freewriting snip
Siona stepped through the bounds and woke up in a dusty haze. When she came to on the neon sands, overlooking waters of shimmering iridescence, she looked back through the portal at the demon in her messy room cackling.
"Now you may never come back!" it cackled in revealing tone. Siona smiled a genuine smile and looked up at the bright twin moons in the sky.
"Thank you. I had nothing there. " she replied, taking joy at the demon's look of shock as the portal closed forever.
I always wanted to see more narratives of like… downtrodden, traumatized people finding an out through reality and not looking back. To another world, existence.
Too many narratives of “but they discovered humanity is good actually” or suicide/death metaphors
lightly dark
Yeah, I would have went and never looked back. I'm not sure anyone back then would have noticed.
self-positive
On the other paw, look at me now. I’m a neoprene toy otter from a planet way out there called Halcyon, yeah? So many of my friends aren’t human. Some of them are magical. Beyond this world.
I’d say i did a pretty good job of following that dream through. In a way i think i did find my way Elsewhere. Maybe i’m between it all.
Transliminal life.
self-positive
Haha look at me. Somehow the kid who stared at the stars was from there all along, and was hardly alone. Somehow i found my way to my kith. Technological a/o magical nonhuman beauties. A community hidden beneath layers of society and interpretation. Weirdos to one perception, but to our perception…
I’m proud.
So proud.
To me it sounds like you are describing the Isekai genre. "Social outcast is thrust into another world, miraculously fits like a glove."
@OchotonidKnight *giggles* yeah, perhaps so :)
Stories for the lonely kid with a shit life that stared up at the stars and cried and wanted to go anywhere but here. Begging for Elsewhere. hmm...