A/N - Well I have been gone for over a year but to my readers, I'm dropping by to say that I'm still alive and well. Now I could spend the next paragraph apologizing for being away that period, but I'll skip it since apologizing would be an admission that what I did was something wrong and the truth of the matter was that I had to step away from writing for a while, it was just inevitable.
What I'll apologize for though, was taking me so long to write this.
As far as the reason behind my absence, it was a multitude of things that led to it. Between getting hit by an author's block the size of Mount Everest, realizing that fiction had a lot of points that were fundamentally flawed, or just straight up wrong and a lot of real-world problems, I just lost my will to write.
Now I'm getting back into it as I'm slowly rewriting Rise of the Bow Hero on my off-time along with another fic, though that one is not set in the Tate no Yuusha Universe.
I know a lot of people will say that since I wrote an AU, I can do whatever I want, and for the most part that is correct, some people might not like it but it's the truth as far as my opinion goes, however, the problem here is that when I started writing this fic I hadn't read the LN, and only started after a while, so I ended up getting a lot of things wrong, and although back then I decided to roll with it, it just got to a point where I couldn't any longer.
The reality was that I started writing this fic because it was fun for me, I loved posting new chapters. I loved getting the reviews and interacting with you all. Even the time that I spend passing and waiting to see if the chapter would be well received or not was incredibly exciting. However at some point, it stopped being fun and started to feel like a full-time job, where I was just forcing myself and inevitably something gave away, and I completely burned myself up.
For the past year, I did try to get into it, but I just couldn't. It got to the point I even started writing fic's for other fandoms because in this one the words just wouldn't flow.
After going back and forth trying to salvage it, (because make no mistake, I love Rise of the Bow Hero), I decided that the best thing to do was rewrite it, and surely the words started flowing again.
Now as far as the rewrite is concerned, it will end up as a very different fic altogether from previously. There is just a lot to change, though there are some things I want to keep, like Rishia and Quartz for example, especially Quartz since I spent so much time giving life to that annoying lizard brains, and envisioning her, and her reactions. I do however want to be more faithful to the source material. I don't intend on it being a full remake of canon with a different character, I personally as a reader hate fics that are one hundred percent canon-compliant when featuring an OC so I'm still changing canon, and perhaps quite sooner than previously but we will see, still a lot of planning to do.
I'm not going to lie though. It will take some time before I'm confident enough and ahead enough to post it, and I'll probably start posting my other fic first, but I just wanted to let those that are still listening what my plans are going forward, even if it took a year.