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Abandoned My Gilded Life by Skysaber

Discussion in 'Trash Bin' started by Phantor Clockpiece, Jun 10, 2010.

  1. Phantor Clockpiece

    Phantor Clockpiece Squib

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    Title: My Gilded Life
    Author: Skysaber
    Rating: T
    Genre: Parody
    DLP Category: Humor/Parody
    Pairing: Gilderoy/Harem, apparently
    Status: Seemingly Abandoned?
    Summary: "Gilderoy Lockhart. The one person in the books who was there at a pivotal moment and could have made a difference but was utterly unable to. Until Now."
    Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3695419/1/My_Gilded_Life


    I've never seen anybody quite as able to nail tone as Skysaber does in this fic. The whole of it really feels as if it were written by Gilderoy Lockhart, and you soon realize it's told by an unreliable narrator and start reading between the lines. The satirical parallel between Lockhart's "textbooks" and the typical self-insert fic is amusing throughout.

    4.5/5. Very good tone, no major grammatical or spelling trainwrecks, but abandoned.
     
  2. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    I'm wanting to call troll on this one...
     
  3. Vorpal

    Vorpal Third Year

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    Oh, I remember this...

    The protagonist is a self-righteous douchebag that imposes a sense of morality so starkly black-and-white that its complete lack of empathy borders on the psychopathic. I might have enjoyed a 'villain sue' version of this fic a bit more (the protagonist certainly does some horrible things for apparently nothing more than shits and giggles), but not by much, because if you distill the pure essence of everything that makes self-inserts bad, you'd pretty much get this. Up to an including a complete lack of plot: Skysaber simply steamrolls through everyone, healing the sick and punishing those perceived as guilty, without anything even providing a credible challenge, much less a setback. -(6.02×10²³)/5.
     
    Last edited: Jun 10, 2010
  4. Andro

    Andro Master of Death DLP Supporter

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    Why do all the responses to Perfect Lionheart's challenges suck so much?
     
  5. pdo91

    pdo91 Professor DLP Supporter

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    Because the challenger is Perfect Lionhe-

    Oh wait, I see what you did there.
     
  6. Portus

    Portus Heir

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    Avogadro's Number FTW (does this mole look funny to you?)
     
  7. Celestin

    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

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    I'm more surprised by how many responds to them. I saw at least 5 different fic about his Naruto challenge (running Hokage) and they were also quite long.
     
  8. ZeroTheDestroyer

    ZeroTheDestroyer Auror

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    Escape from Hokage's Hat. The Missing Hokage. Senju Naruto. I don't want to list anymore. Perfect LionHeart needs to die.
     
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