Thread of Awesome: THIS! IS!! QUOTEFILE!!!

[Aleh]

<snrk>

"Not news, persay.

You said novel.  Web novel, or an actual published book?  Because if the latter, someone needs to fire their editor, stat.  The phrase is "per se".  It's Latin.

I'm aware, yes. It's a direct quote, though... and it's a Royal Road webnovel that got an Amazon ebook release.

That specific quoting comes from an ebook copy of the first book, downloaded well before the first novel got stubbed. The published version (which I have, mostly 'cause that quote got me to shell out the cash) has the entire sequence of events go a bit differently and avoids the circumstances that lead up to the exchange.

I regret that.

Still, the author is very much fond of parodying fantasy and isekai tropes in quotable ways. Bunny Girl Evolution has a bunch of other examples that I may or may not quote here sooner or later (like the time the gods replaced her system's help menu with a bad implementation/parody of ChatGPT).

His latest ongoing novel, Cat Girl Evolution (produced/released as a part of a rather hilarious event on Royal Road where a bunch of authors simultaneously released stories which were variants on a single, simple theme... and all of the ones I've read have massively taken the mickey on the concept, each in their own way.

Seriously, all of them are titled (or subtitled) "X Girl Evolution." There's Cat Girl Evolution, Phoenix Girl Evolution, Fish Girl Evolution, Horse Girl Evolution, Cow Girl Evolution, Phoenix Girl Evolution, Puppy Girl Evolution, Zombie Girl Evolution, Succulent Girl Evolution... you get the idea.

Each of them has a summary that starts the same way, too:

"She’s a X. She’s a Girl. And she’s going to evolve."

In the case of Cat Girl Evolution, the story takes the mickey on the concept in a rather simple way: She's a cat... mentally.

Sure, she used to be a human in a previous life. So what? She doesn't care. She's a cat now.

That leads to exchanges like this (from Chapter One):

[ Starter Quest: Solve the mystery of the fishing village ]
 
How do I do that?
 

[ That’s part of the mystery ]

 
Too much work. I’m going to look for snacks.

And when her village is wiped out by Lovecraftian monsters (because she was ignoring the starter quest), she makes one, critical discovery that will change her life forever: Fishmen are delicious.

Probably should cross-post this into a recs thread or something, or maybe post it there instead, but the reply was a good bit of it, and the quote was too funny not to share.