Realization Dawns
Realization Dawns
Teri tries to process what is really going on, and mostly fails
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 wondered how much she had to hate herself to dream up possessing the body of one of the most loathed step-mothers in literary history: Lady Bonarae Grayrage, the Venomous Whip of Luttiron.
Teri slowly laid back down as the woman, who was likely some version of Lady Grayrage’s former nanny and long time companion Lady Arnee Elisandar, wept over her.
Why her brain had thrown her into the world of Chadwick Javarldson’s Allisar Fireborn Chronicles, she didn’t know. Or, actually, she did know, but she did not want to acknowledge it.
Her original love of the first book had been all-consuming when she was in her mid-20s and still a romantic at heart, thinking that freedom from her abusive father and useless mother meant she was ready to start her own amazing adventures.
The book had not aged well in the 20+ years since its publication, but for Teri, it still represented that brief time of hope and endless opportunity. Gervyn, the typical young “chosen one” hero, was a little bland in her opinion but she had eagerly devoured the entire series because of the other characters: Gervyn’s stubborn, hard-fighting sisters, the twins Aurguth and Vycett; their older brother, the quiet and soft-spoken Robern; Theodorian, the tragic lost prince of the Virendor Empire; and of course, Valerontarius, the handsome and enigmatic mage who was Gervyn’s mentor and, for most of the series until Gervyn came of age, the main enemy of the evil emperor of Virendor, Nikodosis.
For all that everyone decried Fuckin’ Chad’s use of clichés and over-wrought prose, no one could deny that he had a gift for writing great characters.