Fanfic / The Gift (BMeph)

The Gift is your typical "boy becomes girl, girl freaks out, girl likes it, girl becomes boy again" story (maybe),
only without the tiny chocolate robots (awww...).
A Sci-Fi/Friendship/Humor/Romance/Mystery/Action story, with a hint of lemon.
— From the FictionPress.com website

The Gift is one part Misfile, one part Quantum Leap and one part Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. An in-progress Self-Insert Fic by BMeph.

The story (twenty-eight chapters) as published so-far, can be found here.

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The following tropes are found in this work:

• Author Appeal: It's a fanfic, so there you go. In particular, red hair, green eyes, and physically well-developed women are at the top of the list. JoJo seems to be in a local cluster of them, and likes it, a LOT.
  • Almost as much as she likes checking out butts.
    • Men and women.
  • There are no Pettanko in this world; C-cups are the new A-cups.
    • Averted, by Beverly Huysmann, a twelve-year-old girl with the body of a twelve-year-old.

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: How Amy and L.L. react to their older sisters' Relationship Upgrade.

• Cannot Spit It Out: JoJo is reluctant to mention the inevitable separation of her and Cathy when she goes back to school in the second week or permanently, if she succeeds in swapping places with JoJo-A again.
• Chess Master: ebby knows a lot more than he tells anyone...

• Expository Theme Tune: Except for a few standouts, each chapter has the title of a song, and the songs in each section are in the same category, if not sung by the same artist/group. The song relates to the events in the chapter, either by a pun on the title, or the lyrics describing a similar circumstance.

• Genre Savvy: JoJo deliberately avoids high heels because of concerns of being in comedic situations. Also, she complains at first of not being the Hero type. Of course, she later changes her mind.
• Heroic BSoD: JoJo is not comfortable with being the Uke. At. All.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Amy and L.L. are not romantic, but they are very close, and from the Prologue we see that twenty years in the future, they are still together.
• Huge School Girl: L.L. is 5'10", and 15 years old.
• In-Series Nickname/Stage Name: Almost everyone in-story uses a nickname, based on their given name. JoJo, after learning of Cathy's nickname("Candy"), immediately starts using it whenever they are alone.

• Military Brat: Technically all of the Bates kids, but JoJo is the only one who remembers Dad in uniform.
• Mood-Swinger: JoJo especially at the mall, Sunday afternoon (chapter 22). Or just generally, JoJo.
• The Nicknamer: JoJo. If you don't have a nickname, she will make one up. If you do have one, especially if not everyone knows it, she will find it out, and use it.
• No Periods, Period: Averted and played with, in that while JoJo was expecting it, the timing was sooner than expected.

• Precision F-Strike: Combined with a Spoonerism - "What the talk are you f*cking about?"
• Record Needle Scratch: When JoJo first meets her counterpart's (female, gay) best friend, who offers to give her a ''front'' massage...
• Relationship Upgrade: Cathy had an unrequited crush on JoJo-A. With the new and improved JoJo, it got better.
• Shout-Out:
  • JoJo-A was born in a small Indiana town on the same day as Sam Beckett. She also builds a time machine in the desert Southwest and uses it, and now JoJo is trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. She also has a friendly adviser who's a hologram...
  • The chapter where Amy is introduced is called "The Magic of Friendship".
  • "CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY" ...
  • Most of the chapters are named after songs, whose titles or lyrics relate to the actions in the chapter. All of the songs in each chapter has a common tie as well, usually all done by the same artist/band.
• Single-Target Sexuality: JoJo flirts with anything that moves, but feels an aversion to going any further than that, especially with men. However, she responded to Cathy from the first phone call....
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: JoJo, a devout Christian, seems to have no problem being either a cross-dresser or gay (depending on how you identify her gender). Being bisexual, however...
  • She also has a list of "fake blondes" - female entertainers with non-naturally blonde hair - whom she prefers. Her list of said women is suspiciously long. She specifically remarks about her attraction to Cathy, who is not a "fake" blonde.
    • She "prefers" redheads and brunet(te)s...and "Candy".
  • Averted (slightly) in how she's taken to being (and being called) a girl. She's careful to make the distinction of being "a guy on the inside", as meaning that she thinks like a guy. She'll still try to correct someone who knows the secret, though.
  • "If only that ugly...expression were (slapped)gently removed ...."
  • At her first meeting with Cathy, JoJo takes great care not to call Cathy's shoes "practical".