Let's Die Together

by Fantasy Fan 223

When Dimitri and Edelgard reunite at Garreg Mach Monastery, Dimitri eagerly tries to rekindle their dormant friendship. It's a bloody, painful, and destructive path Edelgard walks, but she grows appreciative to the fact that she won't have to walk it alone. (Eventual Dimigard and merging of both Azure Moon and Crimson Flower routes). [DISCONTINUED]

27. A Message to my Readers

A Message to my Readers

Hey.

First of all, I wanted to apologize—I swore over and over again that I was going to have a proper update schedule, and well...that hasn't happened. It's never happened since chapter ten (maybe even further back)—all the way back in early 2020. I'm very, very sorry, and I owe you all an explanation.

I've mentioned in a lot of my Author's Notes how I'm constantly plagued with procrastination, writers' block, lack of motivation, and stress...turns out this entire time it was all due to a little something called depression; I've been diagnosed with such by my doctor as of last week.

For a little while before the diagnosis, I had suspected I had it. See, what I haven't talked to you guys about was the constant barrage of negative, energy-zapping thoughts that plagued me day in and out for the littlest of things, and said thoughts had quite a lot to say about my writing. Some days, I'd have the sudden powerful urge to delete this and every other story I've written on every platform and disappear without a trace.

Y'know why it never happened? It was you. Your kind words would come against the negative ones and I'd get my energy back, the words would return and I'd finish up a chapter for you all. So, I wanted to also thank you all—thank you for your support these past two years and a half.

Now, that being said, I am far, far too bogged down mentally to finish this fic. FE3H is a very meaty story, and it is quite unlike the other fandoms I write stories for. It was a fatal error to write this story without outlining it all first. I can get away with it with my other fanfiction because the storylines I'm borrowing from are far less complex, but it is not so here.

I still really, really, love this story premise though. And I love you all too, so the rewrite will still be coming at some point. I just won't be able to keep my other promise of finishing this first, however.

So, there you have it; TL;DR, "Let's Die Together," is now discontinued thanks to my rapidly diminishing mental health. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for all your love and support—I will never ever forget the euphoria that shot through my veins when my silly little rare-pair fantasy debuted with thunderous applause.

The next time this story updates, it will be to alert you all of the rewrite's posting. If you're interested in seeing me make another go at this premise, I promise I won't let you all down again. I swear I will update on time, I swear I will actually finish the damn story, and I swear that Thales will finally meet the painful demise I'd promised. If not, thank you for reading this story, and I'm sorry for doing this to you.

Anyways, I'm going to end it here—half because there are no words to describe my gratitude to you all, or to express how sorry I am, and half because it is very hard to type while sobbing. Ha ha.

Thank you, I'm sorry, and goodbye for now.

~ The Fantasy Fan