Enter the world of Pokémon from a rational perspective. Instead of starting his journey in ignorance, Red has spent his years studying the creatures so central to his world... and he doesn't quite agree with all the information in his books. No time for rookie mistakes here: he's on a quest to discover the true nature of Pokémon, and maybe even find out where they really come from.

Victory can prove bitter, especially when you're the only one alive to see it. With the world in chaos and everyone he ever loved dead, Jaune Arc makes a deal with the devil for one last chance to go back and change it all. But devils don't play by the same rules as humans, and Salem never did say how far back he'd go. Or how much deeper the war between her and Ozpin really went.

Uchiha Satsuki, avenger, doesn't love anything, or anyone. Not revenge, not tomatoes, and definitely – definitely! – not Uzumaki Naruto. But when she winds up on a genin team with him, she realises there's more to his smile than teeth and sunshine. Female!Sasuke

When Jaune's forged transcripts were rebuffed, his only option was to return home in disgrace or forge a new life in Vale. Opening a diner was an impetuous decision, being good at it a stroke of luck. Becoming the favourite haunt for students, teachers and criminals alike…? That was neither, but it sure did keep things interesting. Wasn't the civilian life supposed to be easier?

A single intimate night together... and it lead to so much more. Follow as Team RWBY dive into a relationship none of them could have imagined, trying to make sense of their new situation, as well as deal with the reactions of the people around them. All the while facing White Fang drama, family secrets, and most devastating of all: homework. Pollination, with no Enabler.

Surviving in the 78th district of South Rukongai was tough. When you were a ten-year-old girl with a baby to take care of, it was even harder. Getting reincarnated as Kuchiki Hisana after dying of cancer was never part of the plan. SI/OC, Pre-Canon

Suppose Tom Riddle never bothers to show mercy, and Harry Potter dies with his parents? What would that mean for the world, to have no Boy-Who-Lived to save them? ("A couple of stubborn kids" just doesn't have the same ring to it.)

Harriet Potter is back for a fourth year of quietly masquerading as her pureblooded cousin in order to pursue her dream. There are those in the Wizarding World who refuse to see her fade into the background, however, and when the forces she's been ignoring conspire to bring her to the fore, it will take everything she has to see her artifice through. Alanna the Lioness take on HP4.

I was never afraid of dying. I lived my life to the fullest and expected it to be cut short, all because of my dangerous profession. I expected to die young. I expected hell. What I did not expect was for this shit to happen. OC-insert.

Harry James Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, the Defeater of Voldemort, Chief Auror, Master of Death, finds that he is five years old. It should not surprise anyone that things in Magical Britain immediately become rather strange.

There's still a lot to explore and experience in a world full of magic even if you never become a main character. In Hufflepuff house, you'll make friendships that will last a lifetime. Also, we have a table of infinite snacks. Gen/Friendship. First Year Complete.

Kyubey promised that humanity would reach the stars one day. The Incubator tactfully refrained from saying too much about what they would find there.

Long ago the Forests of Valbonë were closed to wizards and all were forbidden to set foot within them. So when, at the end of his second year, Harry becomes disenchanted with his life at Hogwarts, where else could he and his unlikely band of cohorts want to go? Join Harry on a trip into the unknown, where the only certainty is that he has absolutely no idea what he's doing.

Inspired by Silver Queen's "Dreaming of Sunshine." Ripples turn into waves and crash upon the shores of what is and what could be, and I was just someone else who got pulled under. I didn't realize that even a drowning person makes waves of their own. A SI OC story.

Clockblocker is a girl and she's going through a hard time right now, okay? (Based on the same AU as Kid Win's Big Break) (Cover art is by Cpericardium!)

Whatever she expected when she triggered, it wasn't meeting a short white-haired girl or turning into a hyper-advanced technological platform. Of course when you're Taylor Hebert, things frequently don't go as planned.

Magic was not the only secret hidden in Harry's ancestry. With nothing more than an old clue and a desperate wish, Harry travels through unfamiliar places and braves unknown danger to find his family.

Uzumaki Naruto grew up with lofty goals, guts, and determination. Instincts of a born fighter made him grow; duty to his home drove him. As the battle lines begin to blur, he must find a way to reconcile all he's ever known with the man he hopes to become. Large AU.

Life as a ninja. It starts with confusion and terror and doesn't get any better from there. OC Self-insert. No pairings.

