*STORY NOTICE*

Haha, how have y'all been doing? Good? Bad? Alright? Yeah, same.

Don't really know how to exactly start this thing so sorry bout that. But this is going to be a long rant and there may be some (a lot of) waffling.

Some of you can probably tell how this notice will go. There is a TL;DR at the end if you guys don't want to read my rant, so you can skip straight to the end if you want.

So, if you have not gone onto my profile, I have a small status/notice thing now which I'll update depending on what happens to me. I even recently updated it.

Aside from updating my status it also has a notice about Fragmented Star.

And I apologise for doing this, but I will currently be… uh… not discontinuing but rather… what's the word? Reworking? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm currently reworking the story for Fragmented Star. The plot and stuff. Of course, the lore and everything will be staying the same and stuff, but there will be small changes and stuff.

Now, why am I doing this? Well, I'm sure many of you will agree with me on this but, I'm quite disappointed with the way I've taken the story.

I realised something after uploading the most recent chapter for Fragmented which threw me in for a loop and that is that I'm conflicted and not enjoying the story which I used to enjoy writing. I was a bit confused and stressed out from this and not to mention my personal life making things a bit harder for me to write stories.

A few months back I watched a video from this channel from 'Tale Foundry' which I followed two years after uploading my first fanfic. And that video was called "What makes writing so hard?" and looking back on it, I think that video explains my state of mind pretty accurately. That video also helped me figure out why I'm dissatisfied with this story.

And that was… well… me. Looking back with the way I've taken the story I realised that I have limited not only the potential the story could've took, but also what my own creative mind could've created for said story.

The main issue I have with the story is well… character development.

Specifically, Shirou.

I mean. What is Shirou in this world?... He's just… Shirou but lesser. Shirou but with a vision. I mean, there really is nothing that special about him in this world besides being well…

Shirou... but lesser.

This is why I am dissatisfied with the story and why I'm reworking it. I want to change Shirou in a way that challenges his original character, I want to change him into something more, something that will challenge him as a whole. I want Shirou to be… heh… Shirou, but not Shirou. Confusing probably.

But I basically want to change Shirou in a way that makes sense but also is so impactful that he's not Shirou from Fate/Stay Night, but Shirou from Fragmented Star. I want to explore how he'll change in the story.

And looking back, I'm glad some of you said my knowledge of Shirou is basically wrong. This is because I also wouldn't have been able to figure out why I don't like the way I'm taking the story, so thank you.

HOWEVER. This also poses the issue that I won't be able to upload any chapters for this story anymore due to it being in the reworking stage. This is a large issue because, although it is currently my holidays, I will still be busy. But I'll the best to my abilities to keep with writing stories and stuff.

I'm also currently working on two other stories for this site which is uh… not a very good thing to do for someone already stressed enough trying to tackle multiple things at once. I'm juggling a lot of things here and trying to walk on a tight rope at the same time, and sooner or later, I'll fall into the abyss because of it. It's like challenging a grizzly in a game of tag and I'm the salmon.

Anyways, I hope to see you guys in the future for this rework but in the meantime, I can only apologize for those who are disappointed with my decision (which I doubt there are any at all).

Anyways I'll end it off here. And like I said, I hope to see y'all in the future when this story is reworked. Sorry for this unnecessary long rant.

Oh, and to those who recently favourited and or followed this story:

"EHE!" – Venti, 2020.

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TL;DR: Reworking fragmented star plot and also Shirou. Why? I don't like how I did things and I want to explore his character deeply so yeah. This means no new chapters for the story in a long time. Hope to see y'all again in the future when the story is in its publishing stage.