History Literature / TheChroniclesOfTaras

* SuperWeight: Sandra: -1 [[spoiler: Though she becomes a BadassNormal by the story's mid-point]], Cutter and Ghost: 1 [[spoiler: Though Ghost leans more towards BadassNormal from UnfazedEveryman at the story's beginning and Cutter is an ActionSurvivor]], Taras Jacobs/Lara "Yuma" Carroca: 2 ({{Badass Normal}}/{{Action Hero}}) [[spoiler: If it weren't for the lack of supernatural elements, Taras Jacobs could be {{Transhuman}}]].

''Literature/TheChroniclesOfTaras'' is a CreepyPasta [[HorrorWebOriginals Horror]] [[ActionAdventureTropes Action]] [[ScienceFictionWebOriginals Science-Fiction]] DieselPunk WebSerialNovel by [[PunnyName N. Somniack]] revolving around the exploits of Taras Jacobs, a 17-year-old girl with a mysterious past and a tendency to murder or permanently disfigure/disable anyone and anything in her way.

The story's narrator is Sandra Janssens, a girl who keeps the journals labelled ''The Chronicles of Taras'', which have fallen into possession of N. Somniack, who provides the series with [[ScrapbookStory background research into Taras' demented exploits]] with [[LemonyNarrator often sarcastic and irreverent commentary]].

The first story in the serial is ''Red Dementia''. It features Sandra being shipped off to a bizarre summer camp named 'Camp Moric' in the middle of a black desert, featuring seven other [[ActionGirl tough-as-nails girls]] who are forced to work in [[WrenchWench mines all day]], digging for scrap metal to further build on Camp Moric's grounds.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: By WordOfGod, a staple of the series. Our protagonists are all convicted criminals with the possible exception of Sandra (And Taras is a confirmed Murderer and mutilator of people), but a little investigation into the background of WebOriginal/TheRake brings up whether or not [[spoiler: these girls were simply attractors for The Rakes and brought to the Camp Moric to protect them]].

* {{Mordor}}: The "Black Desert" that Camp Moric is situated in is ''forever below zero'' and is home to, outside TheAlcatraz HellholePrison Camp Moric, [[WebOriginal/TheRake The Rakes]], [[spoiler: An Underground mall full of velvet-skinned, 3-foot high dog-like creatures (pictured) with poison that kills you over a few days and causes you to vomit blood and hallucinate, as well as a lake of fire, as well as high-tech machines the Counselors use to hunt down the girls]].

** WebOriginal/TheRake?

* BareYourMidriff: Taras, after she slaughters a venomous, Doberman-sized reptilian animal (pictured) with a hunting knife, skins it and makes a shirt/dress-like garment out of its hide. To find out what she does with its blood, see TribalFacePaint.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: All the nicknames. Ghost, Cutter, Yuma...

* WaifFu: In Episode Fifteen, [[http://thechroniclesoftaras.tumblr.com/post/30326846833/the-chronicles-of-taras-red-dementia A Quintet of Teenage Girls take down a swarm of Rakes and Dingo-Snakes]]. Five Teenage Girls with weapons against Monsters? Really? Really?
** Really.

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: For a WebSerialNovel with relatively few episodes anyhow.