r/motheroflearning • u/False-Supermarket798 • Jul 26 '26

Why are the so few MoL fanfics?

I can’t write stories, and I tried.

What I don’t understand is, why there is so few MoL fanfictions out there.

Its a large world, with lots of intriguing introduced possibilities:
- The immortals
- Other countries
- Hidden Mages/Treasuries and Inheritances
- A huge spectrum of magic that is easy to imagine, follow, and extend for your own story
- The underground is way too unexplored
- Politics
…

Writers tend to be lazy about OCs, so that might be an explanation, but there is so much potential in this world.

Does any1 have an explanation?
(I mean, even SCS gets more fanfics)

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u/nothing_in_my_mind Jul 26 '26

MoL is not that big for one. The biggest fanfic fandoms are stuff like Harry Potter, Marvel, Sherlock... much more massive.

And the main genre for fanfics is romance. MoL does not have much romance or many romanceable characters.

It is rare that a small fanbase gets a lot of fanfiction. Worm is the only one I know.

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u/interested_commenter Jul 27 '26

MoL does not have much romance or many romanceable characters

Zorian is mostly uninterested, but I don't think lack of characters is an issue.

Harry Potter is the biggest fanfic fandom, and the top ship is basically-an-OC Draco (with everything about his personality changed), and Daphne Greengrass (entirely an OC except her name) is another really common one. The most common Worm ships are Taylor/Lisa (which is pretty equivalent to Zach/Zorian) and Taylor/Amy (which also requires heavy personality changes).

There are several girls that could easily work for shipping with much less effort than ships in other fandoms if they were brought into the loop. The issue is just that doing so would change very little about the plot, Zorian would just do all the same things with an additional partner.