***After 10 years, this fanseries has officially been discontinued, but you can catch its reboot, Viva la Vida! ❊ Pretty Cure, on Fandom of Precure wiki and my social medias!***
An introverted otaku, a ray of sunshine, an admired prodigy, a cool son...
This month comes around the time I first posted EPPC ten years ago! I'm not sure if anyone remembers this fanseries. I hope this doesn't sound conceited but it was big on Wattpad for such a niche fandom, hitting the #1 spot on magical girl and Precure-related hashtags constantly. But I hope this announcement can bring someone, anyone, a little dose of nostalgia. I'm here to announce that I have since revealed the reboot of EPPC on my social medias,
Viva la Vida! ❊ Pretty Cure
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The Fandom of Precure wiki page for it has been up for a while albeit with limited info. For a 10th anniversary celebration, you would think I should contribute more.
I'm gonna be transparent—I've lost interest in Precure fan creation.
Well... somewhat? Let me explain in a very brief nutshell (but trust me the iceberg goes deep-). EPPC used to be a passion project, but over time I became so invested in it that I ended up missing out on some amazing opportunities and moments. It wasn't healthy, it was burnout. I am to blame for not snapping out of it sooner but it still serves as a reminder of that pain. Not to mention, my experiences with the fandom in recent years haven't been the most.... pleasant. To see a franchise I once loved ever since I was a child become tainted with toxicity and bullies has caused me to become disillusioned with Precure, which is a shame for a show that advocates positivity and love. These experiences caused me to wonder if it was really worth wasting my life away at contributing to a fandom that is so unpleasant. I've met a lot of wonderful people through my fanseries, but I've come to decide that the Precure fandom doesn't deserve my work. Not that I think anyone would care that much, but I think that's a win for me if anything~ I've been wanting to move on for a long time, but seeing all the support on here made me feel pressured to keep going despite all the issues it was causing me. Now that I've been able to open my eyes as a more mature person at 21, I think I finally have the strength to put my fanseries aside.
As such, there will no longer be a Wattpad/AO3 adaptation of VVPC.
However, this doesn't mean the project is completely defunct. I have an outline detailing the story and the characters and I will be using that to update the wiki page instead and perhaps add pages for the characters with their story development in the future as well. I can't guarantee it'll all be complete before the end of 2024 (especially since I'm not even done revamping the characters or the story), but I think what's most important is that I'm preserving my mental health and living my life the way I want to. So I will go at my own pace. It'll probably be a bit messy at first and you'll have to piece together the whole story through the wiki pages yourself. (Unless I decide to release the entire google doc outline to the public...) I'll also still release art related to VVPC (like the logo pic attached to this update!) but with the pressure off they won't be as frequent as before.
Honestly this is definitely not how I envisioned my fanseries' 10th anniversary back then, but I think the Fancuries nominations it got this year (thank you!) and me moving towards a new direction is probably the best anniversary celebration I can ask for for myself. I hope you guys understand <3 I will take this newfound freedom to find myself as a person, because all these years I feel my existence surrounded my fanseries alone. To no longer have it be the center of my existence, I feel empty. But I'm excited for this new chapter of self-discovery and with VVPC existing as simply a small side project from here on out! I hope once I've fully matured as a person and feel proud of my existence, I can fully return to this fanseries and find passion for it again, and thus rediscover my long lost love for Precure once again.
This got deep, I'm so sorry if this was long! It gets deeper but I wanted to keep this brief (and kinda failed, ahaha.) This may(?) be the last update you'll see on this story, but it was fun while it lasted.
Viva la vida!
TLDR: EPPC's reboot, Viva la Vida! ❊ Precure, will not have a Wattpad/AO3 story adaptation due to my mental health. Its story will instead be told through the Fandom of Precure wiki pages affiliated with it (fanseries default page, character pages, etc.) and arts on my social medias. Updates may be slow.
