One Piece - Halfway Broken

Wohoo, I've got a nice, oversized introduction to a new fic for all of you! As in, this first release of it is over 33,000 words! About 25,000 words of that will be going up on Fanfiction.net later today, while the remaining 8k will be exclusive to the Patreon page until such a time as it gets updated (assuming it ever gets voted for). As I'll mention again just for clarity's sake, the reason for this fic existing is because Mass Effect: Final Error will be finishing up this month. Can One Displaced Hero Save the Galaxy? will be replacing Final Error as one of two stories guaranteed monthly updates. Since I want to always have three options in the Monthly Poll, this new fic is entering existence. That means, starting with the poll for next month, Halfway Broken will be one of the poll fics that can be voted for.

Now, on to what this fic actually is! This is a Gamer! One Piece work. That said, it is not a crossover with the actual The Gamer manga (haven't read that, don't care too). It's a purely One Piece work that uses two major premises to completely derail canon. First, that Luffy is replaced by a teenager getting isekied into his body after a training accident with Garp. Second, that said teenager is gifted with a Gamer System to help them along. Some authors notes relevant to the story:

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1) Canon is going to die early and hard. All of you should be aware I don't stick to canon in any of my works. Many canon characters will still be present, many canon events will still happen. They won't happen the way they do in canon, sometimes not even when they normally would. And there will be a lot of other completely original events. There will also be canon events that don't happen.

2) This is not a Self-Insert. I'm in my thirties and frankly have both too broad a personal skill base and too much emotional maturity. The character would end up as an over-powered Gary Stu and 90% of the romance options would be creepy as heck because of the emotional maturity differences. The inserted character is, instead, a fairly generic teenager with only one or two stand out points. The biggest being some low-college-level engineering knowledge that will help him with a few things. Frankly, the only reason I'm using an inserted/isekied character at all is that canon Luffy is too much of a dumbass to actually properly figure out/make use of, a Gamer System. He would just dump all his points into strength and end up being a canon rehash. By the time the actual series starts, the fact the insert character has been inserted will mostly have vanished into the background. 

3) Luffy's gamer system is NOT going to be overly broken. In fact, that's the whole point in the title 'Halfway Broken.' It's going to give him an edge, but he's not going to be utterly OP. He'll have to work hard to get strong, not just wash dishes to level up. This also means I've stripped down a lot of elements of typical Gamer Sytems. No Quests for example, and no Map/Mini-map, Drops, Dungeons, etc. I also don't like constant stat blocks when I read stories like this, so you won't be bombarded with them constantly.

4) A few differences to expect. Luffy will get a different Devil Fruit, have a different ship, and recruit an expanded crew. 

5) The Pairing for Luffy is as-yet-to-be-determined. I'm extremely tempted to give Luffy a mutli-pairing in this one, though probably no more than three girls. I legitimately haven't decided on that, though, and will be taking people's opinions into consideration. If it ends up as a solo-pairing it would honestly probably be with Robin. Multi-pairing would likely be Nami, Robin, and one more. Two more at the most. Pairings for other characters have already been decided, but I won't spoil them. One of them actually already appears in the first release though ;-).

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With that wall-of-text out of the way...enjoy the first release of One Piece: Halfway Broken! And let me know what you think of it! Hopefully at least a few of you are actually One Piece fans...