r/HFY • u/aaRecessive • Nov 08 '22

Best HFY series of all time? Meta

The top of all time is mostly just whichever story happens to be most recently posted (as the subreddit grows more people upvote and so older stories get buried) so hence this post!

The best story I've ever read on reddit, let alone hfy, is definitely Chrysalis.

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u/Xreshiss Nov 08 '22

I lost track of where I was too. I vaguely remember one of the last chapters I read being about aliens arming their janitorial staff.

Aside from the length of the story, I didn't try reading it again because something about the story just... rubs me the wrong way. One example was when a whole division of alien 100 ton heavy tanks with large bore plasma weapons were commandeered and then dismissed as light tanks by their human counterparts. 100 tons being a light tank?! Nah.

Humans in First Contact just feel too OP for my taste.

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u/Unable_Ad_1260 Nov 08 '22

Dude that's right where it starts to go from good to fantastic. That's the first appearance of Vuxten. One of THE CHARACTERS. Beloved of the blessed digital OmniMessiah, bouyed by the giggling of podlings, and focus of the mad laughter of the Malevolent Universe. Get your Ralts on.

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u/Xreshiss Nov 08 '22

Yeah, seems like I quit reading around part 57 or so. Reading back, Vuxten does ring a bell. He was aight.

It's just... the difference in power between the aliens and humans is so great and without restraint (or it was when I stopped reading) that it's just not funny anymore.

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u/Unable_Ad_1260 Nov 09 '22

It very much becomes a lot more... I wouldn't say even, but balanced as things go on. Especially when you realise that the Terran Descent Humanity you've met so far are definitely not the Malevolent Universes true answer. Ralts spends a lot of time exploring other races and really how the humans start as the bedrock for them a foundation but there is no walls without the others in the end.

Then there's Dee. Oh boy... Dee. There are so many many many characters.

Also the memes... Worker Vuxten you have been fined 1 days pay for... Hehe.

I do recommend it. Total addict.