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== Fan Works ==
== Fan Works ==
* Subverted in the ''Symphony of the Sword'' subseries of ''[[Undocumented Features]]'': [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena Tenjou]] and those of her friends from [[Magic Knight Rayearth|Cephiro]] who make it to Midgard are given elaborately detailed and otherwise ''genuine'' identities by Gryphon and MegaZone, who are for all practical purposes the legitimate government of Zeta Cygni.
* Subverted in the ''Symphony of the Sword'' subseries of ''[[Undocumented Features]]'': Gryphon and MegaZone, who are for all practical purposes the legitimate government of Zeta Cygni, give elaborately detailed and otherwise ''genuine'' identities (as survivors of a distant colony world wiped out by pirates) to [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena Tenjou]] and those of her friends from [[Magic Knight Rayearth|Cephiro]] who make it to Midgard.
* Inverted in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' self-insert ''[[Mass Vexations]]''. [[Author Avatar]] Art arrives in the ''ME'' universe, and knows that nobody will believe him if he tells them he literally teleported into the Citadel from an alternate dimension where everything that Art now sees around him was part of a video game. Thus, he makes up a cover story about having taken a ton of stims before smuggling himself onto a ship headed to the Citadel to avoid suspicion. He's not actually a mole for anyone, fortunately.
* Inverted in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' self-insert ''[[Mass Vexations]]''. [[Author Avatar]] Art arrives in the ''ME'' universe, and knows that nobody will believe him if he tells them he literally teleported into the Citadel from an alternate dimension where everything that Art now sees around him was part of a video game. Thus, he makes up a cover story about having taken a ton of stims before smuggling himself onto a ship headed to the Citadel to avoid suspicion. He's not actually a mole for anyone, fortunately.
** Not to mention, it doesn't entirely work- he ends up making both Kaidan and Jacob suspicious of him. Neither works it out, but they don't stop suspecting him, either.
** Not to mention, it doesn't entirely work- he ends up making both Kaidan and Jacob suspicious of him. Neither works it out, but they don't stop suspecting him, either.