Competition-Set Fic
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You may be looking for Competition Fic, a genre for fanworks which act as virtual seasons for the show Total Drama.
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Competition-Set Fic are fanfics and fanworks which focus on a competition. Competitions featured in these fanworks vary wildly in premise and scale.
This term is not common for media which feature canonical competitions such as Yuri on Ice, Haikyuu and other sports anime. This term is also not common for fandoms where canon focuses on its cast needing to survive a deadly game such as The Hunger Games, Saw and Danganronpa.
Common Sub-Tropes
The competitions themselves often come from reality TV plots and sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Others, such as dance competitions, are also common.
- Rivalry: Competition-Set Fic often focuses on rivalries between the characters competing and how it connects them emotionally. This rivalry is more often friendly than Enemyslash.
- Slow Burn: Often comes prepacked with rivalry fic.
- Humor: The competition itself may be played for comedy or to create comedic scenes, such as a character unfamiliar with baking having to make a cake.
- Matchmaking: In works where the reward is marriage or otherwise starting a relationship.
Example/Notable Fanworks
- and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood, an English nighthunting competition-set fic for Mo Dao Zu Shi fandom. WangXian.
- 'Till Death Do Us Part by starsbowdown, an English competition-set fic for Hades fandom. Thanatos/Zagreus. The House of Hades is hosting a competition, open to all gods and goddesses, in the hopes of finding Zagreus a worthy spouse.
- Shining Stars and Glistening Ice by firesongwrites97, an English competition-set fic for Hawkeye fandom. Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop. The Olympics bring them together.
- Eight Steps to Victory by Zeplerfer, an English swing dancing competition-set fic for Hetalia: Axis Powers fandom. America/England.
- The Bake Sale by thingcalledlove for greenemerald, an English one-shot school bake sale AU for Good Girls fandom. Beth Boland/Rio.