By The Creed

by Lykaoness

[DISCONTINUED] A RWBY SYOC with a new academy and an entirely different cast. Welcome to the Academy of Creed! We dedicate ourselves to protect the fragile peace that the Grimm themselves wish to destroy amongst our people. For in our Creed, we live by sword and our people. We are the Creed. So what about you? Will you become a hunter as well, young one?

4. Update & Discontinuation?

So yeah, I'm guessing you're wondering where I went... That said it should be long time coming I think. I haven't updated this in years.

No real excuse for these one other than that IRL stuff happened and I have lost motivation over the years to write for RWBY as a whole.

Though, I think one major reason for me discontinuing this fanfic is the fact that I've had some people before harassing me over not having accepted their character for this fic.

To which, at that time I had a very inkling who it was. To which I'm pretty sure it was the same person who, I have stated from the start, I would give them advice on making characters but it does not guarantee I would accept it because it would have not been fair for those people who willingly joined the SYOC and did their best to present their characters for me to look through for the story. This was very same person who blamed me for their depression over it after rejecting their character and telling them what they can improve from it. I didn't want overpowered, edgy, godmode, etc. characters in the story. I might as well just an isekai anime at that point. Mind you, I had one other person help me through this process of screening characters.

Over time, it just piled up. I've focused on my career namely in the field of medicine so motivation became more scarce as with time. Then writer's block hit, I started this story during the last two years of my highschool. I overestimated myself that I can push through with this especially when one chapter was a total of 16k words, totalling the fic to 22k words as a whole. Now that I've matured enough, I can see I had overexerted myself trying to post a big ass chapter instead of cutting them down into sizeable chapters to post throughout the week.

Overall, I just lost motivation and writer's block was too hard to push through. IRL just made me so busy I lost steam, and now with the problems surrounding RWBY and a lot of the plot changes happening. It wouldn't be fair for others to stay as is.

Over the next few days, I'll be posting all the WIPs, Notes, and unfinished chapters for this story for people to I guess see what could have been. Maybe in the future if I regain my passion for RWBY like I had years ago, I might come back to this and finish it but for now. The community from this fandom has burned me out as a whole, what little I will write for it will be minimal and would likely center around RWBY cast itself.

And I will likely just keep all of my stories now over on AO3 with the name Lykaon, and will likely only be cross-posting here on FF if I ever remember. Fanfiction's formatting just isn't it for me anymore, thanks for hearing me through.

Adios.