by I_Suplex_Trains
Claire is a scientist working on exploiting bonding hormones to induce artificial trust for espionage and diplomacy. Julian is a covert ops agent incredibly adept at manipulating people with charm, confidence, and attention to detail. They have been close friends for years, having survived more than one impossible situation together. When Claire's most recent experiment has impacts far beyond her initial expectations, they find themselves hiding dangerous secrets while simultaneously being forced to expose others. Soft Power is a story about competent people in ridiculous situations, nerd humor, accurate hard science, absurdly bad soft science, and the strength of gentleness. What if there was a superhero powered by cuddles?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 13:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 13:38 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
6%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Comedy → Sci-fi → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Sci-fi + Drama + Romance (2%).
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
#6416 of 12,356 · 6366 below RS #50
By genre
beats 43% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 56% 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.
