Lunar Embrace - General Announcement
Hi there! I figured I should give anyone that was a reader of this series a more official heads up in that I've opted to mark the story as 'finished.'
The reason being that unfortunately, I don't remember much of anything I wanted to do with this fic. I was writing this before I wrote copious amounts of notes for my stories so I just have no idea where it was going in terms of the box/Greek stuff, the Crystallus Gratia, or much else. I know certain plot points that were supposed to show up would have just weighed the overall story down, but the specifics of everything are gone. So I will probably never update this story again unless I have some epiphany because I think if I tried to continue it without knowing the direction everything was going (I can't remember the Sounder's role for the life of me for example) I'll just do it a disservice.
I also have a few issues with this story looking back and reading it: things I could have done better, certain characterizations, making thoughts of characters more clear to the reader as some things are just vague when they shouldn't be and it leaves things unclear. (Hermione realizing her kink for spanking for instance is terribly done and I don't think many people even realized that's what was happening there).
So while I'm putting Lunar Embrace itself to bed, I do still really like the Hermione/Barty pairing and its various dynamics. So I have created a new fic for them (as they are still lacking in fics, especially when compared to the more popular Death Eater pairings like Hermione/Draco or Hermione/Snape). A 'spiritual successor' if you will to Lunar Embrace.
Procyon Mask is that successor.
It's still a marriage law fic, but with a much more heavy focus on Hermione/Barty. So while there may still be occasions where you go into another character's head due to story elements you will mostly be viewing things through Hermione's eyes (And no, there will be no Barty POV chapters as the story largely focuses on how Hermione has to deal with everything going on).
I aim to make a more entertaining story that stays true to the characters while veering from the canon storyline of the books/movies. We'll see if I can hold to that, but so far I consider it a vast improvement to Lunar Embrace. The first 10 chapters are already available for your reading pleasure and I even have a companion piece going set back in Fourth Year titled, Clementine and Mint.
I'm sorry if some of you were really looking forward to seeing this fic itself come to a conclusion, but I hope you'll join me on their new one and enjoy yourself.
Thanks for reading through my long explanation and I hope you enjoyed Lunar Embrace for what it was.
