You've had this voice for as long as you can remember. They never gave you a name, but they call themselves a Jumper!
— Introduction of Quest
Pictured: Kimberly Heart. Not Pictured: Voice Guy.
In this SpaceBattles.com roleplay Quest, enter the life Kimberly Heart: an Ordinary High-School Student who just so happens to be the host an Eldritch Abomination since she was born.
However, after interfering with an Summoning Ritual that takes her whole classroom, Kim finds herself in an High Fantasy world known as Terra, where she must find her friends and her way back home.
Unfortunately, this gets goal is constantly delayed by the number of sidetracks this world has to offer, along with the the results of being the Host of aforementioned Voice Guy...
It is mastered by nanayoung and can be viewed here: Just An Average Voice In Your Head (A Jumpchain/Original Quest)
Now has a Reboot here: You STILL Have That Voice In Your Head?! (A Jumpchain/Original Quest Reboot)
Just An Average Voice In Your Head features the following tropes:
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Ms.Basic is the metal manifestation of the Basic Textbooks Kim absorbed inside her head.
- Badass Bookworm: Kim herself is a budding doctor and has been studying this profession long before this story ever started.
- When not adventuring, Topaz prefers spending their downtime reading a good book.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Jane is very soft-spoken and talks in extremely slow, fractured sentences. She's also the dangerous member of Kim's party.
- Topaz is quite withdrawn and silent most of the time...which is the perfect attitude for a master assassin.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kim, who is a pleasant and nice girl to know and be around, has access to the powers of an entity that may as well be treated as the second coming of Cthulhu, and isn't afraid to use any of them. There's also the fact that she's an ex-cannibal who still has those cravings...
- Big Sister Instinct: Jane will never allow any harm to come upon her little sister Sarah ever again.
- Theo is VERY protective of Alice and will do everything in his power to protect her from any harm. Alice isn't always appreciative of this though, hating how overboard her brother can get her sake.
- Break the Cutie: Willow, Keerla's half-human niece, after she's kidnapped and experimented on for an unknown amount of time.
- Broken Bird: Proto, due to being taken captive and experimented on by radical dwarves for a decade.
- Brother–Sister Team: Alice and Theo Millison. Bonus points for being twins.
- The Cassandra: Topaz told their siblings about their suspicions about Kaito but they didn't listen. Apparently, this isn't the first time they ignored Topaz's warnings and eventually, this becomes the incident that breaks the camel's back, causing Topaz to join Kim's party.
- Cool Teacher: Ms.Basic, the second voice in Kim's head.
- Cheerful Child: Sarah, despite enduring the trauma of being Unwitting Test Subject so young, is just as innocent and full of life as ever. Justified, since she's been brought back to life and healed physically, mentally, and spiritually by the Dress Of Heaven.
- Cute and Psycho: Kim's murderous nature and adorable exterior are equally at display at all times.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Unknown and unfathomable ancient horror or not, Voice Guy is on the side of Kim and her friends.
- Deadpan Snarker: Voice Guy, Voice Guy, VOICE GUY.
- Despair Event Horizon: They Who Float Between Wind And Rain had lost all of hope ever returning home and being brought back to normal...until Kim came along.
- Dimensional Traveler: Voice Guy's official status is that of a Jumper: beings who travel to different universes Multiverses. Due to the ROBs being easily bored, they have ended up a whole system for multiverse travel where ordinary beings get the chance to travel to various different multiverses and go on adventured in these different multiverses for for the amusement of their Patrons.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Jane's main power is to control dust.
- Eldritch Abomination: So far, it hasn't been properly established just what the hell Voice Guy is other than that he's really, really old and is a Jumper knowledgeable enough to know spells with the power to bring great harm and fear to the Top God of the new world Kim is brought to.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Suffice to to say, if there's a fantasy trope, the writer will have it put in one way or another. So far there have been humans, elves, harpies, dragons, elemental birds, Fish People, robots of all kind, symbiotes, shoggoths, demons, ghosts, vampires, and god knows what else.
