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* ''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
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* ''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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