Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-27425734-20170727012225

RayStrikeAbius wrote: Blu3 Fir3 - V2.0 wrote:

I find it odd how you have not heard of Gamer-type Semblances/powers considering how long you claim to have spent on Fanfiction.net. There's like dozens of RWBY Fanfics - mostly centered around Jaune or SIs - that are Gamer fics and there's likely even more in other communities such as Naruto. Having spent so much time on Fanfiction, I quickly developed a radar for bullshit stories. It is via this radar I have somehow managed to avoid the garbage nonsense of which you speak.

Not all of it is garbage, some of them are actually quite good though it takes quite a bit of searching to find those hidden gems. Speaking as someone who is writing such nonsense atm, I can say that it is very hard to stick to the rules of the non-canon content you create in addition to the established rules of the canon in order to ground the story in the fictional universe you're writing about. And of course all while resisting the urges to create your own harem, turn yourself into an overpowered Stu, and/or hook yourself up with your canon waifu.

Not that I've never heard of gamer fics. I knew the power category had been done numerous times, I just didn't know that the specific extent to which I was imagining it was it's own thing in Korea apparently.

True. I didn't know the source material myself until I happened across it on an online manga site a couple months back.