Must....Necro....Topic. (Uses a Pheonix Down.)
edited 19th Sep '11 7:04:57 AM by Demongodofchaos2
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is a VERY interesting, but well written story so far. Only 3 chapters, though.
edited 21st Sep '11 8:17:50 AM by Demongodofchaos2
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Naruto fics. There's a few longer ones, but it's mostly humorous and very short one-shots. The style is great.
The First Try series
is especially recommended. It takes the crack set up "what if Naruto accidentally passed the genin test on his first try?" and runs it into a really great story that's entirely serious (and in some cases tragic).
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
^^That was interesting - but only the first sequence. The second one was disappointingly close to canon: "Oh, that's the same. And that. And that. And that." I had high hopes, but a) I've been spoiled by all the FWOAN fics where one change took me on a delightful new journey b) I couldn't sustain interest long enough to get to the changes that were supposedly coming.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.This thing
by an incredibly prolific parody and humor author is rather good. They can't just have a fight, they have to exhaustively compare the pros and cons of their respective belief systems first.
Sasuke's use of Insane Troll Logic was certainly priceless.
This might not be the place, but I really need a beta reader for one of my fics. If anyone's interested, can they PM me here or on my ff.net page
? I can probably beta stuff myself as well, or something.
Does anybody know a good Sasuke-centric one that is long, doesn't bash anyone, plays in the actual Naruto world (and not in Highschool or something like that...) and (preferably) has no pairings in it? That would be awesome...
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3891432/1/End_of_one_world
This is a good one by the way... unfortunatly it seems like a Dead Fic now...
edited 14th Oct '11 12:59:19 PM by kay4today
I've seen a couple of good Sasuke-centric (more or less) ones lately, unfortunately not particularly long. The best are this one
and another along kind of the same lines that isn't in my favorites list right now and I am too lazy to look up at the moment; I'll see if I can find it later.
Eh, I've always been Naruto Centric anyhow, since he is, you know, the main character.
And I always do like Harem pairings in this fandom, as with all the filler and movie chicks Naruto Picks up, you know its possible. ![]()
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Meh. I do like harems, but I like emotionally realistic harems, which excludes about 99% of the available, with the fraction going up as harem size increases. Some of the best stories I've read are harems of two (which I'm not sure fall quite under the same category as 'harem', but whatever), and three or even four works, but I think that's the outside of what's 1. emotionally realistic and 2. possible to write without chronically neglecting some of the characters. * It's a bad habit of some harem fics to basically throw some given love interest into the harem just so as to inflate the consequence of the principal, with no consideration for the actual emotions of anyone involved. The most egregious, of course, being Chunin Exam Day, which is kind of tragic for being actually decent writing ruined by embodying every single undesirable trend in Naruto fanfiction Up To Eleven.
Shinigan (Naruto fanfic)I'd like to see a harem deconstruction. Something like someone telling Sasuke in his younger days, "Hey, you want your brother to really be mad at you and hurt like he hurt you? Ignore him. He pulled this shit as audaciously as he did to make sure you come running after him and play right into his hands." So he grows up thinking the best way to get revenge is to focus on the resurrection of the Uchiha clan. That'd be interesting.
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!That would be...interesting, but I can't picture Sasuke as a harem principal as easily as I can Naruto. It works for Naruto because he's got Chronic Hero Syndrome out the wazoo and picks up nakama as easily as breathing; that can be fairly easily generalized into a harem in which he genuinely cares about each member. Sasuke seems more the type to become fiercely protective of a single love interest and pretty much ignore everyone else.
Shinigan (Naruto fanfic)I'm all 'meh' about harems. I'm too attached to Naru Hina to consider Naruto-centric harems, and I can't see Sasuke as anything other than asexual and probably aromantic.
Though I did have an idea for a oneshot humour fic where Sasuke is actually wildly pansexual and genuinely struggles to cover it up.
^^ Ah, but Sasuke at the start of the series already has a crowd of fangirls - giving him a harem in later years is a simple matter of making him a bit more open. Naruto may be friendlier, but Sasuke's prettier and more calculating. If restoring his clan was his primary goal, you could play it really bitter with him; like, he goes through the motions of dating because he knows it's an accepted cultural norm, not because he gives a shit about any of these girls. And Sakura or Ino (the former's pretty sharp and the latter's surprisingly perceptive) eventually calls him out on this and tells him that she doesn't want to be with him if he doesn't care about her. "Furthermore, if you hurt forehead-girl/Ino-pig, I will see to it that you can't restore your clan with anyone, ever."
^ I have gotten so bored with NaruHina it's unbelievable. I wanna see something fresh and new.
edited 15th Oct '11 8:42:28 PM by FurikoMaru
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!
I myself have a thing for NaruHina because my characterization of Hinata is just about invariably strongly influenced by Team 8, and if I'm playing her problems that strongly than the realistic outcome of her not getting together with Naruto is pretty much psychological breakdown later on. And I can't bring myself to write the latter because she's probably my favorite character in the series, and just not addressing it seems like a cop-out. I'll read many things, but anything I write will probably have Hinata at least involved.
Regarding 'fresh and new': I have enough problems finding decent writing; once it's cleared that bar I will forgive a story much. Which is why I am still ambivalent about CED and Naruto: One Man Team, as opposed to virulently opposed.
Shinigan (Naruto fanfic)I prefer Naru Saku, actually.
Fury Guilt And Love
had me fall in love with this pairing.
A shame the sequel has such a huge Schedule Slip behind it, though.
edited 16th Oct '11 5:32:26 PM by Demongodofchaos2
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Spiral Legacy
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