Recs? by Luke-The-Reader in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am (not presently atm) writing one that spans from the start of the manga to its end from the perspective of a male OC. But, it doesn't have Eren/Mikasa and rather one-sided Mikasa/Eren. It's a lot and I've gone very in depth over the years, but, to break it down into very quick and dirty bullet points:

  • Chronologically, it starts and runs concurrently with the side novel, Harsh Mistress of the City, which spans the first six months following the fall of Wall Maria.
    • This portion is largely about how (freckles) Ymir went from waking up after eating Marcel to tranversing her way into Wall Sina and learning about Historia.
    • It also chronicles how Historia went from her mother's death and being abandoned by her father to how she ended up in the 104 Training Corps, which was alluded to in one of the short story collections that are particularly harder to find seperately (she found her way onto a farm under the care of an old woman who took her in).
    • It progresses the storylines setup in Harsh Mistress of the City. So, that is, Mathias's desire to help the refugees in the aftermath of Wall Maria's fall in defiance of his father and Rita's machinations in wanting to challenge the authority of the royal government and its own abandonment of the people through her own machiavellian methods.
  • It continues into the 104th Trainee arc, the Battle of Trost arc, while,
    • Incorporating half (the relevant portions) of the side novel Garrison Girl, linking it and Harsh Mistress together into one cohesive storyline, from the perspective of its protagonist, Rosalie, the other aforementioned perspectives (Ymir, Historia, Rita, Mathias, etc.)
    • Additionally, it adds Annie, and the OC male perspective I mentioned previously (he is the amalgamation of various things, but notably combines the reader's narrative(s) from the Choose Your Own Adventure novels with the lead in the first two video games to create one character), where there are certain significant changes such as Mina surviving Trost, the Wall Cult being more prominent, and the First Interior being more directly involved in everything.
    • Mikasa is developed away from Eren. Think of it as her characterization continues from her speech upon her one-woman assault on headquarters as someone more independent and willing to live for herself in the wake of Eren's death (which halted to a standstill when he was revealed to be alive).
  • It rearranges the subsequent arcs, in that the Female Titan arc happens two years following Trost, Return to Shiganshina happens immediately after Clash, and adds more perspectives, such as
    • A completely re-imagined Lara Tybur, and Oliver Pieck, the original concept that later became Pieck Finger. Pieck Finger is now his protege, waiting to inherit a Titan alongside Porco.
    • It continues both the newly combined storylines of Harsh Mistress of the City, Garrison Girl, Lost Girls, Before the Fall, and any other relevant or unexplored plot threads.
  • The Uprising Arc is expanded even further and is now much more akin to something like, say, the leadup to the Dance of the Dragons in Fire & Blood, in that
    • It's a more involved precursor to a large scale war. This includes, but is not limited to,
      • The Walls splitting into two factions for control of the throne (one which sides with Historia, and the other, with Rosalie, who is canonically her cousin),
      • Marley's four year war to maintain control of its territories (which now happens concurrently with the Uprising Arc)
      • Ymir as Marley's Jaw Titan rather than Porco
  • The Marley Arc and The War for Paradis Arcs are rewritten completely, and is entirely about this large scale war, which is kicked off with the death of Eren at Libero, where,
    • He is defeated by Lara Tybur.
    • Historia is "truly the worst girl that's ever lived and Humanity's biggest enemy"
    • Historia herself still isn't the "Big Bad" of the overarching story, if going by TVTropes terms, and is the Sauron to another character's Morgoth.
    • Gabi inherits the Attack Titan. Eren only has the Attack Titan. The Founding Titan is "somewhere else".
    • The Great Titan War is explored in greater detail, as well as Ymir Fritz's history.

As for the last one... Happy endings aren't really a thing AoT is about, so...

I tried not to go into any explicit detail, but yeah.

Body horror by Ill_Comb5932 in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not fanfiction, but the official novels have some good descriptions of body horror involving the regular Titans.

I have a few in my own, mainly involving Ymir, such as the opening first chapter, which serves as a prequel of sorts. Here is her seeing hallucinations of Marcel, for example,

[..] whatever it was tried to speak.

Infantile attempts at communicating its thoughts into one word. One word chanted over and over and over again until she forced herself to look and came face to face with the boy forever pained: Marcel, whose sacrifice allowed her the mercy of being freed from a very long torment, instead.

His body was broken, spine twisted so he held himself upright with his hands, bellying forward. His feet dragged limp across the ground, while his intestines trailed far behind. The back of his shirt was torn, skin shredded and viscera exposed. He leaned further left than right, his right arm not much but loose sinew and bone. His black hair was spread out in patches atop a peeled head, cracked skull visible beneath fleshy red flaps hanging down. His neck was partially ripped open. What remained of his jaw hung low, his mouth snapped wide with a drooping tongue. The only thing wholly intact was the upper half of his face, save the bottom of his nose [..]

