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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50866960/chapters/128504806 The incident of the girl of the snow]]'': After a dream of the first time she escaped the experimentation, Anya tells Damian about the dream by describing it as a story about a rich boy rescuing a girl he found in the snow and taking her to a hospital, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished despite it getting him late to horse taming lessons and in trouble with his father]]. Damian freezes in shock while Ewen and Emile laugh as they know ''that'' story happened to Damian, which their leader [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain made them swear to secrecy]] because [[IHatePastMe he's embarrassed by his younger self]] hoping for a SmoochOfVictory from the girl before she vanishes. Damian demands [[INeverToldYouMyName how did Anya even know]], only for Anya to pull him into a hug and thanking him for saving her life all those years ago.

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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'':
** When Izuku asks [[spoiler:Akatani]] what the reason for his HeelFaceTurn is, he replies that he once knew a guy just like Izuku, who was given all the same choices and made all the wrong ones. The side fic ''Rise of Yamikumo'' reveals that he's talking about himself.
** When Izuku brings All Might to the beach park for the first time, he explains that this place used to be a junkyard. However, one day an one-eyed weirdo brought a confused four-year-old to the beach and started ranting about the civic duty to pick up your trash, how the child was subjected to TrainingFromHell, and how the child made many friends on that beach. All Might quickly realizes that Izuku is talking about himself.

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* ''FanFic/TheFableOfJoyfulWing'': It is only at the end of his story about Joyful Wing and her husband's tragic fates that Bone Cage admits that the husband is him, and that his skull was eventually passed down from the sage who originally plotted his death to Long Dog's father and from him to Long Dog.

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* ''FanFic/TheFableOfJoyfulWing'': ''Fanfic/TheFableOfJoyfulWing'': It is only at the end of his story about Joyful Wing and her husband's tragic fates that Bone Cage admits that the husband is him, and that his skull was eventually passed down from the sage who originally plotted his death to Long Dog's father and from him to Long Dog.



* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9512698/10/Master-of-Death-and-What-it-Means Master of Death and What it Means.]]'' Literature/HarryPotter tries to do this but [[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint]] tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier.
* In ''FanFic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku's origin story as the Midoriyas' Kryptonian WonderChild is told in this way, as it's a third-person narrative up to the point that he begins narrating himself.

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* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9512698/10/Master-of-Death-and-What-it-Means Master of Death and What it Means.]]'' Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter tries to do this but [[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint]] Hawkeye tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier.
* In ''FanFic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku's origin story as the Midoriyas' Kryptonian WonderChild is told in this way, as it's a third-person narrative up to the point that he begins narrating himself.


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* In ''Fanfic/TheGoldenBoysLastTemptation'', one person is telling a little kid a story about ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who nobody has ever heard. When she is done, Kara reveals she knows that tale because she is Supergirl herself.
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* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9512698/10/Master-of-Death-and-What-it-Means Master of Death and What it Means.]]'' Literature/HarryPotter tries to do this but [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} Clint]] tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier.

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* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9512698/10/Master-of-Death-and-What-it-Means Master of Death and What it Means.]]'' Literature/HarryPotter tries to do this but [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} [[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint]] tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier.
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* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Rika Fuurude]] tells his nephew [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] about [[GroundhogDayLoop her own brushes with the paranormal]] hoping that it [[SecretKeeper convinces Kyon to share his own paranormal experiences]] so she can help him. Later [[TheAtoner Shinobu]], the Tsuruya family head maid [[spoiler:and Tsuruya's biological aunt]], tells Haruhi her own story, including the events leading to the death of [[PosthumousCharacter Tsuruya's mother]].

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* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Rika Fuurude]] tells his nephew [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] about [[GroundhogDayLoop her own brushes with the paranormal]] hoping that it [[SecretKeeper convinces Kyon to share his own paranormal experiences]] so she can help him. Later [[TheAtoner Shinobu]], the Tsuruya family head maid [[spoiler:and Tsuruya's biological aunt]], tells Haruhi her own story, including the events leading to the death of [[PosthumousCharacter Tsuruya's mother]].
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* ''Fanfic/OneForAllAndEightForTheNinth'': When a frustrated Bakugou demands to know why All Might dislikes him so much, All Might shares a story that initially sounds as though he's talking about Izuku, only to reveal that he was actually talking about his own childhood experiences. This causes Bakugou to realize he would have been just as cruel to his own idol, cementing his HeelRealization.

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* ''Fanfic/{{Shorn}}'' has Rarity tell Pinkie Pie a story about a young filly whose shyness and nervousness about being in a new school was mistaken as being "uppity", leading to her classmates ambushing her and shearing off her mane to "put her in her place". Pinkie realizes that this happened to Rarity, which her friend quietly confirms.

