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justboltsMy current in-progress, self-indulgent work. It's all the things I'm currently into, which yes, primarily means ikesai style setting and A/B/O aka omegaverse. Also yes, this is heavily inspired by Scum Villian Self-Saving System.
My goal is to write at least 500 words a day in a ramp-up to November. I'll be posting up little snippets each day I'm successful. Really, the main point here is to give myself some sort of accountability, even if it's only to myself.
This post is of the entire first chapter, which sets up the plot.
Working Title: Redeeming the Alpha Warlord
aka: "Sold into the Warlord's Harem, by Trina L Prinket"
Rating: Mature
Setting: Original transmorgrification fantasy novel
Tags: omegaverse, A/B/O, fantasy, m/m, m/f, f/f, multiple pairings, harem, transmorgrification, lots of child characters, mpreg and pregnancy in general, gender fuckery
Warning: Mentions of rape but nothing explicit
Summary: Gaming forum user Tanksout69 (Ian, to his friends) becomes obsessed with a shitty omegaverse novel supposedly inspired by his favorite game and won't rest until he gives the auhtor a piece of his mind.
In March of that year, a forum dedicated to battle strategies for the popular MMORPG, Journeyforged, fell into momentary chaos over a book called “Sold into the Warlord’s Harem: Book 1 of The Crystal Omega” by Trina L. Prinkett.
It was a romance novel. Specifically, it was the first in a five-book series of self-published gay romance novels set in the niche ‘omegaverse’ genre. One of the forum users claimed to have heard that it was similar to Journeyforged and started a thread in the Off-Topic sub-forum asking if anyone else had read it or could recommend it.
The question went off like a small bomb. Within minutes, several forum users had checked out the book and were posting screenshots of the summary with cries of “WTF”, “this sounds horny af”, and “what’s this alpha and omega bullshit?” None of them had been exposed to omegaverse fiction before and further exploration of the genre led to a froth of horrified confusion. Who came up with something like this? Why is this poor man’s ass a faucet? Why do they have dog dicks?!
Over the next few hours, a handful of forum users read through the opening chapters and publicly dissected them for the amusement of onlookers. The most active of the group was user ‘Tanksout69’, who provided the most comprehensive and scathing reviews of both the story and Trina L. Prinkett’s authorial talents.
“Sold into the Warlord’s Harem” followed Lyris Aldenfell, a male omega who is sold into marriage with the Warlord Ianther Sharpclaw; a brutal and insatiable alpha with dozens of omegas in his harem. While Lyris is spared from Lord Sharpclaw’s lust until the arrival of his heat -- the twice-a-year event when an omega is overwhelmed by the desperate need to fuck -- he’s not safe from the abuses and bullying of the alpha’s petty and jealous mates. All of them hate Lyris pretty much on sight for being too manly and plain-spoken for an omega and waste no time in making his life a living hell.
Lyris’s only source of comfort and friendship in the harem is the guardsmen, Tobin, a handsome beta with an oddly bland scent. When the two become trapped together in a cave, Lyris unexpectedly goes into heat, and Tobin is revealed to be an undercover alpha prince on a secret mission. They have sex because they must, and in the final lines of the book, Tobin promises to take Lyris back to his home country and marry him.
The story had a fantasy setting that, according to Tanksout69, did share more than a few passing similarities to Journeyforged, particularly in terms of location and character design. This drew an additional bout of hisses and boos, but it had been almost two days since the start of the thread and the fervor had died down considerably.
By the time Tanksout69 posted his lengthy review of the final chapter, it had been four days and the last eight comments on the thread were all from Tanksout69 himself. When Tanksout69 charged forward into an equally vicious breakdown of the second book in the series -- ‘Trapped in the Warlord’s Harem’ -- another user finally commented; “no offense, Ian, but the jokes kinda played out.”
It was the last comment on the thread.
