Flagship Command has sent its last orders. The Fog are no longer to war with humanity and blockade the seas. They are to follow their own will in their future actions. Not that this matters much to one of the many dozen nameless Nagara-class Light Cruisers brought to Musashi's final stand, as she is currently falling from the sky after spending far too long tumbling aimlessly through impossible subspace. Wonder what those weird plant things attacking people are, they certainly weren't around a month ago, when the Mirror Ring last opened.... more>>

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This is an entry to RavensDagger's SCS Crossover Fanfic Contest, a crossover between the underrated AI focused sci-fi shipgirl series Arpeggio of Blue Steel, and the cyberpunk alien invasion series that is RavensDagger's Stray Cat Strut. I thought the interactions between the two drastically different AIs could be very interesting to watch, one essentially unbound and with very little in the way of emotional maturity, one bound, emotionally mature, and far more powerful. <<less

Swords, Sorcery, and... Aliens? Valerie Browne, a mercenary trapped in deep debt and stuck in a contract with a Wichita-based PMC, finds herself flung into... more>> the midst of an alien incursion. In the middle of a suicide mission gone even more wrong than expected, she is chosen as a Vanguard, and given a chance to retake her life. Unfortunately, fate has other plans. After nearly dying, Val wakes up in a stone coffin in the midst of an alien sandstorm. Looks like she should have paid more attention to her co-worker's isekai obsession. <<less

Edward Smiths is a Japanese history major in New Savanah Going to New Yale University When the incursion hit

Nathan Woodsborn has been called many things in the past. He had been a hero, a guardian, and a stalwart protector of the weak. Now... more>> a nobody, retired at the age of 40 what will a former legend do, when he gets access to technology beyond human imagination. <<less

Evelin Vance finally feels like her life is getting better. With her other half Maniac the masked Samurai she finely has enough freedom to do whatever she wants. Of course, nice things don't last and for Evelin, this change is a bit bigger than that she originally barged for and failed teleportation sends her all the way to a different word rather than to her home. Now she has to find a way back home together with her trusty AI lyssa.... more>>

world.

This story takes place in the world of beneath the dragon eye moons by Selki Myth. It is a great story and i highly recommend reading it if you get the chance. I will try my best to make sure no prior knowledge of the world is required, but it will always be beneficial.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/36299/beneath-the-dragoneye-moons

offshoot

this story is an offshoot of the story Maniac's Mayhem though reading it first should not be required it might help understand the character and abilities better.

what to expect

sassy Ai

adventure.

DID main character.

magic

insanity <<less

Elise should never have been introduced to mana...... more>>

Emily and Elise have one thing in common: they both grew up thinking magic was myth.
Fortunately for both of them, a rift in space decided they should talk about that!

Follow along as in an alternate reality two very different minds meet, and the world is forced to suffer!
What's a little madness for a lot of fluff?

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This is being made because of Raven's Stray Cat Strut Crossover Contest (now isn't that a mouthful), and I plan to hit 15k words minimum and then see where it goes from there, but it probably won't be too much longer than that!

Prepare to at minimum see raccoons take over England with a little magical help, and if not, the world! Who knows... maybe they'll steal the moon?

Posting 1 chapter a day for a bit, then whenever I feel like it. <<less

Upon their return from a business trip to New New York, Anthony is ready to sit back and relax in their room with their hearing implants off for a while. Unfortunately, they don't get much time before the worst night of their life begins. A terrible dinner full of family drama kicks it all off, and worst of all, his mother serves fish. After he storms out, he wakes up to Antithesis in his room.... more>>

But where is the incursion warning?

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This is a story set in the fictional world of SCS created by the wonderful author birb, Ravensdagger. Please go read that first if you want the best experience reading this story.

Be aware that there are heavy themes of gender dysphoria and parental abuse in this story, so if you are sensitive to those topics, take care while reading this. <<less

Gideon Mori is just an overworked Genetic Engineer working for Parasol Solutions in Los Angeles, just trying to slog through another soul-numbing day when an Antithesis incursion throws him into a fight for survival.... more>>

Join Gideon as he fights his way through his workplace, learning what it is to be a Samurai.

A Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction This is based upon the setting created by RavensDagger. I'm trying to keep it consistent with their work, but I will probably make mistakes <<less

Reborn into a Spirit Beast that thrives in the junkyards of the undercity after falling fifteen thousand feet to her death, [Null] must grow and learn how to use her new strength while also navigating a world ravaged by corporate greed and ravenous plant monsters. Unfortunately for her, she is a valuable creature that is capture or kill on sight to the powerful samurai and spiritualists that roam New Montreal, and even if she manages to evolve into a monster with a humanoid form to gain her freedom from capture, there's probably going to be a price on her head big enough for everyone to want to kill her.... more>>

Just what is a lynx girl to do?

