Hello,
It's been a while since I've been on this site, and for some odd yet specific reason, I feel like I had to write this. For some of you who don't know, my name is Lopalop89, or VsPer now, and I wrote with a small team back then and made the fiction "The Angel Between Their Eyes", a Highschool DXD fan fiction. Honestly, I didn't really have to write this out or anything, I just felt like I had to give an explanation as to why I ended the fiction or ghosted on a written piece of work for so long, and to all the readers I had back then, or to all the new readers just finding out about this very very old fiction, I felt like this community of fanfiction kind of needed an explanation. So stick around if you want to understand why this fiction became forgotten, or maybe not. To all the people that followed this story and is still somehow an active part of the community, I am very sorry that this isn't a chapter update, but rather, a farewell to this story.
I started this fiction as I said before in the very first chapter of this story, in my English class. I was just sitting in class one day, and at the time Highschool DXD was everything to me. Hell, my Windows 7 computer even had the Highschool DXD theme where the window bar was the Gremory circle and when I clicked the windows key that brings up the menu, there was a picture of Rias on the side. Talk about obsessed huh? I jotted down a lot of ideas and this one just stood out to me as like I also mentioned before, I was reading a particular fiction where the role of Issei was the main Devil himself, and me being a Catholic/Christian thought "Hmm, maybe I should change the role and turn it into a story" in which I did. This was during the very beginning of my Freshman year in highschool. I'm now a freshman in college. I was an avid fanfiction reader and I was very involved with the small community that was DxD fictions at the time, because there were maybe only 2,000 fictions in total? Now, there's definitely a lot more. Truthfully, I didn't expect to get this much views, follows, and likes. My very first DxD fiction was a major flop, only totaling an average of about ~45 likes and follows, but I get it. I was very much a new writer into a community that has already been built, I wouldn't be able to stand among the gods of the community that raked in over 1k like sand about 2k follows. Managing to get even remotely close to them was a dream, and that dream was fulfilled very very suddenly. The growth of the DxD fiction that I wrote was more than I could imagine and I was getting many many views. People reached out to me and tried to help with grammar, spellchecks, and because of it, they got to read the chapters before anybody else could. Just very typical fanfiction stuff. But as the views came in and the likes and follows followed suit, I began to write a story more than I could handle. I started to write so much lore, so much things that I couldn't maintain and the story to me, just felt like it was crashing down. The growth of the story started to decrease, and the plot wasn't getting much better, so I decided to stop. Thats where everything went wrong.
I know that as time goes by, people grow out of things that they used to find amusing back then. The story of The Angel Between Their Eyes didn't age well for me, and I just started to view it as cringe more than anything else as the days went by. The team of writers and beta readers I had back then all also decided to stop doing fanfiction, or so atleast I think they did, and just eventually moved on to other things. I grew up and started experiencing many different things, and I felt like having a schedule in my day to write something grammatically correct and a story so amusing just started becoming distant from me, and thats when I decided to stop.
I felt like I had to put this out because even though the years went by, I would eventually get maybe 1-3 follows every month, or a new comment every other month. Even some private messages from some people telling me to come back and continue the story, but, I just can't. There's too much to try and build up again, and the coverage of what I had back then wouldn't be the same. I know not a lot of people would really care about reading this, but, this update/Author's Note isn't for the community. It's for the small following that I had back then, and I'm not one to leave things unsaid.
With everything out on the table, and a lot more free time that I have in college, I'm debating whether or not to write another story. Don't hold me against that, but, it's very possible. I just enjoyed being a part of a community that appreciated the content I make through writing, and it was such a satisfying feeling releasing a new chapter and seeing all the positive feedback that came after it. Anyways, this is my two cents, and I'm leaving it at that. I'm sorry about ditching this story 4 years ago, and I know not much people really remember it, but, thank you for the years that this community has supported me. I hope that you guys can support me in maybe, a new story that I'll plan to write out, I just don't know what anime to write it about.
Sincerely,
VsPer (Lopalop89)