Hope and Faith saga Extras

by Ryu Taylor the Ferret

With any epic saga, some stuff is inevitably left on the cutting room floor, as they say. Everything from deleted scenes to alternate versions of existing scenes will be going in this special. Also, in-between chapters, I will be devoting a chapter to answering questions about the saga. Questions can be asked in a review, spoilerific or not.

11. So far the most important announcement

A/N: There are lots of things to consider when creating any kind of story. One important thing in that category that I recently began thinking about is accessibility. For fanfiction writers, there's another layer to accessibility beyond what medium a story is told on. For example, my Hope and Faith saga was written as a sequel to Explorers of Sky (and later to Gates to Infinity), which means that it could only be fully understood by whoever played those games. Not to mention that there were already established characters I had to represent well.

As I got to brainstorming the rewrite, I got to creating some new characters for it. The amount seemed to be almost enough to populate an in-game town, so that factored into another tough decision I've recently made regarding the rewrite. And that's what I'm announcing now.

The Hope and Faith saga rewrite will not be taking place in an already game-established PMD world. That way, any Pokemon fan can read it regardless of prior canon knowledge.

So now I have a new task ahead of me: creating a new world. Although the OCs will be staying, characters and events canon to EoS and GtI will be going (Pelame, Pugno, Vand, and Torden will be the only exceptions, only because the games let you fully customize them gameplay-wise, which I think barely makes them count as OCs).

Also, this is going to add a lot of time to when I finally get to writing it and releasing it. But one day, it'll happen.