Here’s something that I read yesterday and liked: Atzi. Lesbian lizard girl scraping by with little pick-pocketing and buglary. Oh, and she’s about to wind up in a time loop.
Something I found really refreshing about this story is how… chipper the main character is. Webfiction is full of protagonists somewhere on the spectra of mopey, anxious, and analytical and Atzi is entirely the opposite.
She’s not the brightest, or the luckiest, but she’s not only willing to try anyway, but she earnestly believe she deserves to succeed. It’s weird reading about a protagonist who’s simultaneously so opinionated yet manages to be so endearing.
And really, she’s just downright cute! The story goes out of its way to say “lizard” and not “kobold”, but I find it hard to listen to this girl’s internal narration and not think the author nailed the vibe.
(She’s also amusingly horny, too — i swear every other woman she encounters has her swooning, but i mean. same. Despite this, the stories seems almost chaste with the fade-to-blacks.)
The main character is a thief, and it’s a pretty big point to its credit that first proper “job” she undertakes had me on the edge of my seat as she sneaks around and worries about guards.
I’m really interested in seeing where the story goes from here, there’s enough to enjoy if not quite enough to impress. Keeping my eye on it.
Atzi is the last person who should be stuck in a timeloop.
But a timeloop means pretty women to seduce! Wealth to spend! Magic power to steal! This lizard may be easily distracted, talentless, and lonely, but she’s still a looper.
A shame she must contend with selfish gods warring, mad mages casting apocalyptic spells, skeletons, demons, and a hole in the sky. The world destroyed, again and again, when all she wants to know… is why her crush killed her.
Read it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/111187/atzi