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I'm probably going to piss someone off with this but

As great as the independent boss bitch trope in female oriented isekai stories are, I want a female lead that is a line away from crumpling over and sobbing violently. I want a female isekai protagonist who fought tooth and nail for the life she had back home and sure as hell won’t leave it behind. I want her to reject the identity of the person who originally had the body she now possess only using said identity as a mask of convenience to avoid questions from the other characters. I want her to be high strung and desperately trying to find a way back to her home and loved ones. I want a female lead who fucks up and feels guilty about it, because no matter how sad and unfair her backstory is, its her responsibility now not to spread the pain. I want a female lead who will go through hell and highwater for the people she loves. A female lead who knows what she's doing probably will get her killed but does it anyway because like hell she’s just going to sit idly by. I want a female lead to have a pained exasperated laugh instead of a cute one because of all the shit she’s been through. And I want the other characters to notice.  I want the other characters to at first brush off the female lead's new odd tendencies until she does something so out of character to the person she used to be that they can’t keep ignoring it. After that the other characters begin to notice just how different she is, old mannerisms and habits have suddenly disappeared and were replaced with new ones. I want them to notice how she mumbles about the “New face” as she passes by mirrors. I want them to notice the way she acts to feel almost scripted like she is pretending to be someone else. And I want the male lead to end up her friend and stay just friends because I want more male and female friendships that don’t end up in a romantic relationship. I want all the other characters to have their own agencies and ambitions completely unrelated to the female lead. I want to see the people who care about the female lead back in the female lead's home world do everything in their power to find her and get her back! I want the female lead to do reckless things like try to brush off a small stab wound or jump head first into a creepy magical cave  because she has barely any self preservation and would rather die than not go home. I want a female lead who has to actively work for things in the plot and not have it deus ex machinaed into her lap.  I want a female lead in an isekai story to be a hot mess who wants to go home back to her lover who is equally as much of a chaotic hot mess as her, both of them fighting for each other in their own ways. 

Anyway thanks for reading my rant that will probably piss off a bunch of booktok girls but as a fellow girl who likes to read I want this in my stories, my opinion is completely subjective and biased you are free to disagree with it but this is what I want. 

chrissy on vigil by max’s bedside. 

switching between rubbing the blood back into max’s fingers, putting lotion on max’s hands, brushing max’s hair, and taking stock of her own still bruised limbs.

sitting by lucas while he’s reading to max and taking over when lucas has to leave or gets tired. 

asking lucas (and whoever else is willing) to tell stories about max so no one even gets close to forgetting what max was like alive and well. 

chrissy telling dustin she’s noticed his hat collection for a while and likes all of them. being fascinated by dustin’s fascination with radios. 

chrissy asking erica with genuine interest how she got into d&d, immediately getting more curious when she learns about figure painting and dice towers and homemade maps and dioramas. erica is no cliché and she has too many facets to ever be boring.

chrissy finding out nancy knows a thing or two about guns and with great trepidation asking if nancy will show her what she knows. saying she needs to read the school paper more. promising nancy she’s got the clear head and the clear eyes to see what’s happening in the world and call it out truthfully. admiring nancy’s dedication to not being just some girl. 

going to family video and getting into an almost heated discussion with robin over the ranking of brat pack movies before deciding st. elmo’s fire is superior. or maybe it’s the outsiders. is it the outsiders? probably. steve is making cartoon blinking noises.

chrissy being endlessly amused and in awe of robin, her solid sense of self. soon showing up to band concerts with a single pompom to wave in silence as a show of support.

something about will drawing chrissy in, even if he’s near silent, until she pulls him aside and asks what he’s feeling, if it’s anything like what she felt. getting to sit down together and explain all the leftover fear and dread to someone who might actually understand how heavy and how inevitable it feels. 

chrissy teaching max leg strengthening exercises.

driving to max’s house and either existing in post-vecna silence from the pain of living through it or doggedly pushing through and either cussing at their bodies’ weaknesses together or chrissy taking max’s hand and urging them both across the yard to the clothesline and back, then to the dog and back. and then to eddie’s house and back. 

chrissy asking eddie if there’s anything that can be done about his uncle’s trailer.

bringing wayne a new mug and flowers, desperately sorry he had to see her twisted the way she had been on his floor. 

every time she goes to see eddie bringing a hat or a mug for his uncle.

chrissy trying to ask what everyone’s favorite song is, but when it gets too hard to say and stings to remember, she asks about favorite albums. 

going to record stores and digging through bargain bins and whatever she can find that makes her think of the hawkins heroes. 

chrissy going to the picnic table clearing with a trash bag and determinedly cleaning up the tiny little space as if it will somehow cleanse it. 

chrissy being benched from cheer but still showing up to every game, now able to cheer for her squad even more than simply the players on the court. the girls become much less than just simple squad-mates and much more like friends.

chrissy telling mike and will she’s admired how close their friendship has been over the years. 

chrissy asking all four of the freshman boys how long they’ve liked d&d and what got them started. 

just once getting to have a conversation with argyle and hanging on every word that comes out of his mouth with a huge smile on her face, completely entranced and entertained. 

chrissy visiting fred and patrick’s graves to clean and decorate them. she didn’t know fred but from a distance and knew patrick on a friendly surface level, but she knows the horrors they experienced before they died. that’s enough. 

chrissy going to the hideout on tuesdays, not just to see eddie play, but to see corroded coffin. to hear the band members eddie is so proud of playing their hearts out. to actually learn their names and talk to them all and get to know them. she doesn’t scream or whoop or holler during their set but remembers particularly sharp riffs and rhythms to compliment later. asking about song names and lyrics and inspirations.

chrissy telling all of her female friends daily that they’re beautiful, slowly, eventually abandoning references to appearance altogether and telling them they’re amazing and smart or clever instead. what she might have liked to hear, unladen with subtext. 

the party having lunch picnics on the school lawn. 

creating summer game plans together and apart.

library dates.

desperately trying to reclaim any sense of normalcy within hawkins.