TheRisingFlame

Hey everyone, hope you all have been having a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season thus far! Hopefully people have been able to spend it with family, friends, pets, etc. It's definitely been an interesting year, a good year, and once again, Christmas has snuck up on me. That also means one other thing. Today and tomorrow marks the official 7th Anniversary of Pokémon USUM: Hero Born of Darkness and the HBoD series as a whole!! We've come so far, and I'd like to thank all of you again for allowing me to even come as far as I have with my stories. It's such a thrill to see people who've read and enjoyed my stories and still do (despite the cringiness that is my early works, but honestly, it's a right of passage, and I'm really happy with how much my writing has grown.
          	
          	Now, to celebrate both Christmas and the 7th Anniversary, I've prepared a special HBoD One-Shot that will be uploaded at Midnight Pacific Time, just in time for Christmas Day, at least for some. It's not very long, and is very much non-canon, and is not at all going to be what you all might be expecting, even from me. So take that as you will lol. I'm also in the middle of finishing up the next chapter for Lament of the Draconids, so hopefully that will come out this week, but if not, next week for sure.
          	
          	With all that, thank you all again, and have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Wonderful New Year! Here's to another great year! Toodles!!

TheRisingFlame

Hey everyone, hope you all have been having a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season thus far! Hopefully people have been able to spend it with family, friends, pets, etc. It's definitely been an interesting year, a good year, and once again, Christmas has snuck up on me. That also means one other thing. Today and tomorrow marks the official 7th Anniversary of Pokémon USUM: Hero Born of Darkness and the HBoD series as a whole!! We've come so far, and I'd like to thank all of you again for allowing me to even come as far as I have with my stories. It's such a thrill to see people who've read and enjoyed my stories and still do (despite the cringiness that is my early works, but honestly, it's a right of passage, and I'm really happy with how much my writing has grown.
          
          Now, to celebrate both Christmas and the 7th Anniversary, I've prepared a special HBoD One-Shot that will be uploaded at Midnight Pacific Time, just in time for Christmas Day, at least for some. It's not very long, and is very much non-canon, and is not at all going to be what you all might be expecting, even from me. So take that as you will lol. I'm also in the middle of finishing up the next chapter for Lament of the Draconids, so hopefully that will come out this week, but if not, next week for sure.
          
          With all that, thank you all again, and have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Wonderful New Year! Here's to another great year! Toodles!!

KineticSatomb7

Hey! I haven't logged on in years, but I was talking to one of my friends and we brought up Wattpad and I thought it'd be funny to just look up a few people I remember and you're still here! 
          
          I don't now when you'll see this, but your writing definitely was memorable for me and I really enjoyed a lot of your fanfiction and your openness about your faith. As I've came closer to Christ over the last 5 years since I started on the platform I have a lot of respect that you were open about faith on a platform that doesn't always reward talking about it.
          
          Overall I hope you're doing well in life and I just wanted to say hi. Have a great day and Happy Thanksgiving!

TheRisingFlame

@KineticSatomb7 My guy, it has been too long. Hope you've been well! I'm glad you have fond memories of my works. HBoD+ is still ongoing as you can see, and isn't stopping anytime soon lol
            
            Hey, I'm glad you think so. I do believe I could have done a better job of representing how a Christian should act at times, but I myself have done a lot of growing in my faith in recent years since. But truly, thank you!
            
            I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving as well! Keep growing in the faith and feel free to pop by again to say hi!
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Seajax

I think after finishing Hero Born of Darkness, I’ll draw Zeno’s Growlithe (in the hat of course)

TheRisingFlame

@Seajax I would not be opposed, not at all. I just hope you can get through it. My writing back then was less than stellar, tho I can't fathom why some people still love the heck out of it lol
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TheRisingFlame

It's been a while since I've posted any general announcements, so now is as good a time as any. I'm barely active on Wattpad these days, only here to post new chapters and respond to comments. Now moreso than ever since private messages were removed. Been feeling like Wattpad has been dying.
          
          However. I'm not leaving anytime soon. If nothing else, I have a series to finish. HBoD will reach its inevitable conclusion, however long it takes. Maybe there will be less people reading, or maybe Wattpad truly dies along the way. Doesn't matter. So long as one person wants to see how it all ends, that's enough for me. Heck, I myself wanna see how it ends on paper, so if that's the only way, it'll happen. So I'm just letting y'all know, this Flame ain't flickering away anytime soon. I'm just getting started.
          
          Toodles~

TheRisingFlame

@Sacredbeat3 The only thing keeping me from cross-posting to A03 where I've started to build a presence with my MHA fics is that despite all y'all praising HBoD and whatnot, I don't consider it my best quality. That, and copy/pasting every chapter sounds like a chore... but I may do it eventually, but I'll still post on Wattpad for as long as I'm allowed, cause that's where everyone knows to find HBoD+
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Sacredbeat3

@TheRisingFlame Glad I'm not the only one who's feeling like this about Wattpad, I've started crossposting some of my works on other sites such as Fanfiction.net and Archive on Our own as there are times I feel the community there is better. No logical explanation, just purely based on my feelings, especially since my low drive on writing is slowly being ignited haha
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TheRisingFlame

Alright, I had a bit of free time and of course I went overboard with what I was originally planning to do. Anyway, the 4th book in the HBoD series is close at hand. I'm limited (self-imposed) in what I can share, but I have some more haikus for y'all. So haiku dump warning in 3...2...1...
          
          The Priestess awakes
          As the heavens burst aflame
          We lament those lost
          
          One terribly lost
          A desire to right her wrongs
          Vengeance is abound
          
          Thrill of adventure
          The allure of the great unknown
          To know the untold
          
          Peace upon the Earth
          To right the sins of the past
          Caretaker of life
          
          The ever urge to breathe
          Even though his health is failing
          Warrior’s path he treads
          
          The calmness of water
          Chaotic storm of darkness
          He has seen it all
          
          A broken family
          The forsaken and forlorn
          Love twisted to hate
          
          Also, one last hint for everyone: LotD

TheRisingFlame

@blaziken01trainer Here's another hint for you. Each haiku is for a different character ;)
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blaziken01trainer

@TheRisingFlame dropping by to say this is driving my mind crazy with theories
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TheRisingFlame

Just gonna update where I'm at writing wise, and... well, having moved out and starting university, so... updates are gonna be literally whenever I have the time. So uh, toodles until then lol

blaziken01trainer

@TheRisingFlame I wish you all the best and don't forget to take care of yourself. Don't push yourself too hard. 
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TheRisingFlame

This is going to sound pretty weird after the post from Torterra657 I responded to yesterday, but I'm putting What Makes a Hero on indefinite hiatus lol. It's unfortunate, and part of the reason is because the OC bits weren't well received over on AO3. While I'm not normally one to bow to pressure, it did reenforce the thoughts I had about that part of the story not being as well written as I would have liked. Either way, the story will cease operations, and while I'm a bit sad about it, I do believe it has been a great growing experience in my writing. I'll continue to work on RoC and A World Without You, and possibly another MHA story once AWWY (that's a horrible acronym) is finished, but for now I'm going to focus on ending this school term on a good note and write only sparingly until then. I'm sorry to those who were enjoying WMAH and I hope you'll give AWWY and my future stories a read if you've enjoyed my work. Toodles!

TheRisingFlame

@Last-Word I've seen the MHA fanbase in action and thankfully it really wasn't on that level, but it was enough to get me thinking if I really was writing my story well. And because I already had my doubts, they just kinda reinforced what I had already been thinking
            
            And thanks man, I appreciate the support
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