Parker's favourite villain has stepped into the real world, and it's her job to rehabilitate him.
Fiction was just fiction, until it wasn’t.
15 years ago, reality tore, heralded by the underdog of cheap kaiju: Meon, the Lord of Fire, a dragon not so easily defeated when there were no magic knights on motorbikes to save the day.
San Francisco burned and died under his fire, tens of thousands lost in the flame and rubble.
Meon was the first, and for better and worse, far from the last.
With Fictionals arriving every week, if not every day, the Acclimation Service Coalition has been established to help integrate them into society - from making sure superheroes follow airspace regulations, to helping orcs get drivers licences.
Parker works in the less-than-prestigious Satellite Office 19, processing paperwork and requests for those who didn’t arrive on Earth with a dedicated wiki page - and who, therefore, get less of the ASC’s time, money and resources.
During a quarterly check-in with one of her Fictionals, a circle of night appears in the clear blue sky, bringing with it her favourite magic-weidling, erudite villain: Pellion of The Courts Cosmic.
After angering a regional director during his intake, he’s left in the care of 19 and Parker’s unsure hands as their only Adjustment Officer.
Playing attendant to someone whose every fanfic she’s read is, at first, a dream come true, but less so when he fails to even try the “acclimation” part of the ASC’s hope for all Fictionals.
Not all villains get to live happily ever after, but even out of her depth, Parker has to try to avoid the other common outcome for villains: ASC’s very-secret, not-so-secret prison that offers no second chances.
Notes * I think it's okay, but still a bit weak - particularly the last two paragraphs. * The upper section in italics is something I'm thinking of adding to the top of all the blurbs in the series (as what I have planned is largely a set of standalone stories in this world) * It's quite a low-key and mostly slice-of-lifey story, going into the mundanities and strangeness of helping someone get used to a new world. * Does it potentially seem like a romance? I've had, at various stages of this blurb, a paragraph about what Parker's girlfriend is up to/that she's missing her, but it feels extraneous.
Fiction was just fiction, until it wasn’t.
15 years ago, reality tore, heralded by the underdog of cheap kaiju: Meon, the Lord of Fire, a dragon not so easily defeated when there were no magic knights on motorbikes to save the day.
San Francisco burned and died under his fire, tens of thousands lost in the flame and rubble.
Meon was the first, and for better and worse, far from the last.
With Fictionals arriving every week, if not every day, the Acclimation Service Coalition has been established to help integrate them into society - from making sure superheroes follow airspace regulations, to helping orcs get drivers licences.
Parker works in the less-than-prestigious Satellite Office 19, processing paperwork and requests for those who didn’t arrive on Earth with a dedicated wiki page - and who, therefore, get less of the ASC’s time, money and resources.
During a quarterly check-in with one of her Fictionals, a circle of night appears in the clear blue sky, bringing with it her favourite magic-weidling, erudite villain: Pellion of The Courts Cosmic.
After angering a regional director during his intake, he’s left in the care of 19 and Parker’s unsure hands as their only Adjustment Officer.
Playing attendant to someone whose every fanfic she’s read is, at first, a dream come true, but less so when he fails to even try the “acclimation” part of the ASC’s hope for all Fictionals.
Not all villains get to live happily ever after, but even out of her depth, Parker has to try to avoid the other common outcome for villains: ASC’s very-secret, not-so-secret prison that offers no second chances.
Notes
* I think it's okay, but still a bit weak - particularly the last two paragraphs.
* The upper section in italics is something I'm thinking of adding to the top of all the blurbs in the series (as what I have planned is largely a set of standalone stories in this world)
* It's quite a low-key and mostly slice-of-lifey story, going into the mundanities and strangeness of helping someone get used to a new world.
* Does it potentially seem like a romance? I've had, at various stages of this blurb, a paragraph about what Parker's girlfriend is up to/that she's missing her, but it feels extraneous.