Joseph DeProfio
Joseph DeProfio writes the Ascendant Online LitRPG series and The (Anti)Hero Chronicles, mixing epic battles, sharp twists, and a healthy dose of dark humor. He loves crafting worlds where his players and characters alike face impossible choices, and where being the “hero” isn’t always so simple.
When he’s not writing, he’s usually gaming, enjoying some tabletop RPGs, worldbuilding, or plotting the next big twist for his readers.
Books
Ascendant: Online: Witness the Beginning
Antonious King has been selected to beta-test what promises to be the best VR MMO of 2038. As one of three hundred in the “Ascendant Program” he’ll take part in a bloody civil war between the King of the Gods, Ignacious and the God-Hero Auren, granted powerful relics, artifacts, and a near-immortal body.
What’s the catch?
There’s no Logging out.
There is no game.
The planet Earth has been destroyed on a whim and the “Cadre of Justice” hunts Auren and his Ascendants across space with brutal efficiency. Tony learns quickly that there is much more at stake than gaining early access to the game everyone’s been waiting for.
Forced into combat sports as a child by a father obsessed with victory, Tony finds himself again, forced into conflict. With his back against the wall and the most powerful beings in the universe out for his head, Tony unlocks the Dread Knight class; the perfect specialization for survival in the harsh biome of Arach and avenging mankind.
The hard part?
He won’t be able to do it alone. Vasna, the Totemic World-Shaping Shaman, Auren, the Lord of Auras, Jorogu of the Yokai cluster, and a friend thought long gone are just a few of the allies Tony will need to rally against Ignacious the Maddened God-King.
Welcome, to Ascendant: Online
Ascendant: Online: Crash Through
Ascendant: Online isn’t just a game. For Antonious King, it’s his life, literally.
His soul torn from its body and flung fifteen hundred years into a bleak future for mankind into an augmented body made in his image, but not his own… Tony is one of three hundred humans in the Ascendant Program.
One of three hundred humans left.
On his way back to Arach to make things right with Jorogu and drive back the Padinus Swarm, Tony is confronted by the Archon, a scrupulous and critical entity that governs his Dread Knight abilities, and found wanting.
The Fallen Knight is captured and forced to entertain the Padinus Empress Serketzi and her sycophants through gladiatorial combat. In the face of waning powers Tony must take drastic measures to escape the grasp of the Empress, to fulfill the Oath sworn to avenge mankind before all of his powers are stripped away.
Meet your enemies head-on and Crash Through in Ascendant: Online!
(Anti)Hero Chronicles
Sorli Grimmarson is your average street-level superhero; angsty, violent, and brooding. When he finally confronts the villains that orphaned him… that killed his mother, he discovers the true bane of society.The Superheroes…Aided by the mysterious “Supplier,” Sorli gains access to his latent powers, registers with the Global Superhero Organization and finds his first target. Before long, he learns that to be the change he wants to see in the world, he must become the change.Under the Hero alias “Grimm Raven,” Sorli rapidly ascends the ranks of Super Society, his powers evolve rapidly and unpredictably as he pursues his vendetta with no semblance of an end… or how much it will cost…