Espeon804

Chapter 35 of "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Retaliation Corporation" is here! Enjoy!
          	
          	This will be the last update for a while!
          	https://www.wattpad.com/story/196211028

Espeon804

Some mild announcements!
          
          1. Once Chapter 34 or 35 of "PMD: Retaliation Corporation" is posted, there likely won't be any updates for a while!
          
          2. Chapter 17 of "The Bewitchment of The Earthling Saiyan" is being worked on bit by bit. I'm planning to tackle some big scenes soon!
          
          3. The new story project I'm yet to announce is in its early development stage. It maaay stick around, but we shall see. As I said in the last post, I won't name what it is until I'm certain I'm dedicated to it. I tend to start things and lose interest, so this is like a trial period.
          
          Hooray!
          
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          And some random ramblings!
          
          So dunno if anyone here watches "The Amazing Digital Circus" but oh boy if you haven't you should totally check it out. I love that web series.
          
          Anyways! SPOILERS below so DON'T READ BEYOND THIS POINT if you haven't seen the 8th episode.
          
          And if you haven't read the 16th chapter of OTES Book 5. 
          
          But I guess if you don't care I can't stop you lol.
          
          So yeah. 
          
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          MAJOR SPOILERS:
          
          The office scene is probably one of my most favorite things so far. Genuinely terrifying.
          
          Caine's anxiety, confusion, doubts, paranoia, and the fact he simply just doesn't understand humans, and is doing his best but his best is just making things worse!!! And he doesn't understand why everyone is upset with him. Doesn't get along with the main cast.
          
          And those doubts (Bubble) just hammer and hammer and hammer at him, until he can't take it anymore.
          
          I joked and played around when I compared Shin and Caine since they are vastly different characters but man.
          
          I find it especially amusing because there's such a similar scene in Book 5's 16th chapter when Shin's paranoia gets the best of him.
          
          If you want to see the scene for yourself here, go for it. But I HIGHLY recommend watching the show for yourself first for it to actually have a better impact:
          
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QyxMXFe6U&t=3s

TheSaiyanLotus

@ Espeon804  I also like that series. I see, a person of culture :3
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Espeon804

I past the character limit so adding these:
            
            (Referring to spoilers mentioned above.)
            
            Of course Shin's anger is not parallel to Caine's, but you can see some similarities. Especially with the speech, minus the uh, god complex. (Ironically.)
            
            Moments I wish I had enough patience to do art because I would do a art thing with this audio involving OTES Supreme Kai. I would.
            
            But ;-;
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Espeon804

Hello OTES fans!
          
          I know it's been a long while, so I've decided to give an update regarding book 5. (Don't panic it's nothing bad it's still ongoing lol.)
          
          I've noticed we haven't had an update since December. I will go ahead and say I haven't worked much on Chapter 17, but it's kinda because I'm being hard on myself on how to handle it. It's nothing bad, really. I HAVE been working on it bit by bit, but I've been working on Chapter 18 more.
          
          It's simply that, well, as I said, I took a step back not to burn myself out. I've realized I was getting annoyed with myself during the last 6 chapters because I kept questioning if they were written poorly or not. It was a sign I needed to slow down. Otherwise it was going to feel more like a chore than a hobby.
          
          I took a step back as in, I refused to READ book 5, during this break because I was again, driving myself crazy over it.
          
          I've also realized I've set this weird goal of trying to make each chapter have at least 20k words? I mean it's not something I've decided. It's just it felt wrong to have any chapters less than that? But tbh these long chapters are absolutely kicking my butt so I need to like, not kick myself. 
          
          Anyways, no the story is not on hiatus or anything. It's just taking a while. I'm 80% sure once chapter 17 is our, 18 will follow like a month or two later. Lol
          
          So yeah the little break worked because now I'm looking at book 5 again and I realized I was overthinking too much.
          
          So yeah! Everything is fine! I know my announcements have been nothing but PMD updates. Those chapters were completed months ago. So that's why the updates are so constant! 
          
          I am also working on a new story project on the side, but I am not going to announce what it is at all until I know for sure I'm committed! So keep an eye out for that? Maybe? It depends!
          
          Anyways, that's all! Happy reading!
          -Espeon804

TheSaiyanLotus

Hello! Haven't been here in quite some time. It's completely alright, don't worry. (Please more of Tarble, he's my favorite character XD) :3
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Lalala112

@Espeon804 <3
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Espeon804

If you read this far, I'll go ahead and give some sneak peaks of the next 3 chapters.
            
            Chapter 17: We finally got Vegeta time ™️
            Chapter 18: Supreme Kai moment
            Chapter 19: Wowie wowie wowie!
            
            If you've read the "upcoming chapter" summaries for these chapters then you probably understand why I am excited for what's to come. :D
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Espeon804

As announced before, OTES is also on Archive Our Own (AO3). And I had some fun with the "alternate summaries" for each book, so I decided to share them with you.
          
          It's amusing reading them by themselves only because of how it escalates:
          
          Book 1: Or: Raditz convinces Goku to join his side, and all Hell breaks lose.
          
          Book 2: Or: The Saiyans and The Frieza Force are racing for the Dragon Balls, and the Namekians are not winning this either way.
          
          Book 3: Or: A young time-traveler tries to fix an already unrepairable timeline, and it keeps getting worse.
          
          Book 4: Or: Enemies are forced to band together against a common threat that humanity created and lost control of.
          
          Book 5: Or: The situation got so bad, that divine interference became absolutely necessary.
          
          Also the story tags are silly there.
          Feel free to take a look if you are curious.
          
          https://archiveofourown.org/series/5441656

Espeon804

Let me know what your favorite tags are, because I'm curious tbh
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