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I Woke Up on a Mind Flayer Ship… and Gods, My Eye Hurts!

William_Conwell
William Conwell only wanted one peaceful evening: start a fresh Baldur’s Gate 3 run, make a character he wouldn’t hate in two hours, and, for once, actually get past Act I without deleting everything out of spite. After endless tweaking, experimenting, and contemplating his life choices, he finally crafted the perfect protagonist: Vrinn, a half-Drow Storm Sorcerer with wild white hair, storm-touched eyes, and zero facial hair. A sleek, striking, “I’m absolutely the main character” kind of look. He clicked BEGIN ADVENTURE. The screen flashed white. And William’s soul vanished from Earth. Across the planes, on the world of Toril, fate was twisting. A young half-Drow, Vrinn, had just been seized by Mind Flayers. Terror drowned out every rational thought as he was forced into a pod, a tadpole driven behind his eye. His heart couldn’t bear the shock. It stopped. His soul slipped away. And at that exact moment, William’s reincarnating soul arrived. Not gently. Not cleanly. But violently, crashing through the dying body’s fading life-force and slamming into the middle of the ceremorphosis ritual. The result was something the multiverse was not designed for. William awakens submerged in viscous alien fluid, lungs burning, mind fogged. Lights strobe. Flesh and steel writhe together around him. The Nautiloid groans as explosions tear through its hull. And something wriggles behind his eye. But what should have been the birth of a new Mind Flayer… isn’t. The ceremorphosis sequence was interrupted, its biological rewrite colliding with William’s reincarnating soul. Instead of transforming him, the tadpole is forcibly fused with him, its instincts mixing with his consciousness, its psionic blueprint overlaying his human soul. The Storm Sorcery meant for Vrinn is overwritten, the Weave itself bending under the strain. In its place, new magic awakens, cold, psychic, alien. A mind not entirely his own. An Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, formed from a merger that should be impossible. Dripping with mucus, breath hitching like a bad Wi‑Fi signal, and magic sparking at the edges of his scrambled brain, William hauls himself out of the pod. The Nautiloid is in full catastrophic meltdown mode. Somewhere, voices are screaming. Overhead, tentacles thrash through the sky like they’re auditioning for an avant‑garde interpretive dance. All he wanted was to hit “New Save Game.” Instead, he’s stuck in Faerûn, inhabiting a body that should’ve been deleted from the character creation screen, packing powers that read like patch notes from a bugged update, sharing headspace with an Illithid parasite, and nursing the sneaking suspicion that the universe clicked the wrong file. Still, if this is the glitchy respawn he’s got, he’ll make it work. Maybe even have some fun. After all, if the multiverse shoves a cosmic horror into your brain, you might as well see what kind of cool tricks it comes with.
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The complete collection of harunaru's fanfiction stories. ( Vol. 001 ) The Red Dragon Emperor & The Demon King of Sixth Heaven ( High School DxD/Fate ) Falling into a magic circle is one thing. Meeting a scary gun lady inside of it? That was scary. But turning into her, succeeding her, and inheriting her legend? Yeah, that was the icing on the cake. Namikaze Haru was perfectly fine with that, though, and if anything, the gender change was secondary. (Or so she learned.) ( Vol. 002 ) The Red Dragon Emperor & The Great King of Destruction ( High School DxD/Fate ) Namikaze Haru found himself involved in a figurative "holy war". A grail that can grant omnipotent wishes? Fast way to become a Harem King! ... if he can survive the other enemy Masters first. Hey, at least he's got a smoking hot Servant with him! ( Vol. 003 ) The Red Dragon Emperor & The Fox Priestess of Peerless Beauty ( High School DxD/Fate ) Namikaze Haru was always normal. And a pervert. The odds of him ever finding a girl were slim. So when Yuuma Amano approached him, there were no words that could describe the happy feeling in his heart. And then she attempted to kill him, revealing her true nature. At that moment, however, Haru's desperate pleas for someone to save him woke something inside of him. A secret that he was not aware of. Something that a certain vampiric troll is watching with great enthusiasm. ( Vol. 004 ) Flutter of the White Emperor ( High School DxD ) Ambition is a flame that is to be handled with utmost care. Ambition can, will, and has scorched the very world we claim to love. The fuel of ambition, more often than not, is power. What happens when the White Dragon Emperor has power and ambition in abundance? Well, the end of everything. With few he can trust and no knowledge of his future, things will be bleak without change. ( Vol. 005 ) Levia-tan's☆Harem King ( High School DxD ) Uzumaki Ruto used to be a normal, healthy teenager. His life was good. He was smart, strong, and very popular with the ladies. He knew his life was supposed to be simple. He was supposed to live normal lives, get a normal education, perhaps someday give up the foolish notion of building his own harem and settle down with a nice girl. It would have been nice... It could have gone on forever. Then some S&M-wearing Fallen Angel shit came around and messed everything up. A retelling of High School DxD with the focus on my OCs Haru and Ruto replacing Issei and Vali. ( Vol. 006 ) The Delinquent Queen & The Oppai Dragon ( High School DxD/ God of Highschool ) Naru is reborn into the universe of Highschool DXD with a Sacred Gear that belongs to another universe? And... did I mention that her Sacred Gear is too OP? AU-OP/OC-SI/OC-Reincarnation-High School DxD and The God of Highschool Crossover. ( Vol. 007 ) Love, Friendship, and Heart of Cards! ( Yu GI Oh! ) 16 year old Naru Scarlet finds herself in Yugioh season 0 after being electrocuted. She wakes behind a school and immediately bumps into Yugi. It’s a dream come true for her. Though she soon finds herself scared for her new friends. And why is she the one being rescued instead of Tea? Why do they all have American names and not Japanese? Is it the Manga or Anime? What’s happening! ( Vol. 008 ) Love, Friendship, and Heart of Cards! II ( Yu GI Oh! GX ) After 10 years after the match between the King of Games and Atem, Domino City opens the Stadium doors, to give new students a spot to join the prestigious school of Duel Academy island. Ruto and Haru are contestants with dreams to achieve by passing the exam. What does a new Generation do to an Island full of adventures? A retelling of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX with the focus on my OCs Ruto and Haru replacing Jaden and Syrus. ( Vol. 009 ) Beloved Daughter of Konoha ( Naruto ) Kakashi fell to his knees, trying his hardest to stem the flow of tears from his eyes and clutching a hand to his chest, trying his hardest to stop the ache coming from his h
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