Fanfic Recs / My Life as a Teenage Robot

Proof that the remaining 10% is worth rusting in the rain for.

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CoyoteLoon

• Recommended by tropertea
• Comments: The only fanfic I find worth reading for this series, honestly. The author writes a believable, entertaining story while keeping the spirit of the show. His OC doesn't feel like an OC at all and adds quite a bit to the stories without feeling like it's been forced in to accommodate the character. Good reading for passive fans of the show who wanted more continuity and character development.
  • Seconded; this troper was especially fascinated with how ahead of the curve CoyoteLoon was with regards to a few plot points (namely Jenny being framed for crimes against humanity, and Vexus being a Villain with Good Publicity back on Cluster Prime.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

Jenny's War trilogy by George P

• Recommended by Edokage
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A war and a mandatory robot draft eventually teaches Jenny and her family about what being a soldier truly means. Part 1 is on the battlefield, part 2 is with Jenny's family and part 3 is after the homecoming.

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Rusting in the Rain by keystoneofscience

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: No one can be a teenager forever, so what's a teenage robot to do? Six years after the series, a desperately lonely Jenny Wakeman seeks information about her origins and receives consolation from an unlikely source.

MLAATR: Last Year's Model by R Knoll

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Jenny finds herself facing a new and powerful threat from the Cluster-and worse, the threat of being replaced!

Unexpected Irregular Happenings by Jester Of Lullaby

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A storm hitting at night brings Jenny, Brad, and Tuck an adventure.

April Fools, Tuck! by Danny Fenton 123

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Tucker learns the hard way that 'April Fools' does not mean 'abandon all common sense and decency'.

Normality and Beauty by Jester Of Lullaby

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Takes place immediately after "Return of Raggedy Android". Jenny and Brad contemplate their normality desires.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

Too Human to Be Divine by BlackTon618

• Recommended by Starbrand Fan
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Jenny/Sheldon, Brad/Melody
• Synopsis: A hero's burden is far from simple, and balancing it with personal life is even more complicated. Villains always develop better schemes and people around are as unforgiving as ever, because not every enemy is one-dimensional, and not every friend is free of faults. Or, With the return of her enemies, who had joined hands to bring her down, Jenny's past actions are caught up with her, and she is in a new challenge to set things straight again, all while learning to appreciate a certain friend she thought was burdening. Meanwhile, Sheldon is trying to correct his mistakes and prove his worth, even if he can't come to appreciate it himself.

Phoenix Fire by PhantomJunkie

• Recommended by Froggo Fan 64
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Jenny/Brad, Sheldon/OC
• Synopsis: After Jenny suffers serious injuries in a fire, Mrs. Wakeman transfers Jenny's mind into that of her brain-dead human daughter Jennifer.
• Comments: As the author puts it, this isn't your typical "Jenny turns human" fanfic, and for the way she does it here, it's pretty dang special. Notably, PhantomJunkie planned for this to be the first in a series of fanfics about Jenny's life as a human, but except for the below-listed "years later" spin-off and half of a story explaining Jennifer's accident, she has since put them on hiatus.

The Mistletoe Trick by PhantomJunkie

• Recommended by Froggo Fan 64
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Mainly two OCs, but also Jenny/Brad, Sheldon/OC, and Tuck/OC
• Synopsis: Jenny and Brad's future son, Greg Carbunkle, gets a special surprise from his classmate Gin Kohana on Christmas Day.
• Comments: This fanfic was inspired by this drawing I did (which itself was inspired by a gag comic strip in Nickelodeon Magazine), so of course I like it.

My Life as a Teenaged Von Neumann Device by Solomon Grundy

• Recommended by Andyroid, Red-Dead-Redeemer
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Jenny/Brad, later Jenny/Sheldon and Brad/Tiff Crust
• Synopsis: Jenny explores her developing sexuality, which leads to romantic entanglements with Brad, Sheldon, and the other leading men in XJ9's life.
• Comments: Lemon as hell, but it's also a brilliant bit of Porn with Plot in which Jenny discovers and deals with sex, and all the baggage that goes with it, and does a lot of maturing. Also features clashes with the Cluster, and Brit Crust's rivalry with Jenny coming to a violent, maddening head.

To Be Human by Dragonshadow

• Recommended by Nightshade 1218
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Jenny/Brittany
• Synopsis: Jenny wants to be human... to feel. But life is never easy, and the adventures that stem from these desires can be as disastrous as they are rewarding.
• Comments: Short, but wow, is it a ride. Contains sensitive subject matter.

Crossover Fics

Stories in which characters of MLAATR meet and interact with characters of entirely different shows.

Infinity Legion: Heroes Unite by TvFan2244

• Recommended by Terrorking 10, Immasupastargirl and Doomsday 2015.
• Status: Complete
• Crossover with: Multi-Crossover (Max Steel, Danny Phantom, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, American Dragon: Jake Long, Sym-Bionic Titan, Kim Possible, Ben 10: Omniverse, Generator Rex, The Secret Saturdays, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Miraculous Ladybug, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Samurai Jack and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.
• Trope page here.
• Synopsis: And then came the time when mighty heroes banded together. Danny Phantom, Randy Cunningham, Jake Long, Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, Ben 10, Generator Rex, Zak Saturday, Lance, Ilana, Octus, XJ9, El Tigre, Max Steel, Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz, Cat Noir, and Ladybug. These heroes must stop the Darkentors form taking over their dimensions. Unite Infinity Legion!
• Comments: In what is sure to be one of Tv Fan 2244's best stories yet, readers are given a real treat when their favorite Western Animation heroes heroes come together in the biggest crossover teamup in fanfic history. With the formation of the Infinity Legion, Danny is amazed to be surrounded by young individuals gifted with unique abilities and fighting skills just like himself, even more so that they elect him as leader, a very important mantle. Leading a group of such magnitude will have challenges.

• Nothing is Impossible by Creator/Finmonster
• Recommended by Enigmus Prime
• Status: Ongoing
• Crossover with: Jackie Chan Adventures, Kim Possible, The Powerpuff Girls
• Synopsis: Kim Possible is a normal teenage girl. Or, at least, she thought she was. But when unexplained changes bring undue attention, Kim has to go on the hunt for answers to the question of who she really is.

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