Recommendations Quick Transmigration (QT) that's different from usual

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  1. admira

    admira Dino Pirate

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    I'm looking for a QT story that has some different points than usual. By my current standards, that's something that is different from any of the following points:
    • It's a romance
    • The love interest is a soul who they encounter in every world. The love interest does not have memories of the previous iterations at first, or is aware and purposefully hides it.
    • The love interest is secretly some powerful demigod or immortal soul. Either that, or they're super-competent and the MC relies on them instead of overcoming adversity on their own.
    • The MC possesses a "system" that coerces them into completing tasks or acting a certain way.
    • The MC's goal (set by the system) is to subvert the world's original script.
    • Despite the antagonists being considered "protagonists" by the world's script, they act like typical cannon fodder. They aren't well fleshed-out villains with realistic motivations.
    • There's no real overarching plot. If it exists, it's a shallow excuse to flaunt the romance.
    Non-Human Seeking Re-employment is one of the few that I've seen with differences on these points; namely, that the love interest isn't amnesiac, but a fellow worker (?) for the missions. Add in a shared living space for these workers between missions, and you have potential for a real plot outside of the mission arcs.


    While I'm at it, here are some thoughts on how a story could be different:
    • No romance, imagine that! The MC has some other goal.
    • A Gantz-like system (like Non-Human Seeking Re-employment) where it isn't just the MC (and love interest) skipping from story to story.
    • Instead of the love interest being the Supreme God (both in plot and behind the scenes), the MC is the one raising them up.
    • The plot provided to the MC by the system is actually the previous iteration of the story. There's a rival faction of systems/users who actually subverted the original plot, hence the reason why the enemies are so shallow and face-slapping is desired (the script that the MC experiences is a re-enactment of a corrupted plot). The MC's goal is to restore the true plot.
    • The MC is actually the bad guy, but doesn't know (even though the readers do) or doesn't care. Hopefully with more interesting antagonists/victims as a result, and therefore more interesting conflict.
    • The MC isn't given a script to work off of. Maybe they don't even have an explicit goal, it's more of a "you'll know when you see it" like in Tsubasa; they had to do a bit of digging around to find the feathers.

    Anyways, recommendations are appreciated!
     
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  2. chloroform

    chloroform Well-Known Member

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    Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks
    I think that series filled all your requirement
    - no romance
    - no love interest
    - defy her own system recommendation
    - her goal is based on the wish of the people she substituting in
    - the antagonist with their pov as protagonist of the world
    - she has to compete with other task takers, reincarnators and otherworlders.
    - her overarching plot is to level up and survive and maybe figure out the mystery of the system and its worlds
     
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  3. ThunderingSnow

    ThunderingSnow Sipping up a cup of chaotic good...and boba

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    Reak Well-Known Member

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    Maybe...
    Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks
    The first arc you might hate but it gets better, it has its ups and downs.
    No romance.
    A system that is in the same boat as the protagonist.
    MC is neutral.
    There are many like the MC with system
    a okish female protagonist, she is not good person or bad person. more like chaotic neutral or neutral position. simply helping fulfill the wishes of people who were innocently miserable. the female protagonist will go to a far degree to give them a identity and cut off the evil that stands in their way of life (which means killing them off or torturing to satisfy the person who got hurt by them.) as we progress though multiply chapter the story view will change from quick transmigration but to more about universe, creating world, act of god and plane wars. you will see less of quick transmigration and most of all result of the quick transmigration.
    review
     
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  5. Emilyl

    Emilyl Well-Known Member

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    There's a Webtoon called Cheating Men Must Die. MC doesn't meet up with the same person every arc, and only has relationships when they suit her purpose.
    As for novels, there's:
    Side Character Transmigrations: The Final Boss is No Joke, where the MC is more ¿powerful? than her system and acts hilariously unorthodox
    And:
    The Villain is Happy Being a Father, where the MC is a toddler trying to get her dad-villain- to like her in every world.
     
