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R.O.B. 37

Rule #1: When a Random Omnipotent Being offers you a custom character sheet and a cross-dimensional fast pass—read the fine print. Rule #2: There is no fine print. Only chaos. Blessed, balance-tested, cartoon-fueled chaos. Welcome to the prototype run of The Game. You weren’t meant to be a player. You didn’t get a tutorial. And yet here you are—armed with a half-finished system, a backlog of suppressed media knowledge, and a growing suspicion that the GM is just making it up as they go. (Spoiler: they are.) This isn’t just a story. It’s a template. A Save/Load checkpoint. A cosmic draft folder. It’s where R.O.B. 37—the most dangerously curious of the Random Omnipotent Beings—starts testing out what happens when a wish-fulfillment engine gets smart. And bored. And possibly a little nostalgic. Worlds will be revisited. Tropes will be broken. AUs will be built, explored, then immediately patched. Nothing is sacred. Everything is permitted. (Except for linear plot structure. That died on page one.) --- Disclaimer: Only the main character and the occasional OC are original. The rest? All properties belong to their respective creators. This is fanfiction with a capital F, and fanfiction with a capital F is legally obligated to go completely off the rails by arc three. You’ve been warned. --- Why limit yourself? If "nothing is true, and everything is permitted", is true then why limit yourself? The first few chapters are the template I'm putting in place for Random. Omnipotent. Being. (R.O.B.) 37. He is a true craftsman of wish fulfillment and balanced chaos. From a young age he studied the toons. As he grew his entrance to the litany of written works started early. By the time he finished formal schooling (k-12) he was aware of more media than he could ever truly finish in his life. So many worlds, so many stories. By the time he had reached his early 30's his eyes had seen so many takes on familiar stories and had written on so many posts It's an AU, that he decided to make his own Alternate Universe(s).....
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Ember & Crown

In a kingdom where magic is forbidden and the future is written in stars, destiny has chosen its players—but it never asked them how they felt about it. When young warlock Merlin arrives in Camelot, he expects to hide in the shadows. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with Prince Arthur Pendragon—arrogant, golden, and already raising his sword against a peasant. Merlin should hate him. Instead, he sees a flame that mirrors his own: fierce, dangerous, and impossibly bright. Tasked with protecting Arthur in secret, Merlin becomes the prince’s unlikely manservant and reluctant confidant. But as war looms and court politics grow bloodier by the day, Merlin’s bond with Arthur deepens. What begins as duty transforms into something more—something forbidden. In a world where magic is a death sentence and the throne leaves no room for love, their connection threatens everything: Camelot’s fragile peace, the fate of Albion, and their own hearts. With the prophecy whispering of a prince destined to unite the land and a sorcerer who walks beside him, Merlin must navigate loyalty, secrecy, and desire. Gwen, a loyal ally and one of the few who knows the truth, helps him walk the knife’s edge between two lives. But the closer Arthur and Merlin become, the harder it is to keep the truth buried—and the more dangerous it becomes to let it rise. Ember & Crown is a slow-burn romantic fantasy about the weight of duty, the peril of secrets, and the courage it takes to choose love in a world that forbids it. Ember & Crown is a fanfic based on the show Merlin and the plots are closely similar from the original plot.
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