
by Syntax Scar
Deckard was just looking for a donut. The revolution found him anyway. A signal stone he didn’t ask for. A man he should not have slapped. A spectral bird screaming light into the sky over Millhaven. By sunset the Inquisition wants him dead and the only person willing to drag him out of the city is the rebel who planted the stone on him in the first place. She’s starting to suspect she made a worse mistake than grabbing the wrong man. She thinks he’s a liability. Her network thinks he’s a weapon. Half the countryside thinks he’s a god. All three are wrong. They just don’t know how yet. Deckard knows what he is: a man with bad instincts, worse timing, and a body that just won’t quit. He doesn’t want power, prophecy, or a cause. He wants pastries, peace, and a day where the bodies aren’t his fault. But prisons fall. Armies march. And mercy, it turns out, has a body count all its own. Details Book 1: 72 chapters, ~150,000 words. Chapter length: 900–5000 words per chapter. Posting: 1×/day on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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, 04:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:49 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
5%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Drama → Romance → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Drama + Romance (1%).
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
#10167 of 12,127 · 10117 below RS #50
By genre
beats 92% of similar stories
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beats 58% 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 20–49 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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