Femininity is not weakness. Courage does not exist without fear. Hope is lost the moment you stop fighting. A grittier take on the 'girl falls into another world' trope.

Time travel. Technically, she could consider this the greatest mission she has ever undertaken, or a brilliant opportunity to finally hit the hot springs. (Or, the one where Haruno Sakura really, really needs a vacation).

It always ends the same. Oyaji dies. His crew falls apart. Ace himself dies too. During Marineford, before, or after. It doesn't matter what he does. If he joins they die for him. This time he will make it different. When they ask him to join them he'll say no and leave. Simple right? As if. Guess he'll have to convince them he's not worth their lives. Time travelling/looping Ace

Sakura grows up in a shinobi household. Haunted by a broken father, she ends up on Team 7 a different person.

Sokka is captured by the Fire Nation, tortured by Azula, and relentlessly raped by Ozai. After rescue, it's a bloody road to recovery. (warnings: noncon, yaoi, rape, trauma, dissociation, cutting) First chapter fairly mild, later chapters more explicit. Sokka/Suki, Sokka/Azula, Sokka/Ozai

In a barren land incapable of sustaining life, a Miko, whose most basic and most principal of powers is to give and nurture life, must seem divine in nature. It's not simple Mokuton, said Sunagakure village elders, Mokuton only affects wood and cannot give life to dead crops. It definitely does not resurrect a village on the brink of historic financial depression either.

Nagase Kiyo. Former college student, part-time dish-washer; also the very unfortunate victim of a very fatal traffic accident. Currently the resident river kami of a small stream in the middle of nowhere. Or rather, as it turns out… "Damn you, Kishimoto. Shinobi world my ass!" [OC, Spirit!AU, Very AU]

When Mustang drags Ed into a mission that ultimately lands them in a world consumed by war and people who can bend the elements to their will, they're desperate to leave - but is it possible to do without interfering with a battle of destiny and fate?

Another mysterious boy has somehow made his way to the South Pole - he carries dual swords, and he says his name is Lee. Time travel.

SELF INSERT WEEK 2k16. When most of your life is spent living in the background, it can be a bit intimidating to be thrust to the forefronts of a dramatic narrative. Luckily, Tamika Maihi is a self-insert, so you can trust her to always recover from a tragic backstory. — SI, gen.

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

Ace will save his nakama. He will save his father. And he will save his little brother and ensure Luffy's happiness even if it kills him. Again. Thankfully, he won't be doing it alone. Together, he and Luffy will change the world.

Freedom is only an illusion until you possess the strength to reach out and grasp it with your own two hands. (Or: In which a soldier is reborn as a village girl in a world where piracy runs rampant, strange fruits grant superpowers, and the laws of physics are shot to hell.) [SI/OC, LawOC, AU]

The small rounded face of a young child stares back at you, their face the picture of poker-face perfection. The words 'LOST CHILD' is printed above their image, along with a oddly vague description beneath the picture. It only really mentions the child's age and name. You can't help but think whoever made this flyer isn't searching too hard. ((Indefinite Hiatus))

Edward Elric can't get back to his own world, so he tries to make a life for himself in the closest one he can find. Yep a nice quiet life, no military breathing down his neck or monsters trying to live forever, but then a kid in an orange jumpsuit...

He eyes the thin shivering form of a pale long haired boy dressed in a ragged pair of breaches, and he carefully notes at the many tiny, round intricate tattoos that vaguely remind him of seals. "We found him this way, Kazekage."

Ed managed to prove that he was truly from a different world, and Alfons finds himself captive in Ed's dream of opening the Gate. HeiEd, premovie, AU.

What might have been if Kuina had survived her fall down the dojo stairs. She and Zoro strive to become the greatest swordsman in the world, allegiances and promises notwithstanding. Chapter 18 (Season 2): As Smoker's crew begins to regather, a disturbing directive suddenly arrives from Ennies Lobby...

[ON HIATUS until Naruto ends] Konoha has fallen. Desperate to escape, our heroes turned to the sea for refuge. Watch as they struggle to find their place in the New World and take back what they've lost. Alliances are formed, cover ups are unraveled, and the Void Century blurs reality. Team Seven–centric. Strong!Sakura.

After dying at the end of the Sand-Sound Invasion, Naruto finds that his life is governed by a strange set of rules that he is still trying to figure out. VideoGame!Naruto