Fanfic Recommendations Go Hawaiian

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Shattered Chains of Fate by Lore55 is a Fate/Grand Order and Bleach fusion, which spends parts of each chapter flashing back to Ichigohaving taken the player's role in FGO and the present in earlyish Bleach - the first arc is mostly glossed over as being roughjly the same as canon except for Ichigo having prior experience with swordplay and battle tactics, but things start to pick up with the Rukia rescue. Unfortunately it hasn't updated since January, where previously it was coming out once or twice a month, which bodes ill for its continued health.

It has some ambiguously implied gay for Ichigo and various FGO characters, and occasional (some recurring) grammar errors or homophone mixups, with the first chapter being noteably worse in that last, so if those will spoil your experience go ahead and give it a miss, but otherwise it's quite engaging for what there is of it, and I've seen fics revive from longer gaps. If nothing else, it's a combination I haven't seen before, and makes use of FGO's alternate timelines to do a thing I won't spoil but which I really, really loved when it was revealed. If you don't mind the spoiler or don't want to read it just for that, there's a spoiler for peace of mind.

Spoiler

During the American Singularity, Ichigo meets a shinigami who gets drawn into the party... who turns out to be Aizen, per-rebellious plots. They have an amazing bromance, with "Kyo" begging Ichigo to find him in the future and at least tell his other self about the journey together if he can't have the memories restored as the alternate timeline collapses and Ichigo's Ray Shift ends, which becomes the driving motivastion for divergences post-rescue. Also the kind of wrench in canon that can stall a fic out for good, unfortunately...

AO3 chapter index link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23759821/navigate