The Lucky One

by RegalQuill

Urban FantasyFantasy HistoricalSci-fiRomanceReincarnationUrban FantasyAnti-Hero LeadSuper HeroesKingdom Building

Rising Stars:Sci fi #1 Historical #1 Fantasy #19 All #19

On Rising Stars: Overall #19

A pragmatic self-insert wakes up in 1975 New York, discovers he is in a Marvel universe, and decides that money, patents, lawyers, veterans, and corporate power may be the only way to survive what is coming.

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Changes shown for: last 30d

24h 7d 30d 90d All

Current Rank

#19

Peak Rank

Followers

1,623

+1,459

Story Timeline

Started

1mo ago

Entered Historical RS

1mo ago

#1 Historical

1mo ago

Entered Sci_fi RS

1mo ago

#1 Sci_fi

1mo ago

Entered Fantasy RS

3w ago

#9 Fantasy

3w ago

100

3w ago

Entered Overall RS

3w ago

#9 Overall

3w ago

250

2w ago

Overview Engagement Prose Chapters

Ranking History

Track position changes over time

24h 7d 30d

Rating Breakdown

Overall4.16

Style3.25

Story4.00

Grammar3.62

Character3.62

Streak History

Current

8/11/2026

Peak #1

Current

8/11/2026

Peak #1

Current

8/11/2026

Peak #11

Current

8/11/2026

Peak #11

7/22/2026

Peak #9

20d

Shadow RS Climb

Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC

Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC

On Overall Rising Stars

#19

Now on the real Rising Stars list

Followers/day (7d)+40

vs #50 follower pace+193/wk

Predicted (shadow)Actual (on list)

By genre

Reader Funnel

How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 20–49 chapters

Views

81k

20.0 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 99% of similar stories

Followers

1.6k

0.23 favs / follower

beats 46% of similar stories

Favorites

367

Traffic (last 30d)2.6k views/day

beats 99% of similar stories

Conversion trend

Steadyrecent 20.0/1k vs lifetime 20.0/1k

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.

At this conversion, the Romance Rising Stars bar (≈6 new followers/day) costs about 289 views/day — the story currently gets ~2.6k.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.