A Friendly Voidling
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Description
When a Creature of the Void fails to find friendship among her own kind, she instead sets her sights upon another, human-filled world. Unfortunately, humans turn out to be rather small and squishy things, resulting in a mostly accidental trail of death, destruction and madness as she embarks on her journey to finally make some friends.
This is a 25k wordinaneshort story, and makes no attempt at beingseriousor realistic. It's my first attempt at trying a more comedic writing style. No relation to my other stories, aside from a brief cameo.
Cover bodged together with Charat Genesis. Not quite the design I had in mind, but reasonably close. Doesn't contain explicit smut, but does contain references to stuff happening off-screen. May contain traces of gore. Also eels, in varying states of distress.
Posted here and scribblehub.
Information
- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- cathfach
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.7/ 5.0
- Followers
- 1,030
- Views
- 244,298
Chapters(13 total)
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Community Reviews(10)
- luda305Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0The story just has so much cute, and it's handled so well. I had face cramps. Sure, the story has flaws in some abstract sense, but I doubt I'd want anything changed (maybe more artwork).
And the technical side if very well handled by the experienced author.
How did I not get to fifty words. Sheesh. - StoryAndSongRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This is a great story, I really like not only the comedy aspects but also the journey that comes with understanding common sense and morals. I love most if not all of the characters, and the fact that the MC is a bother to their "siblings" is hilarious to me. Overall I reccomend this not only from a comedic standpoint but from a wholesome standpoint as well. I will warn you that the MC is completely overpowered so if you like thrilling concequential schemes this isn't for you.
- TheGuyWhoDoesStuffRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Very well written. Quite funny. Great characters. Wish it were longer, but I will take what I can get.
Last chapter is reminicent of Pratchett.
I need 25 more words or so. Only 12 left, 9 now. This is like a book report now. Almost done. I think this is all I need. - ishnerRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This story is short enough you can read the whole thing in an afternoon! The tone is light and happy! Read it! It is good! You will not regret it!
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Phenomenal godlike powers are not safe in the hands of a child, no matter how friendly. This applies even more strongly to those so young they have no concept how the universe works. Buildings, people, the fabric of spacetime... All are simply too fragile in the hands of a godling. When you can kill thousands on accident and shatter minds at a glance, you will have Problemstm fitting in and making friends.
Still, if brute force cannot solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
This is a story of a child with enough magical potency to imediatly solve any problem with brute force if she can just figure out which way she ought to be pushing.
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There are two draws to a Monster Evolution story. On the one hand, we have Numbers Going Upward, on the other we have The Thrill of Discovery as the young creature slowly discovers the world around it and learns how things work. So often authors use a reincarnated human to skip the second part that they might devote all time and energy to Numbers Going Upward. Even where they dont, the wondrous exploration phase invariably ends after a few dosen chapters as the MC has learnt enough to go on at that point and ends up mired in Serious Plottm. Here, we see the opposite! We skip to the end of Numbers Going Upward to focus on The Thrill of Discovery! When that runs out, the story ends!
COME, Vicariously experience the joys of learning new things once more! - 1212BRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0If you liked Love Crafted, you're going to like this, simply because they are — on almost every level — extremely similar. In fact, I'd actually say I prefer this to Love Crafted, though I haven't read that story in a while, so it isn't fresh in my memory.
For the writer's first crack at comedic writing, this is pretty damn good. The writing flows well, is easy to follow and twist itself in just the right ways to make the jokes land. The brand of humour is... "absurdist lovecraftian insanity"? Not an established term, but it should give you a clue that there's gonna be a lot of tentacles, incomprehensible actions, shattered minds and death and violence involved.
It actually does a far better job than I would have expected in every aspect.
The characters are surprisingly well handled for the short amount of time the story has to play around with them and while one of the main characters remains rather static, another actually had a small a few chapters long arc that even ended up make me feel smewhat emotional at the end.
The author criticised the way he wrote his own story, as he set off without a plan, but I actually think it ended up quite well. It was utter madness, but hey — this is this kind of comedy after all — I can let this all fly.
There were also no grammatical errors or typos that ripped me out of the reading experience and I think it was just the perfect length, concluding before the premise and jokes could get stale.
Really, I don't have anything bad to say. - BlazlordedRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Enjoyed the story. Characters are interesting, it reads nicely. It is also ended and shows the world off. It introduces the characters. What is remarkable is the way the eldritch horror doesn't get sealed or face off absurdly powerful foes... It's about the perspective of the being. And how it affects others.
- CosmorosRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Good story.
Comedy is done quite well, though was hard to understand how characters look.
Tho I would say it really depends on your taste. For some its great comedy for others it wont make the cut. But still try it out if you have free time and are fine with story existing mostly for comedy. - CowdoubleRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Favourite quote:
"Examination of the room revealed a number of eels in various states of distress, but nothing else out of the ordinary."
Just enough weirdness to keep you engaged, the story isn't rushed or dragged out, and wraps up very nicely at the end.
If you enjoyed stories like "The Stars Have Eyes", this will be right up your alley! - Field of Cats Relaxes BeingRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0minus first encounters humanity as an adult, a girls love novel narrated by terry pratchet
that's all i have to say i had a good time fifteen words of concise title line can be longer than fifty words of languid prose there's nothing else to add except that i love you for writing this good night - GFreemRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Really cool concept with fun characters and world building. I was never bored while reading this. and couldnt help but think this story has enough substance to imagine that its a side story from a full length book or a part of a multitude of short stories.
I really enjoyed the descriptions of the world and characters. The inner dialouge from each character was also enjoyable and its style complemented the stort well.