History Literature / IsekaidShoggoth

* SerialEscalation: Roxolane's brother, when he returns home, keeps giving her father increasingly important news, starting from what he in perspective considers largely irrelevant (he got the money Konistan owed them for the horses), goes to the important news (Roxolane was taken to the Sultanate), meanders to the critical (she got out alive and well), skips to the capital (she is now effectively married to an exceptionally powerful and wealthy witch), and finishes with one of Alyssa's communication disks, giving them a way to directly talk to her. His father eventually gets annoyed that he started with the most useless information first.

* SerialEscalation: Roxolane's brother, when he returns home, keeps giving her father increasingly important news, starting from what he in perspective considers largely irrelevant (he got the money Konistan owed them for the horses), goes to the important news (Roxolane is alive, but was taken to the Sultanate), meanders to the critical (she got out alive and well), skips to the capital (she is now effectively married to an exceptionally powerful and wealthy witch), and finishes with one of Alyssa's communication disks, giving them a way to directly talk to her. His father eventually gets annoyed that he started with the most useless information first.

* ReferenceOverdosed: While the locals are completely oblivious, reincarnators like Alyssa pick up on the references the gods have put into the population from local media from Earth. Alyssa is from the Gillespie family, as in the ''Film/SilentHill'' films, her arranged marriage fiancé at the start of the story is Edward Cullen from ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', a story arc involves a delusional nutbar who thinks he's in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' universe because he comes across a Loise de Versailles, Alyssa's visit to the elven country is full of headaches because of a conflict between the Capulets and Montagues, as in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', and when Klaus tries to do scrying on Alyssa to find out why his plans keep backfiring, he keeps getting gadgets from various games Alyssa Prime loved to play, including the cookie from ''Videogame/CookieClicker'', which he innocently '''eats''' and that just causes all sorts of problems for him. Alyssa lampshades the issue in several rants in-story, pointing out that often enough the expectations connected to reference do not pan out well.

* {{Angrish}}: The phrase "Arglbargl!" means Alyssa is annoyed enough to eat someone`s head. Or frustrated that she can not resolve the current issue just by eating someone`s head.

* ReferenceOverdosed: While the locals are completely oblivious, reincarnators like Alyssa pick up on the references the gods have put into the population from local media from Earth. Alyssa is from the Gillespie family, as in the ''Film/SilentHill'' films, her arranged marriage fiancé at the start of the story is Edward Cullen from the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' franchise, a story arc involves a delusional nutbar who thinks he's in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' universe because he comes across a Loise de Versailles, Alyssa's visit to the elven country is full of headaches because of a conflict between the Capulets and Montagues, as in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', and when Klaus tries to do scrying on Alyssa to find out why his plans keep backfiring, he keeps getting gadgets from various games Alyssa Prime loved to play, including the cookie from ''Videogame/CookieClicker'', which he innocently '''eats''' and that just causes all sorts of problems for him. Alyssa lampshades the issue in several rants in-story, pointing out that often enough the expectations connected to reference do not pan out well.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Literally. While Alyssa does try to warn people off first, she IS an [[EldritchAbomination]] and will not think twice about ending inconvenient lives if they are not willing to listen to reason.

* UsefulNotes/CommonlyMisusedWords: Per [[WordOfGod]], Alyssa was a psychopath in her first life. Most people tend to construe this as "psychotic" as opposed to "clinically deficient in sympathy".

* CommonlyMisusedWords: Per [[WordOfGod]], Alyssa was a psychopath in her first life. Most people tend to construe this as "psychotic" as opposed to "clinically deficient in sympathy".

[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Angrish}} Agrl Bargl]]]] Written by author pseudonym Cytotoxin and published on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/117113/isekaid-shoggoth/ Scribble Hub]], the story features the tale of one Alyssa Gilespie who was a modern era post-soviet Russian woman that got her soul transferred into the villain of otome game she just played in another world, but what's her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus? Why, she's inhabiting the body of an eldritch horror known as a shoggoth, posing as a human woman. The first arc involves trying to avoid the many "bad ends" of the original game her new identity hails from, and it only gets weirder from there. In no small part due to Alyssa being GenreSavvy and trying to avoid the usual pitfalls of isekai adventures in her usual blunt manner.

