Strong!character is often a red flag for me as well tbh, decent odds it just- completely butchers the character in the process of making them 'cool'. I'll give late MHA this, it portrayed Izuku's edgy phase as self-destructive and stupid on his part.
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Strong!character is often a red flag for me as well tbh, decent odds it just- completely butchers the character in the process of making them 'cool'. I'll give late MHA this, it portrayed Izuku's edgy phase as self-destructive and stupid on his part.
Mal-3
Fun Tyrant
Yeah, modifiers like Strong!* or Independent!* are big crimson flags for "I think this character would be more interesting if they were written like a broody action hero" (especially in the HP zone; Independent!Harry gives me 'Nam flashbacks) and really ought to be avoided.
Death_Sheep
Cat Owned
- Location
- Wisconsin
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Dark!* is another one that's a red flag for me, as are fic summaries consisting mostly of "What if...?" questions.
I'm suddenly reminded of Oda's galaxy brain move for Luffy in One Piece
Broke: GRIM DARK HERO
Woke: THE POWER OF LOONEY TUNES
The Disappearance of Makoto Nijiima + Red Like Blood + Alternate Mode
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CV12Hornet
Riter.
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington
This is some good shit.
Seriously, it's everything I could want from an Outsider POV fic: Tatsumi groping around in the dark, oblivious to all the supernatural conspiracy shit around him, and nonetheless finding all sorts of things he probably shouldn't have. There's a lot of reasonable but dead wrong conclusions being made her. It's also just a darn good mystery in its own right - you can piece together what's going on if you're very familiar with Persona 5, but my dumb ass didn't put things together until the author spelled them out for me.
And of course it's Makoto being a dumbass with scouting out Sae's Palace, of course it is. I do appreciate the fact that Detective Tatsumi's investigation is what led the Phantom Thieves to figure things out, gives him some agency.
The fic does futz around with the timeline some, but whatever. This is basically flawless. You're on the List.
So this didn't grab me. For one, I'm not very invested in the Transformers side of things. Crossovers where you're familiar with only one side of it can be hit or miss. Sometimes the familiar draws you in to the unfamiliar, as Vanishing Act did, to name a recent example. But sometimes they're duds, like this one. I'm also not particularly impressed with the direction the story chooses to start with, namely a three-way fight in Jusenkyo.
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One of these days I will find a vampire story that actually does something with the idea of a vampire ending up in a place that has no idea what the fuck a vampire even is. Today is not that day.
So, fundamentally there are three problems with this fic, though I can at least happily say that excessive angst isn't one of them. First, while I'll applaud the author for skipping most of the events of the first two volumes, the execution is obvious and clumsy, and it misses out on a lot of interesting interactions that I thought would happen based on Ruby's different first meeting with Weiss. C'mon, there's a whole world of dorm drama you can work in with Ruby being a vampire, and you're just passing it up? Second, I'm not a fan of Legion, another vampire who actually knows what this whole vampire business is about. See the first paragraph. That's a decent segue into the third point, which is that I'm here for a fic based on Remnant not knowing what the hell a vampire is and the fic does not do anything with that. Hence why Legion is such a disappointing addition. She's culturally ingrained in the "hide" culture of vampirism; Ruby is not. This could've been so much more than it is.
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