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Is this a goofy ass 3 am announcement probably being made while sleep deprived? Yes.
Am I gonna change it when I wake up tomorrow? Probably the fuck not.
Did I also wait until it was April 2nd so that nobody could say this was an April Fools Prank? Unintentionally yes. Don't judge my shit timing, it's always been shit.
I am going to be discontinuing Burning the Multiverse.
I genuinely have no idea where the story is going, where I want to end it, and I have no motivation to continue it.
And honestly, I feel that it stems from the decision to make it such a long form book in the first place, I feel like the ending of Season 1 was perfect as is, it ended the arc perfectly, everyone's character arcs were basically entirely wrapped up.
There were no more loose ends besides the ones I intentionally left with the intention to expand them in future Arcs and I genuinely feel like its been at a roadblock since.
I love HSR don't get me wrong, Hell the whole reason I included it is because when I was originally writing it, we were in Penacony, then Amphoreus made me want to see how Valkas would mesh with that story as is, and the Wardance, Planarcadia, Rappa, the Stonehearts. Everything was so interesting.
But I tied it all to something that basically already had closure, I had to upscale it to an extreme and do a soft reset on so many characters especially Valkas's and with him especially being my most dynamic character being affected by events that happen across my other books, it just felt like he was getting more stale than developing.
Hence, I'm nipping this in the bud. I will leave it up, but for the sake of not leaving it in it's current state, I will be working on a rewritten version with some dialogue and story changes centered around keeping things contained more to My Hero. That way there can be a proper sense of full circle closure.
I thank all of you who have supported this for so long. I'm grateful beyond words.
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