*Breathes in*
I'M BACK N'YA'LL!
So, explanation time.
When I first started writing this story I was 14 years old, which I think is reflected pretty well in how…. Not great the earlier chapters of this story are. And even the later chapters are mostly thirst shit.
Back then I didn't plan anything for my stories. I just saw a cute boy in a fandom I liked, and made a random oc who I could project myself onto to ship with him. -shrug- That was just how I dealt with my crushes as a kid.
But this story in particular has been living rent free in my brain ever since I started it. Despite having not posted anything for it in 5 years, it is still the main thing I think about when I think about getting back into writing.
And in regards to my unofficial hiatus, it wasn't intentional. I literally just got depressed and was dealing with a lot (ie. Gender identity/sexuality issue as well as toxic relationships) and just forgot writing was a thing I used to love. Especially after I left school, I was having to deal with real world adult shit like work and bills and never had the time for my passions like this anymore.
But this story is my BABY, okay?! As I type this, I am listening to Skyward Sword soundtracks and just the music is enough to spark the little bit of serotonin left in me and make me think about my sweet baby Kella.
But over the last couple of years, I've really been thinking very hard about what I wanted to do with this story. I've tried more times than I can count to sit down and write the next chapter and I've been stuck, just completely milked dry of inspiration for what I've done with this story. And I've come to realize that this is largely in part due to how I set this story up. I didn't brainstorm, I didn't plan anything plot wise, the whole point of the story was demon boy hot, lets do an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and that was it I started writing.
Since going back and re-reading this story it's become clear to me that it needs a serious overhaul. All it is in its current state was little baby me impatiently speeding through all the stuff I found boring to get to the scenes I really wanted to write. But I'm older now, and even though I haven't been writing at all in the 5 years I've been gone, I think my writing has improved simply from taking in new forms of media and stories. And I thought to myself that I just wished I could write it again and do it right this time.
So that's exactly what I'm doing.
I understand this might piss some people off, especially if there's anyone out there still sticking around who were reading it when I was updating regularly. I know it sucks that after 5 years I'm making you wait even longer to find out what happens next.
But I think this is the best way for the story to continue. There's a lot of plot stuff that I didn't set up in earlier chapters and a lot that I want to change and I genuinely believe that it will be a better story for it.
The good news is that I have a system of sorts. I was going to wait to post anything until I had rewritten enough chapters to have a backlog to last me a few months, but I'm an impatient bitch and crave validation.
So! The Prologue will be out on Friday, which is coincidentally the same day that the HD Skyward Sword Remake comes out! This is on purpose as I know for a fact, I'm gonna be hyper fixated on Skyward Sword again as soon as it gets released which should make it easier to write for. ^v^
After the Prologue comes out, I will be trying to have a semi regular schedule. I will for sure be updating at least once a month(this may change if my mental health crashes again but I will do my best to stick to this), possibly more often but it high key depends on how that goes inspiration wise. But I'm more prepared for the big undertaking this story is now. I have character notes, a timeline (which is only around 50%-60% done? But it's already at like 20 pages and 60k words, which is coincidentally how many words this story currently stands at so if that helps make anyone feel better about it going forward, it's definitely got a lot more content in it.), a list of plot lines, I have a whole folder on my computer just for this story which…. I never did before. (I was a fool. I would literally open the ff document thing and just load up a blank document and write it in there. Yes, I lost whole chapters a lot.)
I will be doing more stuff with other characters too, as another thing I noticed about this story is that I mostly focused on Kella, Ghirahim, and a tiny bit Fi but that's basically it.
Oh also, in the rewrite Fi uses they/them pronouns cause their genderless, I might be having Ghirahim use they/he and I use they/he pronouns irl. Expect some casual queer rep in this story. If you don't like queer people or are homophobic/transphobic in general this is not going to be the story for you.
This story will also be going up on ao3 so if anyone wants to read it there, I will put a link on the prologue (or just my name on there if ff is as temperamental about links as I remember.)
If anyone is still reading this, thank you for sticking with me for so long. Your support means the world to me, there were some days where I would have forgotten about this story completely and then I'd get a new review or story follow alert for this story and remember how good it was to write this. I am genuinely very excited to be writing this again, and I hope to see you all there! If you choose to put your time into my gay little fic I promise you'll be in for a ride!
Stay safe everyone, and I will talk to ya'll more on Friday! 3
