Transmigrated Teri is a WIP that is part of a “post 200 words a day during July” challenge issued by
. Episodes posted daily will be of various lengths and sometimes will stop in the middle of the scene. You have been warned!The set up:
Teri Travers, a nearly-50 bitter “office lady” who has not led a happy life gets in a massive car accident after being sent home on the first day of COVID lockdown in 2020. She (and her dog) wake up in a strange new world that is also strangely familiar…that’s right, she’s been transmigrated into the world of her favorite 1990s fantasy novel series, the massively popular, critically disdained, and incredibly tropetastic Allisar Fireborn Chronicles by the infamous Chadwick Jarvaldson, aka “Fuckin’ Chad” to all his very annoyed fans who are still waiting for the final book to be published.
Previously: Teri comes to the assumption that she’s somehow in a coma and her brain has thrown her into the world of Chadwick Javarldson’s Allisar Fireborn Chronicles.
For all that everyone decried Fuckin’ Chad’s use of cliches and over-wrought prose, no one could deny that he had a gift for writing great characters.
And sadly enough, one of those great characters was the one everyone, including Teri, hated as much as Emperor Nikodosis: Lady Bonarae Grayrage, the Venomous Whip of Luttiron.
The character was one step beyond the typical, Disney-fied wicked step-mother, with her barbed cruelty and her actually barbed whip that she used to punish, and often kill, servants and commoners. Not simply cruel, she was vicious with it, delighting in making the lives of the children in her care miserable. Universal opinion in the fandom was she had gotten off light with simply being strangled to death, and really should have been publicly humiliated and executed.
Feminist fans of the series had been debating for years whether she was an example of “women can be evil too” or “glorified misogyny in action.” The only reason the scale tipped to the former was that there were other female characters in the series who were genuinely awesome.
Of the tens of thousands of fanfic written in the fandom, there were probably less than twenty that even bothered to give her a redemption arc. Instead, most just kept to canon, where Lady Grayrage was killed by her lover and fellow conspirator, Lord Kerelyn Rustad, not long after they murdered her husband, the ruthless but dumb Count Ferdiff Allisar. That happened midway through the second book, Quest for the Sacred Flame, and most people cheered it. Overall, her death was a minor plot point, as she had served her role as a pivotal negative influence in young Gervyn’s life with her cruelty and abuse.
Teri sat up again so fast she felt dizzy, stuck on the fact that her death was a minor plot point in book two.
She had “woken up” in a fantasy world, and was set to die in it too?