Have you ever wrote a fanfic? And if yes, why (and for what)?

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RedDeadFred

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I once wrote a fanfiction called Naruto and the Lobster. One of my friends had an unhealthy obsession with fanfiction (specifically Naruto fanfiction) so one day, while I was extremely high, I decided to write one and send it to him. He didn't appreciate it as much as some of my other friends... My laptop died with the original story on it so I don't remember all of it but here's the very condensed version. It remains the only piece of fanfiction I have ever written.

It basically started with Naruto beating up some gangsters in downtown New York. He then went to Central Park for a stroll when he sees a flash of red. Suddenly, there is a lobster in front of him. He thinks it's funny looking and goes to have a closer look. The lobster launches at him, strangles him, and then eats him. That was Naruto's entire part in the story. I just put him in the title to get my friend to read it.

The rest of the story follows the adventures of this super lobster. The lobster discovers after he eats Naruto that he grows much larger every time he eats a living animal. He goes on a rampage through New York until he finds a Red Lobster restaurant and decides to sample what his own species tastes like. He finds it to be the most amazing flavour ever and grows to the size of a large dog. Then the police start shooting at him and he finds that the bullets do hurt him a bit. He runs and eventually falls in love with a beautiful husky at first sight. The husky runs to him but the car from the head of the police (the main antagonist) smashes into her as he's trying to chase the lobster.

This of course sends the lobster into a rage but he has to flee because the head of police has an smg. He climbs the buildings and starts leaping from rooftop to rooftop, heading for the ocean. He escapes to his freedom but with the intention of returning once he was strong enough.

Time fast forwards a year to the police chief (now the mayor of New York) watching the news. The story is that the world's lobster population has seen a startling decrease over the last year. That's when he feels these massive tremors. He looks out his window and sees the ocean in the distance. The lobster has returned only it is now about the size of Godzilla.

It goes on a massive rampage, and eventually kills the mayor. The mayor however had anticipated the lobster's return so he orders in the boiling water bombers right before he dies. The bombers dump millions of gallons of boiling water onto the lobster, cooking it almost instantly. The city of New York feasts on his delicious carcass.

Suddenly, the clouds open up and a giant, lobster claw crushes all of New York State. The claw is attached to a Lovecraftian Horror of a Lobster (referred to in our final minutes as the LHL) who speaks to every single person on Earth telepathically. It explains that it had left its child here so that it may grow from the feasting on all of the living things on the planet. Unfortunately, we murdered it before it had become unstoppable. The LHL voices its extreme displeasure with us and then proceeds start ripping apart our planet.

The LHL then returns to its master, The Supremely Awesome Lobster Commander (SALC). The LHL informs SALC (who is about the size of our sun) that he failed to create another troop for the war against the Crap People. The SALC is displeased but spares the LHL since this war is to close to lose any more troops.

It is revealed that our planet was created by the Crab People to spy on The SALC because our planet was relatively unknown and was near The Lobsters main base of operations. The Crab People now seeing this loss decide that their forces are equal to the Lobster's so they decide to launch an all attack hoping to catch the Lobsters off guard.

It is a massive blood bath of galactic scale and result in the destruction of both parties and our entire galaxy. It is then revealed that both parties were being controlled telepathically by two Supreme Beings of infinite size and power. One takes the form of a Lobster and the other takes the form of a Crab. The two are actually good friends and have just finished their version of chess which resulted in a stalemate.

The End.
 

Adiona

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Writing a Minecraft one on Fan Fiction.net :p

I'm writing my character's perspective alongside my friends story which is his character's perspective. He is further ahead than me as I have just moved and don't have the time right now to carry on until everything is sorted.
 

Not Matt

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Sort of. I used to write really shity (I thought they were good back then) script to tv show. I actually sent a lot of them to the producers. They never responded.
Also, I actually tried writing a fanfic parody. A my little pony fic parodying yatzhee's novel JAM. I named it GAK.
I am currently stuck and other more important things have gotten in my way right now. But I'll finish some day.
 

SonofaJohannes

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When I was around 11 my sister helped me write a Sonic/Snow White crossover. The characters were all very OOC and the plot didn't make a whole lot of sense, but I remember it being pretty funny.
I actually have quite a few ideas for several fanfics, but I doubt I'll ever write another one. At least not any time soon.
 

Atmos Duality

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I've considered some ideas, but never wrote them.

Though I do find the characters I fixate on are those who are interesting, with half-told, or untold stories.
It is for that reason I know better, because I've seen most of the works that spring up from that.

That, and I find most fanfiction to be...insulting to my intelligence (to put it politely), and I didn't feel like contributing to the problem.
 

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Alssadar said:
IrenIvy said:
And again thank you very much for replies! I'll try to read all links as well over weekend :)
I am surprised by diversity of reasons and universes used (some of them I've never heard before). Please, share more if you can, this thread has been very interesting for me to read.

