The Crimson Hunter. SAO X Reader. [DRAFT].

Reboot Progress, Final Update.

Alright, hello everyone, this is the final update that I am going to post here before i begin my work on the reboot for good, but before I do that, I need to make some points here that are very important concerning the new book.

So, First and foremost, I have watched the SAO Progressive Movie, I loved it, it was a great film that built on what was already done immensely well, but while the movie was great, and provided a whole lot of new writing material to help within the first two episodes alone, it does cause a few problems for me as a writer of a fanfic. (Spoilers Below).

This is because of what was shown within the film, The film does follow the events of the light novel rather closely with the exception of a few changes in order to not only fit the anime adaptation, but to provide more detail and add a new storyline and character to benefit the character of Asuna and her story within the first month. While this is great and allows me to love SAO all over again, this brings a dilemma.

As you know, in this book it was written so that Asuna was a part of the reader characters guild in the purpose of developing her character more, however now that has to change due to the floor 1 boss battle going in an entirely different way, with her and Kirito progressing to floor 2 together. Another problem also arises with the introduction of the character Mito, an entirely new character that isn't really referenced in the novels, and had a whole active involvement in the boss battle, and is also now put on her own in the world of Aincrad, there also a bunch of additional character appearances such as Argo and Johnny Black. This is a problem for me since now not only do I have to write around the issue of the story changing, but now I have to take the character of Mito into account as well. That and with the sequel being set in Volume 5, an entire time skip to the fifth floor.

Now, what I have decided to do is write my way around this, I will carry on with my plan, however I will now decide to exclude Asuna out of the main story, while she will still be highly involved and with a close friendship with all the characters like before, and I will only use subtle referencing to Mito and Various events of the progressive light novel in certain chapters. I now just have to work my way around it. And hopefully after the second film releasing next year, they will go on to do an actual series to make things easier, I will make any changes needed depending on what happens in the future sequel and/or possible series.

And then lastly, I have now completed the cover of the Crimson Hunter Reboot.  It didn't really take that long for me to do, however it was not only the first time using digital art in like a month, but also using various blending and gradient shading methods. But I feel as though it came out rather well, so here, please enjoy the new cover of this rebooted story:

I only wish it was in a better quality like when I was actually drawing it instead of a JPEG, but hey,  I'm still proud of the result regardless.

So yeah, that's it for any updates to make here, for now I'll start with writing the first few chapters in a group of 3 (4 if you include the Prologue) and ill make an announcement once I've officially published that group, I will of course keep this book open so that you can still read it and compare, but other than that, that'll be it for this book.

I want to sincerely thank all of those who stuck by me through this writing process, and i hope you will continue to support me with this redesign of a story i hold very dear to myself.

That's it for now, I will see you all in the reboot. PEACE!!!