Greetings everyone,
With the latest chapter posted and a red button being pushed, the "part one" of the Pocket Castle's story is finished. I deviated quite much from my original intention of centering my work around the possible daily interactions of the castle's inhabitants, simply because I think several characters deserve much more light than what they get in Paradox (probably owing to the growing roster of important characters). As time and chapters passed by, I started to introduce an overall arc focused on Luka, which I originally wanted to avoid.
To recenter my original project, I intend to have this fan fiction fully focus on the daily lives of the residents of the Pocket Castle while Luka is on the road (or not), while a new one will focus on highlighting the sheer insanity of Paradox's New Game+ (which is apparently going to be canon). That way, I'll be able to keep writing small stories without breaking the main story's pacing.
My plan for the new series is to highlight the sheer insanity of several situations in NG+. The "doubles" encounter will get an extra serving of silliness, the world will react to Luka being absolutely OP (and completely done with this shit), and the most dysfunctional parties will be on the road (So Luka, Ilias, Morrigan and Alicetromeria are in a tunnel…). I will not redo the full game, because that would be boring, and will focus on key moments interspersed with shenanigans.
Another thing. I had only extremely limited feedback for my fic. I didn't expect it to be very popular, since this is not an epic retake on the original VN. Instead, it is but a bunch of stories about how I imagine you teammates spend time, a list of things that irked me in the game or that I found funny, and a few of my own theories (the two last chapters being about how part 3 will more or less likely start). However, even then, I am a bit disappointed by the lack of return.
As such, I'm addressing anyone interested to know if you want to see certain characters interact with each other, if you want to see something particular, or if you have advices for a guy that is more used to write reports than novels.
In the meanwhile, I'm taking a small break in this work, and likely won't update anything for a few weeks. I do intend to keep writing (I've already a huge bundle of ideas for Paradox NG+, and did not explore half of what I wanted in the daily relations), but I will wait to have at least a small amount of material ready before publishing anything. Meanwhile, I'll be open to suggestions.
Cheers!
