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A collection of complex heroines and anti-heroines. On AO3: "Haruno Sakura and the Heuristic Method" by MoofieLou and "Zelda, Don't be Racist." by BetterBeMeta. Must-reads.

No Stone Left Unturned by CheckAlexa reviews
Louisa Collins vowed that she was done with sleuthing when her family moved to the tiny town of Forks. She was done sticking her nose in other people's business. Not even the mysterious Cullen family could entice her to go back on her word... right?
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Mystery/Supernatural - Chapters: 33 - Words: 166,138 - Reviews: 197 - Favs: 396 - Follows: 515 - Updated: 8/7 - Published: 8/12/2017 - Jasper, Rosalie, OC
Cloak and Dagger by crownedcrusader reviews
Sheik has lived for years without even hearing her old name. But when the Royal Family is threatened and a bounty is put on her 'true' form, Sheik must go deeper into hiding. If not for her unlikely partnership with Link, a man hired by the king to find and protect his long-lost daughter, she might have stayed hidden forever. [Sheik is Zelda]
Legend of Zelda - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 28 - Words: 239,918 - Reviews: 596 - Favs: 384 - Follows: 524 - Updated: 5/18/2018 - Published: 11/2/2015 - [Link, Zelda] Sheik
Of Goblins and Kings by Storms in my Coffee reviews
Jareth watched the girl jump up. She was surrounded. The snakes crawled across her feet and legs. She turned her eyes to him and for a mad second he thought she might fling herself into his arms. Instead, she looked him in the eyes and surprised him with her words."You have no power over me." The King smiled and tilted his head. "Would you like to make a bet, Sarah?"
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 17 - Words: 32,344 - Reviews: 150 - Favs: 86 - Follows: 159 - Updated: 7/20/2018 - Published: 11/17/2016 - Hoggle, Ludo, Jareth, Sarah
Triptych by ksuzu reviews
Sarada wanted to be the first Uchiha Hokage. But she may have to become the first Hokage, period. [Warring Clans Era] [Time Travel]
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 13 - Words: 102,285 - Reviews: 345 - Favs: 477 - Follows: 626 - Updated: 7/6 - Published: 1/1/2018 - Madara U., Hashirama S., Tobirama S., Sarada U.
Butterfly by silverfootsteps reviews
After winning her first and only Olympic gold, Haruno Sakura shocks the world by announcing her retirement from skating. When she returns to her little hometown of Konoha, she finds that not much has changed. The same old temples, the same old persimmon trees. Resigned to a quiet life, she settles in for what she hopes will be an uneventful retirement. Skating AU. Itasaku.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 60 - Words: 173,838 - Reviews: 805 - Favs: 482 - Follows: 487 - Updated: 12/2/2018 - Published: 1/18/2018 - Sakura H., Itachi U. - Complete
Alkaline by Citrine Nebulae reviews
A young military officer must become allies with the violent arbiters of a mysterious warrior race when an alien scourge overtakes a passenger vessel. In a ferocious and unchecked effort to save the lives onboard, she may just be destroying every hope for peace among the stars.
Aliens/Predator - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 28 - Words: 87,977 - Reviews: 141 - Favs: 156 - Follows: 155 - Updated: 12/29/2017 - Published: 1/22/2015 - [Predator/Yautja, OC] Scar - Complete
Kiss of Midnight by Mahi-Mahi reviews
Deep under the ice of Bouvetøya Island, Lex finds her reason to survive.
Aliens/Predator - Rated: M - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 37,403 - Reviews: 279 - Favs: 397 - Follows: 404 - Updated: 10/17/2018 - Published: 8/20/2014 - Lex, Scar
Sky on Fire I: Slow Burn by Killaurey reviews
AU after the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. Inocentric. Shikamaru didn’t choose her for the mission because she was weak. Furious at him, and at herself, Ino decided to change that – but sometimes change is a bumpy road to walk.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 27 - Words: 255,188 - Reviews: 368 - Favs: 390 - Follows: 431 - Updated: 1/10/2018 - Published: 4/22/2007 - Ino Y., Shikamaru N.
