Ryan-trovert

Makes anime stories (slice of life, seinen) for 30+ year olds. So follow me!

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About me:

Hey there! I’m Ryan, also known as ryan-trovert online.

I’m an introvert, a homebody, and a millennial from the Philippines with a deep love for storytelling and anime.

I work on projects that live in the anime space but with a twist.

My stories are made for grown-ups: mature, wise, funny, sometimes raw, and always deeply human.

Whether it's comics, games, animation, or novels, I’m here to tell stories that click.

Current project: "Absent Without Absence", a psychological webnovel about identity. Perfect for fans of Serial Experiment Lain and Paranoia Agent.

Start reading it here: https://cutt.ly/Jr4fu758

Or follow for future projects.

[ryan-trovert]

I kept my psychological mystery story to just 12 finished chapters not because I ran out of ideas, but because I’m a middle-aged guy and time is valuable. And it only gets more valuable the more years you stack behind you.

When you’re younger, it feels like you can spend forever writing a 200-chapter epic just to pad things out, stretch drama, or give yourself space to wander.

But suddenly you hit an age where you can feel the sand in the hourglass moving. You start asking: Do I really want to waste time writing filler? Do my readers want to slog through it?

I wanted every chapter to matter. I’d rather end a story at its strongest point than drag it along just because I can.

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[2087]

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In the photograph, Yumi and Masoto smiled brightly at the camera, frozen in a moment of happiness. The third figure—Daichi himself—was present in the composition, but his face was faintly blurred.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

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They were black dress shoes, perfectly polished to a mirror shine, unmistakably new. They stood beside Yumi's brown flats, exactly where his own work shoes should have been.

They were the same size as his own. The same style, even. But Daichi knew with absolute certainty that they were not his shoes.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

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In the bathroom, he reached for his toothbrush.

It was gone.

The small, familiar blue toothbrush—had vanished. In its place was simply a vacant space in the ceramic holder. Yumi's pink toothbrush remained in its spot. Masoto's small yellow one with the cartoon character sat exactly where it always did.

Only his was missing.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

[ryan-trovert]

Daichi closed his eyes, trying to force himself toward sleep, unaware that this evening marked the final moment of his old routine.

Tomorrow, everything would begin to unravel.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

[ryan-trovert]

I know it’s super common for psychological stories to end on some "open ending", but I decided my psychological story needs an actual ending. I just… don’t like stories that don’t end. Call it a creative hill I’m willing to die on.

A “non-ending” is what I call those open endings everyone swears are “artistic.” To me, if I start a story, I finish it. That’s the job. I don’t want to hand the climax over to the reader like, “Here, you figure it out.” No thank you. That feels like the writer running. Like they wrote themselves into a corner and decided the “open ending” was the easiest escape.

Sometimes it even reads like the writer was scared of ruining the ending… so they decided not to have one at all. Or they simply had no idea how to wrap things up. A bad ending is still better than an open ending. Of course, a good ending is the dream.

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[ryan-trovert]

Under the yellow bathroom light, his face seemed different. Not distorted, exactly, but subtly blurred. The blurring was faint but undeniable, affecting only his own contours while the cabinet handles and the tiled walls behind him remained sharp and clear.

This was not poor sleep. This was not an optical illusion.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

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It's the curved glass, he rationalized. Just an optical illusion. He did not look at the window again for the rest of the journey.

From Absent Without Absence webnovel (psychological mystery)

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