This fanfic requires a little bit of context before heading into the story, but I'll try to keep it short. This opening blurb isn't technically necessary, but the story assumes you have at least a basic knowledge of what I'm going to explain here, so here's a TL;DR for anyone who doesn't care about the finer context.
TL;DR:
This story is written in the second person present tense. The MC is a half-Native American, half-Italian high schooler who goes to Arcadia High named James "Jay" Paggliaci and is a fresh trigger in Brockton Bay with the power to create clones of himself. He has arbitrarily decided that he wants to use his powers to become a mercenary, by the cape name of "Legion". His costume is very cheap, consisting of a white dollar-store mask with a smiley face crudely drawn on it, and a regular hoodie and jeans combo. His parents are dead, and he lives with his uncle and little sister. He has an arbitrary limit of approximately 40 clones that can be active at once before his power starts to go funky.
And that's technically all you need to know. Feel free to skip to the next chapter if you don't want to read through any more context.
So for anyone who's interested enough to stay here, this story is a crosspost of a quest that I write on a site called fiction . live. For those of you who don't know, a "quest" is a type of story where the writer allows for audience collaboration by letting them vote on what might happen next at any given time in the story. In this quest, I give my audience the power to choose what actions or attitudes the MC might take at any given time. The fact that this story is a quest is also the main reason why it is written in the second person POV (i.e. "You" and not "He" or "I"), because it's somewhat of a "game" rather than a pure story, where the audience is the MC, rather than just being a spectator to him. If you're interested in finding more quests, I suggest not going to fiction . live unless you are EXTREMELY comfortable with NSFW stuff, as the site is largely unmoderated. Spacebattles and Questionable Questing are better alternatives if that matters to you.
As a part of this quest, it started off with the character generation of Jay Paggliaci. His alignment as a mercenary, age, race, gender, costume, and familial status were all decided by the audience. Not me. The last name of Paggliaci was given to him as a joke, as a large section of the audience wanted Jay to be clown-themed so they could pull off the clowns in a car schtick at some point in the story, but the votes didn't end up swinging that way.
At the time of writing this intro, the story is at a word count of approximately 247k right now, with 10 chapters (almost) being completed. I could divide those chapters into small chunks, but if I'm being honest, I'm definitely way too lazy to go through the effort. I'll be uploading everything I have so far over the course of a couple days, after editing it so the "questlike" sections aren't too jarring to the overall narrative experience.
Unfortunately, I won't be keeping this site very up to date. Unlike regular fanfiction, rather than having whole chapters being released at a time, the writing of quests is often done in small bursts, as the sections of writing between the points where a QM relinquishes a character choice is much shorter than the typical chapter. This means that until I write something that resembles a full "chapter" I won't be uploading it here.
If you want to keep updated on the story, and don't want to frequent the very unmoderated NSFW site that is fiction . live, an alternative is my patron at KorzarkWrites. Don't worry about the mention of the P word. Nothing is hidden behind payment, and everything on that site is and will be available for public viewing. The main purpose for that site is to provide live updates on the quest.