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There are two kinds of Elsewhere Fic.
The first is clearly inspired by the canon, but happens entirely elsewhere. It contains none of the canon events or characters and often none of the locations; only Original Characters playing by the Verse's rules. So, there's very little chance of damaging continuity or having canon characters act Out Of Character. So no Kirks, no Mulders, no Harry Potters... just original characters. Thus you might have (say) a Buffy fic dealing with a Slayer in Ancient Egypt or a Star Wars fic about a Wookiee Jedi in the Old Republic.
The second type takes place somewhat closer to canon. With a canon location, there will be canon characters doing canon things. They may appear in cameos and small roles, but the real story revolves around one or more Original Characters. Writers new to the Elsewhere Fic may turn this into a self-insert fic, with the canon characters existing only to heap praise on the OC, but better examples have the canon characters around only to give the OC their next mission, or to emphasise the universe the fic is set in, sitting around in bars and talking about their missions.
The result is something a bit like the relationship between the various Star Trek series: set in the same universe but telling a different story. Thematic Series lend themselves well to this (the rules are general enough to be portable with new characters and/or settings yet strong enough to recognize the brand from the rules alone). An Expanded Universe typically includes professional examples of this.
Compare with the P.O.V. Sequel or Spin-Off, which can be an official equivalent of the second type of Elsewhere Fic.
Contrast with Transplanted Character Fic, which supposedly does focus on canon characters, but drops almost everything canon about them. It is important to realize that in order to qualify as an Elsewhere Fic, as opposed to an Original Work with Cameos or a Transplant, the rules of the Verse (as of when the fanwork was written) must be obeyed. As such, fics that have the premise of, e.g.: "George Costanza is on a Pokémon Journey" would be considered, e.g., a Transplant from the POV of Seinfeld but potentially also an Elsewhere from the POV of Pokémon; and, therefore, a type of Fusion Fic.
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Angel's Breath, a Fairy Tail fic. It contains a completely original guild during the time that most of the Fairy Tail guild are frozen in time, although it is in a boat where it can progress past the point canon resumes and converge.
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The Gate and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. crossover fic From Exclusion to Fantastic Zones avoids the fandom cliche of having the gate at Alnus hill connect to another world. Instead, a smaller secondary gate connects The Zone to a region of the Empire that's quite far from Alnus, which allows for the stalkers' excursions to happen at roughly the same time as the JSDF's campaign. No canon characters from Gate has appeared thus far, but some have been alluded to.
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The Alexandra Quick series takes place in the Harry Potter universe, but is set in America more than a decade after the fall of Voldemort. Apart from a brief mention of Voldemort in the first story, none of the canon characters are so much as alluded to — though SPEW, surprisingly enough, plays a slightly more important role, as it has spread to America (with the slightly changed acronym, ASPEW) and house-elves are vital to the series.
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Due to legal restrictions dealing with actor likenesses and Cryptic's policies about in game NPCs (No-go to avoid confusion with official storylines), this is often what player-created missions in Star Trek Online end up as. You can talk about things that happen and refer to events or people, but no established characters are allowed to appear in missions.
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The Gift (BMeph) is almost not even the first type of this for Quantum Leap, except it does (will?) mention the main OC tutoring a pre-teen genius with the last name of Beckett. Well, that and the whole premise aside from the Gender Bender stuff.
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Also a common type of Digimon fic, in no small part thanks to the franchise's canon being made up of alternate universes and continuity reboots, with only the concept of the Digimon themselves to link them.
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The Basalt City Chronicles (a fanfic of Gene Catlow) is of the second type, but much of it also takes place in the comic's original setting.
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Battletech: As with the examples in Literature above, the events of the game's storyline are largely disconnected from the canon timeline. The setting is a tiny Periphery nation sandwiched between the Magistocracy of Canopus and the Taurian Concordat, who are considered minor regional powers in the canon sourcebooks but in this context are very much Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond. Averted in subsequent DLCs that add "flashpoint" mini-campaigns, some of which feature appearances by major characters like Natasha Kerensky or Morgan Kell.