Just One of Those Things by saudade do coracao reviews
ABANDONED. "You can't stop me. I could blast you to tomorrow," threatened Hermione. Zabini looked unimpressed. "I think you've forgotten who you're dealing with," he said. "You're evenly matched here. I can do anything you can." AU Post HBP. BZ/HG.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 11 - Words: 37,810 - Reviews: 49 - Favs: 53 - Follows: 74 - Updated: 1/10/2012 - Published: 3/8/2011 - [Hermione G., Blaise Z.]
Slant by SwiftKick reviews
Deidara "acquires" the best medic to heal Itachi, as per Pain's orders. Sakura finds that being held captive doesn't really agree with her. Rewrite&Re-post. [BAMF Sakura, as always][Canon Divergent, too]
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 4 - Words: 21,000 - Reviews: 94 - Favs: 117 - Follows: 146 - Updated: 1/4/2018 - Published: 10/21/2017 - Sakura H.
What Happens in Paris by ArieSemir reviews
LMHG: Hermione is stuck in Muggle Paris doing work for the Order when she received an unexpected offer. Well, she isn't having any part of that, thank you very much! But when Lucius is stuck with her, things get a little complicated. COMPLETE!
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 25 - Words: 91,090 - Reviews: 357 - Favs: 428 - Follows: 139 - Updated: 10/7/2006 - Published: 5/2/2006 - Hermione G., Lucius M. - Complete
Problem Nine And Two by crowind reviews
AU. Three generations, four Hokage, and two jinchuuriki. The Senju are dying; an Uchiha holds the highest authority in Konoha. The only thing standing between the Kyuubi and Konoha is a teenager with a volatile temper. Tsunade has inherited her grandfather's spirit and her grandmother's demon, and the clans and village in between, and the fragile peace of the shinobi world.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 5 - Words: 19,447 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 19 - Updated: 9/29/2016 - Published: 8/18/2015 - Tsunade S., Kyuubi/Kurama, Kagami U., Mito U.
Fistful of Thorns by raining-down-hearts reviews
Ino Yamanaka usually claims to be perfect, but some recent mistakes have put her in situations that she absolutely hates, and her clan's displeasure with her isn't making life any easier, nor is living alone for the very first time. She decides to get stronger, but it's a much longer, rougher, more dangerous journey than she'd ever thought it would be.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 12 - Words: 91,671 - Reviews: 59 - Favs: 78 - Follows: 84 - Updated: 4/19/2016 - Published: 3/19/2014 - Ino Y.
A Survivor's Guide to the Apocalypse by Faerlyte reviews
One falling chunk of space metal later and priorities everywhere had been reduced to simply surviving to see tomorrow, and hoarding the last of the toilet paper. Easier said than done in a bunker full of Akatsuki. With the resident Blue Fish and the filthy Leaf traitor, Itachi Uchiha, as Sakura's only allies, the future was looking rather grim. Hold onto your limes and Vitamin D.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 36,392 - Reviews: 105 - Favs: 123 - Follows: 170 - Updated: 5/12/2013 - Published: 1/24/2011 - Sakura H., Kisame H.
Something of unearthly love by DeGlace reviews
Ino finds a head. The head won't shut up. Then she finds the rest of him. Hidan x Ino.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 19 - Words: 53,021 - Reviews: 466 - Favs: 927 - Follows: 329 - Updated: 4/2/2016 - Published: 2/12/2016 - [Hidan, Ino Y.] - Complete
A Girl and a Mountain by Of Healing Love reviews
Mulan wasn't supposed to be discovered as a woman in the Imperial Army. Her life wasn't supposed to be spared and she wasn't supposed to go home dishonored. Shan Yu wasn't supposed to survive the avalanche and he wasn't supposed to take over China. Clearly, fate had other plans for the two... and it all revolved around revenge, obsession, a girl and a mountain. Implied rape.
