Times where somebody shares a disguised anecdote about themselves in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- The Fable of Joyful Wing: 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 The Hill of Swords, 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 Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Rika Fuurude tells his nephew Kyon about her own brushes with the paranormal hoping that it convinces Kyon to share his own paranormal experiences so she can help him. Later Shinobu, the Tsuruya family head maid and Tsuruya's biological aunt, tells Haruhi her own story, including the events leading to the death of Tsuruya's mother.
- Subverted in Master of Death and What it Means.
Harry Potter tries to do this but Hawkeye tells him to keep telling his story like it happened to someone else, that it'd be easier. - In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku's origin story as the Midoriyas' Kryptonian Wonder Child 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.
- Oni Ga Shiku Series:
- When Izuku asks Akatani what the reason for his Heel–Face Turn 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 Training from Hell, and how the child made many friends on that beach. All Might quickly realizes that Izuku is talking about himself.
- In 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.
- In The Golden Boys Last Temptation, one person is telling a little kid a story about Supergirl who nobody has ever heard. When she is done, Kara reveals she knows that tale because she is Supergirl herself.
- In Moon Fire Snape tells the story of his abusive childhood as if it had happened to a fellow student.
- In 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.
- In The Brothers Day and Night, the titular story is told by Kassim, about 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 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.
- One for All and Eight for the Ninth: 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 Heel Realization.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- 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.
- Team 8: 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.
- A Crown of Stars: Daniel tells Shinji and Asuka how he met and hooked up with Rayana as if it was something happened to another person.
- 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.
- The Second Try: In "Raise", Shinji is telling his little daughter a tale about a prince, his princess and his sister that fought huge monsters wearing living armors. However Aki easily guesses that the prince and the princess of the tale are he and Asuka (meaning her parents) and he is telling a tale about their lives.
- Whispers of the Abyss ends with Blot telling his new teammates the story of a Rookidee who lived 1,600 years ago, who we know from The Reveal in the previous chapter was him.
- 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, 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 made them swear to secrecy because he's embarrassed by his younger self hoping for a Smooch of Victory from the girl before she vanishes. Damian demands 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.
- A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: In this The Silmarillion fanfic, 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.
- In the prequel series to Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus, 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. The end of the story reveals that the little flower girl was actually Shirobara.