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In the Titanic (1997) fanfiction Come What May, the main characters are two girls who board the ship and fall in love with two of the Titanic's real officers, with characters and scenes from the movie appearing occasionally. There are a number of Titanic fanfics that work along these lines: sometimes the movie characters only make cameos, or sometimes a secondary character is the OC's love interest.
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Better Off Not Knowing is concurrent with the finale of Book 3 of The Legend of Korra...but it's set in the Fire Nation, and no canon characters appear in person.
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The fanfic Fallout: Equestria is notable in that it managed to spawn its own universe, with other authors building on its foundation and using many of its original concepts. While the story (and the sequels) are set two centuries later and focus on the OC protagonists, the original Mane six are not only notable historical figures whose actions were largely responsible for the current postapocalyptic state of Equestria, but actually have a clear and strong impact on the lives and motivations of the heroes, despite being generally very dead.
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The Story Shuffle series of anthologies have chapters entirely with only Original Characters. For example:
The first anthology, Story Shuffle, with "In the Details".
The second anthology, Story Shuffle, with "Last Spark".
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Half Past Adventure is an Adventure Time fanfic set 30 years after the finale that follows original characters, although many major canon characters have had minor roles so far (and one is the main character's adoptive parent).
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Downplayed with Blind Courage. The main characters are technically the canonical characters, and Ganondorf does have Past-Life Memories, however they're not based on any canon reincarnations of them. This allows for wiggle room without being an Alternate Universe Fic.
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Paranormalities takes place in the five-year gap between the end of The New Jedi Order (although the prologue takes place shortly before the beginning of that series) and The Dark Nest Trilogy. However, it features a mostly OC cast while the few canon characters present (or mentioned) have minor roles. And it doesn't necessarily require any knowledge of the two book-series it's set between to understand (although there are references to the former and other parts of the Star Wars canon).
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RWBY: SLVR is an animated series based off of RWBY. It stars a new team of Original Characters—Simin, Lycan, Vella, and Ragora—who go by "SLVR".
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The two main books of Luminosity end with the Dawn of an Era under a new vampire government. A number of the side stories in Flashes, as well as much of the Recursive Fanfiction spawned by the series, focus on ordinary people (be they humans, wolves, hybrids, or Friendly Neighborhood Vampires) living in this new era as they coexist with the other species, deal with the complications of all the different forms of magic floating around, or find ways to use their powers to advance society.
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Dangan Ronpa: Legacy of Despair
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Whispers of the Abyss is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fanfic starring original characters in original locations.
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City Living briefly mentions the events of JoJolion, but aside from that focuses entirely on original characters in a new setting.
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Whateley Universe: The fanfic, Ma'at: Is set mainly in Ancient Egypt where no canon story has been about, and has all Original Characters.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian is an Elsewhere Fic set in Palestine in roughly 30 AD in which a certain Jesus son of Joshua makes one very brief cameo appearance in the background. But events in his life are mirrored in that of the more important, but historically obscure, Brian of Nazareth.
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Project Future is made by a collaboration of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures fans and takes place in the same world, but 150 years in the future and only a couple characters from the original comic have appeared, and usually just a panel or two. Granted, there is a lot of in-universe roleplaying on the DMFA forum, which is where most of Project Future's creators met.
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Star Mares uses a similar approach (only with Star Wars instead of Fallout), except that not only are the Mane Six sidelined into secondary roles in the Star Wars storyline, but the main action of the comic largely avoids the films' protagonists in favor of less heroic ponies who enable critical moments in the main plot more or less accidentally.
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Knights of the Old Republic is basically this in video game form.
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Despair's Last Resort
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Otherverse:
Pass is roughly contemporaneous with Pale, as Naomi mentions that one of her relatives ended up getting involved in an event in Canada implied to be when Musser's forces assaulted Kennet during fall 2020, but is otherwise completely self-contained.
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The Resident Evil fanfic The Progenitor Chronicles features 2 protagonists, one of which is an original character who interacts with canon characters - mostly with the other protagonist, Rebecca Chambers. While he references and reacts to the various canon events in the series, those events serve mostly as backdrops. A prime example is the finale of Volume I, where he is in Terragrigia during the Terragrigia Panic - a bioterror attack featured in the backstory of Resident Evil: Revelations - but doesn't meet any canon characters during his stay. It's just him and his friends doing their best to survive and escape the city while it's under attack by Hunters.
