Daphne [A Plankton to Kaiju LitRPG]

Self-Published

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Description

Harpoon your enemies!

See their bodies pulverized before you.

Feast on their writhing flesh chunks which your phyllopods filter from the water into your mouthparts. That is best in life.

Plankton. The swarm of vivid life that feeds all creatures that dwell in the waters. It is invisible, ubiquitous, unnoticed.

It is a battlefield! Filled with hunters armed with claws that bite, rend, eviscerate! Terrified prey flee into the depths, hiding in shadowed waters. Compared to the endless war to survive amongst the plankton, the macro-life have grown soft, complacent.

Now Daphne has gained the means to swim among the macro-life. Watch as she grows stronger, fiercer; soon she will duel openly against the cruelest and strongest to decide who will be the Apex Predator of all the waters.

One day, all will tremble before Daphne, the Endless Maw that Devours ALL !

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: The Ox

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 120
Views: 21,515

Chapters(15 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

C.T. YarrowRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall Score: I knew this would be good from the title alone but it really didn't have to be quite this good. It absolutely makes good on the promise of that title. Daphne does start out as a plankton, she's already become a monstrous spirit beast, and she's clearly on both a narrative and a litteral journey to become a mighty Kaiju.
Style score: this is the feature that I find hardest to quantify but this story has style in spades. The illustrations are beautiful and do a useful job of showing those of us without a strong mental image for plankton what Daphne actually looks like. The prose style is very discriptive without being overly flowery. The system dialogue is well laid out and easy to understand.
Story Score: This should be a weak story. It doesn't have much in the way of plot beyond Daphne's driving urge to survive and improve but it's done so well that it dosen't need more than that.
Grammar Score: Admirably clear and easy to understand but also discriptive and quite poetic in places.
Character Score: I love Daphne, even though she'd think I was a repulsive, void-breathing weirdo. She attacks everything (including humans) with such unbounded enthusiasm. She's so determined, so unrepentant and so gloriously ruthless. As the author says, "Morality is for vertibrates". But non of that equals evil. She's just trying to survive in a harsh world not built for something like her.
Youngish OldsterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This might be the most ridiculously clever thing I've read on RR.
I would have never guessed that a progression fantasy/ litRPG story about plankton would make any sense at all, much less hook me. But here I am. 😁
Give this a read. It's a great 'small' adventure in more ways than one.
quentanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A very interesting story for sure. The mixture of realistic and mysticism gives this story a novel edge. There's kind of a Fusion between monster evolution system manipulation and cultivation that makes the setting pretty interesting in and of itself. Never before have I wanted a plankton to go murder hobo. I love it I hope you continue with it
luda305Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The story has very solid writing. The author is rather eloquent and the grammar is flawless.
Everything else has its own problem.
Daphne is a fairly flat, one-note character. She not sapient, and she's not sentient. All she has on mind is kill and eat. This is a particularly remarkable juxtaposition to the eloquent writing style.
Similar the plot itself is fairly one-note. Meet new enemy, fight new enemy, eat new enemy, level up. Repeat. There really isn't too much other than that, and Daphne doesn't significant develop as a character except along the same traits she already has.
As otherwise noted, it's a fairly basic murderhobo character and plot. But with this really eloquent writing style, it's just feels really weird.