Thirty year old Kakashi was supposed to have been killed by Pein during the Invasion. Instead, he wakes up in the body of his twenty year old self. (It gets a lot more complicated.) Time travel.

COMPLETE! Sequel is Tower. Foundation series: Book 1. If I could've chosen to be born into any family in the Naruto Universe, I think I would have picked Nara. No way in a million years did I ask to be born a Hyuga. Well, at least I'm an identical twin again. OC/Self-insert. Turns very AU in Ch 10.

It's time to stop waiting for other people to save you. A story about fear, resilience, and Sakura.

Did Mr. Gladly hate her? A half-semester group project with Sophia and Madison, and they had to write fifteen pages on Lustrum? "Radical feminist" didn't quite cut it. But as Taylor, Sophia, and Madison investigate, they begin to wonder if Lustrum was really a villain at all… and someone doesn't want them to ever learn the truth.

An accidental collision of space time techniques sends an ordinary shinobi to Brockton Bay. She'll need all of her common sense and good judgment as she finds her feet in a new world. With new friends by her side, Tenten will have to decide if she's going to fit in or if her new home is going to have to fit her.

A college freshman is kidnapped by aliens and forced to become a gladiator. There's just one problem: it's hard to imagine anyone more unsuited to the task...

"Why," she wondered, "was I given a second chance in this world, in this family, in this particular time, if not to change the status quo?" Thinking that was all well and good—however, enacting it was a completely different, and extremely difficult, matter. Semi-SI OC Rebirth fic. Complete. [Sequel posted on AO3]

Sequel to The Arithmancer. Years 5-7. Armed with a N.E.W.T. in Arithmancy after Voldemort's return, Hermione takes spellcrafting to new heights and must push the bounds of magic itself to help Harry defeat his enemy once and for all.

When Ron Weasley realized he was reborn to the world with his memories mostly intact, he felt it was a second chance to do better. However, he slowly realizes that this world was different from his own. Making new friends and earning new enemies, he has to use his experience from his previous life not only to reach his goals, but also to survive. AU

The Dark Lord has been vanquished. Harry has seemingly won; he holds control of the Philosopher's Stone, the Line of Merlin Unbroken, and the Elder Wand, and has begun laying the groundwork for a global paradigm shift in the nearish future. But all may not be as it appears, and the fate of Reality Itself hangs in the balance. A sequel to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Being petrified and having one's absurdly lucky best friend kill a big snake really gets a girl thinking. Where could they go from there? A midnight conversation leads to a promise to do better, regardless of breaking one, two, or a dozen laws along the way. With a definitely safe wand, allies expecting her to be the next dark lady, and a free summer, what is a girl to do?

Horry Patter was a boy who lived under the stairs in a cupboard, and had no friends. One day, a giant man appeared and changed everything. Updates Tuesdays

because life taught her not to be so naive, so naturally, it would take her longer to fall (in love) [AU][No Magic][Sequel to 10 steps]

When I reincarnated in the world of Naruto, I was lucky enough to live in Konoha but not lucky enough to get all the superpowers you could hope for. I failed my jounin-sensei test and ended up in the Genin Corps. Bye bye jounin rank but, considering it also meant avoiding the battlefield, that's fine with me. Now I just had to get a position allowing me to change History...

Freed from her cage, Uzumaki Naruto sets out to show the world all that it takes for granted. Rated for safety. WARNING: FemNaruto, with eventual romantic relationships with male characters. Will remain unfinished. I DON'T WRITE HERE ANYMORE.

It's like when you get a can of coke for someone and you shake it up so it fizzes into their face when they open it. But instead everything goes wrong and you drop it and it explodes everywhere. It's sticky and messy. It's shocking. And really, it's not as sweet as you'd thought it would be. -SI/OC.

Shizuki Hitomi is a rich girl, from an important family, and sole heir to a nice little fortune. She has Expectations to live up to in her life: do well in school, practice the arts of refinement, find someone respectable to marry. And yes, Kaname Junko is squarely on the executive track. But Madoka's a girl. Girls can't love girls.

Ilya likes to play video games, and in the time she has remaining, Shirou is more than willing to play the new VR game with her. But when they are trapped inside the game, [Sword Art Online], they determine something even more distressing: Kayaba Akihiko is definitely a Magus.

How do you heal a man's mind while he is frozen in cryostasis? Nobody knows, but if anyone can do it, it's Wakanda. T'Challa holds a nation-wide talent search to fix Bucky, so he can avoid dealing with his grief for his father.

