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Just recently had an idea to merge fanfics and original works together... which led to the creation of this abomination, my first work xd.

Check it out if you want, I'd love some feedback, since I, obviously, wanna improve my writing skills :3

 

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The earliest* fanfic I've seen was a book called "Silverlock" from the 1940s - it had the hero (called "Silverlock" because of a silver streak in his hair) wandering through "The Commonwealth" - a realm that contained bits of every world the author was familiar with, including characters and locations, depicted in fiction or folklore, from about 1200 CE to 1910 CE. I only caught about 1/3 of the references the first time I read it - the friend who loaned it to me pointed out about half of the other ones and loaned me one of those books as well after I read it.
So fan fiction with an original character is nothing new - and, IMO, is what fanfiction should usually be.

*Unless, as some scholars believe, some of the classic epic tales like Beowulf or the Saga of Gilgamesh were, essentially, fan fiction based on the exploits of a real person or a few different people exaggerated by decades or centuries of oral tradition into one single tale.
 
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The earliest* fanfic I've seen was a book called "Silverlock" from the 1940s - it had the hero (called "Silverlock" because of a silver streak in his hair) wandering through "The Commonwealth" - a realm that contained bits of every world the author was familiar with, including characters and locations, depicted in fiction or folklore, from about 1200 CE to 1910 CE. I only caught about 1/3 of the references the first time I read it - the friend who loaned it to me pointed out about half of the other ones and loaned me one of those books as well after I read it.
So fan fiction with an original character is nothing new - and, IMO, is what fanfiction should usually be.

*Unless, as some scholars believe, some of the classic epic tales like Beowulf or the Saga of Gilgamesh were, essentially, fan fiction based on the exploits of a real person or a few different people exaggerated by decades or centuries of oral tradition into one single tale.
I'm not sure if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, but as far as my knowledge about fanfiction goes, I've never encountered one similar to the one I'm writing. In the story, the mc—Sukuna—is the only 'fanfic-y' element, while all other characters and the world itself are my original creations.
Well, if you have any such works to recommend, I'd love to read them :3

Also, I've dived into webnovels only recently, so I don't have much knowledge of what to do... so I'd like to ask... does the synopsis of this story catch your interest as a reader?

I'd love to hear your thoughts about the chapters as well, but if you don't want to read them, it's still perfectly alright :>
 

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I'm not sure if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, but as far as my knowledge about fanfiction goes, I've never encountered one similar to the one I'm writing. In the story, the mc—Sukuna—is the only 'fanfic-y' element, while all other characters and the world itself are my original creations.
Well, if you have any such works to recommend, I'd love to read them :3
Ah I did mis-understand and thought you were describing the reverse of, well, Silverlock, or the Harold Shea novels (started by L. Sprague DeKamp and continued by others, often as collaborations).
Also, I've dived into webnovels only recently, so I don't have much knowledge of what to do... so I'd like to ask... does the synopsis of this story catch your interest as a reader?

I'd love to hear your thoughts about the chapters as well, but if you don't want to read them, it's still perfectly alright :>
I think I did start to read it, may even have left comments on it, but not sure.
 
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