<p>Newcomer is my first story, started when I was like 8. It's flawed beyond saving, but I've got a soft spot for it. <br></p>
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<p>Emily is the quintessential self-insert. She looks like me but prettier, and she has my life but with exaggerated tragedy. She's isekai'd to a generic fantasy world via a portal in a black secluded lake near her neighborhood. Will has a crush on her from afar and happened to be trailing her the night she falls into the lake. He dives in after her and becomes her guardian in the next world. She always rejects his presence and help, but he never gives up pursuing her. (So mean, Emily! What the heck?) <br></p>
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<p>After meeting the evil witch queen Adah (who could have saved a lot of time and effort by killing Emily then?), Adah quickly enrolls her under her sister Annelore's mentorship. Emily is integrated into generic fantasy society, complete with an overly long and boring training arc with her mentors Annelore and Lewis. <br></p>
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<p>Emily is the last of her race (the Al Khara), and she's led on a fradulous "chosen one" quest to put her securely in Adah's clutches so she can eliminate the Al Khara for once and all because racism or something. <br></p>
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<p>Immature story, but Annelore and Lewis are actually kinda cool. Annelore is an exiled princess hiding under an assumed identity, but her natural aptitude with politics has elevated her to high leadership in her new city. She was cast out of the royal family of Calx as a teen, and encountered Lewis on the road who taught her basic survival and combat skills. <br></p>
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<p>Lewis himself is a serial isekai victim, and he'd been through at least five different worlds by the age of 17. He was there just long enough to get her established then got isekai'd again. Annelore figures he must have been an angel in disguise and was taken back into heaven. She never moved on emotionally, though, missing him every day. Then, at a critical moment, he returns, having found his way back to his true love. (He also looks exactly like Edward Elric because why not? lol) <br></p>
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<p>(Why weren't they the main characters? None of this is even in the story. It's just the backstory I had in my head for them.) <br></p>
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<p>Adah has a boyfriend, too, named Koda. She's supposed to be a loveless icon of her church-state, so Koda's her secret "mistress." They're just evil, though, without much more to them. <br></p>