Things to expect!:
Dual-System Nonsense!
Cute Lynx Hijinks!
Monster Evolution!
Samurai Numbers go BRRR!
Diabetes inducing Lesbeans!

This is a story based in a alternate SCS universe where along with the system brought by the protectors, a second system appears to save the animals of the world, kinda. The Antithesis are as much of a threat as they were before, but now there are absurdly powerful magical beasts as a second force to contend with.

(Entrant into the SCS Crossover Contest) <<less

Adonis Maxus is a man's man, and everyone knows it. He goes to the gym (regularly) watches various sport balls (religiously) and sleeps with a different girl each week (but not because he struggles with intimacy or anything!) So, of course, he's thrilled at the chance to do his part against the invading Antithesis, as a newly selected Samurai! But when the AI in his brain points out that growing breasts would be the best way to make room for new nanite production facilities... Well, he has to ask himself: if it lets him save more lives, then isn't becoming a girl actually the most manly thing to do?... more>>

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This is a Stray Cat Strut Fanfic. I'm going to try and write it so that you don't need to read the original series in order to follow it, but it might help! And also I really enjoyed the original (hence the fanfic.)

The cover was done by my friend Lulla. Full version here: https://i.ibb.co/WcjLfXS/Most-Un-Manly-Cover.png <<less

Things were fucked, and they didn't need alien plant creatures invading to get that way. ... more>>

Ava Kaminski has known that all her life. Things were particularly bad in the megabuilding she had been born and raised in, where everything was falling apart, the corpos sucked you dry just for the pleasure of experiencing it, and her gang was losing ground fast.

Really, the aliens didn't make things much worse.

Now, armed with the power of a Vanguard to aide and protect those around her, maybe Ava can make things change for the better for once.

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A work set in the universe of RavensDagger's Stray Cat Strut. Noncanon where otherwise contradicted by Raven's own words, but I try to stick as closely to canon as possible.

Currently set to update: As-able. Writing and editing has resumed as of October 2024, but there is no structured release schedule yet. <<less

Stuck in a Janitor Droid body, a lost mind fractured by fate becomes awakened during and Incursion. Join our titular MC on its journey from being a cross between a Dalek and a astromech unit with only cleaning tools to an immortal Eldritch Abomination. Enjoy the random pop culture references as they come to understand who they once were and who they want to be in the future.... more>>

Waking up in a tin can after a long coma was not fun. It tends to shatter minds. I did fairly well on that count. Some of the others in the project had... problems. I'm crazy, but I know I'm crazy, which means I'm not crazy. Isn't that crazy?

This is a Stray Cat Strut (By RavensDagger) Fanfiction. <<less

Today could not have gone any more wrong, we were almost late to work, a net runner nearly fried the receptionist, and then the day took a turn for the uncomfortably exciting when the Antithesis decided today was the perfect day to attack the mall. So you might as well follow us fumble our way through being a newly initialised Samurai, and deal with whatever our stay in London decides to throw at us next.
- Shinon... more>>

What to expect:
- Fighting Aliens
- Getting Points
- Buying stuff with points to kill aliens better
- Corpos being evil corpos
- Gay girls doing gay things (eventually)

This is a Stray Cat Strut fanfiction, based on the original story written by the one and only RavensDagger.

Cover art by the amazing @Celineysus!

Chapters, every Fiday at 7pm GMT. <<less

Thirteen Sins. Thirteen Lives. Thirteen Ghosts.
Yurei Neylan was a killer—a trained assassin who took the lives of thirteen innocent people in service of a cause she can no longer justify. Four years after abandoning that life, her sins still haunt her dreams, each face a reminder of the price she paid to survive.
Now, Yurei has built a fragile peace, sharing a life with her adoptive sister, Zuri. College, friends, family—it’s a life she never thought she deserved.
But the past never stays buried.
When the Antithesis invade, turning her quiet world into chaos, Yurei is faced with an impossible choice: let Zuri and her classmates die, or become the killer she swore she’d... more>> never be again. Driven by the weight of her sins and the love for her sister, she chooses to fight.
This time, she isn’t a mindless drone, simply following orders. It’s her chance at redemption. But as the battlefield grows bloodier and darker, Yurei must confront the truth: Can a killer ever atone for their sins, or do they simply trade one set of ghosts for another?
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This is a Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction! Knowing SCS is NOT required, although it will be benefitial! Go give the birb some love <3
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/154400/stray-cat-strut/

This story was written under the Fan Media License for Stray Cat Strut!
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Releases every Tuesday and Friday at 5pm CET!

