A/N: Hey hi and howdy! Got a chapter for you! I'm quite happy with it, and I think you will be too. There's a transformation sequence in this chapter—technically two, but the first is largely skipped over. It's Minerva's theme, and can be found here: https://youtu.be/qEMLNCTkzdM The second is new (you'll know it when you see it) can be found here: 2024-10-05 04:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: I am so eepy sleepy...
I'll give the drill sergeants this: having people constantly scream in our ears did a lot to get us used to how headachingly loud guns are.
I seem to be affected a little worse than everyone else, but I'm doing my best to hide it so maybe they are too. Still, my powers don't let me accumulate hearing damage (even when I artificially give myself some I tend to unconsciously fix it shortly afterwards) so the bark of ...
2024-10-02 07:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Howdy folks! It's magical girls time! Enjoy! I, uh, can't think of anything else to say here so um. Uh. Hi! :3
"I have to admit, I'm surprised you insisted on coming with us, Thea," Melpomene hums, her words only slightly difficult to make out over the rush of wind. "It's nice to have you with us out of the castle."
Thea shrugs, focusing forward as she directs the translucent flying disc the four of us are riding through the liminal space. She s...
2024-09-28 05:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm back! My arms are feeling better. Someone in my discord linked me a document that demonstrated massage practices that have actually been very helpful, so here's hoping I can keep that up regularly. Anyway, uh... yeah! Enjoy the chapter!
At four-thirty sharp, I am woken up by the cacophonous sound of our drill sergeants screaming "lights, lights, lights!" I guess alarm clocks are out of season.
"What the hell is all of this!?" one of them yel...
2024-09-25 04:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor reasons I genuinely do not understand, my arm is suddenly in a lot of pain, and I've been struggling a bit this week for other reasons up until this point anyway, so I'm just going to swap my break week from next week to this week. I need some time to heal from whatever the heck messed up my tendon again. :/
Apologies for the short notice, see you all next week.
2024-09-17 21:35:42 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay again. Had a bit of a rough week, mental health wise, but I'm doing better now! Got a few things to say here that are minor spoilers, namely the content warnings and the theme song links, so if you don't care or want to save that for later then feel free to skip! If you want to know, the content warnings are for PTSD, PTSD, and more PTSD. As for the theme songs, we have three—count them, three theme songs relevant to this chapte...
2024-09-15 03:47:56 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Here we go! It's the boot camp arc! Content warning for general callousness of war and indoctrination tactics for like, the next few chapters at least. Enjoy!
"Congratulations on completing your special power training, recruits," Commander announces. "What you have learned here is a basic background of knowledge on how to control the abilities that random chance has decreed to give you, and a basic understanding of what your future role in the ...
2024-09-11 04:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the delay on this one, had a bit of a busy few days. Uhhh, content warning for PTSD and dissociation! Enjoy!
"Veritas! Up front!"
"Urraaagh!"
Veritas charges forward, slamming her shield into the jaw of the monster bearing down on Aurora. I fire off a shot to her right, finishing the beast she had been engaging previously before it can collect its bearings. Aurora herself is a flurry of movement, simultaneously attacking m...
2024-09-07 23:11:45 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello everyone! I'm back! Break week is over and regularly scheduled posting resumes. Enjoy the chapter!
"I told you all you shouldn't let Julietta play Monopoly!" Emily laments.
"I'm gonna get her this time!" Peter insists.
"…I thought Monopoly was all luck," Christine sighs.
I frown at her, my eyes flashing over my numerous rows of green houses. That's a hell of a thing to say when you're seven spaces away from Boardwalk.<...
2024-09-04 03:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Rage against the past. Rage against the future. Rage, rage, rage, rage.
2024-08-25 05:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Time for more traumabot! :3c
"…Aw man," Anath grimaces. "Do I have to? You're no fun to fight."
