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by emriverawriter
Every MWF at 12pm EST / Book 3 Finale Oct 16 To be made and to be broken. Calista Medley lives her life beneath a million micro-cameras. Her mother, one of the most famous and admired Socializers, has conditioned her to be completely flawless. The Medleys must live a rich and coveted dream, constantly broadcasted all over Earth for everyone to watch and envy, seeing the family as part of the ideal, model society. But after eighteen years of fake smiles, viewer trackers, and constant self-modifications, Calista’s just about ready to snap. She instead dreams to be part of the Socializers’ ‘enemies’: a renowned fighter in the Versus Interplanetary Peacekeeping Games, a fighting tournament that determines the toughest planet in the Milky Way Utopia. She dreams to carry Earth to that first-place podium and show her true, unmodified, even flawed self that other fighters seem to brazenly flaunt. With a fighting career, she and her younger siblings could finally be free from the impossible ‘model society’ the Medley family pushes onto them. But with her dream comes a lot of risk. When she gets the opportunity to enroll in America’s fighting school, she’ll likely lose her family, friends, fans, and everything she knows, left with the agonizingly difficult path of success. It will be all or nothing in the biggest tournament in the galaxy for her entire family. All three edited books are available on Patreon. Extra updates available at @e.m.riverawriter on Instagram and TikTok and E. M. Rivera on Facebook
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8/25/2026
Peak #50
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8/25/2026
Peak #50
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8/21/2026
Peak #43
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Peak #49
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Peak #50
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
49%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Romance → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (47%).
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
#6083 of 12,418 · 6033 below RS #50
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