Alright, third time's the charm.
Hey everyone, Sav here, not Elysium, just little old me.
I've just finished and posted the most recent chapter of That Snivy, so that would typically meant that I should now write the next chapter for this story. However, I've noticed an ever-growing predicament. When it comes to Covelight, my creative energy has been split between this story and the upcoming webcomic. It's getting to a point where I've started to mix the two up mentally, I've been marking new plot ideas in the webcomic's planning doc, when they should be going into this story, and vice-versa. On top of that, progress on all of my 3 major projects has slowed down considerably, and I feel working on Valkyrie, That Snivy, and the Covelight Webcomic simultaneously has not only been detrimental on the quality of each of these projects (We all know the last chapter wasn't the best, even I'll admit that.) but it's also been detrimental on my wellbeing. I WANT to write this story, I WANT to finish it and have you all experience this awesome adventure I have planned for you all, I WANT to be able to balance doing that, and my other two projects.
But the fact of the matter is, I...can't. I've become too ambitious and it's only making both myself and my works suffer. So I've taken a step back to reflect on things. This story, despite how much I love it, and how dear it is to me, is holding me back. The energy I'd be using to write Chapter 8: Mobilize, I feel it would be better used on the Covelight webcomic, making it as best as can be, BEFORE I DRAW A SINGLE PANEL. Since with this current Version of Covelight, I sorta went in guns blazing, and it wasn't until midway through that I figured out a direction for the story to go, and I feel like it suffered as a result. This was a mistake, and a mistake I REFUSE to make this time around, so I've been more thoroughly building the outline for the webcomic, and I must say, it's already MILES better the 2019 Fanfiction and I can't WAIT to show it all to you!
Sadly, however. After lots of consideration, and input from my friends in That Universe's Discord server (Which I'm now a mod for, btw!) I have decided to let this story go. Effective as soon as this update is posted, Covelight II: Valkyrie is officially discontinued. It's been one hell of a ride, and believe me, I'm sad to see it go. It's becoming more of a burden than a project I've been excited to work on, and even though I hate leaving things unfinished, I want you all to see just how much I've improved with the webcomic rather than trying to keep this flawed first attempt alive, and failing. I'm aware this story is the least popular of my fics.
...Plus, That Snivy will get updated more frequently now that it's not fighting with this story for keyboard time! XD
Still, I must say, to those of you who have stuck with me this far, thank you. Thank you so much for letting me tell you the story that has utterly consumed my life for the past 11 years, and I hope that come late fall, you come with me on a new journey, a familiar one, yet new nonetheless. I hope you'll get to meet Jasmine, for real this time. To meet Nyx, and Jesse, to see all of the heavily expanded lore and worldbuilding, in a medium that allows me to truly bring my vision to life in a way that my words simply will never convey.
You will be able to find the Webcomic on the 'Celatia: A Pokemon AU' Discord, the 'That Universe' Discord, My Deviantart (links TO the comic, that is), and on Comicfury! I have the first 5 chapters outlined already, so I hope that the first chapter (The hardest one of the 5) will be posted by late fall!
As always, this has been SavageCaliber, or "Elysium."
Over and out.