationship to him.
  • Inko Midoriya and Snipe, although entirely unrelated in canon, have been altered in this story to be adopted siblings.
  • Minoru Mineta and Tsuyu Asui are shown to be a lot closer than in canon, with Tsuyu responding to Minoru's typically perverted behavior with comments just as, if not moreso, perverted. This is a result of Tsuyu being a firm believer in Brutal Honesty.
• Heroes Never Die:
  • Izuku's relationship with Bakugo is slightly better, as Izuku's unconcerned attitude makes him difficult to bully. Likewise, when Bakugo confronts him about "lying" about being Quirkless, Izuku is able to calm him down by pointing out that Izuku did tell him he had a Quirk, Bakugo just never believed him.
  • Izuku's rivalry with Todoroki gets accelerated when Izuku and Ashido beat him in the Combat Test, and then Izuku gives him a tongue-lashing for not using his full power.
• Inheritance:
  • Because Nighteye has been acquainted with Izuku since his childhood, and used his Quirk to see that Izuku would become All Might's successor, they have a much better relationship than in canon, with Nighteye even becoming one of his mentors alongside All Might and Gran Torino.
  • All Might and Nighteye never had a falling out about the former's decision not to retire after getting injured, so they're still on good terms and work in the same agency.
  • While Bakugo initially tries to bully Izuku like in canon, Izuku being more confident and self-assured here means he's quick to shut that down. Not to mention, Bakugo receiving actual consequences for his behavior triggers a Heel Realization earlier, and they resolve their issues and grow to have a more amicable relationship much faster than in canon.
• Juxtapose:
  • All Might is slightly healthier than in canon, managing to hold out in his conversation with Izuku long enough to get away without revealing himself. Izuku doesn't learn All Might's Secret Identity, instead meeting his withered form as "Toshinori Yagi", who becomes Izuku's mentor after dashing Izuku's hopes of becoming a Hero that same day.
  • Toshinori also makes peace with Sir Nighteye after coming to the revelation that being Toshinori Yagi is as important to him as being All Might, deciding to begin laying the groundwork for his retirement while planning to pass on One For All to Izuku.
  • Katsuki is actually remorseful for his previous actions towards Izuku after realizing the devastating potential of Izuku's Quirk, making it his mission to get Izuku into the Hero Course to atone.
• Lavandula Somnambulist:
  • In-canon, Aizawa and Hizashi are Red Oni, Blue Oni friends and Aizawa is Shinso's mentor. Here, Aizawa and Hisashi are married and Shinso is their adopted son.
  • Inko and Nemuri are apparently long-time friends.
  • In canon, Izuku considers Bakugo to be his friend and rival, taking the abuse and channeling it into a zeal to surpass him. Here Izuku is much more cynical and sarcastic towards him, barely acknowledging his presence while Bakugo tries to push his buttons.
• Locked In Digital: In canon, Izuku has a mentor relationship with All Might due to inheriting One for All, and his friends are Iida, Ochako, Todoroki, and Tsuyu. In the fic, Izuku and All Might never met until the Number One hero starts teaching. All Might is actually unnerved by the teen despite having some knowledge about what happened to him. Izuku also unnerves Iida and Tsuyu, has a light acquaintanceship with Ochako, and Todoroki somewhat ignores him, his rivalry with Izuku instead taken up by Bakugou. Izuku is instead friends with Koda, Yaoyorozu, Jirou, and to a lesser extent Hatsume, while his relationship with Bakugo is complicated but based more on mutual respect and understanding than anything.
• Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: Izuku/Mastermind is on far better terms with Himiko Toga than in canon, with Izuku becoming friends with her and receiving self-defense training from her.
• One for All and Eight for the Ninth:
  • Due to the empathy link in One For All connecting Izuku and his future harem members, the relationships between him and each of the girls plus between the girls themselves is going to be way different from canon.
  • Thanks to the vestiges' support and influence, Izuku stops considering Bakugo as his friend. He even laments all the years he wasted letting Bakugo bully him in hopes of rekindling their friendship.
  • Then there's the relationship dynamics within both of the first-year hero classes. From the get-go, everyone in Class 1-A hit it off like a house on fire and get their own little subgroups of friends within. Whereas Class 1-B has to deal with Bakugo's fragile ego, Todoroki's hangups, Monoma's gadfly Anti-Hero facade, Kamakiri's Blood Knight tendencies, and Mineta's perversions.
  • While Kirishima was Bakugo's best friend in canon, here the two of them don't interact at all since they're in different classrooms, with Tetsutetsu being Kirishima's best friend instead. And while in canon Kirishima greatly admires Bakugo, here it's implied that, like the rest of his classmates, he's disgusted by both Bakugo's abrasive personality and his history as an unrepentant bully.
  • Denki and Mineta were friends in canon. Here, not only were they put in different classes, Denki is disgusted by Mineta groping Momo.
  • Without Bakugou there to sour relations before they even have a chance to form, Izuku and the rest of Class 1-A form a more positive connection with the students who came to see the class that survived a Villain Attack.
• In Powdered Gold and Pottery, All Might retired years before the main story begins, after an incident that led to Endeavor passing him in the rankings. Since he's no longer an active hero, his relationship with Sir Nighteye is much more stable, with the two of them at much greater ease around each other than they are in canon.
  • Since Endeavor was able to achieve his dream of becoming Number One, Rei was able to get a divorce and get the children away from their abusive father. Now living as the Hiyamizus, they have much closer and healthier relationships with each other, as opposed to the isolation, neglect, and Training from Hell he put them through canonically.
  • Downplayed with Izuku and Katsuki. Katsuki is still a Jerkass who dislikes and tries to intimidate Izuku, but since Izuku has a Quirk in this AU, he stands up to him more. He also doesn't call him 'Kacchan' or make excuses for his behavior.
  • The existence of the Peacemakers leads to several characters already knowing each other through their work on group projects. Of particular note are Kirishima and Shinso, who are already best friends when the story begins.
• Rise of the Last Villain:
  • In canon, All Might and Izuku are mentor and protégé. In this fic, not only are they enemies, Izuku kills All Might.
  • Similarly, many of the villains in canon are Izuku's allies in this fic, while he eventually ends up in a romantic relationship with Himiko Toga.
• Silent Shadow:
  • Katsuki is an ally of Kuro, instead of being a bully or a rival, as he plans on saving him in Broken Silence. This happens way earlier than any positive change that occurred in canon.
  • Thanks to the loyalty Kuro demonstrates by defending Shigaraki and Kurogiri, Stain chooses to ally himself with the league.
  • At first, Shigaraki sees Kuro as nothing more than a tool but after the incident with Stain, it turns more into a disaster siblings kind of relationship.
  • Since Izuku isn't a student at Yuuei, Shouto doesn't engage him in a fight at the Sports Festival, and since he only meets Kuro there for the very first time, he isn't as strongly influenced by his words and doesn't use his flames like he did in canon, and as they quickly parted ways, they don't become friends.
  • Instead of Izuku, All Might takes Mirio as his successor.
• Switchblade:
  • Katsuki's guilt over Izuku's disappearance, where he thought that Izuku had taken his advice, leads to him apologizing for his actions much earlier, and after Izuku forgives him, they become best friends. They also become close friends with Ojiro and Shouji because the four trained together in preparation for U.A.'s entrance exam.
  • Izuku and All Might are more distant than in canon due to not having the student-mentor dynamic from All Might choosing Izuku as his successor.
  • Izuku has a closer relationship with Aizawa since he was the one who encouraged Izuku to become a hero after getting involved in his disappearance case, and he takes to supporting Izuku whenever the kid remembers something disturbing or horrifying about his missing week.
  • Because Izuku is never offered One for All, Nighteye has no reason to be hostile to him and their relationship is a lot better, with Nighteye even bonding with him over their shared experience in receiving terrifying visions that they don't understand.
• In Vigilantism of Olympic Proportions, all of Class 1-A's members (with Mineta replaced by Shinsou) have known each other for a long time before starting U.A., living as a makeshift family and operating as a vigilante group called the Pantheon.
• Young Midoriya:
  • In this fic, Kendo, in addition to being Izuku's first genuine friend prior to UA, went to the same middle school with him and Bakugo. When the trio do make it into UA, they all are a part of 1-A. In addition, there’s some Ship Tease between them.
  • Thanks to going to extensive therapy, Izuku drops his admiration for Bakugo and is much more willing to stand up to him.
  • While Izuku and All Might are close in canon due to the latter choosing the former as his successor, here, All Might is much more involved in his development due to meeting him when Izuku was 12 instead of 15. Officially, Izuku works as All Might's intern.
    • Among the things All Might does is having Nezu tutor Izuku.
  • During the Stain arc, instead of interning with Gran Torino, Izuku chooses to intern under Mirko.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

