Mysterious Saga

Mysterious Saga (also known as the Mysterious Ways Saga) is a popular fic series written by Lazulia, formerly known as DelphioracleCat, and reposted to AO3. The first fic in the series, Mysterious Ways, is the most favorited Cats fic on FF.netCats Category on FF.net, sorted by Favorites. Accessed 6 Mar 2023. Archive Link. and third most kudos'd fic on AO3Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber Tag on AO3, sorted by kudos. Accessed 6 Mar 2023. with the other fics being less popular but still beloved among the fandom. 
The series is centered around the Tuggoffelees pairing and contains mpreg resulting in a number of children between the pair, thus making future installments kidfic to a certain extent. It consists of four works, all of which are rated Mature and tagged with No Archive Warnings Apply on AO3.Mysterious Saga Series. Accessed 6 Mar 2023.
==The Fics==
===Mysterious Ways===
The first chapter in the series was posted May 2011 on FF.net, where it was tagged with the Romance genre and also rated Mature. Mysterious Ways is 27 chapters, but with a differing word count on the two sites it's available on. It's listed as being 90k+ on FF.net despite only being 82,635 words on AO3, which is likely due to the removal of the extensive Author's Notes in the FF.net posting, as is common on that site but not on AO3. The summary for Mysterious Ways as originally posted is:
This differs significantly from the summary on AO3, which is:
===During the Ball===
A few months after Mysterious Ways finished posting, Lazulia started a "sequel of sorts" to it. It was also tagged with the Romance genre and rated Mature, listed as being 23k+ and 12 chapters.Delphicoracle-Cat's FF.net Profile. Accessed 7 Mar 2023. Archive Link. The word count once again changes on AO3, being listed as 21001 words, but the smaller discrepancy is due to the fact that Lazulia's author's notes got shorter in this second fic. When originally posted to AO3, the summary for During the Ball was:
It was modified slightly when reposted to AO3, but mostly to fit in with the tone of works on AO3, rather than the content differing drastically:
===What You Leave Behind===
Set in the same universe as the other fics, What You Leave Behind is the shortest fic in the series at 10k+ words (9,899 on AO3) and 2 chapters. It's by and far the least popular fic in the series, possibly owing to the fact that it heavily deals with the topic of miscarriage which is a sensitive topic for many people they prefer not to read about. The fic is also tagged Drama and Hurt/Comfort rather than romance, which may also contribute to its lower popularity. The original summary on FF.net is:
It was mostly unchanged for AO3, with the only edits being to remove the warnings (which were converted into tags) and the confirmation of where it falls in the timeline (because the series is posted as a series on AO3).
===Written in Blood===
The last fic (currently) in the series is taking the longest to write with the longest gap between installments as well. Prior to this, Lazulia's fics were posted over a period of 4 to 6 months (except What You Leave Behind, which was posted in a little under a month) but the last chapter of Written in Blood was posted in August 2019 with the first being posted September 2016, a period of almost three years, but the story as available on FF.net is not fully complete and neither is the version available on AO3. The last update on AO3 was made in April 2022, but it does not appear to be abandoned, just slow to update. The original summary on FF.net is:
The summary is largely the same on AO3, although the sequel and warning information is instead replaced with the fact that the story features art from Leona Preston.
==Selected Comments and Reviews==
===Mysterious Ways===
==References==
Category:Cats
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2010s Fanfiction