[Please read to the end if you haven't already! If you have, then you can skip to the end of this, because I just added a new/fourth update!]
Hello again, guys! Spring here! I'm still alive! And please do not worry, this fic is not abandoned, nor is it on hiatus or on hold or anything! I briefly put 'ON HOLD' in the title once, but that was because I was actually updating and rewriting the pilot chapter, and I thought better of leaving it in the title after a while. HOWEVER, in regards to this fic, I'm making this notice (I'm sorry, it's not an actual chapter, I know) in hopes of informing you all about what's been going on with this fic for the past few months, and why I'm going as far as to put this notice up. Don't worry, though, because this will only be up temporarily (maybe for a month, or maybe until chapter twelve is updated and re-published), and there will be some (hopefully) good news! I just need you guys to read to the end, so that you all understand where I'm at.
So, I'm rewriting this fic, AGAIN. I don't want to say something as definite as "I think this will be the final time I do this" or anything like that, but I'm pretty happy with the way I've rewritten the first two or three chapters. They've had a major word count boost that I've been trying to keep consistent (between 30k to 40k words PER CHAPTER, I hope that doesn't scare any of you off), and I'm also pretty confident, I guess, with where my writing skills are at the moment, and I think I've really improved, especially compared to how I started and how embarrassing and disastrous the first version of this fic was. For those of you who loved the detail I put into the fic before, well, now you've got a whole lot more of it, and I hope you enjoy it! And that's the good news!
Now, while this isn't necessarily the bad news, the reason I took some time out of rewriting the fourth chapter in order to make this message is this:
Updating or republishing already-published chapters, at least on this site, does not prompt an update notice for the people who are following this fic, nor does it update the date at which the fic was last updated. I might be a little slow on the uptake, just finding this out now after being on this site for five years, but the point of me pointing this out is so that you understand that I think you might not have seen the first 3 updated chapters. Not unless you've reread this fic recently. Not only that, but considering the fact that, up until now, the date of the last update had been someday in 2018, it might make a few people look at this fic and think it's dead or abandoned, when in reality, I'm trying and putting as much work in as I can in order to make this fic better. I also don't want to unpublish the rest of the chapters because I like seeing the reviews on them and I don't know what will happen to those reviews if I unpublish every chapter after chapter 4, since I have yet to even start rewriting some of the chapters after that. So, I came to the decision to post a new chapter (this one), so that I could try to explain things.
On another note, as I'm rewriting this, I've been changing a few things up and adding some more OCs, as well as some other characters from things like Bleach, My Hero Academia, and Final Fantasy – specifically Dissidia Final Fantasy, which I've started to enjoy recently. I even have a half-done pilot chapter in my drafts list for a Dissidia fic based on what could've happened in the thirteen cycles, starting from the first cycle. There's also only one OC in that fic, and I do hope I wrote her well, since I added her to this Attack on RWBY! fic too. I'm pretty sure I explained why I added some of the characters from Dissidia at the end of the updated second chapter.
Anyway, thank you for reading this entire thing! I hope that, if you haven't yet, you might take a chance at reading the first three improved chapters, and if you get through the 30k to 40k words or so each chapter, then please tell me what you think about it! I hope at least some of you like it, and I hope not many people will mind the changes and the added characters. It's just that I have plans for an overarching storyline that's coming together to centre around my own RWBY crossovers, and I've either not published any of those other pieces yet, or I just haven't even done anything with the ideas I've been coming up with. And I don't think there's any in-between when I say that.
Thank you again for reading this far, and I hope you're not too pissed at me for the update notice I hope you received. Also, don't forget to tell me if you got the notification, too.
I hope you're safe and well, and I hope you have a good day!
EDIT #1 (as of 26th May, 2021):
Today, I've updated and published the new and improved Chapter 4! I'm also fairly certain I've done enough proofreading and correcting of the first chapter. There's been a few rewrites of parts of the first chapter, but not too much, just some parts cleaned up and/or made clearer here and there. I don't know whether to be more proud of how I've written the middle part with the Bullhead, or how I've written the part where Team RWBY shows up in the AOT world, the part from Eren's POV. But please, leave a review and please let me know what you think about it, and about Chapter 4 now that it's up and ready to read again!
EDIT #2 (as of 26th September, 2021):
It's past midnight where I am right now, but I wanted to let you guys know that I've FINALLY updated and republished Chapter 5! I'm so so so sorry it took so long. I lost my muse for this fic at a few parts, and each time I did I lost a few weeks (up to a month!) of time that I could've spent writing it, and that just made me feel even worse. Still, at least I got some more work done on the fics/chapters I've still got in my draft list, so I can't say it was all bad.
Anyway, I ended up posting chapter 5 just before midnight, so technically I updated it on the 25th September, and the word count for that chapter is towards the end of 25,000. Close to 26,000. I didn't really plan it (not to this extent, anyway), but at least it's another chapter improved and updated and I'm glad for that, at least. Anyway, go read it. And please, please, please, leave a review! I want to know what you guys think about this fic, now that I'm rewriting and improving and updating a lot of it! I hate that I'm pretty much begging here, but I really do wanna know what you think about the fic so far (up to Chapter 5, since the rest hasn't been updated yet). So please, leave a review. I can't know whether I'm doing something wrong if you guys don't clue me in on what that thing is.
EDIT #3 (as of 4th March, 2022):
Okay, so I decided to rewrite Chapter 5 and seriously buff up its word count. It's now gone from 25k words to 35k. A few parts of that chapter were segments I was originally going to put in Chapter 6. I moved those parts to Chapter 5 mostly because I wanted to keep Chapter 6 around 30k words, but I also wanted to get Chapter 5 to at least 35k words and I'd already added so much to it as it was.
Anyway, while I did say at the end of Chapter 5 that I'd have the new and improved Chapter 6 up by April (if the world doesn't fucking end by then), I'm already so close to finishing Chapter 6 that I feel hopeful that I'll have it republished by at least the end of this month instead, if not sooner than that. So, I guess that's some good news?
That said, I'm sorry to have made you wait so long for more updates to this fic – I really am. With that in mind, I just hope that you still have enough patience left to wait only a little bit longer for me to get Chapter 6 done.
EDIT #4 (as of 6th March, 2022):
I finished Chapter 6! I almost missed a part I'd forgot to finish off at the end of Blake's segment, but it didn't take me long to fix it, so it's all good. Also, I probably don't need to tell any of you, but it took me a long while to even figure out what to put in that chapter, so to finally have it done (for now, at least) feels so relieving. Ironically, I can't even describe it in words.
Anyway, at least I finished it! And I hope you all enjoy it!
Now, let's hope I can get Chapter 7 done by the end of April.
~ Spring