"You need to establish a better balance between enjoying a battle and actually winning it," Nanaya chides. "Considering that you have yet to best me, perhaps having a partner will be of some assistance to you."
Oh boy. Considering how I've seen Anath fight, I don't know if I'll be much help against someone she's apparently never beaten....
2024-08-24 01:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: For those of you that like getting my ebooks, this is the last chapter of Are You Even Human: Volume One. It's not the best ending for a complete book—after all, there is so much more story to tell—but I have to end the first volume somewhere and I think this is the best available place. Once the ebook becomes publicly available, I'll start posting chapters to Royal Road, so please keep an eye out for that and help me spread it around if you're so inclined! For those...
2024-08-21 06:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: content warnings: hot girls give you exposition. also slavery and stuff. i'm very sleby.
I can't believe this woman had the balls to be offended at being called a Disney villain when she names her organization the fucking Dark Rebellion. But hey, whatever, I did it. I have my foot in the door. Let's see if I can kick it open.
"So, how did all this happen?" I ask.
"The Dark Rebellion?" she asks, somehow saying the name with complete seriou...
2024-08-16 07:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Howdy! :D This is the second to last chapter of Volume 1 of Are You Even Human, which I am very excited to complete because it will mark the start of public releases! This means nothing to all of you; weekly updates will continue as normal, since the volume breaks are fairly arbitrary in regards to the story as a whole. But I'm still excited! And I hope you're excited for the chapter! Enjoy!
People with flashy, dangerous superpowe...
2024-08-13 16:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello! Sorry for being a bit late with this one, but I think it'll be worth the wait. Hopefully I'll be back on schedule for next week. Anyway, I need to go eat breakfast, so uh... enjoy!
So. Melpomene sleeps topless. I didn't really expect that, but y'know. Here we are. Here we have been, for like half an hour now.
Melpomene lies unconscious on her back in front of me, one arm and one breast hanging out from under the covers. And ...
2024-08-10 17:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey there! Apologies for the slight lateness on this one! Things have been a bit hectic over in my corner of the woods (we're getting a new roommate!) so my schedule has been pushed back a bit. Expect a day or so of delay on MGMH as well, but hopefully things will be back to normal soon. Anyway, thanks for your patience and enjoy the chapter! I think this one benefited from a bit of time in the oven anyway.
I suppose I shouldn't count my chickens befo...
2024-08-08 02:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter was tough to write. I'm struggling a bit getting the portrayal of Melpomene's character exactly where I want it to be. I think this turned out okay, though. I hope you all enjoy!
The chill of thorns growing inside my soul is my only sensation, my only thought. I know nothing, but I feel as though I should know something, as though I should be more than this. Who am I? What am I?
The latter qu...
2024-08-03 09:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm Natalie! :D Also, for those of you who don't read AYEH or simply didn't read the author's note: there wasn't a MGMH chapter last week because I split my break and shuffled it around a bit. There will be a chapter during what would normally be my break week (28th-2nd) but there WON'T be an AYEH chapter then. See you on the 2nd!
A monster and a robot stalk the nighttime streets of downtown. What crimes shall we commit?
I'm makin...
2024-07-27 06:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello again! Man, I'm so glad we're past the pre-rewrite version of the AYEH now. I'm having a lot more fun writing it, getting through new stuff and not being stressed about the looming "this isn't as good as it could be" that was attacking my brain the first go around. I hope everybody is enjoying reading things as much as I'm enjoying writing them! We're actually relatively close to the end of the first book, which I am extra excited about! Thank you all so much for supporting...
2024-07-24 03:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Howdy everyone! I had fun with this chapter. Quick warning that it's possible we won't have a MGMH chapter this week; I have a good friend over from out of state so I might split up my break week this month, but she likes helping me work so maybe I'll write something anyway. I dunno. We'll play it by ear. But if there's no MGMH this week, there will be one on the 2nd, and if there is a chapter this week there won't be one on the 2nd. Y'know, unles...
