A Angle Is With Us is a Final Fantasy VII fanfic with a frail-yet-lovely protagonist.
The plucky 16-year-old elite military operative, with the angelic beauty and singing voice, is assigned to help the main characters from Crisis Core attack a site of Dark Soldiers outside of town, but once there, she is confronted by a Dark Soldier who seems to know more about her backstory than we, the audience, ever will. As they begin to fight, she casts a spell and another beautifully-dressed angelic form appears to help her, but the original teenage girl collapses and the entire mission stops as the Crisis Core cast tenderly bears her back to their Headquarters. Once there, the resident mad scientist Professor Hojo takes an interest in her supernatural abilities, and the whole cast of the game rallies to defend her from his poorly-defined-but-definitely-evil schemes.
Oh, and her name is Anal. Anal the Angel, in full.
Anal the Angel spends most of her own story unconscious or incapacitated in some way, and her presence is guaranteed to stop the plot dead in its tracks as the rest of the cast flocks attentively around her weeping (but still lovely) form — even in the middle of a fight scene. The story's main plot has forgotten subplots, character confusion, massive timeskips (hours to weeks), keeping the focus on Anal, and interludes of Anal and her friends going shopping or gossiping about the Bishonen heroes they like. Early allusions to a possible backstory and antagonist gradually peter out, in favour of scene after scene wherein the game's original Badass Crew cast stands around admiring Anal's wonderfulness, helping her to develop her angelic powers, and constantly smiling.
The story is notable for the moment when, not content with her OC's personal tragedy quotient, the author blatantly plagiarized one of the more famous and tragic scenes from Crisis Core, Zack's Heroic Sacrifice death on the cliffs outside Midgar, making it about Anal and her brother Anakin, instead.
The story can be found here.
This work contains examples of:
- Captain Obvious: Most of the characters get promoted to this rank at some point:"There is a bed over there!"
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: At one point, Anal's telepathic alter-ego informs Angeal that Anal will come out of her coma if Angeal believes in her.
- Expy: Two of the minor OCs are female versions of Sephiroth and Genesis, right down to their identical swords, and while the protagonist doesn't physically resemble Angeal, her name (eventually) does.
- Faux Action Girl: The protagonist is introduced as a 2nd-class Soldier (an incredibly powerful fighter and trained operative), but is never depicted holding a weapon, and does nothing in any battle situation but collapse and have to be carried off by the real fighters.
- Forgotten Phlebotinum: Averted, exactly once — during one of the many "Anal is somehow injured and dying" scenes, Zack performs a high-level Cure spell on an injured comrade. The rest of the time, the whole cast completely forgets about using materia, or even their swords.
- Improbable Age: Anal is regressed from 23 to 16 as a result of her supernatural alter-ego being injured.
- Inconsistent Spelling: In the first two chapters, the main character's name is given as "Anal," but apparently someone told the author what this meant, and the name mutated through "Anile" and "Angly" before settling on "Anglia."
- Rouge Angles of Satin: The fic is riddled with typos of similarly-spelled words to the intended ones.
- The title of the fic has a typo, as it misspells "Angel" as "Angle".
- The word "minutes" is consistently misspelled as "mints".
- "Her tempter is hot. I think she don't have a fever."
- "Hojo look at him with angry in his black and coldness eyes."
- Unfortunate Names: Anal.
- What Happened to the Mouse??
- Anal's two sidekicks, numerous supporting OCs, and even the villain just kind of disappear by the ending.
- The nature of Anal's alter-ago is never explained, and she vanishes from the narrative.
