Reluctant Necromancer (GL) [LitRPG]

by SuperSapphicSydney

ActionAdventureContemporaryDungeon CrawlerFantasy

Shadow rank ~#2138 in Romance↓15

I'm Grace. I work in a funeral home as a mortician and I'm more comfortable with my dead customers than the living. After a System Integration apocalypse I'm set on a path that let's me really embrace that aspect about myself. Hopefully my undead minions will keep the pesky living beings away, but my BFF Mara might have something to say about that. If she gets her way I'll quickly be partied up and saving the world alongside her. Ew. Guess we'll have to wait and see how things go. What to expect:Queer characters, lots of themNeurospicy charactersViolenceReluctantly taking up the mantle of heroPeople repulsed by myself and my minionsNot caring about people being repulsed by myself and my minionsI'm not sure where this is going, I'm as much along for the ride as you areUseless lesbiansSlowburn Romance*Tags may change*

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Current Rank

N/A

Peak Rank

#15

Followers

304

Story Timeline

Started

1y ago

Tracking

8mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

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#15 Contemporary

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#44 Contemporary

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Overview Views and follower statistics Engagement Prose Chapters

Ranking History

Track position changes over time

24h 7d 30d

Rating Breakdown

Overall4.61

Style5.00

Story5.00

Grammar5.00

Character5.00

Streak History

6/15/2026

Peak #50

6/10/2026

Peak #44

5/10/2026

Peak #23

30d

5/4/2026

Peak #48

5/4/2026

Peak #50

Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:39 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:39 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

41%

Two or more lists

Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.

Leading bundle: Contemporary (39%).

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

~#766960

#7669 of 12,099 · 7619 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-61/wk

Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%

Shadow rankObserved RR rank

By genre

Reader Funnel

How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 50–149 chapters

Views

53k

1.4 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 52% of similar stories

Followers

304

0.24 favs / follower

beats 49% of similar stories

Favorites

Traffic (last 30d)115 views/day

beats 46% of similar stories

Conversion trend

Coolingrecent 1.4/1k vs lifetime 5.7/1k

Mid-pack, room on both levers

Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.

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.