After that, Tanksout69 went back to the game and displayed no further interest in the books. When other users brought up his over-enthusiasm, he good-naturedly endured their teasing but didn’t revisit the topic otherwise
At least, that’s what he did on the forum.
Off the forum, Tanksout69 -- Ian, in real life -- kept reading Trina L. Prinkett’s “The Crystal Omega” series.
By May, he had read all five books. He had read the three short stories available on the author’s website. He had read Ms. Prinkett’s Q & A blog post about the world and setting. He had read through the news updates regarding the upcoming sixth book and he had read the fanfiction. There was only one fanfic and it was a special request from some fan event thing he only half understood, but he read it.
And he hated absolutely all of it.
Everything about the books was bad. They were trite, melodramatic, horribly paced, and rife with inconsistency and contradictions. The writing style was bland and shallow, and the sex scenes - of which there were many - were strange, impractical, and packed with ridiculous euphemisms.
The characterization was… well, ok, Ian might be willing to say the characterization was passable. Several of the characters had some sort of internal motivation and made compelling choices that were consistent with their stated values. But for one reason or another, their choices always had the worst, most miserable results. Until the baby is born (end of book three) the story is nothing but misery, particularly for Lyris.
Lyris grew up poor. He started doing hard physical labor from a young age. His parents neglected him while they spoiled his little brother. He was relentlessly teased and bullied for not being a “proper omega”. He was threatened with sexual assault all. The. Time.
Even more frustratingly, Lyris was always making huge sacrifices for others, but his suffering never amounted to anything.
Lyris volunteered to be sold to a horrible alpha to save the family farm and protect his little brother, but then whoops, turns out his father mishandled the money and now Lyris has to sacrifice himself again to help his stupid family. Oh and his little brother? Ends up married to a bad alpha in the fifth book anyway! Lyris saved one of the tyrannical and petty harem omegas from poison, but does that stop him from blackmailing Lyris later on? Of course not!
By the end of the first book, it seemed like Lyris and Tobin were going to run away together, but oh no. Lyris can’t possibly ask Tobin to abandon his mission! So Lyris continued living in the abusive harem, with the added stress of keeping Tobin’s secret and possibly being pregnant. A pregnant man. Because that’s a thing in this world!
Then the mission doesn’t advance for three months and then Lord Sharpclaw decides that he’s waited long enough for Lyris’s heat and is just going to rape him. Lyris manifests magical powers out of absolutely nowhere and kills the alpha in self-defense, so Tobin has to ditch everything anyway to help him escape. Not to mention that the whole mission was about this artifact that Lord Sharpclaw had stolen from their nation and Tobin’s mother, the Queen, finally just invades the country to take it back by force, which she could’ve done in the first place! What even was the point of sticking around so long if the mission was going to be solved so easily? That stupid harem drama lasted for two whole books!
It was enough to make Ian throw his computer across the room!
The worst part was that he had no else to complain about it with. He couldn’t go back to the forum thread where he learned about the book, or tell his friends about this newest obsession. Even he knew they wouldn’t buy the “I’m reading this ironically” excuse at this point. He wasn’t sure whether the gay thing or the omegaverse thing would be their bigger hang-up, but either would lead to a conversation he didn’t want to have. The other readers of the series all seemed to think it was great and the one Discord server for omegaverse fiction he joined was… way more enthusiastic on the subject of alphas and omegas then he was, so he just left without ever contributing anything to the conversation.
On top of all of this, the series author, Trina L. Prinkett, had no social media presence. At all. She just had an email address on her website.
Denied any other outlet, Ian opened up his email program and over several hours, meticulously laid out every single fault of the five-book series and all the things that would need to change, or at least be addressed in the sixth book, if Ms. Trina L. Prinkett ever hoped to bring her work above the level of trashy smut fiction.
‘There is so much potential here,’ Ian typed out earnestly, ‘It’s just not being realized.’
Ian finished up the last sentence of the multiple page rant and hit send. Feeling at last freed of an unnamed burden, he set aside his laptop and closed his eyes against the headache that had been nagging at him the last few hours.
