Hello, fellow readers! Welcome to... a random thing I decided to do. This is mainly about the original story I promised you guys after my Persona EG: Rainbow Rocks story. But before I do, here's a few things I want to list about how I feel right now:
1. Real quick, here are the responses to the reviews:
Maelaeran: I understand what you mean. It's like, I want to stick to canon, but I want to make my own spin on it. Basically like Kingdom Hearts, which I'm a fan of and have wrote for awhile. Since this isn't that, I need to break that habit. I also think that if I try to move the path in a different direction, I might contradict the characters' developments and make them feel unnatural. There's also having an idea and not doing anything with it, which happened... and I hate that I did that. Though, I like your reassuring comment near the end, thanks.
LunaraGK: Thanks, I really want to write my own stories to use in video games, so comments like that keeps me motivated.
TheBeatles211: That's good, I have a vivid idea of my style, but I meant how is this series going. One of my pet peeves is a plot point that is never used or elaborated on that had potential to make the story more interesting, which I know I did that and I never want to do that again.
Komaeda Yuujin: I'm far from perfect, but I'm glad you think so. To be honest, the third movie felt like half of it was cut out, so expect me to write it how I wanted it to have been done. As for bloopers, I don't see why not.
2. I think it's great that this spur of the moment idea got more attention than I thought it would get. It shows me how far my writing has evolved over the years.
3. Persona was added on way later in the development of this story, as it was originally just MLP EG AU story with characters that I either chose to elaborate on or created myself. There are ideas that I liked in the series that I wished they did more with, which started my trip to create this in the first place.
4. It might have just been a one-off based on the Dance Magic short, mainly since Persona has the dancing games, but I wanted to start at the beginning to have a genuine friendship between the cast.
5. Speaking of the beginning, Burning Sun was practically that. My passion for having my own spin on the first movie along with having the Persona characters being involved with the plot is what made the story work. The only issue I heard about was there wasn't more interactions between the characters to have a solid connection. Which leads to my next point...
6. Rainbow Rocks felt more restrictive, not because of a time limit, but rather the musical aspect. I'm not really used to doing music in stories, so I had to face the challenge of having the Persona cast still being involved without making too much of a change to make it seem like there would be more songs or too many jumps in scenes. The interaction part was actually my main focus this time, having more dialogue with the cast as you can tell from the first chapter. Then, it dropped down a bit with the 'original' part as I honestly rushed it by following canon the last few chapters along with a plot point I created only to drop as well. The finale and epilogue was my end goal by then, as you can tell.
To sum all this up, this was more of a testing ground to see if I got characterization down for the MLP EG cast and interactions between them and other characters.
As for the original story, I still want to do it... just not as a crossover. My drive to write MLP EG is still strong, but Persona was just spur of the moment. Though, as a compromise for this, I can do shorts every now and again with the cast hanging out or silly adventures they get into.
With all this said, I apologize for those who came here for the Persona side of the series. I'm not gonna lie when I say the later stories don't really have much for them to do that the other characters can do just fine. Though, I appreciate that you decided to read this in your off time.
For those who came here for the MLP side, thank you guys as well for reading this too.
This series isn't gone, but just changed to a mini-series now. But if you still want to see the original story I was planning, it'll be up soon. I appreciate the support you guys gave me and hope to see you in the future.
EDIT: Mini-series? Past me, don't lie. I actually just wanted a break. This is still staying up as most of my feelings are still the same, such as the review responses and my mindset for the first two stories, but the last part is now outdated.
What do I mean? You'll see soon enough.