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''[[Drunkard's Walk]] [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw2.shtml
* Recommended by Bluemage, [[User:robkelk|robkelk]]
* ''Synopsis'': A professional metahuman crimefighter (read: "superhero") was thrown from his world while fighting evil, and now seeks to return home. His first attempt lands him in MegaTokyo, a few years after the end of the series. While trying to find a way to move on, he clashes with the Knight Sabers, fights rogue buma, befriends a perky young news reporter, and stumbles upon one of the darkest secrets of GENOM. Part of the greater ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' metaseries.
* ''Comments'': Part of a multi-book series currently under development, this fic blends aspects of self-insert and crossover. The main character, Doug Sangnoir (aka [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]]), was the author's favorite character in a ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' campaign. Doug's character is deep, unique, and fun to observe: he makes mistakes (and is not a Sue by any means), has a well-developed backstory, and tends to make fairly obscure pop-culture references. The character fits in well, stylistically, with the BGC world: Doug's talent is that listening to different songs gives him different superpowers, from creating a camera out of thin air to firing lightning bolts. As such, the "soundtrack" of this fic is appropriately broad and varied. (And would fill three CDs if you were to compile it.) Highly recommended for the top-notch writing, pop-culture connections, deep characters, and sheer fun of reading it.
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* ''Synopsis'' (from the ''[http://www.ravensgarage.com/bgcfanfic_guide/bgc.html Bubblegum Crisis Fan Fiction Guide]''): Not all boomers have to look human, and not all boomers are made by Genom. Someone has made a new boomer and appears to be testing it in [[Megatokyo]]. And who could be better test subjects than the AD Police and the Knight Sabers.
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* ''Synopsis'': Set between OAVs 4 and 5, the death of Daley's former partner on the Genaros space station sends the Knight Sabers from Antarctica to Singapore in pursuit of a duplicated [[Kill Sat]] controller.
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* ''Comments'': A different future for the Knight Sabers. Notable for its good characterizations, and intelligent plot. It's character driven, not being all about explosions and death, and the final act of revenge itself only takes up a short part of a fic.
''[https://archives.eyrie.org/anime/BGC/bgc.knight-foils.gz Bubble Gum Cards]'' (gzip file) by Ryan Mathews
* Recommended by [[User:Robkelk|robkelk]]
* ''Synopsis'': "Mega-Yonkers 2038 : The Story of Knight Foils" - After our heroes are called in to take down a rouge Buma, they realize there's something terribly wrong going on at Genom Electric...
* ''Comments'': Yes, this is a parody. It's one of the earliest parodies of ''BGC'', poking good-natured fun at everything from the plot and body count of the first three OAVs to early fandom's [[Spell My Name with an "S"|inability to spell the lead character's name consistently]]. It's a bit dated, but still a fun read and a necessary corrective to many of the (excellent) darkfics recommended here.
== [[Self-Insert Fic|Self-Insertion]] ==
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''[[The Bubblegum Zone]]'' by Bert van Vliet ([[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]]). ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130521195848/http://bgcrisis.com/ Link])
* Recommended by Dartz-IRL, [[User:Looney Toons]], [[User:robkelk|robkelk]]
* ''Synopsis'': Through forces unknown, a Canadian university student finds himself transported to MegaTokyo in the year 2032. Hooking up with the Knight Sabers, as you do, Bert comes to learn that donning a hardsuit isn't quite what it's cracked up to be... For one thing, you can and will be hurt.
* ''Comments'': ''In Progress'', and has been since 1995. Be prepared to do a lot of reading, later chapters can get over a megabyte in size. At first it came come across as a little [[Marty Stu|Gary Stu]] but as the story gathers pace, especially towards the later half, it really picks itself up by its bootstraps. The story really has its best moments once it gets past the original OVA and starts adding its own material.
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''[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Twisted-Path/twisted-path.3.gz Twisted Path 3: Twisted Path -- Another Bubble Started]'' by Darren "Twister" Steffler (Brief crossover with ''Ranma 1/2'' near the end)
* Recommended by [[User:Looney Toons]]
* ''Synopsis'': Godlike [[Marty Stu]] character enters the ''Bubblegum Crisis'' universe early in the series, and despite some of his powers going wonky as a result of unexplained local conditions, intervenes in the course of the plot with both good and bad results.
* ''Comments:'' Twister is ''the'' defining self-insert character of late-90s anime fanfiction, and is so gleefully over-the-top that either you loathe him with a hatred that burns like the pits of hell, or you hang on for the ride laughing all the way. The ''BGC'' installment of ''[[Twisted Path]]'' hits almost all the usual cliches of an SI in that world except for joining the Knight Sabers right away—it is probably the [[Trope Codifier]], if not the [[Trope Maker]], for ''BGC'' self-inserts. Despite Twister's barely-average writing skill, it is surprisingly entertaining and throws more than a few [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] at the reader. It is also important as a fanfic, in that it had a direct influence on several later insert and insert-styled fics: ''A Wolf In Crisis'' includes explicit [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to it, the ''BGC'' segment of ''[[Legion's Quest]]'' takes place in the ''BGC'' timeline that Twister visited, and the fourth installment of ''TP'' explicitly crosses over with ''[[The Bubblegum Zone]]'' .
''[http://members.optusnet.com.au/bcadwgan/anime/wic.htm A Wolf In Crisis]'' by Barry Cadwgan
* Recommended by [[User:Looney Toons]]
* ''Synopsis:'' A magical accident throws a Wolf shaman from a ''[[Shadowrun]]'' universe into the world of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''. He goes to ground, figures out what happened to him, and begins to adapt... and in the process crosses paths with the Knight Sabers. He joins their fight, though not as a Saber, and his presence causes other changes as well... Could magic be awakening in his new world just as it did in his old one?
* ''Comments:'' A [[Dead Fic]], incomplete and untouched since 1997, although scene fragments at the end of the third part suggest where Cadwgan was planning on taking it. Cadwgan deftly avoids many of the cliches of the ''BGC'' insert character while exploring new (for the time) territory in his plot. Fenris, the shaman, is an intriguing, complicated character whose very realistic reactions and responses to the world he's in take this story completely out of insert territory and into something else entirely. Angua, his familiar, was a fan favorite while Cadwgan was still writing, and can still charm a first-time reader. Be warned, though, that Cadwgan is Australian, and his "Seattlite" shadowrunners fling Aussie slang around as often as they do ''Shadowrun'' jargon; the effect is both amusing and distracting.
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''[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/BGC/Lemon/bgc.lemon.bubblegum-pink.raging-fires.gz Bubblegum Pink: Raging Fires]'' (gzip file) by Kris Overstreet and Larry Mann (Warning: [[Lemon]]. Oh man, is it lemon.)
* Recommended by [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]], Dartz-IRL, [[User:robkelk|robkelk]]
* ''Pairing(s):'' Everybody/Everybody
* ''Synopsis:'' "There it is! Smut, pure and simple, straight from the 8th dimension by way of Planet Ten!" Ahem. When Mackie's nanophage-modified nervous system triggers an uncontrollable hormonal overdrive, Sylia knows from her own experience that his rampaging libido must be sated or he will die.
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* Recommended by Op Megs, antagonist
* ''Pairing(s)'': Priss/Sylia
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