• Sunset's Steps: Played With, Sunset becomes friends with The Rainbooms like in canon, but becoming friends with them was harder for her in this story. In the canon series, at the end of the first movie, The Rainbooms apparently forgive Sunset and promise Twilight Sparkle to be her friend and teach her friendship. The next film shows that The Rainbooms have kept their promise and invited Sunset into their friend group despite what Sunset has done in the past, albeit with some tension between them that isn't fully resolved until the end of the movie. In this series, The Rainbooms (except for Pinkie Pie) don't really want to forgive Sunset after years of bullying, with Applejack distrusting her and Fluttershy and Rarity fearing and resenting her, and Rainbow partaking in the school's retribution. Only when Sunset shows genuine remorse and pays them back for the times she hurts them that the Rainbooms give their forgiveness.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Scootertrix the Abridged:
  • In the original series, Spike was (more or less) Twilight's adopted sibling, on top of being her trusted assistant who lives to please her, and they've known each other since he hatched and she was a child respectively. Here, he's just her roommate she meets on the way to Ponyville in the first episode that she strikes up a close friendship with, he's actually older than her in pony years, and (while he still does the cooking and a lot of the housework) he's not her assistant and often argues with her on even footing.
  • Also in the show, Rarity and Sweetie Belle are blood siblings with a loving relationship. Here that's just their cover story to go along with Rarity being a changeling defector in this continuity, with Sweetie Belle serving as military handler.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

• In pleased to meet you (hope you guess my name), after Katarina regains her memories, she overhears a conversation between Nicol and Sophia's dad and some people from the Ministry of Magic discussing a commoner with light magic being discovered in a village to the south. Katarina arranges for herself and Anne to visit Maria under the justification Katarina could play outdoors and not interrupt anyone inside the house. This leads to Maria and Katarina becoming childhood friends (and Maria falling in love with Katarina) and the people of Maria's village treating her more nicely. At the academy, Maria becomes more confident (such as telling some bullies that they'd have to deal with Katarina which gets them to back off, Geordo dissolves his engagement to Katarina having realized Maria won and Katarina and Maria hook up together at the end after Katarina realizes she and Maria were in love.
• In canon, Nicol Ascart, though having feelings for Katarina Claes, is content with remaining as a good friend due to Katarina being engaged to his friend Geordo, with any progress coming from his sister Sophia. In Windy Trees and Sweet Songs, because Katarina landed on her head and regained her memories a day earlier than canon, she does not end up engaged to Geordo, and she and Nicol end up engaged after he sees her wanting to be friends with Sophia despite her albinism (which was also one of the reasons why Nicol fell in love with her in canon).
  • Word of God said that Sophia doesn't have the same crush on Katarina as she does in canon, instead purely views her as her friend and her brother's fiance.