- First Time Feeling: The Blood Magic circle that VG has Kim make to interrupt the Summoning Ritual leads to the Supreme Goddess experiencing pain and helplessness for the first time in her long, long life.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble:
- The Optimist: Sarah.
- The Cynic: Jane.
- The Realist: Kim and Ms.Basic.
- The Apathetic: Voice Guy.
- The Conflicted: Topaz.
- Freaky Is Cool: What an normal person would find horrifying, disturbing, or disgusting, Kim finds beautiful, cute, and awesome.
- Freudian Trio:
- Genre Savvy: Whether recognizing a Call to Adventure or when an Wham Line is about to be dropped, VG has been around long enough to recognize signs of certain things to come.
- God Is Good: The Supreme Goddess takes a nurturing approach when it comes to the world she created and its inhabitants, being a positive figure of worship and is prepared to protect her children no matter the danger she can personally face.
- Good is Not Nice: Voice Guy, via virtue of being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. They're also very encouraging of Kim's ruthless side and is heavy on pragmatism at any given situation.
- Heroic Host: The central premise of this is our protagonist, Kim, being the current host of an entity of completely alien origins.
- Hero of Another Story: Or Villain of Another Story due to how Ambiguously Evil Voice Guy is. However, every since she was born, Kim has been dreaming about the many adventures VG has had in the past via experiencing their memories.
- Honest Advisor: Voice Guy spars no expense when it comes to telling Kim what absolutely needs to heard when she needs to hear it.
- Horrifying Hero: Thanks to Kaito's experiments, Jane is an one-eye creature with unnaturally bendy limbs and the powers to control dust of almost all kinds. She's still a quite friendly and helpful individual.
- Humanoid Abomination:
- Whenever Kim allows Voice Guy to take over her body. When such a switch up occurs, Kim intentionally looks older, but as time goes on, cracks form in her skin, grows extra appendages, an sinisterly red aura that echoes whispers and screams, and completely inhuman Glowing Eyes of Doom.
- Thanks to Kaito's experiments, the various monster girls and some of the Binding Entities are examples.
- The Soul Gems take the form of humanoids, but those are just the projects of their gems, their actual bodies and are The Needless and The Ageless as a result. The same applies to their leader, Sapphire, even though they are more of an Horned Humanoid.
- Thanks to the the experiments of radical dwarfs, Willow and Proto have become humaniod beings made out of Anti-Magic itself.
- Kids Are Cruel: Deconstructed and justified when it comes to Kim's childhood. Alot of her actions during that timeframe - trying to stab the mailman, trying to eat the next door neighbor's kid - were all caused by fully immersive Past Experience Nightmares caused by being Voice Guy's host, and as an consequence, saw and experienced things no child should ever have to encounter. So any cruelty and callousness Kim exhibited was her way of lashing to somehow make those nightmares stop.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Apparently, the Summoning Ritual that brings heroes to Terra tend to lose their memories of their lives on Earth.
- Laser Blade: Sarah's red and white Power Armor comes with one. It can even shoot out a Sword Beam!
- Lovecraftian Superpower: Riku's, otherwise known as the Crawling Chaos, main power is to transform into a variety of monster girls with different powers and abilities.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Keerla fully admits to this in regards to not being able to see Kaito's truth intentions until is was too late.
- Mad Scientist: Kaito aka the Thief, to a truly disturbing level.
- The Mentally Disturbed: Every since she was born, Kim has to had deal with the Recurring Dreams that are the memories of Voice Guy. Due to Voice Guy being an Eldritch Abomination, this left Kim mentally unstable as growing up and turning her personality for the worse. Even after becoming a better person and seeing a therapist to work out her issues, Kim still has quite the wrapped view on life which causes more Selective Obliviousness than she'd care to admit.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: As a replacement for her Bound Object, Voice Guy gives Jane an Endbringer Core.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, Topez had a bounty on their head in the past due to a run in with law enforcement.Voice Guy: You have a bounty on your head? The fuck did you do?Topez: Not anymore! And nothing. Nothing illegal anyway. Or at least, it wasn't supposed to be.