... How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy, even among wizards. The most noteworthy thing about him, however, was his talent for getting himself into trouble, which surpassed even that of his godfather. Sequel to "Innocent" and "Initiate".

Torchwick has been caught, his plans foiled, and the White Fang's being unusually quiet. Perfect circumstances for love to blossom. Right? Pollination with plot.

Taylor never went out for her first night of being a hero. Now Leviathan has destroyed Brockton Bay, and Theo Anders has triggered, unbeknownst to his family. He is left to try and become a hero in the broken remains of the city, but he's not the only one with something to prove. He's not the only one desperate to do something right. They'll have to learn what that means together.

Naruto, at 26, has lived through 10 years of war. At the end, with nothing left to call home, he sends himself back to the beginning, to the day of his younger self's graduation, in an attempt to change it all. Time travel AU.

Being reborn into the Uchiha clan in the same generation as Itachi promises nothing but a short-lived second life. But, hey—if I'm going to die with certainty, I might as well go out with a bang, right? SI Rebirth. Complete; all extras posted.

In 1991, a child came to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with obvious gifts, but which few suspected would change the world... Oh, and Harry Potter enrolled that year as well. *** A few tweaks to canon, plus extrapolating Hermione's apparent intelligence realistically. I expect events to diverge fairly quickly. ;) *** cover image cc by-nc RooReynolds @ Flickr

"At least the other clan kids of the series had something to protect themselves with practically from birth. Sakura was blessed with the oh so helpful gift of a larger than average forehead." The remedy is often worse than the disease it cures. I refused to be that remedy. OC-insert as Sakura Semi-AU

There are far-reaching consequences for everyone when Ino doesn't befriend Sakura as a child, not the least of which occurs when Sakura's two personalities disassociate from each other completely. With one convinced she's worthless and the other determined to prove otherwise, they'll have to find a way to live and fight together if they want to survive. [Eventual InoSaku].

A psychiatrist is reborn—and promptly diagnoses the Naruto world as clinically insane. [OC-Insert]

On the other side of the veil is a night without end. Under a blood moon, the Hunt starts anew. Gothic/cosmic horror, no romance, sporadic updates. [Readers do not need to be familiar with Bloodborne.]

Above the planet called Remnant, the Empyrean opens to reveal a Chapter in their darkest hour.

With growing unease, I note that the so venerated Maesters at Oldtown have started to adjust the events of my reign in a nearly utopian narration. Gone are the mistakes I made in my reign, only the glory and honorable deaths are left. So in these last days before the Stranger takes me too I will attempt to give an account of my life, the events that shaped me and my rule. SI-OC

Ivory Ironwood was supposed to attend Atlas Academy, her uncle's school. One airship crash and two years alone in the Solitas mountains put paid to that plan and turned a chatty, cheerful girl into a silent, paranoid huntress with much to learn, and relearn, about everything except killing Grimm.

WIP An unconscious Iruka forces Naruto to return to the academy for another year. It also marks the beginnings of a prank whose far-reaching consequences will shake Konoha to its foundations.

The Robert Baratheon who takes the crown in AC 283 is not the man who they expected, nor will he be the king they looked for. Through the eyes of others as the Seven Kingdoms seeks an new balance of power under a new dynasty. (SI).

Morality and logical limits are not Orochimaru's strong point, even as a loyal Konoha shinobi. Thankfully, it seems that parenting actually is.

Ever since the seal broke, Naruto's life has changed. He's been thrust into ANBU: he's starting to lose sight of which half is him and which half is his demon, he can't seem to find his way back to team seven, and he's been having these weird dreams - with a sky wrenched apart by a broken moon, a man with a staff, and a version of him with glowing, nine-tomoe eyes.

Sequel to Fantastic Elves and Where to Find Them! Harry is captured by wizards and brought to a castle. The wizards are obnoxious, but there's a lovely wood nearby which is quaintly named the "Forbidden" Forest. Harry thinks that's adorable.

'No, no,' Misaka-11111 protests, with great concern in her voice. 'Do not read my secret diary. How is it even online? ' she asks, confusion mixing with her alarm. 'If someone were to read it, they would be able to understand my inner thoughts. That is not natural, completely unlike the perfectly normal operations of the Network. Please,' Misaka begs, 'do not read it.'

There's a saying, amongst the men and women of the Land of Fire: You can be a hero, or you can be a Shinobi. There's a response, amongst the men and woman of Team 7: Fuck that. AU.

