Annnnnnnd this fic is getting rewritten lmao.

Ah, it reminds me of the moment I decided that my first fic was garbage and I should rewrite it, except this time, I didn't get the cold hard realization thrust upon me by a reviewer that was 100% correct in his assessment of my self insert.

Self inserts are still cool, that's why Skryb is still the CEO and not sitting in a trash can in the basement.

Anyways, this time, I came to the realization to myself!

What a novel concept.

So essentially, while writing my other fic that's going on right now, Aura Liberation Gamer, I kind of realized, "hey, what the hell is Cereal trying to do except win?"

Like, Moroes has that whole 'i wanna revive the MLA in this world that decides that everyone shouldn't automatically have aura, which is basically a soul' thing. And I was like 'huh… idk.'

Like, even Glump had his YT channel that could be used as a reason. Like, wanting it to grow or something.

Zavvox had… Nothing either, I think. But to be fair, they were both my first 2 stories. Plan wasn't even in my dictionary at that time, and it still isn't.

Now, I could just have Cereal get a reason for continuing the match in a later chapter, but there's an issue.

The pacing is as slow as a snail, if not slower.

On chapter 11 of Developer commentary, 6 days have passed and the only important things that have happened is 'Cereal is introduced to the world', 'he is now suddenly a very high level lmao' and 'the archons are sus about him.'

On chapter 11 of Replacement, Glump joins a terrorist group, the USJ happened, Glump's YT channel is seconds away from exploding, Glump and Vednis have fought once, and sports festival is around the corner with both players growing in strength as they realize 'oh shit, there's an actual real life other player here.' [kind of romanticized, but it gets the point across]

Sure, Replacement was kind of generic and boring since I didn't stray from canon, but at least I was getting through it.

Pacing being slow may not always be bad, of course, but here, it kind of is.

So, with all of that aside, what am I going to do in that rewrite that I'm talking about?

I dunno, obviously. I don't do plans other than 'do decent. Maybe shoot for a good.'

I kind of want to play around with the modifiers a bit more, because really, why the hell was 'infinite waypoints' in the WORLD modifier section? There is no logical reason for that crap.

Maybe Cereal will get a capitalist modifier or something, so his main motivation could be to become one of the big industries… like uh…

Making disneyland or something. Or big tech.

Both.

Either way, the weird Spamtom/WoU/Eren trio I've got going on is going to stay. The name is probably sticking as well.

And going on to Jaeger, he's likely going to stay the same. Unless if AoE is real, in which case he's going to be a very happy person at the end of the journey when he finds the world with an AoE.

Anyways, I'm rambling a bit.

Point is, rewriting is happening. Probably will try to rush it before new years happen in my time zone.

My track record takes another hit, but my track record is like 0-6 right now, and if I'm losing by that much, I'm not really losing at all.

(oh yeah, happy new year!)