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  6. Darkcrow.

    Darkcrow. Foul Tarnished

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    Is it an reverse harem webtoon?
     
  7. Emilyl

    Emilyl Well-Known Member

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    Nope. Other people might like her, especially the cheaters, but I think she only had a relationship in one world to make the cheating couple feel bad about their situation
     
  8. Illisaide

    Illisaide ╰(✧∇✧╰) Venti!~

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    Strategy to Capture that Scum Gong
    -MC does not have his own romance. In fact, his goal is to romance a different guy every world and destroy them.
    -System is cute. Has no idea of what’s going on, and is often babied by MC
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    Heroic Death System
    -He’s traveling through worlds because his friend’s girlfriend hates him
    -System is not an individual. It just gives tasks. How to complete them is up to MC
    -His goal is to die heroically in every world
    Reborn as a System
    -Well, the first difference is in the name. MC is the system.
    -ML is a human sacrifice in a wuxia world about to be refined into pills
    -MC’s main goal is to gain enough points to get a human body
    Supernatural Movie Actor App
    -so, so many other players.
    -No system
    -There’s a script, but he isn’t given it. If he goes off script though, his death chances rise dramatically
    -Romance...why don’t I just...copy and paste some of the synopsis-
    Xie Chi is a patient with multiple personality disorder.

    Xie Chi can never fall in love because the secondary personality is his boyfriend.
    Xie Chi’s only dream is to one day embrace his lover.

    In order to realize his dream, Xie Chi voluntarily bound to the Horror Movie Actor App. The app regularly releases horror movie notices such as Spirit in Red Clothes, Zombie Lovers, 1552 Haunted House…
    The selected actors will be placed in a real horror environment to survive.
    When an Alien Is Bound to a World-Saving System
    -MC and ML are both doing tasks, along with many, many other task-takers
    -ML starts out as MC’s enemy
    -Tasks are to save various planets
    -Overarching plot involves galactic war between different worlds
    -MC’s system is purposely created to have IQ problems and ends up fooled by MC more often than not
    -MC eventually ends up being “hunted” by the main system and the galaxy he saves (don’t worry, it’s a HE)
    Don’t Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin
    -ML is the system
    -overarching plot is to fight the main system
    -there are many task-takers
    -there are many main systems, and those who police them...
    -Some worlds have inverted plots where MC must fix
    -MC must figure out secrets of system and answer “where does the original soul go” “what powers these systems” and “what happened in his own past”
    Game Loading
    -until 3/4ths of the plot is done, MC hates hates HATES (important things must be said thrice) the ML
    -ML is a human who creates the worlds MC goes through with the help of his system
    -Many task-takers
    -Some worlds have inverted plots where MC must fix
    -Main goal is to fix the multiverse and create many other multiverses
     
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  9. zarya

    zarya Well-Known Member

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    I have a secret - MC has to solve a mystery in each world. Both mc & ml aren't op. After each world MC returns to his real world for some time so he never really knows if he's going to be back together with ML.

    Don't pick up boyfriends from the trashbin - No romance in every world, but there's an overarching romance line. After MC teaches the trash boyfriends a lesson he returns the body to the original owner.
    the ML is the system

    This cannon fodder is covered by me - MC is an intern host. ML has a cannon fodder identity. MC basically takes care of the ML.
     
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    Hweianime Well-Known Member

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    In Webnovel there’s a QT called Is it Better to be a Beta which has a Beta system that aims to improve the plot so its got more world building than the usual QT and more fleshed out characters - there are some 2D characters but they’re generally pointed out as 2D on purpose lol
     
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  11. Alina Moktan

    Alina Moktan LaLisa Stole My Heart

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    Different ML or love interest
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/quick-transmigration-with-female-lead-aura/

    Quick Transmigration: Snatching Golden Fingers my favorite novel, Non CP, cool and hilarious
     
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