Six Simple Steps

Cynthia Elias has a dream to become just like the main characters in her favourite fictional stories! With the help of Isaiah, a greedy and hyper-competent dropout, and Chris Hunter, a snarky know-it-all, there's nothing that'll stand in Cynthia's way. ...Well, maybe that last bit about 'nothing standing in her way' isn't quite true. --- 'Six Simple Steps to Successfully Becoming Your Story's Protagonist' is a story about individuality, enacting tropes in REAL LIFE, and...?

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Cynthia Elias has a dream to become just like the main characters in her favourite fictional stories! With the help of Isaiah, a greedy and hyper-competent dropout, and Chris Hunter, a snarky know-it-all, there’s nothing that’ll stand in Cynthia’s way.

…Well, maybe that last bit about ‘nothing standing in her way’ isn’t quite true. — 'Six Simple Steps to Successfully Becoming Your Story’s Protagonist’ is a story about the act of creating, enacting tropes in REAL LIFE, unnecessarily long titles, and… angsty teens!?  — my silly webcomic about a trio of teenagers doing dumb teenager stuff is completed! you can read it here: (x)

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chapter four wrap up!! if you’re reading this, thank you!! <33

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part 1 of chapter 4!! thanks for reading <333

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chapter one: (x) chapter two: (x) chapter three part 1: (x) chapter three part 2: (x)

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chapter three wrap up! thank you for reading <3 <3 <3

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first bit of chapter three!

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chapter two wrap up! thank you for reading! <3

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the first ten pages of six simple steps to successfully becoming your story’s protagonist, all in one easy post! 

i’ve decided to bulk-upload to tumblr, and update page-by-page over on smackjeeves! 

in any case, thanks for reading, and hope y’all enjoy!

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what’s the exchange rate on flies to the canadian dollar again

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*cynthia voice* where did this coin purse come from, you ask? it was the ace up my sleeve all along! also it was very uncomfortable

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technically a chapter end card but tbh this story is not that long and didn’t really need chapters at all i just wanted six chapters because haha six. it’s in the title, you see,

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i don’t know how nasal strips work i just assume they’re magic

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that bruise makeup kit is for show isaiah just straight up punched cynthia in the face

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isaiah wastes a lot of paper because they throw out lightbulb posters whenever cynthia's ideas suck 

cameos from @syodork and @theroboknight!!

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this story's REAL genre is actually thriller mystery suspense and cynthia will be fridged for the rest of it (over my dead body)

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chris uses he/him pronouns! and with that, that's all the characters that're on the title page! (cynthia twin/clone/cardboard cutout not confirmed)

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everyone knows that if you keep trying to open a locked door, someone else will get annoyed and eventually open it for you

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cynthia hasn't learned the "teleport to school" technique all her classmates know yet

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