Thanks to Ren for editing this. I know I drove you mad, and I apologise, but without you this wouldn't have been possible <3

Cover is a placeholder made with Civit.ai. <<less

Winter 2034 year, I was an ordinary eSports player during the decline of computer games, until evil plants descended on me and my friends left... more>> me in front of a closed shelter door. Now I'm surviving in this not-so-deserted city with a sniper rifle and some cool samurai gear. Let's see what problems I get into next, hahaha... <<less

Sylvi has it pretty good, but then the Xenos that used to be someone else's problem suddenly becomes hers, too.
Now she's a Valkyrie, and the world expects her to fight them with nothing but a super powerful AI voice in her head and a seemingly endless bag of tricks.
Okay, well, when you put it like that it does seem kind of reasonable...... more>>

A Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction - This story is set in the world created by RavensDagger, and is not canon. I am of course doing what I can to make it consistent, but errors may slip in.

I am trying my best to make this understandable without knowing the original, but I still encourage you to read it here:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/154400/stray-cat-strut/

Image from hotpot.ai/art-generator <<less

The second child of the Montero Dynasty, a family with full control of the New Houston Flotilla, has finally returned home from a (utterly disastrous) business trip to New New York, returning to a life they hate and a family that despises them. ... more>>

A newbie maid working for the Monteros is doing their best to live their life, one song, one step at a time. Trusted with a monumental task by their superior, they begin their descent into the deepest depths of New Houston.

For one fraction of a moment, one heading up, one heading down, their paths cross and are forevermore linked together. They’ll grow closer, one dead Antithesis at a time.

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Things to expect: 

A city beneath the waves

A mermaid with a lot of problems

A somewhat more 'normal' maid with a penchant for singing

Their romance, and the many aliens that die in the wake

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This story is set within the Stray Cat Strut FF Verse, but you do not need to first read Stray Cat Strut in order to read this story. I do however, highly, highly recommend you do just that.

Cover art by the Wonderful Tachibana!
https://sendou.ink/u/dr_tachibana/art <<less

Sharp Claws, sticky paws.... more>>

Elise and her siblings are perfectly normal denizens of New Oxford's undercity.
They live in squalor, sleeping in the dump and stealing what food they can to get by. It's been hard for them since their parents died, but Elise does her best to hold them together despite her faulty memory and their difference in species.

What's that? They stole your watch? It couldn't be, those little fur balls are angels!

It's your hat now? Well, Chip does have a soft spot for those. Can't he have it?

Wait, what?! Elise is ripping aliens apart with her bare hands? But she's such a quiet girl...

I'm sorry... I think I misheard you... how many raccoons?
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What to expect:

-A Stray Cat Strut fanfiction based in the UK in late 2032. I'm going to try my best not to be too outrageous, but I make no promises to stick to canon.

-Raccoon's doing raccoon things. Like drugs! And... cloning?

-Alien killing.

-Girls kissing.

-Gender gendering.

-And yet another Samurai pushed towards the cruel world of animalgirlification!

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The cover is drawn by me! (be nice)
Also, the gender stuff while important will be dealt with pretty quickly. I'm writing this story because I wanted to write cute fluff!
We're not dwelling on dysphoria for long.
Posted here and on RoyalRoad.
Updating once a week or so... <<less

Luna had her life figured out. HAD. She was going to get a PhD in Astronomy and then after some work in science and academia to get a nice postdoc retire to teach astronomy or experimental physics at her university. And then of course aliens had to show up and fuck up everything by being hostile and requiring her to get a PhD in space warfare rather than something interesting like neutron stars, black holes or other celestial phenomena or even just something useful like orbital mechanics or spectroscopy. - A Stay Cat Strut Fanfic... more>>

Cover art by the amazing Shuriee, you can find her portfolio here: https://beatrizmarques.carrd.co/

This series is now licensed under the Stray Cat Strut Fan Media License. More details can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/124407878 <<less

Updated Daily until the end of book 1... more>>

What would you consider a bad day? Having your father threaten the family shrine in order to get you to cooperate? Maybe having aliens invade? Well Reina experienced both. On the same day.

So when the sky is ripped open, and aliens rain down upon the city, Reina is given the chance to become vanguard, defender of humanity. Now she has to struggle not only with her new found power, but the responsibility of protecting an entire city, before it all burns down around her.

image by hotpot.ai <<less

Erica Taylor is a graphic designer for a game developer, which in today's world is code for 'AI artist babysitter.' But on the way to a convention she spots a broken down bus under attack from Antithesis, and with no weapon available but her car, the part of her that always wanted to be a hero decides to intervene.... more>>

Now she's been selected to become a Samurai, a warrior entrusted with defending humanity from Antithesis by the enigmatic Protectors, but she's also been stranded several days walk from the nearest town with nothing but a ruined cosplay outfit. Worse yet, the nearest town has an Antithesis infestation festering just beneath the surface, readying to devour it whole. Fighting her way in is only going to be the beginning.

