Link to Life was a Kingdom Hearts fanfiction by No Limit. According to him, it was supposed to be something of a Spin-Off. However, No Limit unashamedly featured other companies' works besides Disney licensed ones.
According to the story's summary: Rika Itonami, with help from Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, has to "Link" the worlds together before all of existence is wiped out and face the new deadly foes known as the Purifiers and the Soulfuls. Will they save the day? Unlikely, but they'll try anyway!
Interestingly, the story featured more than one protagonist. While Rika is the lead character, other main characters include original characters Kai Higure, a Covert Pervert and Unlucky Childhood Friend to Rika; and Ashi Kiyomeru, a Hot-Blooded Heroic Wannabe.
With consideration of the previous attempts at the story, each main character was accompanied by not only their two (three in Kai's case) party members, but a whole crew of characters, each serving a purpose to the group.
The story, while attempting to be loyal to the source material, often poked fun at the original games and formula. Mainly running on Rule of Funny and Rule of Fun, No Limit rarely took the story that seriously. As you can tell by the page quote, this was No Limit's third version of the first Link to Life, as No Limit did not feel he did a proper job with the first two - which, in turn, were redoes of his first Fan Fic. Yeah, he was something of a perfectionist. However, after three chapters, it was cancelled when No Limit decided to retire from writing fanfics.
You can find the story here at deviantART
, or here at FanFiction.net. This page is always open to friendly editing for new Tropes.
Character sheet is in the works.
This Fan Fic so far features appearances by characters and locations from the following series:
This Fan Fic provides examples of:
- Author Appeal: No Limit likes to cast female main characters.
- Continuity Lock-Out: Averted Trope. While the previous two attempts didn't even try hiding it was a Fan Fic, the first chapter of this one features an Info Dump of all the information No Limit thought necessary for readers new to Kingdom Hearts with scenes with Rika spliced in it.
- Crossover: Kind of obvious, being a Kingdom Hearts story.
- Department of Redundancy Department: "Meanwhile, on the Martian home planet of the Martians called Mars..."
- Hammerspace: Blissfully demonstrated by Wakko Warner and his "Gag Bag".
- The Heartless: It's Kingdom Hearts.
- Lampshade Hanging: Rika points out why Ashi didn't bother calling for help with his cell phone until after they were attacked.
- Really, everything in this fic is lampshaded.
- Meaningful Name: Rika's name is Japanese for "link" or "linker".
- Mythology Gag: Done splendidly with all sorts of references to Looney Tunes history in the second chapter.
- The Power of Friendship: Possibly the reason why Rika got her Keyblade.
- Shout-Out: All sorts of sci-fi references during the Duck Dodgers segment in the second chapter. This one particularly stood out for anime fans:Duck Dodgers: Initiate tactic One-Nine-Five-Two: The Drill That Will Pierce the Heavens!
- Two Guys and a Girl: Rika, Kuro and Ashi
- Technically, Rika, Daffy and Porky too.