This was Ian's last memory of his original life.
TBC...
My goal is to write at least 500 words a day in a ramp-up to November. I'll be posting up little snippets each day I'm successful. Really, the main point here is to give myself some sort of accountability, even if it's only to myself.
This post is of the entire first chapter, which sets up the plot.
Working Title: Redeeming the Alpha Warlord
aka: "Sold into the Warlord's Harem, by Trina L Prinket"
Rating: Mature
Setting: Original transmorgrification fantasy novel
Tags: omegaverse, A/B/O, fantasy, m/m, m/f, f/f, multiple pairings, harem, transmorgrification, lots of child characters, mpreg and pregnancy in general, gender fuckery
Warning: Mentions of rape but nothing explicit
Summary: Gaming forum user Tanksout69 (Ian, to his friends) becomes obsessed with a shitty omegaverse novel supposedly inspired by his favorite game and won't rest until he gives the auhtor a piece of his mind.
In March of that year, a forum dedicated to battle strategies for the popular MMORPG, Journeyforged, fell into momentary chaos over a book called “Sold into the Warlord’s Harem: Book 1 of The Crystal Omega” by Trina L. Prinkett.
It was a romance novel. Specifically, it was the first in a five-book series of self-published gay romance novels set in the niche ‘omegaverse’ genre. One of the forum users claimed to have heard that it was similar to Journeyforged and started a thread in the Off-Topic sub-forum asking if anyone else had read it or could recommend it.
The question went off like a small bomb. Within minutes, several forum users had checked out the book and were posting screenshots of the summary with cries of “WTF”, “this sounds horny af”, and “what’s this alpha and omega bullshit?” None of them had been exposed to omegaverse fiction before and further exploration of the genre led to a froth of horrified confusion. Who came up with something like this? Why is this poor man’s ass a faucet? Why do they have dog dicks?!
Over the next few hours, a handful of forum users read through the opening chapters and publicly dissected them for the amusement of onlookers. The most active of the group was user ‘Tanksout69’, who provided the most comprehensive and scathing reviews of both the story and Trina L. Prinkett’s authorial talents.
“Sold into the Warlord’s Harem” followed Lyris Aldenfell, a male omega who is sold into marriage with the Warlord Ianther Sharpclaw; a brutal and insatiable alpha with dozens of omegas in his harem. While Lyris is spared from Lord Sharpclaw’s lust until the arrival of his heat -- the twice-a-year event when an omega is overwhelmed by the desperate need to fuck -- he’s not safe from the abuses and bullying of the alpha’s petty and jealous mates. All of them hate Lyris pretty much on sight for being too manly and plain-spoken for an omega and waste no time in making his life a living hell.
Lyris’s only source of comfort and friendship in the harem is the guardsmen, Tobin, a handsome beta with an oddly bland scent. When the two become trapped together in a cave, Lyris unexpectedly goes into heat, and Tobin is revealed to be an undercover alpha prince on a secret mission. They have sex because they must, and in the final lines of the book, Tobin promises to take Lyris back to his home country and marry him.
The story had a fantasy setting that, according to Tanksout69, did share more than a few passing similarities to Journeyforged, particularly in terms of location and character design. This drew an additional bout of hisses and boos, but it had been almost two days since the start of the thread and the fervor had died down considerably.
By the time Tanksout69 posted his lengthy review of the final chapter, it had been four days and the last eight comments on the thread were all from Tanksout69 himself. When Tanksout69 charged forward into an equally vicious breakdown of the second book in the series -- ‘Trapped in the Warlord’s Harem’ -- another user finally commented; “no offense, Ian, but the jokes kinda played out.”
It was the last comment on the thread.
After that, Tanksout69 went back to the game and displayed no further interest in the books. When other users brought up his over-enthusiasm, he good-naturedly endured their teasing but didn’t revisit the topic otherwise
At least, that’s what he did on the forum.
