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Longest Novel: Fall of the Republic
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Longest Novel: Fall of the Republic is a work on both Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own that was created by user Morgan Kingsley, and it had an original intent on being the longest work of literature ever written, and at 2,049,033 words as of May 22 2019, is working well on its way to being in the top listing. According to the summary of the author, about 115 chapters are expected to be made, of which only 14 are completed, with them usually getting exponentially longer.

The story can be found here on fanfiction.net. and here on Archive of Our Own. (can also be found in the wayback machine here)

The work was originally meant to be a remaster of the first two seasons of Digimon Digital Monsters,with a more dark and mature version of the adventures of T.K., Joe, Matt, Tai, Sora, Izzy, and Mimi, as well as Davis, Cody, Kari, Yolei, and Ken. But over time very much became a very different product than just that. In fact, it took 1.7 million for even a single episode of either seasons adaptation to be published, as the story revolved mainly around prequels. Other shows and series this includes is Wayside, where the character Todd Robinson and his friends are from, My Life as a Teenage Robot, where Sheldon Lee, Brad Carbunkle, Tucker Carbunkle all come from, as well as Misty and Don Prima for a bit. Craig of the Creek, Gravity Falls, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, and Amazing World of Gumball are also tagged in Archive of Our Own, but still have yet to show their significance. Although with Craig of the Creek, there is the creek, so that may be its significance so far

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Longest Novel contains examples of:

  • Artificial Zombie: Showed up once or twice during the Wayside chapters, which is mainly revolved around Todd going monster hunting for at least the first one or two chapters.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Sheldon does this all the fucking time. He smokes so much drugs that it gets to the point where he actively thinks that none of the things he is going through is actually happening. Then in the later parts of his story arc, throw in drinking in there, and in a way, he becomes a person who is crumbled to shambles of the pressure of his life.
  • High-Speed Missile Dodge: In the chapter Jeffrey Woods, the final chapter before the season 1 remaster in the actual timeline, when planning an assault on the mayors office, Davis tries to fight off the mayors guards, but they make it a bit hard for him due to his smoking habits, their fist fighting and their guns. But one thing that doesn't seem to bother him is the missile launcher attack, which he just simply jumps away from with seemingly no problem.
  • I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Taken to a really gross extent when you consider that this is how many of the workers at the labyrinth go around and have sex with the girls that they have kidnapped, to avoid getting caught, and then sending the pregnant teenage girls home to sort of deal with the consequences of unsafe sex that way.
  • Ludicrous Mêlée Accuracy: Most physical fight scenes with fists, if not every single one, has an example of this. It makes sense sort of since the human characters fight without their digimon a lot and this is the authors way of letting them contribute, but it still sometimes can be considered unrealistic. But then again, it's in a world where digital monsters are real, so is realism really a huge problem?
  • My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Sheldon faces this a couple of times, particularly at the end of disc one when he is fighting the sheriff, and he is convinced he will die at the end of the battle. But he makes it through, and is still going strong at this moment, albeit extremely suicidal
  • Mystical Waif: Sort of granted to some extent when starting disc two and even to some extent disc 1 of the Sheldon Lee arc, about once a disc, his sister Riley visits him as a ghost or some form of figure for him to be thinking about, which usually helps him grant a short few days of sober ness or at the very least makes him think about what he is doing before he goes right back to doing it. She gives him plenty of short dose reality checks.
  • Never Suicide: Ken's Brother Sam dies at the half way point in chapter 1, and the police of Wayside, Minnesota, believe it to be a suicide. However, this is debunked about three quarters into the same chapter, when it shows a tape of him getting murdered by the main villain of Ken's story arc, the man in the purple jacket.
  • Only a Model: Multiple:
    • Eventually, during the Wayside story line, Todd meets senator Humphrey, who explains the point of the labyrinth and why it works out the way that it does. This is their way of trying to make Todd understand why things need to be done the way they have been.
    • A second example of this is when Ken is first at the digital world, and he is seeing the plans of what the council wants to do to expand their lot, trying to make him see it their way, as if they were wanting him to truly join their side.
    • In the Sheldon Lee story arc, he reaches his fathers office, where he sees a model of his sister Riley in the room, and he realizes this is his fathers way of immortalizing her forever, and so he can look at her every day
    • In Season One, when T.K. learns of the councils desires, he sees all of the blue prints to prove their point on a bunch of holographic models.
  • Plot Parallel: Pretty much every single thing that is happening in this novel is happening at the same time as another story. Take for example, the final bits of Wayside happen at the exact same time as the first disc of Sheldon's arc, and his final disc takes place at the same time Season 1 starts up
  • School Is for Losers: Sheldon stops going to school entirely when he decides that getting a normal job and a normal life is better for him after he moves out of Wayside and drops out as a result.

Alternative Title(s): Longest Novel

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