Original Fiction Recommendations

[Bob Schroeck]

Tori Transmigrated is a fairly standard Otome Villainess Insert story.
 Well-written, and has an interesting twist on why the Heroine is acting the way she does and why she's the Golden Girl.

Agreed. I just finished all 5,519 pages of this -- a solid three-week read for me, if not longer (I can't remember exactly when I started it). I really enjoyed Tori as a character, and I definitely loved the subversive twist that the heroine's "good endings" throughout the four-game series would result in bad endings for pretty much everyone else -- millions of people -- but since they're all NPCs and mostly off-screen the hypothetical player doesn't care. (The heroine certainly doesn't.) Speaking of which, Tori occasionally gets annoyed at what she sees as the game's logic and plot throwing problems at her, but it never occurs to her to wonder if there is a player out there somewhere. Which honestly is one of the first things I would wonder about if I were ever in a similar situation. I also felt like about halfway through she'd been "promoted" to an alternative game protagonist, but she never quite realized this.

I saw Aleh's comment above before starting the story, and I was looking for the "repetitive" material when I got to that point in the story, but honestly, I didn't see anything that I thought qualified.

One question I had based on a comment the author made in a note -- is the inserted character eventually meeting the person they replaced as common in Isekai fiction as she claimed? If it is, I'll have to write up a trope candidate for ATT about it. People wanting to answer and/or give me examples, don't do it here -- send me a private message. Thanks!