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Enemy of My Enemy does not feature any of the original Halo characters or settings, instead focusing on several Original Characters, both human and Sangheili as they struggle to defend the colony of Crassus against a Covenant Loyalist attack force.
Its sequel Halo: Chimera Rising also features a completely original cast and setting.
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Apprentice and Pregnant takes place in the four Clans but doesn't feature any canonical characters.
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Warriors: The Days The Clans Died begins post-series with a new cast of cats.
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The Ollivander Children features very few of the original Harry Potter characters, mostly Tonks, Mr. Ollivander (natch), and Dolores Umbridge.
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Pass is roughly contemporaneous with Pale, as Naomi mentions that one of her relatives ended up getting involved in an event in Canada implied to be when Musser's forces assaulted Kennet during fall 2020, but is otherwise completely self-contained.
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Into the Wild is an Avatar fanfic roughly set during Jake's training with the Na'vi. It primarily follows two OCs as they travel through Pandora and develop their characters. A few canon characters get cameos, but they don't affect the story much. It even goes for Doomed by Canon with gusto. It's a bit like that.
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The Lighted Stage is almost entirely divorced from the main series canon, only borrowing the concept of Stands and some naming conventions.
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Many fics set in The Crow's setting will have an original character resurrected by the title bird to seek vengeance for their loved ones, keeping with the original graphic novels' premise of doing the same.
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Fallout: Sonora is effectively this: a total conversion of Fallout 2 that takes place around the Sonora desert (mostly in Arizona) six years after the first Fallout. None of the characters are canon, though several groups are and The Master is referenced, and while some of the locations are canon, they're canon of the "mentioned as existing" variety rather than "shown". The events are only canon in the sense that they are written such that whatever the outcome they can plausibly end up leading to what Fallout: New Vegas describes about a century down the line.
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Harry Potter examples:
Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown, the very first Potter fanfic posted on FanFiction.Net back in 1999, is the second type. It's set almost entirely at another Wizarding School with its own faculty and students, but the canon characters pop up occasionally and an extended sequence towards the end takes place at Hogwarts. Harry himself is The Ghost in that the story pretty much revolves around him, but he just barely makes an actual appearance.
Conspiracy Theory, set in the Harry Potter universe, proposes a Grand Unified Theory of everything weird that happened in mid-20th-century America.
Hogwarts 1835 is a Harry Potter Fic taking place in, wouldn't you know it, 1835. With none of the canon characters, it focuses on the lives of 'normal' Hogwarts students.
The Ollivander Children features very few of the original Harry Potter characters, mostly Tonks, Mr. Ollivander (natch), and Dolores Umbridge.
The Alexandra Quick series takes place in the Harry Potter universe, but is set in America more than a decade after the fall of Voldemort. Apart from a brief mention of Voldemort in the first story, none of the canon characters are so much as alluded to — though SPEW, surprisingly enough, plays a slightly more important role, as it has spread to America (with the slightly changed acronym, ASPEW) and house-elves are vital to the series.
The Anguis Series is set in Hogwarts around the same time as the Canon period, but follows a group of Slytherin students who are 1 year ahead of Harry. Some of Harry's exploits are mentioned in passing, and one of the main characters become Prefect alongside Ron and Hermione, but otherwise, the characters have their own lives that don't really involve the Canon characters.
Here's a curious case of this that is also a crossover (with Cardcaptor Sakura): Sakura and the Scottish School of Magic as well as its sequel Sakura and the Whirlwind of Discovery. It manages to fit smoothly into canon without contradicting it—at least until Rowling revealed details on Pottermore that contradicted what the fic had already written. Unfortunately, the author’s self-imposed rule that the story could not be an AU forced it into a "Shaggy Dog" Story, since Sakura not only has to return to Japan in time for the Clear Cards arc, but she can’t be at Hogwarts when shit hits the fan or else her and Syaoran’s presences would cause too many divergences. This means that she doesn’t even accomplish what she went to Britain to do in the first place, namely, develop a better understanding of magic.
