By sheer chance, Titan Arachne was thrown from Earth Shin and into another. Afterwards, Hunter decides to live a life she was denied and be free.
Just like everything else in her life, it doesn’t last forever.
The Titan Arachne. Mince Maid. Hunter. Different names, same body, a fractured mind bent on revenge. Whisked away from her desires, Titan Arachne awakens and finds herself in a strange world where cooking reigns supreme.
Hunter Then Hunted
by Rikion Invictus (author of Whirlpool ) is a Toriko and Ward crossover, featuring the adventures of the Titan Arachne as she makes a home for herself in the strange Gourmet World.
The fic is complete at five chapters.
Hunter Then Hunted provides examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: The Titan Arachne in canon was the broken mind of teen girl mixed with an alien symbiote, both hell bent on revenge. Locked away in a distant universe, Arachne finds herself becoming at guardian of the Forest.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Head Chef wields these. They are sharp enough that even Arachne's enhanced biology is dealt some major damage from the attacks.
- Behemoth Battle: Titan Arachne is nearly 140 feet tall and dukes it out with several creatures that match her size. She's far from the largest creature in the setting.
- Berserk Button: Anytime anything or anyone threatens Titan Arachne's desire to be free. Midora becomes this for her after he destroys her forest and soundly defeats her.
- Combat Tentacles: More like Combat Razor-Wire, but Titan Arachne uses them in similar functions. Most disturbingly, she can summon them from inside her opponents.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Titan Arachne. Hundreds of years spent trying to kill Midora, only for her Shard to run out of power capable of supporting her body, eventually breaking down until her mind goes into hibernation in some locked off portion of the multiverse.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Titan Arachne versus all the Death Gores. Titan Arachne vs Midroa
- Determinator: Titan Arachne, naturally. In canon, she was literally fighting an entire planet and their superpowered minions by herself. She begins to do the same once she arrives in the Gourmet World. It leads to her eventual death at the hands of Midroa,
- Eldritch Abomination: Titan Arachne is the manifestation of a Starfish Alien and a normal teen girl in her universe, made up of wires and fake flesh, with cracks of deep space peeking out. She's so odd that even Midora is off put by her existence.Midora: What are you?Midora had seen the world for its wonders and horrors, had cooked and prepared meals that would kill those unworthy to handle it’s indescribable flavor, and had been imparted with skills that shook the foundation of this planet.And yet, standing before him was a being he couldn’t understand.It had no scent. It’s blood and flesh felt fake, as ludicrous as that was to consider. It had no taste, even as he devoured wires that could fill oceans.It wasn’t a beast. It wasn’t a human.Midora felt as though he were fighting a shadow, something that he could perceive with his senses, but didn’t actually exist.And it watched him. Always watched him, never once stopping or diverting it’s attention, as though he was under a microscope. It was laudable that he could feel the impression and still not know how the creature was doing so.Hundreds of years of bloodshed and he had no answers.Will I ever figure you out?
- Outside-Context Problem: Played With. Titan Arachne is definitely not the type of creature who fits into the cosmology of the Toriko setting, and several of it's powers don't follow it's rules either. But the Toriko setting is so powerful and bizarre that she ends up adjusting well-enough to the incongruities. Played Straight with her fighting Midora, and the resulting Curb-Stomp Battle.
