[Ficrec] Scarlet Woman - ilikeexploding

✒️ ilikeexploding

🔗 Ao3

📖 30/? Chapters (ongoing) as of 23 Dec 2025

🏷️ Isekai and Transmigration, Political Lysa, Merchant Queen Lysa, Technology Uplift, Industrial Revolution, Self-Insert

⚠️ Older Man/Younger Woman, Age Difference, Rape/Non-con Elements, Child Murder, Tywin Lannister's A+ Parenting, women's wrongs, Asshole Victim, Villain Protagonist, Biological Warfare, Poisoning, Murder, Assassination, Canon-Typical Violence, Genocide, Tywin is his own warning, Toxic Relationships, disproportionate retribution

You'll either love it or hate it. My obsession with self-inserts are because of the unique brand of novelty and the quirkiness that each inserted character brings to the fictional setting. SI!Lysa does indeed bring forth her personal style in dealing with her new predicament. Her brand however happens to be that of a psychopath.

She does seem to be taking the initial steps towards becoming an unredeemable villain though if her inner monologues are anything to go by. And unfortunately, it's mostly the fault of the crapsack society that she has found herself in.

These violent delights have violent ends, and all that glitters is not gold. Lysa is a terrible person doing terrible things, and deserves every terrible consequence that she will bring upon others and possibly herself as a result. Given that she's been reborn as a woman in Westeros, however, that's a price she's willing to pay. It's only gunpowder; what's the worst that can happen?
Or, a villain protagonist makes trainwreck life choices, therefore fitting in with everyone in this god awful world. Readers may rubberneck in hatred or fascination, at your own choosing.