[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Angrish}} Agrl Bargl]]]] Written by author pseudonym Cytotoxin and published on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/117113/isekaid-shoggoth/ Scribble Hub]], the story features the tale of one Alyssa Gilespie who was a modern era post-soviet Russian woman that got her soul transferred into the villain of otome game she just played in another world, but what's her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus? Why, she's inhabiting the body of an eldritch horror known as a shoggoth, posing as a human woman. The first arc involves trying to avoid the many "bad ends" of the original game her new identity hails from, and it only gets weirder from there. In no small part due to Alyssa being [GenreSavvy] and trying to avoid the usual pitfalls of isekai adventures in her usual blunt manner.

[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Angrish}} Agrl Bargl]]]] Written by author pseudonym Cytotoxin and published on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/117113/isekaid-shoggoth/ Scribble Hub]], the story features the tale of one Alyssa Gilespie who was a modern era post-soviet Russian woman that got her soul transferred into the villain of otome game she just played in another world, but what's her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus? Why, she's inhabiting the body of an eldritch horror known as a shoggoth, posing as a human woman. The first arc involves trying to avoid the many "bad ends" of the original game her new identity hails from, and it only gets weirder from there. In no small part due to Alyssa being [[GenreSavvy]] and trying to avoid the usual pitfalls of isekai adventures in her usual blunt manner.

[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Angrish}} Agrl Bargl]]]] Written by author pseudonym Cytotoxin and published on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/117113/isekaid-shoggoth/ Scribble Hub]], the story features the tale of one Alyssa Gilespie who was a modern era post-soviet Russian girl that got her soul transferred into the villain of her favorite otome game in another world, but what's her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus? Why, she's inhabiting the body of an eldritch horror known as a shoggoth, posing as a human woman. The first arc involves trying to avoid the many "bad ends" of the original game her new identity hails from, and it only gets weirder from there.

* {{Angrish}}: Hear the phrase "Agrl Bargl" and it's a very good idea to stop everything and pay attention, because that's a sign that the nearest shoggoth, usually Alyssa, is angry enough to chomp someone's head, but hasn't found a valid target yet.

** The reason magic requires having flowers is because people believe it does. When Alyssa, being a shoggoth, is able to use magic by embroidering flower designs into her clothing and showcases that this works, the magic of the world setting changes, as people start using embroidered flowers instead of real ones.
** Character assassination, as a concept, is ''literal''. MaliciousSlander and identity theft are SeriousBusiness because when rumors about someone circulate, that person could, without their will or knowledge, ''change to match the rumors''. So when an arrogant scam artist starts passing herself off as Alyssa, to try and steal her pastry shop, tricking the merchant's guild staff into giving her the proper paperwork, the fact that the real Alyssa retaliated by legally slapping her in a slave collar and selling her off to ''a brothel'', is treated as '''exceptionally lenient.'''

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Literally. All shoggoth, like Alyssa Gilespie, do not like getting mocked. She can still reason, and will give fair warning, persist, and she does like the rest, letting your empty head literally roll, provided it's not eaten.
* LampshadeHanging: Alyssa is a troper, and she will name-drop every trope she comes across.