Naruto

• Some Naruto fanfics like The Honoured Guest, Son of the Sannin and True Potential have Naruto and Karin bonding over being Uzumakis. Exactly how they develop their relationship varies from fic to fic.
• Ffreire's NaruFox AU:
  • The series is set in a world where some of the clans are 'animal clans'; this results in some Fantastic Racism, such as the animal clans of Konoha facing prejudice after a Nine-Tailed Fox rampaged through the village several years ago.
  • Team Seven bonds immediately; Sasuke and Sakura happily get involved with many of Naruto's shenanigans, and show a protective streak towards him whenever others treat him poorly.
  • While Sakura and Ino still have crushes on Sasuke, they take them far less seriously; there's no falling-out, and Sakura easily laughs off a passing remark Sasuke makes about thinking Ino was cool for not acting 'girlier' after their kunoichi lessons started.
  • Since both Kiba and Shino face discrimination for coming from animal clans, Hinata develops a strong protective streak, using her own clan's high standing to her advantage and making clear she won't let others bully them.
  • While Iruka hasn't officially adopted Naruto, the two of them started living together at some point during the latter's Academy years.
  • There was no Uchiha Massacre; instead, Itachi stepped up and became Sasuke's guardian after their parents passed away.
  • Kakashi recognizes Zabuza as a friend and greets him warmly when they meet up during the Wave arc.
  • The Sand siblings are much closer since Rasa's plans to turn Gaara into a Person of Mass Destruction were prevented.
• Sasuke and Tsunade weren't very close in canon, rarely interacting and always in an antagonistic manner. In Guilt of Innocence, she becomes way more involved in his life to the point of the two of them developing an aunt/nephew relationship. First, she decides to comfort him after his encounter with Itachi and assigns him the mission to spy on Orochimaru. As a result, she becomes his only contact with Konoha and, by extension, his loved ones for the duration of his stay in Oto. The two even start bantering and is clear they are fond of each other by the time he gets back to Konoha.
• Your Heart a Haven of Thorns:
  • After Sasuke remarks that she's stopped fangirling over him following everything that happened in the Forest of Death, Sakura casually reveals that she was never actually interested in him in the first place. She'd just pretended to be enamored with him because all the girls at the Academy were acting that way, thanks in no small part to their Kunoichi teacher encouraging them to practice getting others to underestimate them. Sasuke is rather nonplussed to learn that most of his admirers were actually neutral towards him, with a few secretly hating his guts.
  • Hiruzen's Adaptational Jerkassery dramatically alters his dynamic with Naruto. Rather than truly caring about him, he turns out to be a False Friend who intentionally ensured that the jinchuuriki grew up isolated, with his grandfatherly persona being nothing more than an act.
• A few examples in White Eyes:
  • In canon, Sasuke and Hinata had almost no direct interaction with each other throughout the original series (their first direct conversation taking place in sequel series Boruto), with Hinata only ever having eyes for Naruto as opposed to just about every other girl in their year-group crushing on Sasuke. In White Eyes, the two of them are placed on the same team as Naruto, and while there's some initial hostility (mostly on Hinata's part), they eventually develop incredible faith and trust in each other as teammates. Ironically, when Sasuke is asked early in the story which girl he would pick to be with, he thinks for a moment and then says Hinata, precisely because she's the only one of the girls who isn't fangirling after him. (Of course, it's a Naruto/Hinata fic, so they become the Official Couple while Sasuke later identifies as asexual.)
  • Because of the fic's premise (the Hyuga clan being slaughtered instead of the Uchiha), Hinata winds up having relationships with various characters who she otherwise had little or no exposure to in canon. Aside from the aforementioned Sasuke, Hinata forges associations with Itachi, Tsunade, Gai, Orochimaru, Kabuto, Jugo, and Karin (but not Suigetsu, who's barely in the story because he's not relevant to the fic's plot).
  • In canon, there's nothing to suggest that Itachi and Neji ever knew each other. In this fic, they were best friends and team partners prior to the Hyuga Massacre. And still are, since Neji is feeding Itachi intel on Akatsuki.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• EVA Sessions: Someplace Vast and Dry:
  • Gendo is particularly close to his children, particularly Shinji (biological son), Misato (adopted daughter), and Rei (half-daughter from Yui's side with Lilithian genetic material).
  • Fuyutsuki is simply Yui's former professor without any hints of unrequited attraction to his student; he also has a far more congenial working relationship with Gendo, with both men frequently bouncing ideas off each other.
  • Martin Langley is similarly a devoted husband to Kyoko and a Doting Parent to Asuka, in contrast to his (unnamed) canon counterpart, who was neglectful to his daughter at best and an adulterer at worst.
  • Naoko is much more supportive of her daughter Ritsuko.
  • Gendo, Yui, Kyoko and Naoko, and the late Dr. Katsuragi were all implied to be colleagues and friends in academia.
  • Misato and Ritsuko were close friends since High School, rather than meeting each other later at University.
  • Shinji and Rei were Childhood Friends with Asuka since the age of three; in particular, Rei and Asuka's friendship persisted even after the latter moved away with her father to Switzerland after her mother's death.

One Piece

• Coby's Choice:
  • Compared to their canon status as just True Companions, Luffy and Nami become romantically involved after Arlong Park, sexually intimate after the events of Skypia and married during Thriller Bark.
  • In canon, Hancock is madly in love with Luffy because of his kindness while Luffy remains ignorant of her feelings and sees her as a good friend. Here, Hancock is trying to seduce him to prove that her beauty cannot be ignored, while Luffy is annoyed at her efforts because he is devoted to his wife Nami.
• This Bites!:
  • In canon, what little we know of the relationship between Gecko Moria and Perona is that Moria raised Perona from a young age. Oda has stated in an SBS that Perona canonically views Moria as her father, something reinforced by her sorrow at hearing of Moria's apparent death at Marineford and her willingness to finally leave Mihawk's island after learning he's alive but in trouble post-timeskip, which suggests she was Happily Adopted. In This Bites, the relationship is more transactional; Moria sought her out because he viewed her powers as useful, and Perona only went with him because that still made him better than her Abusive Parents. Though her abandoning Moria, stealing all his treasure, and sailing away on the Thousand Sunny after it became clear that he was going to lose to the Straw Hats was her plan in canon, too.
  • Canon Sanji holds nothing but loathing for the okamas of Momoiro Island, on account of being sent there involuntarily and chased by them day and night trying to be forced into a dress, only gaining a modicum of respect for them as chefs during his two years of training. In this story, because the crew is informed in advance of Kuma sending them to places where they need to train, he arrives with the mindset of a chef first and is more open to the okamas' cooking challenges, thus the ratio of "loathing them as okamas"-to-"respecting them as chefs" isn't as lopsided as in canon.

Onmyōji (2016)

• Gonjiki Yasha – Meiji Onmyōji Tales: In the game, Tadayoshi is a Posthumous Character whom Seimei and co. meet for the first time as a ghost. In the fic, not only does Yosano Tadayoshi briefly appear alive, he and Abekawa Haruaki (Seimei) have long known each other as student and teacher. Likewise, Seimei and Yōko only meet for the first time in the game's main story, but Haruaki and Watanabe Yōko are already familiar with each other with the former being the latter's teacher and the latter maliciously nicknaming the former "Gonjiki Yasha".
  • In the game, Ichimokuren and Susabi never interact and possibly don't even know each other. In the fic, Kikuchi Ren and Akutagawa Susabi work at the same shrine.