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The Servants of Ungoliant, an Elsewhere Fic based on The Silmarillion, is set in the same world and time period as the original story. However, it occurs in the unused continent known as the Dark Land, rather than in the familiar lands of Middle-earth or Beleriand. In addition to this, only a few canon characters appear or are mentioned in the story, while the others are Canon Foreigners, Original Characters, or a mixture of the two. This story also recycles and utilizes various unused elements that were featured in The History of Middle-earth and various licensed Tolkien-related works.
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Brazillian fanfic The Guardian (O Guardião) is a type I, based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. It has currently almost nothing to do with the actual show, aside from a few mentions to the Avatar himself and bending.
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Other than Riker, Troi, and Tuvok in high positions,note And Melora, who previously appeared in an eponymous Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode. Star Trek: Titan does this as well.
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The Legend of Zelda:
Downplayed with Blind Courage. The main characters are technically the canonical characters, and Ganondorf does have Past-Life Memories, however they're not based on any canon reincarnations of them. This allows for wiggle room without being an Alternate Universe Fic.
Lost In Termina and Shadows Over Termina are set in Termina 50 years after the events of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. While it looks like a Spin-Offspring fic showing the descendants of various Terminans, the main protagonists are a pair of Deku Scrubs that are not related to any of the canon characters. However, Jace's lineage has a past history with Majora's Mask, and their backstory is closely connected with the fall of the Ikana civilization.
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X-Men has "Tales of the Common People" fics which involve non-superheroes in the world of mutants.
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Silence of the Hare for Kung Fu Panda involves a team of OC's having their own adventures entirely separate from canon.
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Orion's Story is a Thundercats 1985 fanfic in which the protagonist is a Thunderian boy who is captured by Mutants and taken to the planet Plundarr, where he is sold into slavery. Pretty much every character featured is an Original Character, though Lion-O's father, Claudus (who's in two episodes of the cartoon) does put in an appearance towards the end.
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Graduate Meeting of Mutual Killing
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There is a blog dedicated to the average citizens in Gotham and their everyday lives, sometimes interacting with the Batman family or their many rogues.
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The Star Trek franchise:
Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier novels are nearly a pure example of this, except that a few of his characters played minor roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Other than Riker, Troi, and Tuvok in high positions,note And Melora, who previously appeared in an eponymous Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode. Star Trek: Titan does this as well.
In fact, many novel-only spinoff series of Trek are like this. The I.K.S. Gorkon/Klingon Empire series, for example, is a completely new crew other than Klag (Riker's rival in "A Matter of Honor") and Rodek (formerly Kurn, given a new identity in Deep Space Nine's "Sons of Mogh"); and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series is mostly new crew as well.
Due to legal restrictions dealing with actor likenesses and Cryptic's policies about in game NPCs (No-go to avoid confusion with official storylines), this is often what player-created missions in Star Trek Online end up as. You can talk about things that happen and refer to events or people, but no established characters are allowed to appear in missions.
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Red Dead Redemption fanfic Dead West is set in the same universe, but seven years prior to the main game. The cast is almost entirely made up of original characters, though has the same locations and various Continuity Nods to the main game's characters and events.
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Lots of The Lion King fanfic features an entirely OC cast, or canon characters in minor roles only. Stories set many generations before or after the events of the movies are common.
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Danganronpa has a whole genre of fanfics featuring original casts in their own mutual killing games, with or without Monokuma present. Some of the many examples are:
Dangan Ronpa Forever Despair
Dangan Ronpa: Legacy of Despair
Despair's Last Resort
Graduate Meeting of Mutual Killing
The Outcasts Of Hope And The Remnants Of Despair
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This is also popular in the Wings of Fire fandom, possibly due to cross-pollination with Warrior Cats above. Most Wings Of Fire fics are of this sort, and tend to be set in the near (or far) future of the series, involving OCs going on adventures within the world. For the second type of elseworld fic, having OCs be students at Jade Mountain Academy is popular.