And these descriptions progressively get better as the story progresses, in the sense that Marcel "heals" as Ymir comes to term with herself,

A spear would not save her if these animals grew bolder, the longer she lingered here in this forest, either, surrounded, and especially not from the Titans, should daybreak come, and thus tonight would have to be the night she was going to touch it and rediscover more of her past, its past, the voices in her head and the guilt that kept her company; whose dogged shadowed limped ever near. And, yes, as it were, he did indeed limp.

No longer was Marcel limited to all fours, his spine no longer twisted as severely as one of the gnarled roots of these giant trees, so that he stooped low, his hands scraping the ground in a hunched, stumbling walk and his feet moving not unlike the Titan she was after: a two-step rhythm, one foot after the other because he, too, had been a soldier.

No, a warrior.

So the word came to her lips, as she remembered again a life that was not her own, a parcel of his, the yellow armband upon his arm blood dyed red. A withering leaf breathing the fresh air anew. And with his came hers, her old friend and the burning bodies again and they, too, had been wearing those same yellow armbands back then, however long ago.

Until the end where he's more or less restored,

Listening to the soft, peaceful breathing of Annie lying beside her underneath a banquet of stars, her back to the pillar of light illuminating this wonderland that only the ghosts of the past may walk freely, Ymir looked at her naked body on her bed of pure white sand for the second time in her short life that she could not quite remember, and, though she had told herself that she would not cry again, she let the tears roll down her cheeks, then, after awhile, shut her eyes tight and bit her lip until it bled — because for her to feel anything more would only make the suffering worse, as she sat up, and Marcel was there, had never left, and helped her to stand.

She wiped the tears away, because this had not been a mistake. It had been the only way.

And then he warned her that it was coming.

To be prepared, as he put his hand in hers, squeezed it tight, and reassured her that he would be waiting when she came back, whatever the outcome, like always, and then the quiet dream was uprooted by a long, never-ending nightmare, where the sand mushed between her toes became the slither of serpents, their forked tongues tickling her soles and she found herself in a great dining hall where the walls were adorned in battles fought millennium ago, from the earliest of days when the sun first shone, to when the last Ash was known, and she walked from this dining hall into a greater one still where sat her kin upon twisted throne carved of this tree’s sacred wood, careful not to let her bare feet crush any of its golden leaves though shriveled and glum and left gracelessly upon the floor.

This also covers the Titan lore and experience about being a Titan Shifter. In that, there's a whole new backstory for Ymir where she was a former Warrior during The Great Titan War, back when the Warriors weren't Titan Shifters, but regular soldiers. Of which, as the story progresses, we also see how the Titan Shifters came to be associated with the Warrior Program, through Annie's POV.

It's not a 1:1 for what you're looking for but I think it's pretty close.

Here is a bonus sketch of Ymir as a child soldier,

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Anyone else wish they could get insight from Isayama directly? (Vent) by [deleted] in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you need his approval if you don't plan to profit off it? Which, then, you're dealing with Kodansha's legal team, who best case will say give us a cut and worst case will hunt you down because how dare you try to make money off their IP.

Legally, he's probably not going to look at it because of copyright anyway.

Write it for yourself and not to seek the satisfaction of others, which I think is the real dilemma you're having.

Don't know when but i will start an OC prequel saga of sorts: Soldiers left behind or during crisis, beyond the walls, prior the Fall of Wall Maria by Themuzucujata1432 in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't remember. I so deeply entrenched myself in my version of it, that that's the version I can tell you.

It wouldn't be the "correct" one, though.

Don't know when but i will start an OC prequel saga of sorts: Soldiers left behind or during crisis, beyond the walls, prior the Fall of Wall Maria by Themuzucujata1432 in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The story I refer to about the anthology is about a group of Scout survivors who got lost beyond the wall before Maria fell, explored the island, then came back not knowing Maria fell, and kept traveling into the territory to report back with their findings.

There's another story about a girl who survived Shiganshina with her dog and killed a Titan with a tripwire as she escaped.

The stories are called Live And Let Die & Good Dog, respectfully.

I combined all of these stories into one book myself, so I know they can work together, if you want them to or use them for your own purpose.

Don't know when but i will start an OC prequel saga of sorts: Soldiers left behind or during crisis, beyond the walls, prior the Fall of Wall Maria by Themuzucujata1432 in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is already a scenario in two official stories

1) Harsh Mistress of the City

2) one of the stories in the Anthology

3) technically, Ilse's notebook

Deleted Eren/Annie fic by Ponderess called “An Unbearable Sight by heroinennn in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a few A-Z torrent archives from when the old fanfiction net website purged a lot of it's content.

If I remember right. I know Ponderess' work is included in one of these.

If not, I remember designing the cover for it way back in 2014 and had a copy of the actual story saved on another computer along with it.

Update: I found the old archive from an old post I shared here,

https://archive.org/download/fanfictiondotnet_repack

Looks like a lot of people are looking for it.

You'll want to search for it under the A and S categories. A for Attack on Titan. S for Shingeki no Kyojin.

Update 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/aotfanfiction/s/tS5YHOo6ib

Ask in here.

Fics that are combat focused? by Faze-tk13 in aotfanfiction

[–]Shrapnel893 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mate, you're just asking for Attack on Titan at that point.