The New Chimera

Self-Published

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Description

Lucas was your average college student until he stumbled into possession of a djinn's lamp. A few wishes later he finds that not only has he become (potentially) one of the most powerful beings in existence, he's found a new side to the world that he's not quite sure how to navigate.

And, to top it all off, he's become a woman. Now she has to find her footing in a world she's not fully used to, all while trying to avoid becoming a puppet in the battle for Earth's future.

Contains some romantic elements, mostly of the lesbian variety. Nothing explicit beyond kissing, though further is implied.

Edited by Vongrak.

Originally uploaded to Scribblehub, now uploaded here as well!

Release schedule is once every other week on Sundays. Most chapters are anywhere from 2,500 to 3,000 words long.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Fighterman481

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.7/ 5.0
Followers: 227
Views: 171,453

Chapters(103 total)

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Community Reviews(3)

Lulu: Small yet FerociousRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
A slightly rough start quickly stabalises into a very enjoyable read.
No spoilers, but the gender bender elements are not as prominant as the description would have you believe. Whether that's a good thing or not is up to you.
This author really likes writing their characters, and it shows! A decently large cast which manage to stay (mostly) relevent as our hero(ine) grows in power due to the story's social and sociatal focus, rather than a more direct power grind.
Does lean a little towards overcoming threats easily, but it's a believable enough growth in power that it doesn't bring me out of it.
Overall, if you like "Becoming overpowered in style" stories but wish they would show people actually reacting like people, and with an MC that doesn't abandon ealier characters for new, more powerful ones constantly, then this story is for you.
Sable NightRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
This story has some interesting and fun parts to it if you're looking for an OP romp. I liked the racial power ups and gamelit aspects quite a bit. The characters were starting to get interesting and I was looking forward to a possible romance. Sadly I can't continue with the story, due to the way the author is handling punishing enemies.
At this point in the story the author has twice now punished a for by changing their sex. One of those times came with some heavy mind control. While the mind control is just a personal hangup of mine that can be handled with the right warnings, the sex change as a punishment is decidedly problematic. As a trans person I was all on board with the MC changing their gender, but forcing it on their enemies and then just hand waving any consequences of that away? It very much feels like the author is minimizing the struggles of being trans and also feels like they're projecting some very real issues with trans people by saying that changing a man into a woman is a punishment.
All in all, I want to enjoy this story, and maybe if I wasn't trans then I could, but this is just too problematic.
CauldronsRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
This is a story with wasted potential and unfinished characters. I'm going to preface this with the fact I think the author had a really solid foundation for a unique, interesting, and deep story the author, however, didn't capitalize on any of it.
The characters are all bland. I can see them interacting with each other and they should have their own unique presence... but they just don't... even if they do the author quickly forgets the traits that made them unique in favor of a bland character design. The biggest example of this would probably come from Lilith and her parallels. At the start, they had strong foundations for unique and interesting characters but as time went on you would find yourself hard-pressed to tell them apart except for key moments where maybe one defining trait will pop up for a moment only to be gone a moment later.
Another problem is the fact that there is no tension in the story at all or any sense of power scaling. Kali quite literally stops problems from happening and gives the main character power-ups all the time without the main character having earned or a justifiable reason for earning it at all. In fact, Kali's powers (she the administrator of the universe so basically a god.) are quite contrived to what the author feels she should be able to do at any given moment. If she could solve the problem then she can't because she doesn't have enough god power (or worship), but for anything else, she basically has free reign no matter how absurd it is. Basically, the author creates artificial problems and then refuses to solve them to create a fake sense of tension. The tension fails mind you since we have experienced several examples of her interfering when the plot demands it, basically giving the main character a get out of jail free card whenever she wants.
I could go on about how forced certain interaction and plot developments feel another point that loops back to my original paragraph is how Lilith and Carmen fused together essent