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Chapter 7 of Project RE:Vive is out!

Things are getting tense on the frontline, and with Kya down for the count, it's up to Rose to figure out what to do with a changing world.

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Chapter 6 of Project Re:Vive has been posted! Rose meets someone new, and the assault team takes on the boss of Floor Twenty Five!

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Chapter 5 of RE:Vive is out! (or it's really chapter 6 if we're counting the prologue as a zero but AO3 is counting it as six so)

Do note that there are some... weird format issues. Spacing may be off in certain parts.

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An oath I can’t break

(Holy FUCKING BINGLE. We reached 60 hits on RE:Vive. That’s a lot of people! It’s only going to get crazier from here on, so stay tuned!)

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That invisible world only I can see

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Chapter 4 of Project RE:Vive is out! Rose’s journey continues with a reforged sword and a promise of the future.

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Worst part of this is that we’re so early in the story all my sketches and concept art is spoilers. Holy shit.

Of course I consider the fact that everyone has already seen Rose’s final armorset a spoiler when that’s really. Nothing.

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Chapter 3 of RE:Vive is out!

Rose finally has a place to stay, but all isn’t so easy in such a life or death game…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53110990/chapters/138075067

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Why are you laughing? Hey…

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PROJECT RE:VIVE MASTERPOST

BOOK 1:

OTHER INFORMATION

[To be added]

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Chapter two of RE:Vive has been posted! The journey continues with a friendly new ally, and a dire warning…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53110990/chapters/135379084

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The Prologue and Part 1 of RE:Vive have been posted! Our tale begins with a stone artifact…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53110990/chapters/134380237

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53110990/chapters/134381497#workskin

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just came across this and i'm super interested!!

can't wait to see what you end up doing

what made you want to essentially rewrite the entire story though? that seems like a lot of effort even if you have gripes with the original

I think the bit with RE:Vive at this point is that it’s more so… living in SAO’s world than anything else. I’m not sure how much of a rewrite it is, it might be more of a setting robbery. ^^;

I have a lot of experience with escapism in my own personal life, and originally… I kinda just wanted a place to explore those themes?

I’m not actually really an SAO fan. It had its moments and I wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t something intriguing, but all in all, I was… disappointed?

I remember a period of time online where I saw a lot of people online deconstructing this story, and since I did have a really really deep relationship with escapism, I decided to take a crack at it and use the setting as my sandbox. It escalated from there.

As to why I didn’t start from scratch instead…

Embarrassingly… I feel like I’d just be making an SAO clone. Better or worse, it’s a monolith, and if I made another story about being trapped in a VR video game and the results of that, I’d be standing in the shadow of something larger than me. Keeping RE:Vive as something akin to a fanfiction actually gives me more control in some respects— I won’t feel the need to prove that I’m not SAO. As strange as it sounds, RE:Vive can speak for itself as a direct contrast to the original. Entirely crazily, it being a rework of the original might make it stronger.

My hope is that fans of the original and non-fans can enjoy RE:Vive! That’s another reason I didn’t completely divorce it! There was something almost romantic (AS IN PRETTY) about the idea of completely reworking a narrative and world into something entirely new. Fanfiction is transformative, and part of what I wanted to do with this was take that to its logical extreme.

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Welcome to Project RE:Vive!

RE:Vive is a complete, from the ground rework of Sword Art Online, that features a completely new cast of characters, familiar side characters, and a brand new timeline! Project RE:Vive's focus is escapism. It’s about the personas we create for ourselves and why— but broadly, it’s just about how mental health would interact with virtual reality.

My goal with RE:Vive is to act as an alternative retelling of the original that explores new themes and ideas. It’s not meant to replace or cover any ground SAO stood on. It simply acts as another story.

Project RE:Vive will be published on AO3 around January 17th.

In addition, I've opened the ask box for this blog, so feel free to send any questions you might have! A plot overview and concept art is under the cut.

The plot

In a slightly more advanced society not too dissimilar from our own, fifteen year old Hana spends her days in relative isolation due to a rare genetic disorder. 

A typical girl, Hana struggles with things completely normal for her age. Her only solace is an advanced virtual reality device her father created that seems to be nothing more than a dead end, until one day, he brings home a copy of the world’s first VRMMORPG.

With fulldive VR now releasing to the public after years of testing, Hana seizes her chance to escape her struggles, only to find herself in a death trap.

There, she’s sent on a sprawling, deadly quest to clear all one hundred levels of the game, while grappling with another side of herself.

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Test post!!!!!!!!!!