- Outside-Context Problem: Through Kim, Voice Guy is this. From the moment they've managed to completely disrupt the summoning circle to Terra and actually hurt the Supreme Goddess, they've been an unimaginable interference to the world's balance of power.
- Outside-Genre Foe: The more information is revealed about Voice Guy, the more they come across as an incomprehensible entity straight out of an Cosmic Horror Story with a host that landed in an High Fantasy setting.
- Pint-Size Powerhouse: Sarah, thanks to VG giving her Dress In Heaven.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Kim and Alex, every since the former saved the latter's life in an alley way and stayed with him throughout the whole trip to and at the hospital.
- The Pollyanna: Kim is clearly the eternal optimist of this story. It is also very clear that this point of view really screws with her perception of the world and people before her.
- Power Armor: Kim commissions Fredrica Mercury to create "battle bling" for Sarah, which is based of the armor of Nicole, the Hero of Christmas.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: A gender inverted example: Kaito is this to Riku. In fact, Kaito did all of his inhuman experiments is due to the fact that he couldn't get over their breakup and tried to substitute Riku with his own monster girls.
- Red-Headed Hero: Both Alice and Theo are getting there as time goes on.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kim is the perpetually cheerful and enthusiastic Red Oni to the consistently cool headed and even-tempered Jane's Blue Oni.
- The Rival: Avenger considers both Jane and Kimberly this.
- Saintly Church: The Church of the Supreme Goddess, even if they have a few really..."devoted" followers.
- Sealed Good in a Can: Centuries ago, a hero named Riku sealed himself away alongside an unknown horror to prevent the destruction of the world...until VG!Kim appeared in present day and give Riku the power he needed to destroy said horror once and for all.
- Serious Business: Kim and Monopoly. That is all.Kim: Soon I will rule the Monopoly board! And no one will stop me! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- Sir Swears Alot: VG REALLY likes their curse words and will not appreciate them being censored at all.
- Spanner in the Works: Voice Guy getting Kim to turn the summoning circle into an Imperfect Ritual really causes a lot of political and spiritual problems for Terra and its twelve kingdoms.
- Stalker with a Crush: Alex to Alice, much to the latter's disturbance. It reached the point that Theo delivered an No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the boy that nearly killed him.
- Super Power Lottery: All those powers, items, and abilities that Kim is unlocking? They all belong to VG, and given the store's contestant updating, its unclear whether or not they have any limits to the amount of powers and tools at their disposal.
- Telepathy: Topaz has pretty strong mind powers and can even use a Psychic Link to get path any language barrier.
- Time Abyss: Is has been abundantly clear that Voice Guy is incomprehensibly old, with the heavy implication that he's way over a trillion years old. They freely admit to losing count on how many jumps into other universes they made after the thousandth one.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted, as Kim mentions having a therapist to help her deal with Past Experience Nightmares born from being Voice Guy's host.
- Villainous Legacy: Kim's main mission before going home is to go all around Terra and undo the twisted actions of Kaito that linger long after his death.
- Was Once a Man: When Jane asks whether Voice Guy was a demon, ghost, or a dead mage, Voice Guy states that they used to be all of those things.
- Wham Line: Quite a couple:
- Jane gives one the day after Kim revives Sarah completely:
Jane: My real...name...back when...I was...human...was...Alexandria Alessa...Alexa Alyx....And I...am — or...was the...crown princess...of the...human kingdom...- Kim gives her own dousy shortly after the above:
Kim: Oh. Well, when I was younger I was really into cannibalism!- Kim once again, when she uncovers the Evil Plan of the dwarfs that kidnapped Willow and Proto
Kim: They want to — well. They're a bunch of dwarves that don't like elves. And so to get back at them they want to blow up the leyline in the city. - Worldbuilding: Terra, the setting that Kim finds herself summoned in already has its own long and rich history filled with characters and places of the Twelve Kingdoms their own grand stories to tell.
- Yandere: There's a heavy implication that the unknown monster Riku fought on the moon was created by Kaito to sedate him enough to get back together with him.