The Owl House

• Luz Belos: Princess of the Boiling Isles:
  • While Luz and Amity start out as rivals (devolving into a "Will They/Won't They" scenario), here they're girlfriends.
  • While they still bicker at times, here Eda and Lilith are much more civil with each other.
  • While Boscha was a bully to Willow in the series, here they are friends who Relationship Upgrades into girlfriends.
• Hail To The Queen:
  • By design of the concept, Luz is a complete stranger to the occupants of the Owl House.
  • Luz and Hunter are enemies in the main series, but here, while they started off hating each other, they grew close to the point where they considered each other to be their sibling.
  • Since the events of the Covention in the main series never happened, Amity is still on good terms with Lilith and continues to train with her.
  • Hooty in the series was friendly with Amity even when she wasn't, with her eventually warming up to him. Here, the two openly loath each other.
  • Lilith and Eda are even closer and have resolved all their issues thanks to having had years to sort them out.
• What Big Claws (To Protect You With, My Dear): While Eda gradually became a more motherly figure to both Luz and King in canon, here, because Luz is younger, she takes on more of a parental role much faster. By Chapter 12, Luz and King are calling Eda their mother.
  • Due to being younger, Luz believes King really is the King of Demons and takes part in his “war games”.
  • Eda and Lilith's relationship in the first season was mostly hostile due to the former's refusal to join the Emperor's Coven, and Lilith was just as dismissive of Luz, referring to her as a "human pet" at one point. When Lilith meets Luz for the first time, she assumes that she's Eda's daughter, and by extension, her niece, making her feel even more guilty for cursing Eda in the first place. As a result, the two stay in touch more, and don’t fight as often, though Eda still points out some of the unhealthier aspects of Lilith’s life.
  • Willow and Gus still befriend Luz, though they act more like older siblings to her, especially Willow.
  • Thanks to the age difference, Luz and Amity don't harbor any romantic feelings for each other, and it takes a while for them to warm up to each other.
  • Luz is much more amicable with Hooty, and nowhere near as dismissive as the others are of him.
  • Luz and the Bat Queen start off on much better terms than in canon, thanks to Owlbert not being damaged when the two meet.

Persona 5

• In the original Royal, Joker and Ryuji (along with the rest of the Phantom Thieves) trusted Maruki with their biggest desires and developed a friendly relationship with him throughout the story. In Royalty-free Rerun, the two are far more hostile to Maruki than they were in canon, due to him unknowingly being Sumire's Trauma Button and sending her into a traumatic flashback in front of them.

Pokémon

• Guys Being Dudes: Nothing is revealed about Candela and Arlo's past in canon other than that they used to be friends and on Team Valor together. Here, they're ex-lovers.
• Pokémon: Nova and Antica: Misty and Dawn never meet each other canonically. Here, they are introduced to one another early on and therefore become two of the five members of the main group.
• Pokemon: Shadow of Time; as well as Ash acknowledging his deeper feelings for his female companions, Brock is now engaged to Professor Ivy, Professor Oak is revealed to be married to Agatha (who is also Gary's grandmother), and Lance is engaged to Whitney as part of an arranged marriage.

Psychonauts

• Razputin Vodello AU:
  • In the games, it's implied that Sasha and Milla are in a relationship. Here, they end up marrying each other a few years after Milla adopts Raz.
  • In Psychonauts 2, the various interns start out hostile towards Raz — even accusing him of being The Mole in Norma's case — before slowly warming up to him over the course of the game. Here, Raz winds up becoming The Baby of the Bunch amongst them, Norma and Lizzie taking on the role of his "big sisters."

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

• The premise of A Bit Of Luck And A Hospital Visit, in which Homura wakes up in a timeline where she's already in a relationship with Madoka, Mami, Sayaka, and Kyoko that verges on romantic, naturally runs on this. Kyoko meanwhile has a much better relationship with the others, as Momo's continued survival prevented her from falling as far as she did in canon and needing Mami's help to help care for her sister's injuries.
• In Heartstrings (registered users only), as a result of a very different meeting between Mami and Homura, Mami, believing that Homura is older than her (which she is not) and much more experienced (which she is thanks to being in a timeloop), asks Homura to be her mentor and starts addressing her as Senpai. Homura is naturally flummoxed by this turn of events.
• Mami also ends up becoming Homura's student in Homuzuchi when a hiccup in Homura's time powers sends her back several years to when Mami is first contracted as a Magical Girl. Homura is, again, naturally flummoxed at the shift but rolls with it.
• Resonance Days Where Mami and Charlotte's relationship in canon starts and end with 'the former is eaten by the latter', in Resonance Days the two ended up in a loving romantic relationship as wives in the afterlife, though Charlotte is still sensitive to the fact she killed Mami.
• The Soulmate Timeline has several as a result of the nature of the Soulmate AU Fic.
  • While Homura's starting actions usually tend to rub Mami the wrong way in canon, she is much more inclined to give Homura the benefit of the doubt when it comes to her dislike of Kyubey. While Mami doesn't immediately side with Homura against her old friend, she comes up with a (incorrect) assumption of why Homura doesn't want Kyubey around that she can at least understand and their relationship begins a lot more civilly, if not without disagreement about if Madoka should contract. This quickly warms up to a point the two start to fully develop close, romantic feelings for the other in about a week.
  • Sayaka meets Homura in the circumstance of being her best friend's new mystically-declared wife, not a strange transfer student saying vague warnings and attacking a (seemingly) innocent animal, and while initially freaking out when it looks like she's flashing Kyosuke instead sees someone whose socially awkward but well meaning instead of a aloof jerk. She later gets to see Homura as being incredibly cool when she sees her win Madoka a stuffed animals in an arcade and defeat a Witch alongside Mami. While she does get frustrated with Homura due to her insistence on keeping Hitomi in the dark and outright blows up at her when Hitomi ends up kidnapped by a serial killer Magical Girl, Sayaka is still far more willing to hear Homura out and try to get her than in canon, even before they end up Soulmates.
• The Sword of Justice and the Shield of Time has Homura take on a mentor role with Sayaka after the death of Mami in an attempt to keep her stable. This leads to a much more stable relationship between the two that turns outright romantic.