* {{Retcon}}: Cytotoxin states in the comments section that Alyssa is supposed to be borderline psychotic. The readers point out her behavior is clearly not matching any known psychosis in fact or fiction, so Cytotoxin puts in later chapters that Alyssa Prime (the girl whose soul got shoved into our friendly neighborhood shoggoth) was psychotic, but merging with the eldritch entity and the native human soul that was already present mellowed it all out.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alyssa has issues with rape, because Alyssa Prime had a very traumatic near-rape experience and was arrested for daring to fight back, with the cops lecturing her for hours on "excessive force."
* ReferenceOverdosed: While the locals are completely oblivious, reincarnators like Alyssa pick up on the references the gods have put into the population from local media from Earth. Alyssa is from the Gillespie family, as in the ''Film/SilentHill'' films, her arranged marriage fiancé at the start of the story is Edward Cullen from the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' franchise, a story arc involves a delusional nutbar who thinks he's in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' universe because he comes across a Loise de Versailles, Alyssa's visit to the elven country is full of headaches because of a conflict between the Capulets and Montagues, as in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', and when Klaus tries to do scrying on Alyssa to find out why his plans keep backfiring, he keeps getting gadgets from various games Alyssa Prime loved to play, including the cookie from ''Videogame/CookieClicker'', which he innocently '''eats''' and that just causes all sorts of problems for him.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Sultanate still practices slavery and is universally loathed as a nation, but they are too powerful for anyone to challenge them on it [[spoiler: until their crown prince picks a fight with Alyssa, and their sultan makes it worse by daring to demand she apologize for defending herself and winning]], and when Klaus, the Kraut spymaster decides it's a grand idea to steal her rediscovery of the process to make Wave Steel, by trying to slap her into a slave collar, Alyssa disembowels the guy and delivers the shattered collar, along with his severed head to the visiting Kraut prince, with both sides realizing this could have easily been an act of war.
* TouchedByVorlons: Whenever the gods place too many blessings on a mortal, or a mortal stumbles upon too much "otherworld" knowledge, or simply gazes into the VoidBetweenTheWorlds too much, this is what happens, and is usually referred to as "defilement" by the locals. As long as the mortal in question manages to avoid becoming a catatonic gibbering, self-mutilating wreck and can still function in society, this is usually a good thing, as they tend to be stronger, smarter, and more powerful, but it's normally avoided because '''PERMANENT INSANITY!'''

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The true horror of coming into contact with shoggoth, and why Alyssa Gilespie poses as human, is complete, self-mutilating, and irreversible madness on sight of the true form of a shoggoth. People who see one try and rip out their eyes to try and un-see it, and people who hear one speak in [conceptual] language tend to try and pierce their ear-drum to un-hear it, always becoming a gibbering, chanting, and screeching wreck with no recovery, with the very, very rare exception, who manifests bizarre powers and abilities but is still a bit loopy.

* ReferenceOverdosed: While the locals are completely oblivious, reincarnators like Alyssa pick up on the references the gods have put into the population from local media from Earth. Alyssa is from the Gillespie family, as in the ''Film/SilentHill'' films, her arranged marriage fiancé at the start of the story is Edward Cullen from the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' franchise, a story arc involves a delusional nutbar who thinks he's in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' universe because he comes across a Loise de Versailles, Alyssa's visit to the elven country is full of headaches because of a conflict between the Capulets and Montagues, as in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', and when Klaus tries to do scrying on Alyssa to find out why his plans keep backfiring, he keeps getting gadgets from various games Alyssa Prime loved to play, including the cookie from ''Videogame/CookieClicker'', which he innocently '''eats''' and that just causes all sorts of problems for him.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelive: What people think and believe greatly affects the conditions of this new world.

[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Angrish}} Agrl Bargl]]]] Written by author pseudonym Cytotoxin and published on https://www.scribblehub.com/series/117113/isekaid-shoggoth/, the story features the tale of one Alyssa Gilespie who was a modern era post-soviet Russian girl that got her soul transferred into the villain of her favorite otome game in another world, but what's her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus? Why, she's inhabiting the body of an eldritch horror known as a shoggoth, posing as a human woman. The first arc involves trying to avoid the many "bad ends" of the original game her new identity hails from, and it only gets weirder from there.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The story takes place in a medieval setting, which causes Alyssa quite a bit of confusion, coming from the modern world with vastly different sensibilities, even if she's not an eldritch beast trying to fake being human.

* LampshadeHanging: Alyssa is a troper, and she will name-drop every trope she comes across.

! DeliberateValuesDissonance: The story takes place in a medieval setting, which causes Alyssa quite a bit of confusion, coming from the modern world with vastly different sensibilities, even if she's not an eldritch beast trying to fake being human.
! DoNotTauntCthulhu: Literally. All shoggoth, like Alyssa Gilespie, do not like getting mocked. She can still reason, and will give fair warning, persist, and she does like the rest, letting your empty head literally roll, provided it's not eaten.
! LampshadeHanging: Alyssa is a troper, and she will name-drop every trope she comes across.