Off the forum, Tanksout69 -- Ian, in real life -- kept reading Trina L. Prinkett’s “The Crystal Omega” series.
By May, he had read all five books. He had read the three short stories available on the author’s website. He had read Ms. Prinkett’s Q & A blog post about the world and setting. He had read through the news updates regarding the upcoming sixth book and he had read the fanfiction. There was only one fanfic and it was a special request from some fan event thing he only half understood, but he read it.
And he hated absolutely all of it.
Everything about the books was bad. They were trite, melodramatic, horribly paced, and rife with inconsistency and contradictions. The writing style was bland and shallow, and the sex scenes - of which there were many - were strange, impractical, and packed with ridiculous euphemisms.
The characterization was… well, ok, Ian might be willing to say the characterization was passable. Several of the characters had some sort of internal motivation and made compelling choices that were consistent with their stated values. But for one reason or another, their choices always had the worst, most miserable results. Until the baby is born (end of book three) the story is nothing but misery, particularly for Lyris.
Lyris grew up poor. He started doing hard physical labor from a young age. His parents neglected him while they spoiled his little brother. He was relentlessly teased and bullied for not being a “proper omega”. He was threatened with sexual assault all. The. Time.
Even more frustratingly, Lyris was always making huge sacrifices for others, but his suffering never amounted to anything.
Lyris volunteered to be sold to a horrible alpha to save the family farm and protect his little brother, but then whoops, turns out his father mishandled the money and now Lyris has to sacrifice himself again to help his stupid family. Oh and his little brother? Ends up married to a bad alpha in the fifth book anyway! Lyris saved one of the tyrannical and petty harem omegas from poison, but does that stop him from blackmailing Lyris later on? Of course not!
By the end of the first book, it seemed like Lyris and Tobin were going to run away together, but oh no. Lyris can’t possibly ask Tobin to abandon his mission! So Lyris continued living in the abusive harem, with the added stress of keeping Tobin’s secret and possibly being pregnant. A pregnant man. Because that’s a thing in this world!
Then the mission doesn’t advance for three months and then Lord Sharpclaw decides that he’s waited long enough for Lyris’s heat and is just going to rape him. Lyris manifests magical powers out of absolutely nowhere and kills the alpha in self-defense, so Tobin has to ditch everything anyway to help him escape. Not to mention that the whole mission was about this artifact that Lord Sharpclaw had stolen from their nation and Tobin’s mother, the Queen, finally just invades the country to take it back by force, which she could’ve done in the first place! What even was the point of sticking around so long if the mission was going to be solved so easily? That stupid harem drama lasted for two whole books!
It was enough to make Ian throw his computer across the room!
The worst part was that he had no else to complain about it with. He couldn’t go back to the forum thread where he learned about the book, or tell his friends about this newest obsession. Even he knew they wouldn’t buy the “I’m reading this ironically” excuse at this point. He wasn’t sure whether the gay thing or the omegaverse thing would be their bigger hang-up, but either would lead to a conversation he didn’t want to have. The other readers of the series all seemed to think it was great and the one Discord server for omegaverse fiction he joined was… way more enthusiastic on the subject of alphas and omegas then he was, so he just left without ever contributing anything to the conversation.
On top of all of this, the series author, Trina L. Prinkett, had no social media presence. At all. She just had an email address on her website.
Denied any other outlet, Ian opened up his email program and over several hours, meticulously laid out every single fault of the five-book series and all the things that would need to change, or at least be addressed in the sixth book, if Ms. Trina L. Prinkett ever hoped to bring her work above the level of trashy smut fiction.
‘There is so much potential here,’ Ian typed out earnestly, ‘It’s just not being realized.’
Ian finished up the last sentence of the multiple page rant and hit send. Feeling at last freed of an unnamed burden, he set aside his laptop and closed his eyes against the headache that had been nagging at him the last few hours.
This was Ian's last memory of his original life.
TBC...