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* ''Fanfic/Team8'': Kurenai tells a story about a chuunin girl defeating a more experienced jounin. When Shino assumes that she was the girl in her tale, Kurenai reminds him that she never explicitly said so. Shino then remarks that he finds it difficult to believe she'd recall so many details about the fight if it had happened to somebody else.
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Times where somebody shares [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe a disguised anecdote about themselves]] in FanWorks.
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* ''FanFic/TheFableOfJoyfulWing'': It is only at the end of his story about Joyful Wing and her husband's tragic fates that Bone Cage admits that the husband is him, and that his skull was eventually passed down from the sage who originally plotted his death to Long Dog's father and from him to Long Dog.
* In Chapter 15 of ''Fanfic/TheHillOfSwords'', Agnes tells Shirou the story of a little girl who was the only survivor of a fire that claimed her village (mirroring Shirou's own backstory), and how the girl grew up and hunted down all the people responsible for the fire. Until the last person, who the girl learned was the person who saved her, and was tricked into attacking the village (he thought he was preventing a plague from spreading). Agnes then asks Shirou what he would have done in the girl's place. Shirou refuses to answer. Agnes never does confirm that the girl was her, but Shirou does eventually discover the choice the girl made.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Rika Fuurude]] tells his nephew [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] about [[GroundhogDayLoop her own brushes with the paranormal]] hoping that it [[SecretKeeper convinces Kyon to share his own paranormal experiences]] so she can help him. Later [[TheAtoner Shinobu]], the Tsuruya family head maid [[spoiler:and Tsuruya's biological aunt]], tells Haruhi her own story, including the events leading to the death of [[PosthumousCharacter Tsuruya's mother]].
* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9512698/10/Master-of-Death-and-What-it-Means Master of Death and What it Means.]]'' Literature/HarryPotter tries to do this but [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} Clint]] tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier.
* In ''FanFic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku's origin story as the Midoriyas' Kryptonian WonderChild is told in this way, as it's a third-person narrative up to the point that he begins narrating himself.
-->'''Izuku:''' You probably figured it out already, but that baby they're with? That's me. My name is Izuku Midoriya, and I'm an alien.

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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6480316/1/The-World-in-Black-and-White The World In Black And White]]'' Ichigo, who is a ''Vasto Lorde'' class Hollow here, talks to the Grand Fisher is a subtle version of this.
-->'''Ichigo''': You know, about six years ago, there was a kid and his mother. You ate her, I guess, but you left the boy.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5533543/7/Moon-Fire Moon Fire]]'' Snape tells the story of his abusive childhood as if it had happened to a fellow student.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5074951/57/Return-to-Prince-Manor Return to Prince Manor]]'' Baba Yaga tells the story of three sisters who were Light, Dark and Neutral. The first was Titania, Queen of the Summer Court; the second was Maeve, Queen of the Winter Court; and the third was Baba Yaga herself.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11057142/1/The-Brothers-Day-and-Night The Brothers Day and Night]]'', the titular story is told by Kassim, about [[SiblingYinYang two brothers, one born of light and one born of darkness,]] who loved each other at first but whose differences drove them apart and led them [[CainAndAbel to become enemies.]] He presents it as his own idea, but Mariam — who he's telling the story to — can easily tell it's really about him and Alibaba.

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* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': [[PhysicalGod Daniel]] tells [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Shinji]] [[BattleCouple and]] [[BrokenBird Asuka]] how he met and hooked up with [[TheHighQueen Rayana]] as if it was something happened to another person.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': When Rei tells Akiko how her father —Shinji— saved her mother —Asuka— twelve years ago thanks to the help of a friend of his Akiko quickly guesses Rei is his father's friend her aunt is talking about.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': In "Raise", [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Shinji]] is telling [[spoiler:his little daughter]] a tale about a prince, his princess and his sister that fought huge monsters wearing [[HumongousMecha living armors]]. However [[spoiler:Aki]] easily guesses that the prince and the princess of the tale are [[BattleCouple he and Asuka]] (meaning [[spoiler:her parents]]) and he is telling a tale about their lives.

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* ''Fanfic/WhispersOfTheAbyss'' ends with Blot telling his new teammates the story of a Rookidee who lived 1,600 years ago, who we know from TheReveal in the previous chapter was him.

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* ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'': In this ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' fanfic, [[TheGoodKing Finarfin]] is trying to encourage his daughter-in-law Amarië to forgive his son saying that she reminds him of a certain prideful Elf. Amarië protests that she is not like Fëanor, and Finarfin clarifies that he was talking about himself, not about his brother.

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* In the prequel series to ''Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus'', ''Mors Tua'', Serenity tells Brendan and Max about a long, ''long'' story of a little flower girl whose actions would somehow cultivate into a Puppetry guild known as "The Court of Strings". When Brendan and Max ask if she's the same one, Serenity replies that she isn't. [[spoiler:The end of the story reveals that the little flower girl was actually Shirobara.]]

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