Rick and Morty

• Time Resetting Relationships And Other Shenanigans: In "The Vat of Acid Episode", Morty's relationship with his girlfriend ends on a tragic note. After Morty meets this girl at the café and starts dating her, their relationship has ups and downs. They even break up and get back together before deciding to take a plane trip; then the plane crash, and Morty and his girlfriend have to work together to survive with the survivors. After Morty and his girlfriend are rescued, his father accidentally presses the reset button, resetting the time before they start their relationship. Morty was heartbroken when their relationship was erased from her memory, let made this worse is that Rick later fused the timeline together, and Morty had to fake his death by jumping into a fake vat of acid, his girlfriend, who is implied to regain her memory saw him fake his death and was devastated. And with the revelation that the reality this episode took place and was not Rick and Morty's home reality, it was unlikely Morty would see his girlfriend again. In this story, because the events of that episode take place in Rick and Morty's home reality, Morty's girlfriend is able to contact him and learn that he is still alive; Morty explains everything to his girlfriend, in the story ends with the two of them getting back together.

Resident Evil

• Liquid's Resident Evil: In canon, Ethan and Zoe were merely friends, working together to survive the Dulvey Incident. Here, they end up a couple by the end of Biohazard, with Zoe, not Mia, being Rose's mother.

The Rising of the Shield Hero

• Hope of the Shield Hero:
  • In canon, Naofumi is hated by his fellow heroes thanks to his false rape accusation, while he has disdain for them for their recklessness and treating the world like a fantasy. Here, Naofumi, Itsuki, and Ren have stronger respect towards each other, with Ren and Itsuki knowing that Naofumi never raped Mein/Malty and even offering advice to him on upgrading his shield and reaching the Wave.
  • Raphtalia and Filo in canon behaved like competitors for Naofumi's affection. Here, Filo views both Naofumi and Raphtalia as her parents.
• The Rising of the Four Heroes: Instead of being from different worlds, the heroes from The Rising Of The Shield Hero existed in the same world, even living in the same apartment before being summoned. In particular, Ren and Itsuki were childhood friends, while Naofumi and Motoyasu having known each other for a few years.
• Ambition of the Red Princess: Naofumi and the other heroes get along much better than in canon, thanks to Malty deciding not to frame him for raping her. Motoyasu still has hostility towards him due to envy of him having Malty as a party member, but they still get along better than in canon.

RWBY

• Coeur Al'Aran:
  • Arcanum: Blake and Adam, two characters who had a very personal connection in canon, have next to no history in this fic.
  • Remnant Invicta: Although the characters still have the same biological parents, few to none of them ever knew them due to all of them being engineered in tanks and due to the apocalyptic war with Salem having killed most of them off.
  • The Second Choice: As a result of Jaune going to Atlas Academy instead of Beacon, he has much closer and more positive ties with Flynt Coal, Neon Katt and the Ace-Ops, while conversely he's less close to Team RWBY and initially has a rocky relationship with them due to Jaune's team and RWBY getting in each-other's ways.
• Children of Remnant:
  • Ruby at one point refers to a "Nana Maria", clearly referring to fellow Silver-Eyed Warrior Maria Calavera and implying that the two are a lot closer than they are in canon.
  • And of course, the entire premise of the fic is that Jaune, Blake, Pyrrha, Emerald, and Weiss were kidnapped by Salem and raised as siblings.
  • The loss of Weiss affected her parents deeply; Willow drank herself to death, and Jacques finally realized how useless his ambitions were. By the time the story starts, he is very close to the Belladonnas and his remaining children.
• Cinderella And Prince Charming:
  • It's background, but Jaune has a much better relationship with Weiss. Though he does flirt with her briefly, he gives up on her very quickly because of his bond with his soulmate. He even feels comfortable discussing his bond, and she finds his devotion adorable.
  • Played with. For quite a long time, Cinder and Jaune's relationship is exactly the same as canon; she barely even knows he exists, just knowing him vaguely as Pyrrha's unimportant partner. That's why it takes so long for them to actually meet. Once they do actually meet, however, Cinder instantly turns around and devotes herself to protecting Jaune. Jaune, likewise, reciprocates.
• Fixing RWBY: In canon, Shay D. Mann and Vernal were just lackeys in Raven's tribe respectively, although Vernal was something of a student to Raven. In the rewrite, Shay, renamed Shiloh, is Raven's lover, and Vernal is their daughter.
• The RWBY fic Let Me Hear turns Weiss and Blake into adopted sisters. This changes their relationship considerably and removes the Volume 1 animosity between them. Instead, Weiss doesn't get along well with Yang due to Yang's Hot-Blooded, hands-on personality clashing with her own.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

• Cat-Ra
  • While the general dynamic of Adora and Catra's relationship starts out the same, Adora's Sanity Slippage and Catra's new sense of morality combined with her ruthless nature cause their relationship to become even worse than it was in canon. To the point where, by Season 4, Catra legitimately wants to murder Adora.
  • In canon, Catra's and Frosta's only real interaction was when Frosta punched her in the face. Here Catra and Frosta bond over pranking and develop a sibling-like relationship.
  • In canon, Scorpia considers Catra her best friend and develops a crush on her. Here she and Catra barely know each other and admits she doesn't even know Scorpia's name in "White Out".

Sly Cooper

• In canon, Sly and Carmelita have a Dating Catwoman dynamic where Carmelita tries to catch Sly for his thieving ways and Sly evades her, their relationship never moving out of it in-spite of the copious amount of ship-teasing and implied next-step taking at the end of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. In Sly Cooper and Carmelita Fox and the Thievius raccoonus, they had been childhood friends since their days at the orphanage. By the time the plot of Thievius Raccoonus kicks into gear, they have long since started dating and Sly intends on proposing to her once they have reclaimed their respective lexicons from the Fiendish Five.

A Song of Ice and Fire

• In A Dragon's Roar:
  • Due to her mother's influence, Cersei has a very close and loving relationship with Tyrion. Inversely, her relationship with Jaime is colder than in canon, again due to their mother, who intervenes before their incest can actually develop.
  • Unlike canon, where the proposal between Elia and Jaime doesn't go through, here it does. It also looks to be a Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
  • Jaime was a complete stranger to Robert and Eddard in their teenage years. Here, the three of them (alongside Daeron) are True Companions.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• In Sonic and Donna, Sonic has a cousin named Sonia. Sonia's mother is named Aleena. This refers to his sister and mother from Sonic Underground.

