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* ''Fanfic/{{Tricanon}}'' is set sometime after the timeline of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon|The Series}}'' anime.

* ''Fanfic/{{Tricanon}}'' is set sometime after the timeline of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.

* ''Webcomic/TotalTrauma'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' DeconstructionFic following the characters, who were teens in the original, as young adults, coping with the stress of independent living and the trauma of being on a SadisticGameShow.
** A more lighthearted ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' FlashForwardFic is ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'', which is about the sons and daughters of ''Total Drama'' contestants competing for a million dollars on Pahkitew Island.

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* ''Fanfic/TakeAStand: Star of Ceartais'' takes place 17 years after ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', 16 years after the first installment of "TAS", and features Nick and Judy's daughters Luna and Robyn and their friends and lovers as superheroes. Third installment ''The Broken Mirror'' is another five years on when both Wilde sisters have spouses and are planning families.
* ''Webcomic/TheLionKingKiarasReign'' stars the next generation of lion cubs after ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride''.

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* ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/MaiHime/index.html Mai-HiME: Future]]'' is a future fic for ''Anime/MyHime'', obviously. The focus is shared between the canon cast and the younger generation, leading to even more LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters than the source material.

** A more lighthearted ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' FlashForwardFic is FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy, which is about the sons and daughters of ''Total Drama'' contestants competing for a million dollars on Pahkitew Island.

Works with canon child characters often attract this type of fanfic. Skipping several years into the future to when the characters are teens or adults allows more flexibility with plotlines, since the characters are more mature and the fanfiction can put them in situations involving driving, employment, independent living, and sexual situations (including, controversially, RuleThirtyFour).

For canon variants of this trope, see DistantFinale, DistantSequel, WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, and FlashForward. Compare HighSchoolAU, which can also involve aging up child characters but is typically an AlternateUniverse, not necessarily part of the same canon. Likely to be OutdatedByCanon if the work eventually has a TimeSkip. See also KidHeroAllGrownUp and SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp. Often involves FanCreatedOffspring.

For canon variants of this trope, see DistantFinale, DistantSequel, WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue,and FlashForward. Compare HighSchoolAU, which can also involve aging up child characters but is typically an AlternateUniverse, not necessarily part of the same canon. Likely to be OutdatedByCanon if the work eventually has a TimeSkip. See also KidHeroAllGrownUp and SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp. Often involves FanCreatedOffspring.

** The fics of Creator/AAPessimal are now routinely taking place up to twenty years after the end-point in the canonical timeline caused by AuthorExistenceFailure. [[note]]Children born to characters who were originally marginally there in canon are now approaching seventeen and eighteen[[/note]]. Things have begun to change in Ankh-Morpork; a seemngly ageless Vetinari still runs the City and Sam Vimes is older and determined not to retire as Watch commander. Housemistresses at the Assassins' Guild School are now younger than the canonical characters Pessimal began with, and the guild itself is poised to change its Master, as Lord Downey contemplates retirement. Social change has happened in Ankh-Morpork with its equivalent of "housing projects/council estates" appearing to replace slum landlordship. The city has a Standing Army, a well-resourced Navy, and the beginnings of an Air Force. Pessimal's second-generation OC's are coming of age into a changed world.

** The [[ApprovalOfGod creator-approved]] "ambiguously-canon" sequel series ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'' and ''Webcomic/Homestuck2'' are parodies of these kinds of fanfics.

* ''Fanfic/{{Parthenogenesis}}'' is a ''WhesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' fanfic from the POV of [[FanCreatedOffspring Carmen's daughter, Maggie]]. In it, Carmen has retired as a thief and she travels the world with Maggie.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24258940/chapters/58462522 Next of Kin]]'', a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fanfic, is set twenty years after the events of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' and follows the children of the Smashers, who are accidentally set to the Mansion after an error with the invitations.

* ''Fanfic/TakeAStand: Star of Ceartais'' takes place 17 years after ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', 16 years after the first installment of "TAS", and features Nick and Judy's teenage daughters Luna and Robyn and their friends and lovers as superheroes. Third installment ''The Broken Mirror'' is another five years on when both Wilde sisters have spouses and are planning families.

* ''Fanfic/{{Parthenogenesis}}'' is a ''Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?'' fanfic from the POV of [[FanCreatedOffspring Carmen's daughter, Maggie]]. In it, Carmen has retired as a thief and she travels the world with Maggie.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}: ''We Are the Night'' focuses on Damian Wayne, now in his twenties, has succeeded Bruce as the Batman, and his fourteen year-old sister Helena is Robin. Many of their allies and adversaries are the children of the Batfamily, the Justice League, and the original Rogues Gallery - some canon, but some [[FanCreatedOffspring original]].

