HELLO AND WELCOME!

Sychopenguin5 here, bringing you a bunch of helpful little lists to help you out when you're reading fanfiction for Yu Yu Hakusho.

This is all my little sister's fault; she started reading fanfic but kept forgetting the side characters' names, so she asked me to make her a "cheat sheet" with all the characters, then I realized she might need help with some other things, and then I was trapped in this never-ending project! So I figure, what the heck, maybe there's other people out there just as confused as she is, so I might as well share! I hope this guide is a helpful to you as it is to her. =3

(Do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Lotsa other people and organizations do.)

Warnings:

Instructions: authors use a whole lot of shorthand when writing their summaries. But when they're trying to warn you about content that may shock/disturb/revolt/scar you for life, it's really important to understand what they mean! Here is a list of the most commonly used slang—in my experience—and what they mean.

YYH = Yu Yu Hakusho

yaoi = gay relationship drama, often lemon/lime/smut (yuri = lesbian)

shonen-ai = gay romance, often fluff (shojou-ai = lesbian)

lemon = explicit sex scenes involving "going all the way"

lime = descriptive sexy stuff that doesn't actually "go all the way"

fluff = romantic mushy stuff, touchy-feely confessions, cuddling, kissing, non-explicit etc.

smut = lemon/lime, usually weird kinky stuff, usually oneshot

mpreg = male pregnancy

rapefic = contains rape or references to rape, but usually if they bother to put it in the warnings, it's explicit

oneshot = single chapter story, no plot, no background/buildup

slash = contains an unofficial and perhaps completely random pairing, often yaoi/yuri

crackfic = totally random, OOC, little plot, intended as comedy

postseries/spoilers = takes place after the original media ends and contains references to events at the end which gives something of the plot away if you haven't seen/read that far

OOC = out of character, meaning the way the character(s) behaves in the fic is something he/she would most likely never do in the original media

AU = alternate universe

A/N = author's note

OC = original character

Mary Sue = OC who is too damn perfect, usually wins over the sexy man with no effort

threesome = three-person relationship and/or lemon, watch out for when the pairings list contains more than one x, for example, "HieixKuramaxYusuke" is different than "HieixKurama, KuramaxYusuke"-the former means threesome, the latter means Kurama had two separate relationships over the course of the fic [Speaking of which, I havent figured out yet if the order matters. Like if HieixKurama always means Hiei is dominant and KuramaxHiei means Kurama is dominant? I'm still not sure, so can somebody inform me?]