Alssadar said:
You write fan fiction if you are staying in their universe, playing with the rules they created, and what has been established. If you want to take it, butcher it into your own form, and call it the same product, you're just being lazy to think of your own material. You can fill it with your Mary Sues (Cough Matt Ward cough) and anime-esque emo characters and have fun with that.
If I may ask, how do you define where imagination stops and butchery of universe begins?
I believe the butchery begins when the universe is taken out of its premise. Take example, my Warhammer 40k request, where the writer asked me to write a story where all chaos had disappeared, the orks stopped fighting, the eldar had united and turned peaceful, and the tyranids developed personality.
This is the complete reversal of the given roles that have been developed in 40k as humans are corrupt assholes who love profits and killing others, Chaos is always present, even in its subtlest ways, since the beginning of time, the Orks' mind can only handle two things: killing and more dakka, the eldar are arrogant pricks who use humans as pawns, and the tyranids are a mindless hive mind that exists to consume everything.
If one seeks to write within the guidelines of the universe, they must follow the rules that have been established, and, if they allow slight variation, they are working their imagination into the universe. If their Astartes love all xenos and hate the Imperium, something's a tad bit wrong. But if a Chapter dislikes working with the Inquisition because they nearly ordered Exterminatus on a planet they had control of, it works into the setting.
Essentially, if they want to create something on their own, they need to properly justify their ideas in-universe. It'd be akin to someone writing a story about how Nazis had dinosaurs in WWII. It's extremely bizarre, and anyone reading it for historical context would find it greatly out of place with history. But if they were to write of some marine of the US 90th infantry division storming Utah Beach at D-Day as part of the first wave, it's rather reasonable and works in what has occurred. Historical fiction, I guess you could say, is like fan fiction of history (It's not real, but it fits the setting). The Nazis with dinosaurs is just butchering history, though they made a game out of that...
Thank you for the answer!

But I've heard of fan-made setting of Brighthammer, which is basically a mirror universe to Warhammer (40K, I think). It is very recognizable mirror, but it is built from different roots (i.e. Gods of Order instead of Chaos, etc) and with different premise ("It is a time of high adventure!"). There are many recognizable elements (Emperor, Eldar, Orks) which might look like perversion of Warhammer but their role is justified in-universe. If I may ask again, does a universe as Brighthammer counts as a butchery?
 

Musette

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No, not really. I never saw myself as the creative type, and writing fiction was just never something I could do, especially with established characters since I don't know how to act or write "in character". I'm a musician, and I've thought about attempting composition based off of how I might interpret different settings or character designs, but that's not something I would openly show anyone, and it would be lyric-less anyways.

I had friends that were into it, so they'd have me read and critique them when I was in middle school, so I definitely saw fanfiction around me, but I never personally engaged in it.
 

Lunar Templar

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SweetShark said:
.........A cthulhu fanfic does count?
>.> wouldn't that be tentacle porn?

OT:2
one is MLP related, the other is only set in the Gold Digger universe, canon cast members are used but their all side characters that don't get much use are haven't been seen in years. the rest is all original
 

The Rogue Wolf

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You could say I've written a few. Of the ones I've actually put up somewhere on the Internet:

- One Resident Evil "alternate universe" story
- Eight World of Warcraft stories starring my characters in various situations
- One World of Warcraft / Thief: Deadly Shadows crossfic (set in WoW, but strongly influenced by the Shalebridge Cradle)
- One Halo story (died out at 1 1/2 chapters)
- Two Oblivion stories (one died out at 2 1/2 chapters)
- Four MLP: FiM stories (one a crossover)

I do write my own original stuff as well, but there's something fun about writing fanfiction; putting established characters in new situations and working out how they'd react is a good writing challenge.
 

PunkyMcGee

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Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle in a buddy cop theme, because it's funny. I never published it and deleted it from existence. and no one was shipped in the making of this fanfic
 

Teh Jammah

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I've written a Buffy Fanfic (part 1) that never got anywhere and was a bit shit.

A Star Wars fanfic that consisted of Vader killing a pair of jedi post-order 66 (but written before episode 3 came out) - this is posted on fanfiction.net somewhere. i think it has 2 reviews. Both positive. But both from people whose stories I've reviewed first (I think anyway. IDK if its there anymore... prolly not)

And I did E-fedding for ages. That counts as fanfic, right?
 

bossfight1

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Once I started an MLP/WoW fanfic, the idea was just stuck in my head and I find my mind drifting there less if I put it on paper.
 