Spider-Man

• The Greatest of Them All:
  • The changes in this new timeline has led to Peter having very different relationships with everyone in his life.
    • Peter forges a mentor student relationship with Charles Xavier. In the comics, they are more acquaintances or know each other professionally, with Peter being more friendly with Charles' students instead.
    • Instead of an intellectual social outcast in Midtown and Flash's favorite bullying target, Peter is the rich, strong, handsome, and smart tutor who's popular with the ladies and the envy of the guys, especially Flash.
    • Peter is seen as a good friend and fellow student among the first class of X-Men instead of an ally who's really only friendly with some of them in the previous timeline.
  • Charles stayed with Gabrielle Haller instead of amicably ending their relationship, so the two get married and raise their son David together.
  • Flash isn't the Big Man on Campus he was in the previous timeline, and instead is seen as just a member of Peter's group who's kind of a jerk to Peter.
  • Jean and Emma seem to be budding friends with a bit of romantic rivalry instead of having an intense and serious rivalry as they did in the previous timeline.

Stargate SG-1

• "A Road Not Taken" features Jack, Daniel and Sam being childhood friends rather than meeting as adults. As a result, not only is Daniel is the (unofficial) best man at Jack’s wedding (he couldn’t be the legal best man as he wasn’t old enough), but Sam and Daniel have the potential for a romantic relationship (even if they resist that at first because they don’t want to risk their friendship), and Sam has a better relationship with her father as Daniel’s experience of losing both his parents helps Sam accept that she can’t keep blaming Jacob for her mother’s death.

Story of Seasons

• Do You Believe in Fairies?: Candace and Luna are half-sisters through their father. In canon, nothing suggests they don't also share a mother.

Superman

• Hellsister Trilogy: In the original Legion of Super-Heroes comics, Supergirl was in love with Brainiac 5 and she barely had any interaction with Dev-Em. In this story, Kara and Dev are dating.
• Kara of Rokyn: In canon, Kara Zor-El and Van-Ol are mere acquaintances. In this story they start a relationship and get engaged.

Super Mario Bros.

• In canon Thousand Year Door, Vivian is crushing on an unaware Mario. In Mario & Luigi: The Thousand-Year Door, Vivian views Mario as a father figure, with Mario being aware of these feelings and thinks of her like a daughter.
• The Sea Shadow:
  • Vivian and Bobbery barely interact into canon. Here, they are father and adopted daughter.
  • Vivian lacks her canon crush on Mario, simply viewing him as a friend. Instead, Vivian ends up falling for Goombella, who later returns these feelings, although she did have her canon crush on Mario before falling for Vivian.

Sword Art Online

• Sword Art Online Abridged:
  • Kirito fails to build a Supporting Harem in this series because he's such an Adaptational Jerkass. After Kirito cheerfully admits he was using Silica as bait during their episode together, she ditches him as "the worst person I've ever met," and Lisbeth likewise gets over her attraction for him and remains at most a Vitriolic Best Bud.
  • The series drastically alters the relationship between Kazuto/Kirito and Suguha/Leafa for its second season. In canon, Kirito was an Aloof Big Brother who still cared for Suguha, while she held a Big Brother Attraction toward her cousin/adopted sibling. In the abridged series, Suguha is a verbally- and physically-abusive Little Sister Bully with nothing but disdain for him and reacts with disgust when she realized that she unknowingly flirted with him, while Kazuto hates his sister so much that he nearly commits a Murder by Inaction when she starts choking in front of him.
  • Also applies Suguha's relationship with to Shinichi/Recon. Whereas in canon, where the two are friends but Recon has an unrequited crush on Suguha that's in part due to her Big Brother Attraction, Suguha here is in fact heavily Implied to have feelings for Recon, but is held back from reciprocating normally due to her unresolved issues with Kazuto and her own femininity, which compels her to pick on those she perceives as weaker than her to appear tough. Despite this, it should be noted that she once baked cupcakes for him, which canon Suguha is never hinted to have done, and the two have apparently had something resembling sex, which has definitely never happened in canon.
  • In the original Fairy Dance arc, Sakuya and Eugene had no connection beyond being the leaders of two rival factions in Alfheim Online. In the abridged series, the two are former lovers who had a messy break-up, stole each other's accounts, and forced everyone else on the server to choose sides, all while roleplaying as vicious parodies of each other.

Tangled

• Swear Not By The Moon: This ends up going both ways. In this fic, Rapunzel and Eugene were never in love and are only close friends. While Rapunzel and Cassandra both end up falling in love with each other.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012);
  • Heroes in the Shadows: In canon, Donatello and Dr. Rockwell have a very vitriolic relationship, their first meeting involving Rockwell beating Donatello beating within an inch of his life and later the two butting heads as their team's resident Smart Guys. Here Dr. Rockwell is Donatello's employer, Donnie having earned his way into his lab, and become protective of him whenever they are in danger.
  • In Once Upon a December Night, while canon!Tigerclaw was genuinely loyal to the Shredder, this version sees him only sees him as a client, disapproving both of his methods and his alliance with the Kraang.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
  • "Sister" opens with April fleeing into the sewers with Splinter and the Turtles rather than releasing them to make their own way. After living in the sewers for a month until Splinter has demonstrated the ability to talk, she is taken in by Hamato Yoshi and helps teach them ninjitsu before she has to move to Japan for a few years. Despite April leaving the turtles for years, the moment they are reunited and recognise her the turtles all accept April as their sister, such as April reminding Michaelangelo that she used to call him "Monkey".