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Many World War Z fanfics fall into this category, or at least those which follow the same canon as the book do. Authors follow the basic "interview with a survivor of the Zombie War" format, but with their own characters.
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Animorphs fans are quite fond of stories that focus on a pair of human/Yeerk Original Characters, with the "Andalite bandits" not necessarily needing to interfere with the plot.
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The entirety of BattleTech fiction is basically Elsewhere Fic, even the professional works; it's actually rare for the story to cover something from the tabletop or vice versa. But sometimes, some Elsewheres do Ascend:
The least Elsewhere Fic book of all 40 or 50-odd novels is Grave Covenant; two of its battles were included in The Dragon Roars amid another fifteen scenarios.
Also the Warrior Trilogy by Michael Stackpole, which details the 4th Succession War, which was detailed in a number of sourcebooks.
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Gemini is a Doctor Who fic about a team of time travelers, led by a former Time Agent and including an sentient time ship, who discover a military research facility kidnapping victims for genetic experiments in an attempt at creating Time Lord super-soldiers to fight against the Daleks.
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Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, while featuring Kwamis and Miraculous, features zero characters from the original series and is set over 4,000 miles away in Michigan. Along with being significantly Darker and Edgier and relying on Black Comedy.
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Naruto's setting: Even in canon while there are many ninjas, each one is unique in his or her own way.
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Many My Hero Academia fanfics center around original characters attending an original superhero school, which could be located anywhere from elsewhere in Japan to another country. All Might may be referenced, but that's usually it.
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The Outcasts Of Hope And The Remnants Of Despair
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The Pokémon world: creatures derived from real creatures and/or philosophical concepts, regions that (mostly) resemble regions on earth, a hierarchical league structure that can be easily duplicated (or modified)... Very given to this.
This trope was effectively enforced on the Pokémon fanfic forum at pojo.com around the year 2000. Several prominent forum members (including some of the moderators) objected strongly to fics which starred the canon protagonists on the grounds that they were "unoriginal". It was also claimed that writers could not do justice to someone else's characters. Stories which revolved around an Original Character going on a Pokémon journey came in for similar criticism. As a result, though neither type of story was officially banned, members generally avoided writing them and instead wrote about their own characters in various versions of the Pokémon world, some of which were far removed from canon.
Whispers of the Abyss is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fanfic starring original characters in original locations.
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Pack Street takes place during the Time Skip of Zootopia, featuring ordinary citizens who have to deal with the ramifications of political upheavals like Bellweather becoming mayor.
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Splint takes place in Middle-earth and even features appearances or mentions of canon characters such as Eowyn, Faramir, Aragorn, Saruman and Sauron, but otherwise follows the story of OC's not directly relevant to the main story of The Lord of the Rings — mainly the orcs that served the Dark Lord or Saruman, and the ordinary humans who fought in the War of the Ring. It also occasionally references people and events from Tolkien's other Middle-earth-based works such as The Silmarillion.
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Agents Acquired, part of the Twice Upon an Age series of Dragon Age: Inquisition stories, is the second type of Elsewhere Fic; it features canon characters, like Master Dennet and the Blades of Hessarian, and takes place during the events of the game (and first story), but has a completely different focus.
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An Acceptable Arrangement is one of these for Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi. It takes place a couple of decades before canon events and focuses on the Nie parents, who by the time canon rolled around were all dead.
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Due to the way it's structured, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has a lot of these, often called "fanparts."
City Living briefly mentions the events of JoJolion, but aside from that focuses entirely on original characters in a new setting.
Iron Touch combines this with a Kid Fic, focusing on the daughter of a major character from the series, but otherwise fits the bill.
The Lighted Stage is almost entirely divorced from the main series canon, only borrowing the concept of Stands and some naming conventions.
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The vast majority of Gundam Build Fighters fics use original characters with the author's own personal dream machines. To be honest, the setting practically begs for it.
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A Rose And A Thorn 4 by Harley Quinn hyenaholic is an example of the second type of Elsewhere Fic. There are Canon Characters doing canon things, and it's set slap bang in the middle of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe (or at least, 50 years before the events of Sonic Adventure 2)... but the real story revolves around two Original Characters.
