For some unexplicable reason, my reality series have been my most recognized and applauded pieces of work. Some may say that's a bad thing... but the fact that they were so successful opened up the door for my non-reality fics to get more readers. So I guess it all worked out in the end.

Welcome to Reality-Style!

Here you'll find the "Roomies" series, "Mystery Solvers," and my latest, and to this point, still unfinished reality project, "The Animated Amazing Race." There are also a few extras like character profiles and other bonus material you won't find anywhere else!

So sit back and enjoy your trip to reality... you might be here awhile.

Roomies: Back in May 2001, just weeks after joining FF.net, I started this reality fanfic. The first season featured thirty-two characters, all kids or teens, and all from four anime series. They were: Pokémon, Digimon, Cardcaptors, and Tenchi Muyo. It involved two houses, one with all the boys (Pallet Town), one with the girls (Reedington). They had to live together for six weeks and compete in all sorts of challenges to win prize money.

The success of the first season led to the second, and the third. Each new season brought new challenges and numerous rule and cast changes to improve the quality of the show. Adults were brought in to increase age conflicts, and more series were brought into the fold to increase the range of diversity among the casts.

Sadly, each season had a production delay of some sort that made them each run longer than planned. And although a fourth season was in the planning stages at the end of Season 3, lack of time and interest sunk any chance of renewal.

Now, you can enjoy the entire series here! Pull up a chair and relive Roomies!

Season 1: Pallet Town / Reedington (PG)
Special Note for New Readers: Even though the boys' and girls' edition are split and you can read one completely before starting on the other, to get the full experience I'd recommend reading both editions while alternating chapters.

Casting Special

Girls' Edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Boys' Edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Reunion Special

Season 2: Okayama (PG-13)

Casting Special

Country Living: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Extras:
Character Profiles - Meet the cast of Season Two!
Season 2 Preview - The original preview for 'Country Living!'
Love Diaries Skit (Brown Team) Love Diaries Skit (Green Team) - The skits of the 'Love Diaries' challenge from Episode 11, in full!
Prologue to 'Anime Survivor 4' Crossover - The cast of 'Roomies 2' dropped in for a challenge in Survivor Globie's 'Anime Survivor 4.' This is how they got there.

Reunion Special

Season 3: Digital World [Frontier version] (PG-13)

Casting Special

Digital Frontier: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Extras:
Character Profiles - Meet the cast of Season Three!
Uncut 1 (Ep 1-5) Uncut 2 (Ep 6-9) Uncut 3 (Ep 10-13) Uncut 4 (Ep 14-18) - Scenes that didn't make the original episodes of this season!

Reunion Special

Mystery Solvers: Eager to be the first to write a decent reality fanfic that had characters from both Japanese anime and American cartoons, I penned this series in November of 2002. This mix of hit reality shows "The Mole" and "Murder in Small Town X" was designed to put 30 characters (10 detectives and 20 'suspects') from both worlds in the middle of a mystery game. I also invited readers to join in solving the case, though the fun kinda went out of it when I realized my system was flawed.

Still, the show ended with a satisfying ending... one enough that a sequel is currently in production after a five-year hiatus!

If you've read the original before, relive the magic! If you haven't, feel free to download the quizzes and see if you crack the case before the gumshoes do! And stay tuned for Season 2!

Season 1 (PG-13)

Introduction (aka Episode 0)

Episodes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Extras:
Detective Profiles - Meet the cast of MS!
Players List - Meet the would-be suspects of MS!
Mystery Solvers Quizzes - Participate with the detectives and try to crack the case!
Mystery Solvers Answer Sheets - Check your answers to the above quizzes! Don't go and cheat, though.

Reunion Special

Season 2 (PG-13)
Click here to go to this season's main page.

The Animated Amazing Race: Trying to cash in on what is currently the greatest reality show, content-wise, on TV right now, "The Amazing Race," I started this work in May of 2003. Since there was already a port for anime teams, I decided to go with American cartoon teams in this edition.

If you're thinking of writing an "Amazing Race" fanfic of your own, I've got one word for you. Don't. I actually tried to use real-world locations that I've never actually been to myself. And it doesn't help that cities I've used for this fanfic have been done in the actual show (regardless of it was before or after I started writing this) and the challenges were much better. It takes a lot of time and effort to put this together... and it's by far the most difficult fanfic I've ever written.

Despite that, there are still fans out there, and for you, the series is here for your enjoyment! Hopefully I'll finish this one day, but for now, stick with the episodes we have, okay?

The Animated Amazing Race (PG-13)

Episodes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Extras:
Character Profiles - Meet the cast of AAR!
Race Log - Need a brief blurb on what's happened so far? Look here!

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