Updates Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4am EST.
Now available on Royal Road!.
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This is a Stray Cat Strut fanfiction! RavensDagger created a very fun and interesting world and my desire to write a story set in it rekindled my interest in writing. I cannot recommend it enough.

As an aside, I've deliberately left out a few tags until they have actually shown up in story so as not to spoil things, so the tag list may grow a bit over time. <<less

Story is now caught up to RR version - New Release every three days... more>>

Evelyn "Teddy" Claire is a street kid just trying to make ends meet. That's hard to do when you live in the undercity, a near slum found underneath the foundations of the megacity of Calgary.

Usually, her only concerns are finding a good meal, and avoiding taking a bullet in a gang fight, but that all changes when an Antithesis incursion manages to find its way below.

Empowered by a benevolent alien race, she becomes a Samurai, one of the protectors of humanity. Now, she must work to exterminate the Antithesis stuck below ground. Before the Antithesis exterminate her and everyone else.

A Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction - This is based upon the setting created by RavensDagger, it is not canon, but I AM doing my best to make it consistent. Thanks to RavensDagger for creating the setting and providing me access to some of the public reference material.

I am not a professional author, this is my first story, written as practice for an original fiction I plan on writing. I will post a schedule once my daily chapters start running out.

Image from hotpot.ai/art-generator <<less

Caught as a little kid hacking into a corpo server, Evelin Vance was forced into indentured service.
Disposable and "employed" by New Hope LLC to penetrate the security of other corporations, usually by dangerous and less than legal means, one day, she is sent on a mission that is a lot more dangerous than expected.
With her head just above water, Evelin struggles beneath the weight put upon her, at least until the world decides her job is done. After getting attacked, mauled, bludgeoned, and bruised, she awakens as a samurai.... more>>

What to expect

- Psychotic violence and protagonist
- Get points to buy swords and drugs
- Cybernetic upgrades
- Girl love
- Crazy protagonist that does not always get better.
- Massacring of corpo’s and other greedy 

Maniac has a song now go listen to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVDiybuSA4

this is a Stray Cat Strut fanfiction
the story is based on the world of stray cat strut written by RavenDagger. thank you RavenDagger for creating an awsome world. I try to make it so that you can follow the Storry whiteout having read it, but I would still highly recommend you read Stray Cat Strut anyway.

Written under the Stray Cat Strut Fan Media License. All Rights Reserved

a special thanks to kasidya for helping me edit the story

art drawn by LeslieRenton https://www.artstation.com/celineysus <<less

No one cares about the wastes.... more>>

These are the words Spark has heard all life long.

The masters of the world, despite dining on the 'natural foods' produced by Spark's people, would rather let them bleed than provide military support. Even the local samurai didn't give much of a shit beyond farming their points.

So when an AI chip teleports itself into their head, Spark vows to fix things. One way or another.

Fanfiction of Stray Cat Strut by RavensDagger

What to Expect:
Alien zapping fun.
Jury-rigged solutions that somehow work.
Gender feels!
Family feels!
Sustainable farming practices!
A love letter to where I grew up. With criticisms of the meat grinder that is the American agriculture industry.

Updates every Monday and Friday

Cover art by the Wonderful Tachibana!
https://sendou.ink/u/dr_tachibana/art <<less

Winner of the 2024 Stray Cat Strut Fanfiction contest in the Ongoing category!
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Content warning! This fanfiction has depictions of drug abuse and prostitution! Reader discretion is advised!
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In the not-so-glamorous outskirts of New Savannah, Seraphine Bloodfallen - part-time joytoy and full-time cynic - finds herself drafted into madness. When a particularly bad day at work ends in an alien invasion, Seraphine becomes a Samurai; Someone empowered by a benevolent alien race with the strength to oppose the alien invaders.... more>>

Follow Seraphine as she navigates her new life with more power and problems than she ever wanted. As it turns out, battling alien invaders with a ragtag band of misfit Samurai might just be the craziest job she’s ever had - and possibly the most fun. Who knew the apocalypse could be such a blast?
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This is a SCS fanfiction. Knowing SCS might not be required, but highly recommended! Give the birb some love!
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/154400/stray-cat-strut/

This story was written under the Fan Media License for Stray Cat Strut!

Volume 1 is finished! There will be more, but that will take a little while!
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Huge thanks to Aliapanacea for helping me edit this!

Additionally I would like to thank Eleeyah and TheWackyWombat for helping me with the details! I could not have done it without you <3

The cover art was done with hotpot.ai <<less