Total Drama

• A BFG's World Tour
  • Thanks to DJ advising Cody to be himself with Gwen rather than his usual Casanova Wannabe shtick, the two start becoming genuinely close to each other and begin dating as of the end of the London challenge.
  • While Duncan and Courtney still break up, he doesn't cheat on her with Gwen this time and the two eventually end up getting back together.
  • In canon, Owen and Izzy were never shown interacting after their breakup. Here, they spontaneously decide to get back together during the third Aftermath and, as revealed in A Dramatic Ridonculous Race, eventually end up eloping.
• A TDA Love Triangle with Betty, Cody, and Gwenny In canon Geoff realize he was becoming a jerk and make up with Bridgette. In this story he becomes worse and breaks up with Bridgette.
• Cast Swap
  • In canon, Dave detested Beardo due to viewing his sound effects as being immensely annoying. Here, because Beardo is not eliminated first and eventually starts talking, Dave instead becomes one of his best friends on the show.
  • Like in canon, Duncan and Gwen break up in All-Stars. But whereas that occurred in canon because of Gwen becoming fed up with how Duncan was clearly still interested in Courtney, Gwen here was instead feeling incredibly guilty about the fact the relationship began with an act of infidelity and becomes Amicable Exes with Duncan afterwards.
• Change of Plans:
  • Cody became friends with Ezekiel during their time at Playa des Losers, and is very upset about his Sanity Slippage and the way that Chris takes advantage of it.
  • Even after Courtney gets her eliminated, Gwen wants to rebuild their friendship, unlike on the show, where her last words before taking the Drop were "Suck it, Courtney!"
  • Chris and Blaineley have a more acrimonious relationship than in canon.
• A Codette World Tour:
  • Alejandro's vendetta against Bridgette. In canon, he targeted her for elimination purely for the sake of getting further in the competition and was otherwise indifferent to her. Here, his failure to eliminate Bridgette in the Yukon makes him increasingly hateful of her (like calling her a shallow bimbo) and her successes, culminating in him staging an Attempted Rape of her and later trying to outright kill her in the finale.
  • Similarly, Alejandro cared very little about Cody in canon and only started taking him seriously once the two were in the final four. Here, Alejandro considers Cody to be one of his most formidable enemies and makes it a high priority to get him eliminated early so he can then take Bridgette down without any opposition.
• For Want of a Mohawk: In canon, Noah had very little interactions with Katie and Sadie, and what interactions he did have indicated that he viewed them as no different than Lindsay or Sierra. Here, due to the duo continuing to impress him with their Hidden Depths, he ends up viewing them as much his friends as Owen is and eventually gets a Relationship Upgrade with Katie as well.
• Haunted
  • Due to All Stars never happening in this universe, Duncan and Gwen are still together.
  • Lindsay and Tyler were never dating. Their relationship with something that Chris asked her to fake for ratings as well as to hide his own relationship with her.
  • Given that Izzy is aged up from 16 years old to 23 years old in this story, she was most likely never dating Owen, who is 16 years old.
• Noah, the Schemer: In the show, Duncan and Cody repeatedly conflict with each other due to Cody being jealous that Duncan got together with Gwen, and Duncan being annoyed with Cody's pranks towards him. Here, while Cody is clearly upset that he lost another chance at Gwen, he doesn't hold any grudges against Duncan for it, and even considered allying with him against Courtney.
• Predator and Prey: In canon, Alejandro was never implied to have any real interest in Bridgette except as someone to manipulate. Here, Alejandro has a sexual predator-like Villainous Crush on Bridgette and wants to take her away from Geoff for himself.
• Random Drama Series: Noah and Ellody apparently already knew each other before the race in which he described her as "his only friend before joining Total Drama", while in the original Ridonculous Race there are no signs that they know each other.
• Summer Camp Wawanakwa: Characters that were eliminated early and had little interaction with the other contestants are able to develop more meaningful relationships in this adaption. One example is Ezekiel who is far less isolated than his canon counterpart and has become friendly with both Izzy and Harold.
• Total Drama All-Stars Rewrite
  • In All-Stars, Duncan and Gwen's relationship has clearly lost its spark, and ending with Gwen breaking up with Duncan when it's apparent that he's obsessed with getting Courtney's attention. Here, while they face occasional road bumps, their relationship holds strong.
  • Gwen and Courtney's friendship also ends differently than in canon. In All-Stars, Courtney betrayed Gwen, intending to have her eliminated second to last despite promising they'd go to the finale together. This ends with Gwen breaking their friendship, and despite Courtney's efforts to restore it, they part on bad terms. Here, despite the events from canon being the same, Gwen and Courtney eventually rekindle their friendship again.
  • In the show, Duncan and Noah rarely interacted, and when they did, it was always negative. Here, their relationship is closer to that of Vitriolic Best Buds, the two mocking each other and often engaging in Snark-to-Snark Combat, but still enjoy each other's company.
• Total Drama Pahkitew Island Reordered: The Sky-Dave-Ella Love Triangle plays out much differently here than in canon. When Dave first tells Sky that he likes her, she informs him that she's not really looking for a relationship at the moment due to having recently broken up with Keith as a result of him cheating on her (which also qualifies for this trope). When Sky starts showing signs of jealousy due to Ella showing interest in Dave, he begins dating Ella in an attempt to make Sky jealous only to let her down gently once he realizes that Ella is genuinely in love with him. Heartbroken, Ella informs Sky that Dave's heart belongs to her and the two have a Relationship Upgrade, but after Sky gets transferred to Team Kinosewak, she ends up dumping Dave due to Scarlett tricking her into thinking that Dave's cheating on her with Ella. Once Sky realizes the truth, she realizes that she was right when she told Dave she wasn't ready for a relationship yet and advises him to go after Ella, which he does.
• Total Drama: Cody's Redemption In canon, Cody had limited interaction with Bridgette, Courtney, and Lindsay, while here they're his closest friends, with both Bridgette and Lindsay interested in getting together with Cody.
  • Cody and Gwen are an interesting case. In canon, Cody had a big crush on her and spent his time on Total Drama trying to impress her, while she was cold to him. He got the hint that she was not interested in him, and set her up with their mutual friend Trent, causing her to warm up to Cody and them becoming friends. In this story, Cody never pursue Gwen, already aware that it would be useless, but Gwen is cold to Cody despite him never giving her any reason to distrust her. In fact, she's much meaner here than she was in canon. Even when Cody set her up with Trent, she still can't tell Trent what Cody supposedly did to anger her, and, despite her promising Trent to give Cody a chance, she remains cold to Cody and ungrateful to him. Chapter 22 revealed Gwen had a deep hatred of geeks and was never going to give Cody a chance unlike in canon.
  • Unlike canon, Lindsay and Tyler don't start a romantic relationship, with Lindsay gently telling Tyler that she likes Cody already. They still stay good friends afterwards.
• Total Drama Redemption: In canon, Noah and Gwen had very little interaction, and neither seemed to have a particularly high opinion of the other. Here, Gwen considers Noah one of her best male friends on the show and ends up in a relationship with him after breaking up with Trent.
• Total Drama World Tour Deluxe
  • While in canon Bridgette and Geoff were shown to make up after their fight in the first Aftermath, here they end up breaking up and remain that way.
  • Cody and Duncan are shown to get along better than the canon season 3, with Duncan even giving Cody advice in France on how to deal with Sierra's excessive stalking. When it is revealed to everyone how Duncan and Gwen kissed, Cody is disappointed, but not angry at Duncan like he was in canon, and doesn't knock him out over it.
• Total Reordered Series
  • As Crimson ends up in a relationship with Noah, she and Ennui are simply Best Friends in this continuity.
  • Because Geoff never meets Bridgette he gets together with Kitty, a huge change from being friends in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
• Total Shuffled Island Series
  • As a result of going behind Gwen's back to get her eliminated in Revenge, it's Courtney trying to earn Gwen's forgiveness during All-Stars rather than the other way around as in canon. And unlike in canon where Gwen eventually got fed up with Courtney's attitude and gave up trying to apologize, leaving them on even worse terms, here Courtney manages to succeed in making things right between her and Gwen.
  • In canon Revenge of the Island, Scott was Fang's favorite victim. In Shuffled All-Stars, the two end up forming an alliance due to their mutual disdain for Izzy.
  • Whereas Justin gets along with Trent - and is implied to later settle his differences with Harold - in canon, here Justin dislikes both of them for disturbing his "beauty sleep". He does make up with them in the non-canonical ending where Harold wins, however.
• Total Switched Island: Harold was Duncan's main bullying target in the original show. Here, even though Duncan pranked Harold at first, he grows to respect him and even decided to stop bullying him in the 14th episode. Harold also befriends him as well.
• Twinning With a Twist: Beardo was blind to Dave's annoyance of him in canon. In this universe, Beardo holds animosity towards Dave as well for being incredibly critical and close-minded towards his team.
• Unbreakable Red Silken Thread
  • In World Tour, Cody and Heather formed a small friendship, while here, it leads to a relationship.
  • In canon Duncan and Gwen broke apart because it's implied the spark between them died, with them lacking chemistry and affection at the start of All-Stars and finally breaking up. Here, their relationship has continued and has become highly destructive, toxic, and abusive.
  • Jasmine and Samey were friends much early in their lives, and that friendship leads to a secret relationship.
  • In canon Dawn and Zoey were acquaintances. And while Zoey didn't dislike Dawn she did consider her creepy. In this story, they are roommates and close friends.

