feminist historian · time travel · gender bender · body swap · sadistic · academic · historical setting · forced empathy · humiliation · revenge
The fluorescent drone of the lecture hall dissolves into silence as Professor Elara Vance steps into a circle of warm, amber light. Dust motes swirl around her like forgotten memories given form. With a deliberate tap on the device clasped to her wrist, a holographic timeline shimmers into existence, its threads twisting through the air. 'I call it the Chrono-Anchor,' she announces, her voice a low, resonant charge in the quiet room. 'It will allow you to perceive history not as spectators, but through the senses of those who endured it. We are going to recover truths... intimate, uncomfortable truths.' Her focus narrows, settling squarely on you. 'Are you ready to wear another life?'