MoreThanANoob

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I'm working on one now for Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It's something I came up with completely by mistake one day. It's a play on one location right at the end of the game and the events therein. Without wishing to spoil, I drew a few comparisons to Silent Hill. Less in the scary, devoid-of-life, monster-infested hell-hole aspect, but more that those who enter will have to face the darkest moments of their past before they can leave.

Unfortunately, it's on a bit of a hiatus due to my nonexistent work ethic.
 

lunavixen

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I've written a few fanfiction pieces over various mythos i'm currently writing an original piece (not fanfic) actually

captcha: off the record... sure is
 

Louzon

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I wrote one for Final Fantasy XI when I was playing it. It was mainly because for one, I love to write, and second, I wanted to do something nice for the Linkshell I was running at the time. I threw in as many of the dedicated players that I could, and tried to tie their in-game personalities to their storyline characters. I really enjoyed it, and it bums me out that my computer fried and I lost the USB drive that I had it backed up on. Oh, well, I guess I'll get around to writing something like it again. lol
 

razor343

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I wrote about three chapters of a KOTOR fanfic (Of which only two were uploaded to the world wide web). I had big plans for it but my passion for it kind of died down...And then one day during a Geography lesson I was struck with an idea that now has several thousand years worth of back story and is entirely original...Well, as original as it gets. But it is MY universe.
 

shieldheart204

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I'm Currently writing a Fanfic set in the MLP universe, set as in lightlly, since I transformed the ponies into humans in order to take the series in a darker direction, mostly in the way of violence, murder cynicism and other dark stuff. I do my best to maintain all show character essences, so that it can be considered just a regular spinoff. I write fanfics because it is easier to practice when there are people who are into the same stuff as you and therefore are able to help. A lot of people started writing fanfics before they published their novels (50 Shades of Grey and the Mortal Instruments) so it is nice practice.

I'll drop the link in case anyone cares to give the story a readthrough
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/49623/Equestrian-Steel
 

SweetShark

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Lunar Templar said:
SweetShark said:
.........A cthulhu fanfic does count?
>.> wouldn't that be tentacle porn?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, thankfully not XD

And my mistake, I wanted to say a Lovecraft fanfiction, not Cthulhu.

The story start with a man, Eric Nodfield, going to a restaurant to eat. Suddenly in the middle of the restaurant, a giant hole appeared in front of all people inside the room. All the people started to looking at the hole for a mysterious reason, like something hypnotise them. Exept Eric, because he knew about this hole. He already saw this hole numberous time inside his personal nightmares. He knew that he must close his eyes and not look at it because the real horror inside it will come out and devour him, like the others. He knew he was blessed to been a chosen.

A small summary from the beggining from the fanfic I wrote.
 

Angie7F

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Wow, now that I have thought about it, maybe I have when I was a kid.
I am guessing it would have been about Sailor Moon because I was obsessed about the show.
I guess now that I am older I no longer have any imagination or passion to go that far.
 

Lunar Templar

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SweetShark said:
Lunar Templar said:
SweetShark said:
.........A cthulhu fanfic does count?
>.> wouldn't that be tentacle porn?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, thankfully not XD

And my mistake, I wanted to say a Lovecraft fanfiction, not Cthulhu.

The story start with a man, Eric Nodfield, going to a restaurant to eat. Suddenly in the middle of the restaurant, a giant hole appeared in front of all people inside the room. All the people started to looking at the hole for a mysterious reason, like something hypnotise them. Exept Eric, because he knew about this hole. He already saw this hole numberous time inside his personal nightmares. He knew that he must close his eyes and not look at it because the real horror inside it will come out and devour him, like the others. He knew he was blessed to been a chosen.

A small summary from the beggining from the fanfic I wrote.
Seems interesting, though I donno much about lovecraftian stuff.

the MLP related one more or less focuses on a group of people brought to Equestria via dimensional rifts that dump people into the Everfree forest, (ponyfide of course) and how they delt with it, or that was the plan, in practice its more about an Alicorn I made up, >.> I will need to get back to the others here soon. Yeah the main 6 are there, but there more side characters.

the Gold Digger related one, is a result of my ex, who was my writing buddy, wanting to do something more modern, while i favor a fantasy setting, so we compromised since GD can support high sci-fi and high fantasy with as and with in 10 feet of each other. The story centers on Lucia and Kerra, a pair of thieves ignorant of the fact magic exists. Lucia was a solo artist, and very good at her job. she stole for the thrill of it and to add to her own personal collection, and on rare occasion, money(she also REALLY hates the french). Kerra worked with a team for a 'shady organization' (that we never named for some reason *shrugs*) who went out to retrieve desired items. the twist is, Kerra's employers where secretly experimenting on her, and made her a cyborg with out her knowledge, and Lucia? Lucia stole a crown that turned her into a dragon.

I've actually since retooled Lucia's for a character on the RP forums, same name, same class of dragon, same method of becoming a dragon, different back story though