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Living in the Background [Reincarnation into a Cinematic Universe]
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Last published Thu, Dec 11, 2025
Old, drunk, and alone. He thought he would die in his apartment, and well-he did. But he didn't fade into nothing.
Stuck in the body of a boy named James, he now has to survive in a world that follows the rules of cinema: Main Characters with plot armor, Villains who can bend reality, and Genres with inescapable plots and tropes that the world is forced to obey.
He either learns the script-or dies miserably as a background character.
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