** The [[ApprovalOfGod|creator-approved]] "ambiguously-canon" sequel series ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'' and ''Webcomic/Homestuck2'' are parodies of these kinds of fanfics.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}: ''We Are the Night'' focuses on Damian Wayne, now in his twenties, has succeeded Bruce as the Batman, and his fourteen year-old sister Helena is Robin. Many of their allies and adversaries are the children of the Batfamily, the Justice League, and the original Rogues Gallery - some canon, but some [[FanCreatedOffspring original]].

** ''FanFic/RyukReturns'' takes place five years later where Ryuk finds a new Death Note user.
* ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/MaiHime/index.html Mai-HiME: Future]]'' is a future fic for ''Anime/MaiHime'', obviously. The focus is shared between the canon cast and the younger generation, leading to even more LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters than the source material.

* ''FanFic/{{Tricanon}}'' is set sometime after the timeline of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.

* ''FanFic/TheShinSekai'' is set 20 years after the ending of ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' and focuses on [[FanCreatedOffspring Rikuo's children]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh''

** ''FanFic/SaySomething'' takes place five years after the end of the series.

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}:

* The Hinagiku Saga of ''Fanfic/TokimekiPokeLiveAndTwinbee'' takes place around 3 years after [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Hilda White]] and [[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Shizuku Kutashimo]] [[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars Osaka]] graduate from Nijigasaki High, with Hilda's and Shizuku's adopted daughter [[OriginalCharacter Yoko Catherine Osaka White and her friends Elesis "Ellie" Kashiwagi Kousaka]] and [[Anime/PokemonThePowerOfUs Margo]] becoming [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Pokémon Trainers]] and setting up [[OriginalGeneration their own]] [[IdolSinger School Idol]] group just as Yoko's two mothers did.

* ''FanFic/ReturnToHinamizawa'' is a fic for ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', set 20 years later, that shares its focus between the canon characters and their children. The author acknowledges ''[=Mai-HiME: Future=]'' [[FollowTheLeader as his inspiration]].

** ''FanFic/WelcomeRealityPlusEquestria'' exaggerates this trope, taking place 1808 years after season one.

* ''FanFic/SinsOfThePast'' picks up fifteen years after [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila Rossi]] and [[BigBad Hawkmoth]] [[TheBadGuyWins succeeded with their plans]], leading to [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Ladybug]] mysterious disappearing. Kamala Lavillant-Couffaine finds herself with the earrings, haunted by Marinette herself and trying to piece together just what exactly ''happened'' back then.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} fics of Creator/AAPessimal are now routinely taking place up to twenty years after the end-point in the canonical timeline caused by AuthorExistenceFailure. [[note]]Children born to characters who were originally marginally there in canon are now approaching seventeen and eighteen[[/note]]. Things have begun to change in Ankh-Morpork; a seemngly ageless Vetinari still runs the City and Sam Vimes is older and determined not to retire as Watch commander. Housemistresses at the Assassins' Guild School are now younger than the canonical characters Pessimal began with, and the guild itself is poised to change its Master, as Lord Downey contemplates retirement. Social change has happened in Ankh-Morpork with its equivalent of "housing projects/council estates" appearing to replace slum landlordship. The city has a Standing Army, a well-resourced Navy, and the beginnings of an Air Force. Pessimal's second-generation OC's are coming of age into a changed world.

* As the title would suggest, ''[[https://fanfiction.net/s/13628724/1/Twenty-Years-Later Twenty Years Later]]'' is set twenty years after the death of [[VideoGame/Persona3 Ken]]'s mother. On the anniversary of her passing, Ken reflects on the path his life has taken since then. It also takes place in the same universe as ''Fanfic/AceInTheHolePersona5'', where Ken joins the Phantom Thieves.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RockStars'' takes place during 1999, nearly two decades after the original series' airtime. It's a oneshot where a music journalist interviews Stormer, who has now became the head of her own indie rock studio, on what's happened in the last decade.

* ''Roleplay/TheWhytGame'' is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' fanfic/ roleplay which is set so far after the events of the original game that the game itself has almost no basis in it. The original characters are given one or two references; that's it.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24258940/chapters/58462522 Next of Kin]]'', a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fanfic, is set twenty years after the events of Ultimate and follows the children of the Smashers, who are accidentally set to the Mansion after an error with the invitations.

* Fanfic/HappyTreeFriends10YearsLater is about ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' getting renewed ten years after the conclusion of the original show, taking place in 2026.