Flirting with Death

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Description

Catherine Bird had nothing to live for. A bookstore cashier with dead dreams, twisted desires, and an otome villainess addiction, she doesn't much mind when Truck-kun finally comes for her. And then, to her disbelieving delight, she wakes up in another world. It's the world of the MMO she played with her years-gone almost-girlfriend Momo, and now Momo is right there beside her. They've been promised an eternity together in that world, reunited by the hand of a benevolent goddess. Or not so benevolent, as it turns out, because that goddess is Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, and she's found a new set of girls to torture for her amusement. The price of her patronage is putting Cat and Momo through a checkpoint-based time loop where they'll have to die endlessly to conquer Nyara's game and win their happily ever after. Updates every other Friday.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2026
Author: VoraVora

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 600
Views: 9,663

Chapters(7 total)

What readers say about Flirting with Death

“VoraVora continues to write pieces that are as compelling as they are grimy. This story takes a fairly traditional trope and decides to inject it with several doses of essentials, including: - Yuri - Morally grey, yet understandable protagonists - Layers to…”
AeoleoneRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Toxic yuri! A pathetic failgirl (laudatory)! An evil goddess! So far, Flirting With Death has been super fun. The main character manages to straddle the line of amorality; willing to use others to forward her own goals while still being interesting and feel…”
AlexiaklaraRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(8)

AeoleoneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
VoraVora continues to write pieces that are as compelling as they are grimy.
This story takes a fairly traditional trope and decides to inject it with several doses of essentials, including:
- Yuri
- Morally grey, yet understandable protagonists
- Layers to a system that helps provide both intrigue and structure, without being stifling.
- Creative descriptions and applications of the core audience, i.e. gamers. The nerdcore is both delightful and quintessential.
I read this story because it manages to be comfortable like bed rotting, fresh in several ways to make sure the thirst for more is there, and moist enough that you feel just a little dirty for peering in on this cut of the protagonist's new lives.
I'd suggest tuning in if fantasy isekai interests you, if you like deific figures represented as personifications with motivations mixed with inhuman perspective, or if you want to see protagonists willing to be intelligent and a bit selfish to please themselves.
I'd suggest turning away if the Yuri bothers you, you expect purity in your protagonists, or you think your hero needs more motivation than 'I love them and I want them' to strive for greatness and against the powers that be.
All in all, I cannot wait for more to come out.
AlexiaklaraRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Toxic yuri! A pathetic failgirl (laudatory)! An evil goddess!
So far, Flirting With Death has been super fun. The main character manages to straddle the line of amorality; willing to use others to forward her own goals while still being interesting and feeling invested in the world and what's going on around her. There's an interesting conflict set up for her going forward, and I'm interested to see how things develop for her and her girlfriend.
I'm cautiously excited for the isekai aspect of things; I've read a lot of bad isekai, but it's been good so far and Vora is a good writer.
All in all, I think this will be great for anyone who likes lesbians and violence. (that is, anyone with taste)
AverichollieRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Voravora returns with another metafictional psychosexual powerhouse
selling points so far:
lesbian romance
psychological horror
nerd shit especially if you liked MMORPGs like WoW and so forth
a dash of metafiction
violence and gore
a deep dive into the psychology of deeply unwell people
an examination of desire, attachment, love, codependency, sadomasochism, lust, loneliness, queerness, and the ways all of these things intersect
One of the genuinely most psychotic yanderes I’ve seen in my life
It’s not for everyone but I do expect it to attain cult status for the sickos (affectionate) around.
I believe it’s top tier on all the stats I rated it for, but special mention goes out to the character work, which has a lot of depth and nuance. Rose and Momo very much drive this story.
as for the rest, grammar is at the point where you don’t notice an find it bothersome, which is to say, quite good. The plot - it’s a bit early to say but I’m sure this will go places, it’s well paced and moving along fine for me. The style is classic vora after it learned from previous serials, which is to say, it’s funny and dark in a way that can be expected from previous works (for those of us who are repeat Vora fans).
enjoy!
KaelikRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Grade A toxic yuri, and the pathetic catgirl has the most grandoise delusions of being the Dark Lord, and she will probably accomplish it by dying lots of times while being tortured by a dark god.
Absolutely lovely. Fall in love with the pathetic meow meow future dark lord. She's going to cast spells using the life force of her enemies and mass ritualistic death and also fuck up and die a lot.
Also there's MMORPG tropes, if you happen to be a person who has spend thousand of hours of your life playing those, that will probably also do a lot for you. If not, it's still pretty worldbuildingee, not wasting a lot of time doing spreadsheet stuff, so it probably won't detract.
Kay Simons ScribblesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Amoral lesbians. Toxic Yuri. Tropes galore. A brisk pace that has us hurtling along on the edge of our seats impatient for what comes next. This is a good one. Impeccable Style, Grammar and spelling are great, Story is satisfying...what more can you ask for?
There is A LOT going on in these first six chapters and they are doing it for me! Within the first section you understand the MC, a lonely, pining lesbian. We get a fairly quick lead in to the main premise, truck-kun and the start of a Faustian deal.
And here's where it gets SUPER interesting for me because, the MC...she understands that the situation is, not ideal. She KNOWS its a bad idea. I know she knows its a bad idea. And I still know she's going to do it anyways, and she does but it's SO satisfying to watch it unfold.
The story is amazing, a little bit gory, but there was a good mix of levity in it as well and layers of complexity. The authors prose is quite lovely, I've read a some of one of her other fics but this one just really GRABBED me.
Its clear as we go on that even though the MC Cat knew it would be bad, and things would be tough...she didn't exactly know HOW. She's quick on her feet, adapts well, and makes good choices and the story just moves right along.
Even when other characters and game mechanics are mixed in, each character is distinct, I never got confused and was entertained the whole way through. Which...with time loops...is not always a guarantee.
I am already invested in this story, in the main character Cat. And also the Plot with a capital P because whoo it is. There are some nice little lovely details that I wonder how things will unfold, its setting it up to be quite epic, and layers upon layers. I cannot wait!
WupwupRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So, the most relatable 30-something lonely lesbian dies and gets offered eternity with her missed connection in a world a mad god made just to mess with these two disaster lesbians.
Said world is a recreation of the girls' MMO fanfic with a few changes to 'spice things up'. Those changes include ways to make the girl die over and over again in this timeloop. I expect this to be an interesting twist on the isekai-otome genre as well as the timelooping genre.
fgonfiveRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Flirting With Death is a super cool project about narratives, mental illness, and some absolutely deranged toxic yuri that's juggling a lot of big ideas with style. Full disclaimer, I'm a beta reader for the story and have access to content that's not published yet.
Grammar: yeah, it does grammar. we're good on this.
Story: There's a lot of layers to this and it ties back into the story's big-picture goals. FWD is the story of a girl who gets isekai'd from her dead-end service industry job and offered the chance to start over in her favorite definitely-not-WOW MMORPG, and also her long-dead girlfriend gets to come with her as a bound spirit. But we're not just having the genre-typical adventure story - Cat's dealing with a Re:Zero style time loop and she's actively being messed with by higher powers that are trying her life like it's genre fiction. Cat doesn't just need to deal with her situation, she might need to actively fight God over what genre she's in.
Character: This story contains a lot of traumatized lesbians with intricate inner worlds who have things they want very much. Some of those things are mutually exclusive. We are in for a glorious trainwreck.
Style: Vora's prose is really starting to come into its own. It's extremely functional but with the occasional unobtrusive flourish to make it punch above its weight. Character voices are clear and its characteristic banter-centric method of storytelling works well.
Overall, a real treat of a story, and I hope you give it a look.
trapdoorspiderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Vora does a consistently phenomenal job at talking out loud about the weird, messy, unspoken bits of the human experience. Flirting With Death explores all these little things you never thought you'd actually see written about. It perfectly describes aspects of queerness, mental illness, media consumption, MMORPG communities, and fantasy violence that, if you're a specific kind of internet freak, will hit devastatingly close to home at least a few times.
Style: the story's genuinely witty, rich in detail without dragging, and delightfully descriptive in all the right moments.
Grammar: no notes.
Story: it's still early, but Vora's trademark metafictional high-concept fantasy is already in full swing. We've got a world which is explicitly modeled not just after a popular MMO, but after a vision of that MMO designed by an all-powerful demiurge to appeal to two deceased terminally-online lesbians. Tensions both within this world and across the cosmic plane are already high and rising. It's funnnnnnn!! You know you wanna see what happens!
Characters: they're all freaks and they really drive the story. It's all about what these weird girls are doing to each other, or trying to bait each other into doing to them. Shamelessly. The couple at the core of the story, Cat and Momo, have enough going on with each other to carry the story, but of course there are other weird and evil women interfering with that dynamic. Nobody seems sane or stable, and I mean that in the best possible way.