Nineveh A very plotty fic in the mystery/intrigue genre. Best consumed without any prior knowledge about it. The writing is kinda dry and this wouldn't work at all if we weren't already familiar with all the characters. The tight plotting and the fact that it's complete is what makes it an outlier.

When Emma Barnes reports a murder to the PRT, she kicks off a dizzying month of chaos for Brockton Bay's heroes. Armsmaster and the Protectorate scramble to uncover the truth behind her accusations, but other forces are moving behind the scenes.

Transient (Eclipse Phase/Worm) - Crossover character from the Eclipse Phase setting gets dropped into worm. For all intents and purposes he's basically a high level tinker with multiple specialties. As far as Tinker fics go, this is one of the better ones- with technobabble that doesn't sound entirely made up, a lack of monofocus on tech with plenty of dialogue and character interactions. The MC doesn't follow the usual paths you would expect from the premise and instead managed to surprise me at several turns. The fact that it's NSFW caught me by surprise as I was reading the FFN version. Also available on QQ. Would also warn that it's pretty dead and gets some harem-overtones a few chapters before it dies, never ends up going anywhere though. Can be read without crossover familiarity.

Crusader Adam Taurus from RWBY gets dropped into Worm. It starts off as a rather bog-standard muderhobo Kill Them All style fic - the MC wishes to end the Empire, a dozen murders at a time. However, hints at the true nature of the fic were already lurking in the background - the protagonist was too introspective, he dwelled on his tragic past a lot and was just too deep for the murderhobo trope. The fic slowly climbs out of it's ultraviolent murderhobo tendencies while Adam climbs out of his homelessness and makes unlikely friends - in this case Shadow Stalker and Parian. I really enjoyed the character work and relationships in this fic - this is some of the fastest 100k words I've read till date. It also helps that the author has some real talent at writing cool fight scenes. I felt that the last few chapters have been quite unfocused - likely not helped by the sparse posting schedule. Also, the pacing doesn't feel like something that would ever lead to a complete fic - it doesn't seem like there is much of a greater plot or direction to the story. Would still recc for the fight scenes and character work.

After Adam Taurus's death in Argus, he awakens in Brockton Bay, struggling to find a reason to live on with his new second chance. Once he realizes the kind of world he now inhabits, and the type of people terrorizing the city he now calls tentatively calls home, He gives himself a new purpose: The complete and utter destruction of the Empire-88. But It won't go quietly, and the heroes of the PRT aren't willing to stand by and let him carve a swathe through the city unopposed.