So for those asking, there is a sequel in the works, but I'll get to that in a second. First and foremost, thank you for 1 Million total views on the story between FFN AO3 and Wattpad!
I think that in my final venting of frustrations in the Final Author's Note chapter I didn't fully expand on my reasons for not personally writing a sequel. I do apologize as by that point I was really just trying to finish the series and let it live on without me so I could do my own thing. So, allow me to fully explain my reasoning.
1: I was indeed tired of these communities as their tendencies to be toxic to a free product really made me quite upset and I don't really want to deal with that anymore.
2: I love this story and all it had, and I'm similarly excited for the sequel plot, however, 291k words is a lot of commitment and I don't think I could match anything close to that for the sequel. Leaving a story as important as that unfinished really bugs me and once again I'd find myself forcing myself to finish it, which is not good for the writing quality or my mental health lol. I'm fine leaving it as is and allowing fans to continue it if they want to.
3: This one is the most important, yet somehow I never mentioned it in its entirety. As mentioned I was to move on to writing my own original novel. And that is not something I can do if I'm stuck writing fanfics. I've tried working on two projects at once before and the one with the more attention is always the one that ends up making me drop everything to focus on it. A novel won't really be seen by anyone until its publishing, whereas a sequel definitely will, so my motivation for writing my own thing would diminish yet again. Don't get me wrong, I love fanfiction and really do want to write more for things like The Drift and Class 1-C Enigma. But here's the thing. They're exciting, fun, and freeing, but they don't further my career at all outside of improving my writing. I'm not getting my name out there, I'm not publishing or even working on a novel when I'm writing fanfiction. I may be young, but that's no excuse to not start now. Which is why, even though I greatly enjoy fanfiction for the most part, I have to force myself to stop.
Now that my reasons are fully expanded upon, let's talk about the sequel. Shadow Monarch Deku: Primordial of the Void.
The author will be ragin_rayquaza who some of you may have seen on Wattpad. They'll be posting to all sites that I have and shall be writing the sequel mostly independently, with some input from me now and again.
The first chapter has been edited and somewhat modified by me, for example, the newest revealed Primordial, to try and lead it down a similar style of writing to what I had, but after the first chapter, it's going to be on its own. I don't want to get stuck editing, so I'm going to leave it entirely up to them from the second chapter onwards.
I have yet to see enough of it to declare it as a definitive sequel or not, ie, canon or not. But honestly, I'm just going to let you guys make up your minds as to what's canon and what isn't. If you wanted the story to end where it was, then you can consider this non-canon, if you wanted it to continue, then sure, you can consider it canon.
In the end, I mostly just want to explain why I'm not the one making the sequel and why I'm happy to let it be its own thing without me. Fanfiction does not allow links, so you'll just have to search for the story by its name "Shadow Monarch Deku: Primordial of the Void." but for AO3 and Wattpad, I'll leave a few links down here. Thank you and I hope both myself and you guys end up enjoying the sequel.