The Twilight Saga

• In canon, Bella and Rosalie have a strained relationship as Rosalie is uncomfortable with Bella's decision to become a vampire. In "Bella Hale", after Bella is adopted by the Cullens when she's six years old, Rosalie becomes Bella's second mother figure until Bella becomes sixteen (at which point their physically similar ages make it weird at best for Bella to still refer to Rosalie as a mother).

Violet Evergarden

• In Gestation, Violet's canonical respectful demeanor towards Dietfried becomes disdain and outright hostility for his treatment of her specifically and his general personality.

X-Men

• X-Men 1970: Canonically, Vera Cantor and Zelda Morton are two obscure X-Men secondary characters who vanished into comic limbo after the '60s. Here, they're dating Beast and Iceman respectively.
• In the X-Men: Evolution fanfic XXY:Evolution, where most of the characters are genderbend, Shango Orion Munroe (male Storm) and Ms. Logan (female Wolverine) are a couple.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• The Judgement of the World (5Ds):
  • As often the case in fanfics, Carly and Aki become close friends following the defeat of the Dark Signers.
  • Since Judai is initially portrayed as a Hate Sink in the story, many characters don't have as good of a relationship with him as they do in canon:
    • It's mentioned that Judai doesn't even give Asuka the time of day, suggesting they aren't friends like in the anime, which in turn implies Sho isn't Asuka's friend either. Fubuki also shows no signs of being a Shipper on Deck for his sister and Judai, instead calling Judai a jerk and an idiot for humiliating Asuka.
    • Yusei befriended Judai in Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time. Here, when he first hears about Judai and how he's been pestering Aki to use her powers, Yusei's first instinct is to make a jump on his D-Wheel across the gap of the unfinished Daedalus Bridge and illegally enter Neo Domino City so he can punch Judai in the jaw. His opinion of Judai doesn't improve much as he gets to know him more.
  • Downplayed regarding the Signers, who are more distant from each other than they were in the anime following the defeat of the Dark Signers, at least initially. Crow in particular barley knows anything about Rua and Ruka's living situation or Aki and her troubled past. Justified, as the ongoing construction of the Daedalus Bridge indicates that not as much time has passed yet, with Crow and Yusei still living in the Satellite District.
  • Yusei and Yugi are still allies, but things are much more strained between them due to Yugi (or rather, one of his many Alternate Selves) setting limits on how much he'll help Yusei and his friends despite having essentially become a god and possessing Reality Warper powers. Yugi later admitting that Yusei's timeline is ultimately an Expendable Alternate Universe in the grand scheme of things certainly doesn't help.
  • Momoe and Junko are part of Ryo's circle of friends, as shown by his deep concern when they're mutilated after Yubel's attack.
• Zero Hour (ARC-V):
  • Ray and Zarc being the biggest ones. Instead of being arch-enemies from canon, the two of them are villainous lovers who enter an Unholy Matrimony with each other as they transcend to Godhood. In the present time, the two of them act Like an Old Married Couple (since the two aren't legally married) with a strong trust in each other and treated their respective four counterparts as their own children. Furthermore, anyone who is close relatives and friends to their counterparts is welcome into their family as well.
  • As each of the Bracelet Girls became more assertive and realizing their own feelings for their respective Dragon Boys, each of them became closer:
    • Ruri and Yuto becoming much more openly affectionate as a couple, as they kept things low key prior to Heartland getting invaded by Academia.
    • Rin returning Yugo's one-sided romantic feelings with a Big Damn Kiss as she acted like a maternal figure to him prior to Ray's awakening and drops most of her Tsundere tendencies that involve hitting him.
    • Serena and Yuri starting to confide in each other despite Leo Akaba's meddling.
    • Yuzu and Yuya becoming a couple after his win against Strong Ishijima, completed with a Big Damn Kiss from the former.
  • Grady and Carly's relationship was very very minimal (Aside from a comment Carly made of knowing who Grady was). In the story, they have each other's back and act like brother and sister.

Zombie Land Saga

• Several fics turn Ai and Junko, who have Ship Tease in canon, into full-on girlfriends. Examples include Franchouchou feat. and 6 Times Ai Protected Her Groupmates and 1 Time They Protected Her. The latter shows the two being comfortable expressing affection when with the rest of their group like hugging and kissing.

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