Greetings, greetings. If you haven't already figured it out, Burden's dead. Why, you might ask? Well, I'll tell you.
The first of many factors was that I didn't really have any idea at all where the story and the characters were going to end up and how they would get there. There was no endgame, a point 'A' but no point 'B'.
After figuring that out, I thought I was just gonna end up following cannon with some filler stuff in place of the timeskips for however long I wanted until I finally decided to place a finale arc somewhere along the way.
Jaune's bully arc, though, showed me that there was only so much alteration of cannon I could write before I wanted to shoot myself. On top of all that, character development was a big block for me. I never intended to make Azure the overpowered OC that everyone makes, but he ended up being just that. When I decided what kind of flaws he would have, well, they kinda contradicted the entire attitude he'd shown throughout the entire story.
So those, among some other reasons, are the main things that led me to kill this story. For all of you who truly enjoyed the story enough to follow and favorite, I'm sorry. If you want, I can make another post to this story that would cover what I think I would've ended up doing with it if I could've stomached writing the remainder of Volume 1 and the entirety of Volume 2.
But, never fear, my writing days are far from over~!
I'm beating around another RWBY story that starts at Winter's arrival at Beacon in Volume 3 and diverges from cannon from that point. Azure and the gang would return! Well, Azure will.
Goodbye Micah. And all you little faunus orphans. If I said it's been a pleasure, I'd be lying.
Soooooo, that's all she wrote. Make sure to read a one-shot I posted a while ago called Glassy Sky, and give me your feedbacks on that. And please, stay tuned for more shenanigans!
-TrAsHtaco