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A Year To Fill An Empty Home revolves around the parents of Akira Kurusu/Joker and takes place completely in Akira's hometown, with the only look into Tokyo's goings-on and the events in canon Persona 5 being news reports. The Phantom Thieves don't even show up until the last few scenes.
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Side Story of Support starts out as one of Redo of Healer, focusing on a separate group of much more "heroic" heroes who had all been overlooked by the kingdom in some fashion. However, the latter half of the first chapter evolves it into an Alternate Universe Fic, as Vega ends up being the one to purchase Setsuna as he encounters her while looking for information on a group of bandits lead by another rogue Hero.
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Fanmade seasons of Super Sentai/Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, and the like are also rather common, since as with Pretty Cure, every new season has its own continuity. For example: Power Rangers Take Flight, an Elsewhere Fic adaption of Choujin Sentai Jetman.
Doubly so for Kamen Rider, as most of the seasons have it so that anyone can just pick up the belt (barring any requirements like being a monster or having some sort of power) and thus the common idea would be to merge one Kamen Rider show with another show and then throw some original characters into the mix and have them don the belts.
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Similar to the BattleTech example, pretty much all fiction set in the Warhammer 40,000 'verse, professionally published or not, falls into this category.
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Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown, the very first Potter fanfic posted on FanFiction.Net back in 1999, is the second type. It's set almost entirely at another Wizarding School with its own faculty and students, but the canon characters pop up occasionally and an extended sequence towards the end takes place at Hogwarts. Harry himself is The Ghost in that the story pretty much revolves around him, but he just barely makes an actual appearance.
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Warriors of the World is a type two variant for Ragnarok Online in that it features original characters in canon locations and meeting various canon NPCs and characters along the way. The main feature is that the canon locations and characters are part of an expanded lore that was generated from a "what if this world was more realistic?" situation.
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Elsewhere Fics of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are very common. Much of the world so far is unexplored or unexplained, and while many fics usually include Canon characters, ones that don't take advantage of this openness.
The fanfic Fallout: Equestria is notable in that it managed to spawn its own universe, with other authors building on its foundation and using many of its original concepts. While the story (and the sequels) are set two centuries later and focus on the OC protagonists, the original Mane six are not only notable historical figures whose actions were largely responsible for the current postapocalyptic state of Equestria, but actually have a clear and strong impact on the lives and motivations of the heroes, despite being generally very dead.
Star Mares uses a similar approach (only with Star Wars instead of Fallout), except that not only are the Mane Six sidelined into secondary roles in the Star Wars storyline, but the main action of the comic largely avoids the films' protagonists in favor of less heroic ponies who enable critical moments in the main plot more or less accidentally.
On a less epic scale, there are also a lot of fics that are set within the show's canon, but deal primarily with background characters. An example is Lyra's Lousy Day, which deals with the experiences of a popular background pony during the events of "Swarm of the Century".
Welcome Reality + Equestria takes place in New Canterlot 1808 years after season one, which, understandably, is a very different world.
The Story Shuffle series of anthologies have chapters entirely with only Original Characters. For example:
The first anthology, Story Shuffle, with "In the Details".
The second anthology, Story Shuffle, with "Last Spark".
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Doctor Who:
The series first used this trope as early as 1965. "Mission to the Unknown" (a teaser episode for "The Daleks' Master Plan") features none of the regular characters, the protagonist being a Space Security agent who learns of the Daleks' invasion plans and tries (unsuccessfully) to alert the Earth authorities.
The show used this trope a couple of times during the Russell T. Davies era, filming an episode each series where the main cast had little more than Continuity Cameo roles in order to fit shooting fourteen episodes into a production schedule designed for thirteen. The first, "Love & Monsters", is essentially an Affectionate Parody of Doctor Who fandom, focusing on a group of people who bond over their past encounters with the Doctor and the dark turn their friendship takes when their group is taken over by an alien that absorbs humans. The second, "Blink", involved a photographer being sent cryptic messages in the present day from the Doctor (and later, her own friend) who were trapped in the past thanks to the Weeping Angels.
