by Jarex
Emotions are fuel. Happiness is ammo. Sam just wants to be a good person. It’s why she chooses to use her ability to see the unseen world of werewolves and vampires for good. Mainly, she hugs ghosts to death. But when shapeshifting aliens kill her cat, all the hugs and pleasantries in the world won’t get her back. Becoming a magical girl will. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy. However, even equipped with magic, guns, and extra limbs, she is woefully unprepared when an entire alien invasion descends on her hometown… +++ What to expect: Trigger Happy is a story about a young arachnophile who really can't stop adding spider bits to herself after becoming a magical girl. Expect guns, fun, and questions around what it means to be a magical girl in the face of an encroaching paradigm shift that may change the world into something altogether unrecognizable. Main inspirations are Magical Girl Gunslinger and Paranoid Mage. Book 1 and 2 have been completely written. Average chapter length is 5,000 words, released twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.This story definitely contains:- Idealistic female lead- Focus on Litrpg mechanics - Point/stat/spell system- A mix of early cyberpunk, magical girl, and supernatural- Guns.- Spider facts. °°OooO°°- HUGS!- Lesbian romance subplot- Occasional dark moments
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:58 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
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Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Romance → Action → Main → Fantasy.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (0%).
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
#6797 of 12,415 · 6747 below RS #50
By genre
beats 55% of similar stories
beats 47% of similar stories
beats 91% of similar stories
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.
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