They called her lazy, apathetic, and amoral. They also said she was, by turns, too smart and too dumb. She liked to think she was funny. None of them were wrong. OC/Self Insert

The one who saw everything. Who experienced all joys, and all sorrows. Who drank fully of the cup of life! But once, before standing at the end, and looking back with the ultimate wisdom, there was a beginning. A start. A path. A journey. A wandering legend that, known by no one, spoken by no one, contains the truth of triumph and tragedy, of perfection, and despair. [Omniverse SI]

[Post-Rebellion] In the frostbitten American Midwest, ragged Magical Girls vie for territory to survive the unforgiving landscape. One such girl is Sloan Redfearn, who wastes away in Fargo, North Dakota, nursing a grudge and watching her hopes slowly die. But when Kyubey approaches with a unique opportunity, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to topple gods.

A triumphant war party returns with an exotic slave, a gift for the ruling house. Katara and Zuko AU

Humanity never developed FTL. The Prothean archives contained no technology, no Element Zero, just a warning. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy for two thousand years, restricted to their only system, how will humanity have changed when they first meet the Turians? AU, alternate history of humanity and First Contact.

Jaune survives a childhood tragedy and life in the wilderness with the most unlikely allies. The summoned manifestations of slain Grimm defend him through his travels until he meets a band of refugees and a criminal willing to help smuggle them into the safety of Vale - and Jaune into Beacon Academy where he finally finds purpose for the sword at his hip.

Time travel, the ultimate hoax to cheat in life and turn bad odds to your advantage. Or, it would be if Naruto had any idea what he was doing. Trying to save lives he holds dear, he somehow ended up as an international S-class criminal with a flee-on-sight order. Oops.

Being a ninja is hard enough when you work for the good guys, let alone when you get reincarnated into a family of psychopaths. SI

Hermione grows up as a maths whiz instead of a bookworm and tests into Arithmancy in her first year. With the help of her friends and Professor Vector, she puts her superhuman spellcrafting skills to good use in the fight against Voldemort. Years 1-4. Sequel posted.

Taylor's encounter against Lung doesn't go very well at all. She wakes up in hospital, and Armsmaster has some questions.

It began after I got rejected by Signal again, though at the time I had no idea what was happening. Titles and levels suddenly appeared above people's heads and then weird things began to happen, as if I was in a game. And then, I realize I was in a game. But...if my life is a game, I'm going to win it. My name's Jaune Arc and I'm the Gamer. RWBY/The Gamer.

Sakura is back in Konoha after a flurry of dangerous missions, safe and sound. Or so she thinks. Life in a ninja village is never simple, and she's going to find out what it really means to be Tsunade's protege. In the mean time, Konoha's enemies are hardly idle... Sequel to Trial by Ninja.

Petunia married a biochemist, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, and a world of intriguing new possibilities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Professor McGonagall, and Professor Quirrell... COMPLETE.

An AU where Taylor is in the alleyway instead of Emma. She triggers there, with a different set of powers. In the aftermath, Shadow Stalker has to face the consequences of her inaction, deal with her feelings about this new parahuman, and ask herself searching questions about her own philosophy of life. An exploration of the concept of a Taylor Hebert/Sophia Hess romance.

Life was always dangerous when you had inherited a doujutsu. Especially if you happened to be born to an unwed mother far away from the lands of your father. OC Self-insert

Sakumo has no idea where all of these habits of Kakashi's are coming from. In which five-year-old Kakashi forgets the existence of his left eye, loses his ability to lie believably, and is a little too knowledgeable about the Birds and Bees. Still, no matter what oddities went on in Kakashi's head, one thing is certain – the boy will always love his father, through thick and thin.

A single anonymous call has massive repercussions when Armsmaster is called to Winslow High on the day of Taylor's trigger event.

Taylor Hebert and Jack Slash wake up in a cell...

Kakashi is six years old again, sent to the past. After his father dies, Minato acts as his caretaker, and chaos ensues: well-meaning chaos, but poor Minato doesn't know what to do. One-shot. For mapplepie.

Louise the Zero. A failure even at summoning a familiar. But now she has a second chance, access to power beyond the Void. Soon a new day shall dawn on Halkeginia, its light green and terrible and beautiful. They don't know what's going to hit them. Book I in the Verdigris and Flame Sequence.

