Due to a severe lack of interest in my West of Loathing story on here, I'll refrain from posting anymore work here until further notice.
I've since started posting on Ao3. If there's even a remote chance of anyone actually reading it on DA, you'll have to pick it up there, where I've submitted chapter 10.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Aqua113/works
I know West of Loathing isn't as popular as the other franchises that I've written about. I know some of you do wish that I would resume work on those, but I lost that spark for them long ago. Halo 5 certainly didn't help. Besides, my window for writing about an uncertain Halo and Metroid future has already been shut. I never wanted to knowingly write against the canon and I was able to satisfy myself for awhile before the future was set in stone. Technically, a small crack of that window is still open since the current year of my story is set before the events of Halo 4. I don't know how many times I've brought that up.
As for Shadow of Hearts... Well, that was fun too. I'm not out of ideas, just the desire to write about it. Besides, Kingdom Hearts 3 and a few other KH entries might make things slightly difficult for what I had planned. Looking back, though, I think I went a little overboard on a couple of things, especially the parts involving Cloud and Sephiroth. Made things a bit too convenient.
Anyway, I'll still be around Deviant Art. I do hope some of you take a look at my new story. If not, I'll be disappointed, but I'll understand.
Take care.
Yes, I'm still alive. Yes, it's been awhile. Yada yada yada.
No, I will not be resuming Haloid or Shadow of Hearts. No, I have not yet played Halo: Infinity. I'm also way behind on my Halo novel reading. No, I have not watched the Halo tv series. Yes, I have played Metroid Dread. Yes, I have played Kingdom Hearts 3.
Just want to get some of those questions out of the way.
A little while back, I played an indie game called West of Loathing. Despite the stick figure art and silliness of the game, I still found the setting and characters to be so inspiring that I felt like I could create a serious story within this universe, while trying to make it *slightly* more realistic... well, as much as I can get away with.
Then I recently met someone online who works with horses every day, he's a huge history nerd and he's played the game as well. Thanks to him, I felt motivated to finally put my story into words.
In the original game, you the player had to pick a character class and you only had three options and you could only pick one ally to bring with you for the rest of your playthrough after the prologue. I wanted to make a story that included everyone. As for the main character, I figured that instead of having one person who could do everything, I decided to split the protag into 3 different people. Thanks to extensive research, both in game and from the predecessor, Kingdom of Loathing, I was able to craft these three individuals using their skills, perks and other traits to form their personalities as well as their backstories. I also divided certain aspects, possessions and skills of the main protag between them that you receive upon starting the game. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results. Sadly, though, I haven't given a lot of thought into their physical appearances, mostly because I'm not good with such descriptions.
Boy howdy, did I forget how much energy and focus you needed to write. Just the very prologue of the game is taking WAY longer than I thought and I'm still working on it. Since it's so long, I may have to carve it out into chunks and post individual pieces of it, which is fine, because it'll give you people something to read and something to look forward to.
To anyone who's still interested in my work, I hope you enjoy it. To anyone who doesn't care, that's fine too. To anyone who's not happy about this new story and approach, please keep it to yourself.
Sorry if I've disappointed anyone who were expecting me to pick up where I left off. This is what I want to write now.
Also, please forgive me if I don't exactly remember who most of you are. It's been a hell of a long time and people often change their names on the internet.