ATLA, In A Darker World

Chapter 49

Earth Kingdom

Luca's POV

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If you were asked to name one thing that all Transmigrators were afraid of, what would be your answer?

Well, from experience as a Fanfiction author, one wasn't enough. Frankly speaking, It could be summed up to five.

In fifth place, the fear of getting thrown into a shitty, deadly, grim dark world and right into a danger zone on the spot.

Transmigrations that place you in hell difficulty right from the start, like being thrown right into a zombie apocalypse were honestly troubling to think of.

And that was just the world.

Taking number four would be the fear of getting thrown into a shitty character.

Now those tropes were everywhere.

Trash of the Count's Family

Counterattack of the Useless Son In Law

The Life Of An Extra

Especially the ones where you start as the trashy young master of an ancient family with zero talent, trashy reputation, missing parents and low family favor.

They took the majority.

Then they were similar novels where the MC started off as some sort of corpse demon, skeleton, demon beast, spirit, ghost or ghoul. The list is extensive.

Moving on. I would put the fear of not having some sort of Power up in third place.

The horror of fourth place would simply be infinitely magnified.

Firmly occupying the second spot and leaving third place in the dust for me was the fear of having my gender crossed.

It makes me shudder just thinking about it.

But that was for me and I'm not sure about others. But all transmigrators had one fear they all shared.

And that's number one. Identity reveal.

In the novel industry, it had become some sort of unspoken rule that once you're writing a transmigration story from original earth to wherever the beloved Truck Kun takes you, the main character automatically decides to carry the secret of his existence to the grave.

Or .... At least till when he's strong enough to ignore the vast majority of threats that may come his/her way.

Breaking this rule in the early stage would immediately cause any novel to lose lots of followers.

I should know. I did the same for one I once read.

Being particularly prominent among those who weren't reincarnated but crossed over through soul possession, the reasons for such a decision varied.

However, it could be agreed that revealing your true identity prematurely could invite unnecessary trouble and interest from unwanted parties.

So hiding it was the best choice.

Of course, not everyone wanted to hide it and not everyone could even if they wanted to.

As there were world's that played with the mind.

DC Martians and their ability to read minds.

Immortal cultivation worlds with experts who could peer into the soul.

The Yamanaka Clan and Uchiha clans from Naruto with their creepy mind reading arts, suspicious nature and scary Genjutsu.

That last one left a very deep impression.