The Change

by LunarLacrimosa

Miles Lancaster, the ex-bestie of Sam? After finding a damaged Barricade everything changes for the young teen. Barricade learns what it means to really be alive from a fleshy of all things, gaining these horrible things called feelings. A Sparkling, Cons joining the Bots, and more. hinted mech/human, then mech/human near the end. Basically finished, sequel planned. Will be edited.

61. Another Author's Note!

Hello, everyone! This is Lunar back from the dead. This update is being posted to both TC and TC:R and both versions will be identical.

The purpose of this update is to inform any old fans that I am working on TC:R more seriously and rehauling the entire story. I started writing TC when I was around 16-18 and you can really tell! This story is my baby and I want to do it justice, so I am making the plot overall more cohesive and attempting to write the Barricade/Miles relationship progression better. Already there is a lot more content! I fully intend to go back and at least edit the grammar of TC as well, though I'll try not to alter the original version much beyond that. Both TC:R and TC will be posted to my ao3 as well, so if you see any of my work on there know it is not stolen.

Adding so much more and wanting to make the best version of TC that I can leads me to my next question: is there anyone interested in playing beta for me? I'd really appreciate just having someone there to check after a chapter when I'm done with it at the very least to make sure there are no major mistakes and things make sense. If anyone was interested in doing a little bit more... I'd not mind having someone to talk story ideas over with and just having someone in general there to corral me back because there is a lot and I find myself having a hard time trimming myself back. Most chapters run from anywhere from 5k to 10k words at the moment, and as always I end up finding myself thinking of new ideas to write out for a little bit when I get frustrated or stuck (see Haunt You and Sam gets Sick as perfect examples).

Also, as a note, while I am actively working on it I do not plan to upload just yet. Maybe once I get through the Christmas arc of the story I will start to post it, but right now I have only just hit onto Orion and at the moment I'm rearranging some things and adding some others so I'm not moving past that just yet. (as a sneak peak example, I have Barricade declare neutrality earlier and a spar between Barricade and Jazz that I actually describe!)

PS: I am so sorry to any of the people who have subscribed to this story and do not like this alert. I appreciate you enjoying it and thank you for putting up with me!