…Welp. Time to get this off my chest.

Hey everyone! Void here. With some news. More specifically a massive update when it comes to this story moving forward.

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My Hero Academia: Elphis… is going to be remade.

And once the remake is up and running, I will choose to delete this story.

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Now, I should probably explain the reasoning as to WHY I am remaking this story completely and the answer is rather simple.

I was not happy.

This story was my MHA mind rot. It was supposed to be me having fun with the cast and characters. But because I went into it so underprepared? It ended up causing me so much stress whenever I tried to write.

There were three main problems I had with Elphis.

First? The pacing.

Second? The consistency.

Third? The selection.

And within this update, I will be going into each of these problems.

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Starting off was the pacing. Part of the problem was my want to give the cast right away and hurry to the actual academy part. But this? Was a huge mistake.

By wanting to get everyone revealed so quickly, it made characters pop up constantly. The readers and also myself had no reason to get attached to them. Honestly, the chapter I'm proudest of was the Volcano Thieves chapter as, despite it's still rushed feeling, felt like I gave the characters time.

Additionally, while I will admit I want a happy ending for my stories… I'm not fully happy with how rushed the friendship felt. It felt like "Oh hi! Let's be friends!" and that's it. I never gave too much build up nor connecting to truly make them befriend one another. Hell, having them connect with the sleepover was one of my favourite scenes… but the characters didn't interact enough. So yeah, it was rushed.

In the remake, I want to take my time. I don't care if it takes 20 chapters or 50 chapters to introduce the cast… I want to take time to introduce each character individually or in groups if fitting while giving them time to develop. Then, once we get to the main story, then we have more to go off of. More connection with the characters and more impact of their tales.

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Secondly was consistency. And this was mainly due to the fact that I was changing the plan constantly again and again.

While it didn't show up often, there was the time where Kuronoka pointed out that I wrote Mirko as a hero but then added her to the cast. And that just made me realize that…

I wasn't keeping track of the decisions I made. It was all just me going with the flow and as such was making it feel so difficult as I had to look back and make sure "I didn't contradict myself did I?" There's probably a bunch of other moments but yeah.

Another thing was the timeline. God, the timeline. Having that gap between the entrance exam with all the different tasks at hand? It was too much to keep track of and I was constantly having to go back to "Is this the right month?"

I want to actually know if a character has been used before or not. I want to know if I've talked about the topic at hand. I want to know exactly what the plan is.

And that's what I'm going to do with the remake. I'm going to focus on a consistent plan moving forward. Of exactly what the next point is. No "Going with the flow" as I need to know exactly what the next main plot point is going to be.

(Just don't expect a consistent writing schedule. Cause that's never gonna happen.)

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Lastly, we have the big one… the selection. Also known as the cast, the side characters, etc.

I will admit this. The issue with this one was the big change partway through. For those who didn't know, my story was originally called My Hero Academia Vindication. It was more a story of proving people wrong where I would have 'villain' characters be the other classmates. It's why Lady Nagant was the teacher and Beros was the first classmate.

However, as time went on, I slowly changed it towards being a more positive and friendly story. This change I don't regret but because of this, the cast got VERY wonky.

For starters, I originally planned to use a lot of USJ underlings as class members. And to be honest, I do still enjoy the idea as it's building off existing characters. But the reason I started to convert them into side characters was that I believed they weren't recognizable enough/it wouldn't be fair as I wanted to not make any OCs.

Technically not OCs but would 100% be OOC since they don't have any.

And that's where the changes came. However, then came with some of the options that REALLY fucked things up. Specifically, some characters really threw a wrench into things.

To start, I was constantly trying to decide on a cast and from there, I would pick certain characters to try and fill in roles that I never truly set up in the first place. When I talked about constantly switching the cast up? I wasn't kidding.

Additionally, certain characters made it hard for me to pick other ones. Chojuro Kon, I'm looking at you. You are a cool character, and I was excited to write you… but holy fuck Chimera basically makes any person with an animal quirk struggle to stand out with him nearby. Another character was Tamao Oguro who, at the time I was cool with, but then slowly struggled to find myself connecting with the character at all.

So the plan? I want to focus on creating a proper cast. It'll take some time but the decision of if I want to redo the "Villainous cast into hero class" or do what I was doing? That will have to wait and see. Either way, I plan to properly decide the cast in the remake. I'm still trying to decide if I want to stick with the 20-character class or shrink it down. It's up in the air.

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The point of this update is not to say "I'm deleting this story because I hate it" because I don't. I don't hate the story and I'm proud with the decisions I made. The concept is a solid one that, in time, I believe will be absolutely incredible.

The main problem I have is that… I don't want to have the story up once the remake is done because while I will be keeping some things still, there will be big changes. I don't want to draw parallels and that's why this story will be deleted later on.

To those who have read this story and enjoyed it… Thank you. I hope that once the remake is out, you will be enjoying that story as well.

I've always said that writing is a fun hobby/past time for me. That will never change.

But still… I want to do my best.

Thank you for listening and reading.

When the story comes back… I hope you will enjoy "My Hero Academia: Nadir to Zenith"

But… that's all for now! Until next time! See you all later!

VoidRebirth signing out!