Why is Harry Potter considered the worst firebender in Gryffindor? Why doesn't he want to be noticed? Probably the same reason he dreams of drowning every night. [Harry Potter characters in an AU with magic replaced by the elemental powers of Avatar: The Last Airbender / Legend of Korra. Full summary inside.]

Kakashi made a mistake. Shikamaru is smart. Shino is skilled. Naruto is strong. Maybe something amazing could happen, with the right ... motivation.

After the Forest of Death, Sakura comes to realize that being weak is no longer an option. However, she finds that change is sometimes painful and that truth doesn't always come easy. Luckily, she'll have some help along the way.

Following the fall of Voldemort, it is up to the Gringotts goblins to carry out the terms of the Potters' will. What will happen when young Harry Potter - halfblood, Parselmouth, curse-scarred, outsider - is raised in the stalagmite city of Underfoot?

When a few of my friends admitted they didn't understand the Old Testament religious symbolism in NGE, this is how I explained it to them. Yes, I'm insane. If you don't think humor and religion go together, you probably don't want to read this. Further explanation on my profile if you need it, and no offense meant to anyone.

Kakashi was a weary ninja who'd had this dream (nightmare) too many times before. And until the pain of the kunai stabbed in his arm registered, he'd never even considered the possibility it was real this time. Time-travel? One-shot.

[FANOWRIMO CHALLENGE] Most people seem to think that developing a doujutsu is a wondrous, unspeakably lucky occurrence. Considering that she now has to deal with an ability she has no idea how to use, family drama, fashion crises, and the world's most rude and vulgar doctor, on top of getting to know her new genin team just after graduation...needless to say, Sakura begs to differ.

It did not occur to Harry Potter to wonder why his Snowy Hedwig was so much more affectionate than the other owls. It did not occur to him he would ever need to care. That's why she waited to tell him. (Canon compliant)

"Well, he did just give you his first born son, after all." There's nothing like unplanned parenthood to make you grow up fast, as Sakura's learning. Especially when you're ten.

On that fateful day, two Potters were born. One was destined to be the Boy-Who-Lived. The other was forgotten by the Wizarding World. Now, as the Triwizard Tournament nears, a strange boy is contracted to defend a beautiful girl.

More than once, Quelana wondered whether Nemeta was a trick played upon her by the Flames of Chaos, a beguiling, infuriating illusion that would lure her to oblivion. Femslash.

Even in a world without magic, where there are no miracles to light the way out of the darkness of despair, everything balances itself out.

He has his mother's red hair, his father's face, and most importantly, he has two of the best friends a Jinchuriki could ask for. His name is Naruto Uzumaki... and his tale is a bit different than the one you remember. AU, Alt!Naruto, CadetBranch!Hinata

An old house sits at the end of a lane. Abandoned and forgotten, no one would have guessed who was going to buy it... or how full a life that old house was yet to live. Harry/Hermione

Homura wakes up in a world where the only witch is the one in her head.

Not even the birth of her son could compel Merope to continue living after her husband's abandonment, but the green-eyed stranger sitting by her deathbed, cradling her squalling babe, proves to be an unexpected savior. Time Travel. Rare Pair: HarryxMerope

When Prince Lu Ten returns with the Avatar and his Water Tribe companions in chains, Zuko is put in charge of their imprisonment. But things are not what they seem, both with the child Avatar and his own family. And soon, he will have a decision to make.

A science fiction reimagining of the Mahabharata.

So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.

There are some missions no ninja ever wishes to admit to having participated in. This was Kakashi's.

A new seal made by Naruto malfunctions when it's challanged by Akatsuki's extraction ritual. Now Naruto has to deal with situations he'd never dreamed of before: a war, a demon attack, Orochimaru, spies and the paradox of his own existence. Timetravel.

Naruto leaves on his three year training trip, and Sakura begins the struggle to improve herself. How much will they have changed when they meet again in one hundred days?

This is the story of Ravana, a wild dragon living in the time before the Riders existed. It's only loosely based on the books.

Ayakawa Yukiko retired from being a ninja, and she's come to terms with that. Then the Third Hokage summons her for an assignment that will change her life. AU story, set six years premanga. COMPLETE

Hatake Kakashi never realized there would be so many obstacles on his way to graduating and becoming a ninja. Complete.

The first time Kakashi was deliberately late it was only by fifteen minutes.

Calvin is all grown up... how has the passage of time affected him and those around him? My first nonStar Wars fic!