Mulan - Rated: M - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 16 - Words: 53,908 - Reviews: 667 - Favs: 916 - Follows: 1,188 - Updated: 1/18 - Published: 1/28/2014 - Mulan, Shan-Yu
Sound the Clarion by Amber Penglass reviews
In the chaos of the ongoing First Contact War, the Alliance is contacted by a resistence cell comprised of captured humans on Palaven, and Shepard is drafted for a covert mission to make contact. Her cover lands her where? The Vakarian household, of course. Shepard/Garrus, AU.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 21 - Words: 153,255 - Reviews: 887 - Favs: 1,083 - Follows: 1,022 - Updated: 6/1/2016 - Published: 8/12/2011 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
A Casket Full of Victory by Liffae reviews
It's easier to break than mend. And so, for everything she learned to heal, Sakura learned a thousand times to end.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 28,580 - Reviews: 552 - Favs: 1,788 - Follows: 2,054 - Updated: 9/5/2017 - Published: 2/24/2015 - Naruto U., Sasuke U., Sakura H., Itachi U.
Lesser Evils by mirari1 reviews
When a human warlock is blackmailed into helping hunt for a missing settlement of Third War refugees, a chance meeting throws the searchers into the midst of a Legion plot. Can new loyalties survive contact with the old?
Warcraft - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 18 - Words: 135,188 - Reviews: 140 - Favs: 74 - Follows: 60 - Updated: 10/21/2017 - Published: 9/27/2009
Bloom Again by iharalin reviews
You made a mistake, shishō. If it was Naruto, he might have made peace with it. It's people like me, who keeps wanting more, doesn't know when to make peace, can't make peace. Can't live with being the only one alive. Can't handle being left behind even in death. This is no last stand. This is selfishness. Sakura-centric Time Travel where for once, Team 7 chases Sakura.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 14 - Words: 125,421 - Reviews: 674 - Favs: 1,619 - Follows: 2,117 - Updated: 3/1/2018 - Published: 1/27/2017 - [Sasuke U., Sakura H.] Team Seven
Fargo by Bavitz reviews
[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.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica/魔法少女まどか★マギカ - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 43 - Words: 336,493 - Reviews: 385 - Favs: 312 - Follows: 214 - Updated: 4/16/2016 - Published: 5/4/2015 - Homura A., Mami T., Kyoko S. - Complete
Acheron by Thethuthinnang reviews
BtVS.Doom. She had thought she'd never see him again.
Buffy X-overs - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 6 - Words: 12,823 - Reviews: 33 - Favs: 25 - Follows: 34 - Updated: 3/17/2008 - Published: 9/21/2007
Hunter's Moon by Fallarin reviews
Traveling to a competition in Ulan Bator across the Gobi desert, a martial artist must fight for her life when insectoid black serpents attack out of a sandstorm. After surviving one battle, she realizes she is not the only combatant.
Aliens/Predator - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 21 - Words: 85,527 - Reviews: 163 - Favs: 224 - Follows: 69 - Updated: 4/3/2009 - Published: 11/22/2008 - Complete
A Song for Alingon by mei0023 reviews
After years of working together, Shepard and Garrus can speak volumes to each other without ever saying a word. But when Shepard accepts an impossible mission on a dangerous planet, all bets are off. Rating subject to change in later chapters.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 26,109 - Reviews: 43 - Favs: 70 - Follows: 92 - Updated: 4/8/2012 - Published: 4/8/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V.
New Game by alden prime reviews
She'd woken up in an unrecognizable galaxy, jammed together from spare parts, a Cerberus logo stamped on her ass. She'd been handed a beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line mockery of her old ship, crewed by beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line terrorists. And either Shepard's sanity had splintered under the stress, or she was now some kind of unkillable demigod. Or both.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 17 - Words: 105,114 - Reviews: 64 - Favs: 162 - Follows: 219 - Updated: 11/7/2017 - Published: 5/4/2016 - Shepard (F), Garrus V., Miranda L.
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