Amazing Worldbuilding Fics
Fics that make me feel like I'm in the world with the characters and/or just really good fics that have very in-depth world building
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Haruno Sakura made a promise. Looking in the eyes of her Shisou and the reanimated Hokage, she took on the most important mission of her life.
Go back in time and try to prevent the 4th Shinobi War.
Now, Sakura is back to her 5-year-old body, with all the knowledge and haunting memories of the future. She vows to keep her precious people safe and stop certain events from happening, without altering the timeline too much. The trials her emotions and logic put her through have her questioning her very existence, but for the sake of peace, she has to push forward. No matter what.
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"Sakura couldn’t discern anything in particular when they entered her neighborhood, but it was only then when she opened her eyes. Everything was too familiar — a part of herself. Something that she had lost before the war and found again two years ago. It was almost impossible to keep her eyes from watering at the realization, and when she sensed the love and anticipation oozing from her house, packed to the brim with friends and loved ones, she didn’t even try to hide her tears.
...I’m just really grateful, you know?”...“When I came back, I was drowning. Then I met Shisui, and he jumped in that wild ocean with me, to help me swim along, but a lot of the time, it just felt like we were drowning together and could barely keep each other above water, these past two years. But I am truly so grateful that he chose to brave the tide with me, and that I was and am still here, even if I am here without him."
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"“Thank you,” she breathed ...“I didn’t think you’d come. Or be willing to talk to me ever again, for that matter.”
Itachi nodded and leaned his back on the counter. “I didn't want to, at first. But you came to the hospital and stayed with me for hours, even when I refused to even look at you. If anything, I know that there is one thing that neither you nor Shisui ever lied about.” A small smile cracked on his lips when he saw her inquiring look. “You care. You love. Even when I was your enemy in your past life, genuinely or not, you chose to take a chance on me, chose to love me and my family despite never having known them or had any ties outside of Sasuke to them before. You spared me from a fate I can't even think about without shaking. My sister exists because of you. And I know for a fact that Shisui's love is just as boundless, if his self-imposed exile for the sake of saving my life and the world we live in is any indication.”
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"...you would have placed yourself under one of your own genjutsu to artificially compel yourself, because you wouldn't have been able to bear being in control of your own body and mind whilst committing such an act."
Shisui... didn't deny it. He didn't say anything, in words or chakra. And yet his silence screamed into Sakura's gaping heart. Itachi reached for his older brother, then, and cupped his face with both his hands, like Shisui was the water he was named for and Itachi a desert-bound captive.
"This... calling of martyrdom that grips your entire life with an unyielding fist, this obsession with sacrificing yourself before anyone else can do so in your stead... I have always hated it so strongly and understood it so unfailingly. It's your greatest scar from the War, isn't it? More so even than your eyes or the death of the friend who gave you them. You had to maim and kill and lost a part of your soul to the violence that ravaged your young life, at eight years old, and it's been a leash around your neck ever since. One that you think you deserve because of the lives you have taken, so much so that you've fallen into the suicidal habit of tightening the collar and yanking the chain of your own volition," he ran his thumbs across Shisui's cheeks, as though he was brushing away invisible tears. Shisui wasn't breathing.
"But regardless of the damage that is already done, the crux of the matter is that the notion that feeds your spirit this poison simply isn't true, and never was. Even in the years to come, it never will be. And if you ever doubt that and need proof to the contrary, proof you are deserving of not throwing your life away because you can and do bring goodness to the lives of others," Itachi's fingers left Shisui's face, and he grabbed and held Shisui's trembling wrists fiercely, causing him to squeeze the seal paper until it rustled like dancing leaves, "here it is, made real by your own hands." "
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"This is what your life should have been. This is who you are in your heart of hearts, Uchiha Shisui. Protector, healer, maker, someone who wants to help by way of good deeds and has been barred from doing so by the world he wants to make better.
Curse Kaguya and her foolish sons, Zetsu and Madara and Obito and Nagato and everyone who ever had a hand in taking this away from you. And curse me if I don't do everything in my power, old and new, to return the chance at such a life to you, at the end of all things.
You will come home and get to heal and make again, make many things far greater than what you have shown me today, and I will make my own discoveries beside you, and we will spread them both across the nations, and walk that path towards world peace together. I don't promise that. I swear it."
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" "Oh," ... "So, I'm your muse?"
"No," Shisui said, and he sounded, and felt, and was unfalteringly sincere, from the depths of his soul to the light in his eyes, "You're my hero." "
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Crime in Crystals by Aard_Rinn
Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, Transformers: Prime
25 Dec 2020
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Misaligned Gemini by Anonymous
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, Transformers (IDW 2019)
02 Dec 2022
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For Sideswipe, finding out he has a brother was one thing. Finding out said brother is his split-spark twin was another. Finding out that said split-spark twin was forged before the War of the Threefold Spark while Sideswipe wasn’t due to stigmas against split-sparks, which left Sideswipe’s spark locked away for megacycles while Sunstreaker fought in a war…? Yeah, Sideswipe has some feelings about that and would like to share them with someone, thanks. Unfortunately, Sunstreaker doesn’t seem interested in getting to know his younger twin brother.
Or: Sideswipe meets Sunstreaker, the twin he never knew he had but who he should have been with their whole lives. It goes about as well as he expected and worse than he’d secretly hoped.
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31 Jan 2022
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Really interesting concept + great characterizations & character interactions
I love how sunny & sides are written.I really love this fic, The prose and plot are amazing and engaging, it's often dark and it hurts to read sometimes but it's just so so well written, every chapter left me on the edge of my seat excited for more.
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Linguistic Ambiguities in Vulcan Ethical Codes by elumish
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
07 Jun 2017
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The thing people always forget is that it was a Vulcan ship that reached Tarsus IV first.
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Nor Is He Early by ObliqueVion
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
26 Aug 2025
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A Prime is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to… give or take that one small paracausal nudge.
Or, that time the Matrix got impatient and stole a truck...
It's only going to get more and more hazardous to binge all of this:
✔️ Optimus Prime being iconically wholesome
✔️ Cybertron being an exotic mechanical wonderland
✔️ Mystery, adventure, and intrigue
✔️ Not so much a slow burn as a long fuse
❌ Civil warSeries
- Part 1 of Nor is He Early and Adjacent Stories
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I love watching Optimus learn to navigate his new position in the world and seeing the people around him learn to navigate with him and how he's doing things in contrast to how the primes of the past acted. The character interactions and plot are great.