Big Finish is the ... wait for it... Master of this trope, as along with their Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas, they also have a LOAD of dramas concerning other parts of the 'verse. BF actually started out this way, as Virgin Publishing first entrusted them with the Bernice Summerfield series (itself mostly an Elsewhere Fic series based on a novel-only companion of the Doctor).
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The second anthology, Story Shuffle, with "Last Spark".
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Many Strike Witches doujinshi, such as "Witch in Africa" (considered to be "semi-canonical") involves Alternate History equivalents to other World War II campaigns in that setting, such as Northern Africa and the Suez Canal.
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The No More Heroes fic Bloody Way is of the type two variety, as it takes place in Santa Destroy, the setting of the first two games. Most of the characters and assassins are original, but the author has said that the original characters will make appearances.
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Its sequel Halo: Chimera Rising also features a completely original cast and setting.
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Similar to the Battle Royale example, a lot of The Hunger Games fan fiction is this. We are told from the beginning that the basic premise (24 teenagers forced by a cruel government into a Deadly Game each year, with only one victor allowed to survive) has been going on for 73 years before the main characters really enter the story, so there is plenty of room for fan fiction. A less common type II variant involves a canon character as a mentor in the Games, trying to keep an original character tribute alive.
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Sburb Patch Notes is a type II of Homestuck solely due to its use of Andrew Hussie as the CEO of Skaianet Laboratories. As Skaianet Laboratories was never really expanded upon in Homestuck proper, it has become a small ball of fanon.
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Popular in Warrior Cats fanfiction, with stories being set either before or after the established canon but in the same universe; also, fics in the same style in different locations, like America:
Apprentice and Pregnant takes place in the four Clans but doesn't feature any canonical characters.
Warriors: The Days The Clans Died begins post-series with a new cast of cats.
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Another non-fanfic example: The Buffy the Vampire Slayer tabletop roleplaying game offers a number of these settings for original characters to play around in, including the modern-day American northwest, a post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk setting and a vampire-infested old west.
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It's more common for writers to create fanmade Pretty Cure continuities with their own characters, setting, and premise than it is to write fanfic based on the established seasons. The canon, what with its constant continuity reboots, lends itself well to this.
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Boy Scouts ½ (readable here) is set in the same universe as Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½, but follows an entirely original group of characters who are Boy Scouts living in Massachusetts, some of whom are a group of Self Inserted Marty Stu characters who have curses from the same training ground of cursed springs that some of the Ranma ½ characters had once visited. There are brief occasional appearances by Ranma ½ characters, most notably a Running Gag of brief appearances by a very lost Ryoga. There is more potential for characters from the original work to make appearances in the second year (story-wise) of the series, which has been retitled Boy Scouts ½ in Japan (and also throws Maison Ikkoku into the mix), but Word of God says that there will still be no appearances by either Saotomes or Tendos.
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Most Battle Royale fanfiction tends to be the first type, ignoring everything but the base premise - young people killing each other in an isolated location with a variety of weapons over a short time period. Besides some version of the explosive collars and danger zones, absolutely everything else, including the specific rules of the Program, are alterable by the writer. Also, the setting is likely to be changed from an alternate version of Japan to an alternate version of the author's own country of origin. That said, the original characters/plotlines are considered archetypal. Survival of the Fittest and 72 Hours are examples of this.
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Iron Touch combines this with a Kid Fic, focusing on the daughter of a major character from the series, but otherwise fits the bill.
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Five Nights at Candy's takes place in the same universe than the game it was inspired, Five Nights at Freddy's, the events of the original games are briefly mentioned in the first installment but none of the characters appears in the fangame.
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Welcome Reality + Equestria takes place in New Canterlot 1808 years after season one, which, understandably, is a very different world.
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The Kingdom Hearts fic Filtered Light follows Sora's mother (who never appears and has one line in the original Kingdom Hearts) and Selphie on their own adventure, after they escape from the invasion of the Destiny Islands by the Heartless, in a home-built Gummi Ship.
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The Assassin's Creed series is so rife for these kinds of stories that it was only a matter of time before it got its own community on Fanfiction. This includes Assassin's Creed: Rising Sun, which is mostly set in Japan during the Boshin War and has only featured one canon character thus far.
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