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Pezt Pezt Since: May, 2010
Pezt
03/03/2012 18:48:40 •••

Now, for something completely different

Initially I thought this fic would be a Shallow Parody of Mary Sue stories like most of its kind, but on reading it I quickly realized this fic is possibly quite unique.

While it mercilessly pokes fun at bad writing normally found in One Piece fanfictions, it doesn't rely on Mary Sue bashing for appeal. Instead, it actually has a plot that somehow manages to be alternately scary, funny, mysterious and tragic.

The plot is basically this: OC falls into the One Piece world, loses her parents, finds herself of the mysteriously abandoned ship of the Straw-Hat Pirates. In order to get her parents back, she needs to solve the mystery of what happened to the crew.

"Sunny, what happened after that? And where did the survivors go? And why did they leave at all?"
Only silence. But for some reason the lion figurehead looked almost as though it were crying.
"You don't know, do you?"
Silence.
"Do you want to find out?"
Silence.
"Look, I told you before, I want to find out what happened here too. So let me make a deal with you. I ate the Logic-Logic fruit. It makes me all logical and stuff and as Sherlock Holmes says, that makes me a good choice for finding that out the truth. I swear on my word I'll help you find out what happened to the rest of your crew, but please, help me find my parents. Please?"

There is also a Lemony Narrator who will say stuff like this:

If this narrator were to have Basil Hawkins' abilities, and were to read the cards on what is likely to happen after, this would be the prediction:
"Probability of the meeting not sounding contrived and actually making sense: 10%. Probability of Trafalgar Law acting in character: 9%. Probability of the character being being a passably attractive girl with an ability that might benefit the Heart Pirates: 90%. Probability of romance: 100%. Probability of plot: 5%. Probability of the fic not being abandoned after the story runs out of steam because the writers will realize once the two characters get together there is nothing to drive the story on: 0.01%."
Fortunately for this narrator's sanity, this was not how it happened to Mar.

Despite the light-hearted narration and humor, this story is very dark and may be quite unsettling at parts, but worth a look if you want something completely different.


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