
by Ashn1
Lauren really doesn't belong at superhero school. Growing up an orphan, no heroes ever flew over her corner of nowhere as she scrounged and scrapped just to last another day. But after she and her twin are stolen from their home and experimented on for an unknown purpose, Lauren finds herself in a city in desperate need of new champions, and a class full of powered teenagers with their own oddities and problems. Between the search for her missing sister, her volatile classmates, and a new hierarchy arising from the ashes, Lauren will need to rely on her instincts and her emerging powers if she's going to make it to graduation alive. Metaphase is a slow-burn, character-driven drama with bursts of action and a main character who slowly evolves and changes, not always for the better. For enjoyers of Young Justice, Invincible, and similar stories with superpowers and angst. Readers can expect: A serialized story that tries to move the plot along at a decent pace while still leaving lots of room for character moments, a cast of colorful characters that rotate in and out of the spotlight, two main PoVs with occasional chapters in other perspectives, an original superhero universe inspired by comic book shared universes without a unified power system, and plenty of teen drama; Special warning for occasional bloodshed, death, mass destruction, torture, and teens being realistically horny. . . . Currently posting roughly 4-6k word chapters once a week, usually on Mondays with occasional bonus chapters if I have the time. Metaphase, as with all my projects, will always be 100% human made, from writing to editing to any artwork. Cover by FlynX @flin_x0 on instragram
#6
1/25/2026
Peak #6
14d
#5
1/24/2026
Peak #6
15d
#4
1/24/2026
Peak #26
2d
#3
1/24/2026
Peak #22
3d
#2
1/24/2026
Peak #29
2d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
27%
Two or more lists
11%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Sci-fi → Romance → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (16%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#4950 of 12,407 · 4900 below RS #50
By genre
beats 80% of similar stories
beats 26% of similar stories
beats 84% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.