Far from Home

The red dust of Mars swirled around the landing module, a crimson storm brewing in the distance. Inside, a lone figure hunched over a datapad, his face illuminated by the cold blue light. This was Elias, a man burdened by the weight of the universe, his heart a black hole consuming hope. He was on a mission to find solace, a place where the burden of his melancholy wouldn’t be a liability, a place where sadness was not a flaw, but a virtue.

This is a story of a plain boring young man named Jon. He is not the main character, he is just an ordinary guy, he is a minor character of very little importance. He is whiny and pathetic. And yet, this story is happening from his point of view—something is clearly wrong here, isn't it? Is this even a story? Could it be not a story, but just a moment of someone else's dream or death? Or...?

A world of the distant future. After a thousand-year setback in civilization, humanity returns to space and rediscovers inhabited planets. To the surprise of Earthlings, many planets have developed viable forms of symbiosis between natives and abandoned colonists. Karen, an alien language specialist, travels to the planet Gashran to study the goblin language. As can easily be seen, this work is a kind of fanfic for stories on Deviant Art, where the theme of goblins enslaving human women.

Julie and Jill meet and fall in love in sunny California, although it is with some reluctance. Jill, a nurse on the more serious side, isn’t exactly used to acrobatic Julie’s pranks and nuttiness, to say nothing of her psychic powers and eccentric nature. Then one day, Julie’s neighbor, who lives across the hall from her, is killed—the same neighbor she’s been seen several times fighting with—and it isn’t long before Julie is arrested as a murder suspect!

The infamous Janelle Stone seeks revenge on the corrupt law enforcement officials she once dealt with.

A modern girl, a child of the age of sarcasm, cynicism, and memes, accidentally finds herself in a real medieval setting at the height of religious wars. But Anzhelika isn’t one to despair, and by the way, now the noble Sultan Salah ad-Din, who has intrigued her since her school years, is very close by...

Two police officers investigate a case about a sect of crazy fanatics.

Her training as an enchantress is not even half complete. Her job is to kill monsters. She travels alone in a barbarian land, recently conquered by her compatriots. Her path does not promise to be easy, but she does not intend to retreat.

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The most frequently dying character types in art.