Angel: I am not in the mood for me to have to say this, again *blank look* But if we're gonna get a season 4, which means that this story would get continued, I really need to point out a few things that need to happen from here on out.
Number one, the PLETHORA of guest reviews that I have gotten in the past week for me to change something, fucking anything, about the last two episodes REALLY needs to stop. Like, I've had to delete over a dozen guest reviews about this alone since I moderate them, especially about Ash, Kevin, Bolo, or even about the Lord Commander because people think that he got defeated too easily by Ash in the season finale. I am not kidding, my emails show this, and so far it's only been from only TWO people. Let me tell you something, when I get off work, I'm not expecting a bunch of reviews to request for changes when I check my email! And I work roughly 26 hours a week. Whether or not you say you're not demanding for changes, and then say you're requesting a change, that is still the same damn problem that we're still having. God damn.
If you think the Lord Commander was weak in the season finale, that's fine and dandy! That's an opinion of your own, but this fic is not the place for any complaints towards the show, I'm not Olan Rogers. I don't know him. He doesn't know me. I don't know anyone working on the show! I'm not asking for people to not give an opinion, but oh my god. I'm not the wikia page or a forum, I'm just a writer. Nothing more, and nothing less. I'm not a miracle worker, I'm just writing a story. This is just getting too serious for a fanfic on a show that I already have several people divided on me doing it in the first place.
If you don't wanna seem like you're demanding a change and then apologizing for it like 4 reviews later all in one day, maybe saying 'You gotta do this' or 'You have to have this character do this' isn't the best way to go about it. And even then, I've had enough of this. So if I get any more reviews like this or anything similar to a demand or a suggestion, not only am I not gonna waste any more time on it, I'm not even gonna bother updating at all. These reviews are just time wasting, annoying, and unnecessary, not only for me, but for other people who are just reading the story, never mind if they leave a review or not.
This story's only been out for about five months! I'm not working on the show, physically, I can't do anything about how Ash or any character was treated. I'm not one of the writers from the show. If I wanna follow canon, let me follow the god damn canon. Take all these complaints somewhere else, cause they belong in hell if you wanna leave 'em here. This is the second time I have had to talk about this, second!
Don't make me delete this story, to all of the guests out there. I just wanna have fun writing Nova and Little Cato, is that so hard to ask for?
Making all these changes isn't going to change everyone's opinion, especially mine. Especially since I hate the Lord Commander regardless if he's OP in the finale or not. It's not gonna make the episode better, or the story better. What would help, the only thing I could think of, is if I didn't have to tell people to just LET ME WRITE the damn story. Because otherwise, I'm not really that pissed about Ash (though she did go right up there for being an awful character in the last two episodes) or the Lord Commander in the finale. I was pissed about the deaths in the season, but I understood why they did it, even if it was draining. And if I had rewritten every single death for people to be alive, it'd be pointless, which isn't a rare opinion from this story.
Do people just expect Ash to not have a reaction over her fingers being broken by the Lord Commander? Because that still happened in the story. That's literally saying that she can't get pissed for learning a secret that was kept by everyone else, which is an understandable reaction. I may be giving Ash too much credit, sure, but she's an understandable character. I can buy her wanting to fight against the Lord Commander for her broken fingers, right now she's too far gone to listen to reason or to be rational.
Problem number two, the spamming of the guest reviews. Look, I have had my fair share of spamming, whether it'd be a story request or a change in the story. But five times from the same person about changes, is too much. And I reiterate, these are only from two people alone in less than two weeks.
I said it before, and I said it again. Spamming me constantly, all in the same day, isn't gonna work on me, fam. And I don't have a good history with spamming if the first few reviews of Amelia Smith: 9th Grade Kunoichi or Shaeril McBrown aren't already a hint of how much it pisses me off. If you care about the story that much, and you want me to change something, what makes you think five or even six or over a dozen reviews of the same request is gonna change my mind at all? I'm in. My 20s. I'm not 12.
One more review that is even a SHRED of a request, no matter how it's worded or what the request is, and the story will be cancelled. I'm not even kidding. I can't continue writing this if I keep getting requests to make changes of any episode. I don't even care if people don't believe me on this or what the requests are, because I've been deleting them. I'm not dealing with emails from Fanfiction flooded with these types of reviews again.
Also, this only happened once, but I was told to avoid the next episode, and that's just BS. I can handle Little Cato episodes that have something happen to him. I got through Leonardo from TMNT 2012 getting into a coma and his broken leg, and through Splinter dying with emotional attachment to those characters, but I still stuck it out. As a writer, I have to slog through the episodes I don't like. I don't skip episodes just because of a favorite character getting hurt, or because I don't like an episode, even though The Happy Place was a contender of one episode I could've avoided, but I still wrote it. I only skip episodes if I find the episode pointless, like with TMNT 2003 with the 'series finale' that was the last episode of season 7, which was written years ago, and I haven't skipped an episode of any show since then. I can get through the next episode with no issue, it's called being mature and dealing with it in a way that I can slowly get over it. So while I'm flattered over the concern, I don't want to be treated like I'm a baby. Forgiveness is still a hard episode to look back on, but that's because of the writing from a show that I love is so damn affecting and good.
That's all I have to say.