2024-07-17 06:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hi everyone! Someone commented last time I posted that they missed my author's notes, so here's my author's note! :D Anyway that's all I had to say, enjoy the chapter.
Unfortunately, the first thing I learn when researching how to access the internet is that I can't access the internet.
I expected this, of course. My radio capabilities are receiver-only, so listening in on what other people are doing was always going to be my limit. Even...
2024-07-13 06:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostI shift my body back and forth, frowning in the mirror as I try to look at myself from every angle. I've been going on trips to the zoo for the past three days now, and last night I cleared out their entire catalog of animals. My twitchy, shapeshifting jitters have been all the worse now that I have so many more interesting ideas to work with. I actually ripped my shorts yesterday without even thinking about it, as the constraints of clothing have felt tighter and tighter around my neck. Obvi...
2024-07-09 10:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm sorry, Uma."
"You've done nothing wrong, Minerva."
"I'm sorry. I'm such a coward."
The wind whips through my hair, the green ribbons on my outfit snapping and thrashing against the current. I grit my teeth, holding Veritas tight in the fear that she will leap out of my grasp and return to the fight the moment I give her a chance. Really, though, I should trust her more. She's my teammate, and she agreed to retreat on my order. I shouldn't think of her as a liar. She's n...
2024-07-06 09:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Finally! My break is over! This early chapter definitely isn't due to the fact that I'm terrible at taking breaks. Except actually for real this time, since this chapter is very similar to the pre-rewrite chapter with the same name. To those of you who have already read that chapter, apologies, buuuut it's my personal favorite chapter, so read it again! I considered trying to write a whole additional new chapter on top of this, but it's probably better for my mental health if I j...
2024-07-01 07:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hello everyone! Apologies for the weight. ...I mean the wait. I didn't even plan that joke, that just happened. You see, My wrists are still injured so I will be using speech to text in order to write my chapters for the next month or so to ensure that they heal. Unfortunately, even paid to speech to text programs kind of suck ass, so it has been a little slow going as I get back into the groove. I had a lot of friends help me with this one, though, and hopefully with th...
2024-06-24 09:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostI stare at Peter. He stares back.
"...Are you an idiot?" I eventually ask.
"Ha! Woah!" Peter laughs. "Wow Jules, Lia's brain is really doing wonders for you. Normally you'd just politely try to talk me out of it so I change my mind without you ever having to nut up and say no."
I roll my eyes. I'm not 'normally' alone with Peter. Peter doesn't care if I toss insults his way, but I can't do that around other people because it would make me look like an asshole. …But I...
2024-06-19 07:26:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Sorry, but I seem to have strained my wrists again and I'm going to have to skip this week's MGMH chapter. Apologies. Hopefully they'll feel better in time for AYEH, but we'll see.
2024-06-14 20:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone! Chappy for you! Enjoy!
After everyone finishes poking at Peter and the other guy's domains to get a feel for what resonance effects are like, Commander has us all line up and sends us down to check everyone's domains, one at a time. The people around me give me odd looks for still being itty bitty, but I'm doing this for Anastasia, not them. Everyone's domains are pretty unique and weird, but I don't feel any resonance or d...
2024-06-12 08:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everybody! Sorry for the delay. This chapter starts right off with a magical girl transformation and you know who it is, so feel free to start playing Anath's theme! Enjoy the chapter!
…The fuck you mean destroy us both!? What the hell did I do!?
Fulgora freezes in apparent horror as power blooms inside the crystal on Ana...
2024-06-08 21:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm back break week is over I hate break weeks they suck and they are exhausting I might be bad at taking breaks. Anyway enjoy the chapter.
I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of this.
I wake up, I eat breakfast, I go to our daily lecture, take notes on everything we have to memorize for super school. Lunch. Power training. I've managed to get a template of everything that frequents our little training zone, outside of the ...
2024-06-05 05:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post