Chapter 277: Author's final note
And here comes the end.
I'd planned on rewriting the epilogue before it got published but, well, guess I forgot.
We're finally done with this fanfic. We started 21 august 2023 and finished the public release 6 february 2025. Ah, freedom.
I hope you enjoyed the story everybody.
I feel like there are a couple of stuff that were wobbly and that could've been better handled : for example, I could've done something about Izuku's immortality, or maybe I could've made Shoto non immune to Aizawa and AFO's Quirk. That would've been pretty funny.
You know, at some point I'd even considered giving Ochaco OFA. I think I discarded this idea because I wanted this fight between Shoto and Katsuki, and the huge betrayal that would come with it.
Anyway, I think there are a lot of things I did well and a lot of things I could've done better, but as it's the first project I ever finish, I'm still pretty proud of myself.
By the way I hope you felt a lot of pain when Enji died because I was supposed to unalive him since chapter one (and I bawled my eyes out all along when I was writing family fluff). The whole reason this story exists is because I pictured this Shoto that would go on a killing spree after his father was killed.
I wanted to write about an SI that would fuck absolutely everything and make things worse without getting how or why. I feel like too many times, people write SI as these individuals who have everything under control because they're reborn.
Anyway, enough with the rambling. Here we get to the juicy part : there'll be another FF.
A Naruto one.
Release date July 2025.
Be warned, it's gonna be brutal. My beta reader (who'll certainly manifest himself in the comments) told me it was a more intense beginning compared to this FF, so you can get an idea.
Basically it'll be about a war child in Amegakure. We can consider it an SI but the MC (Arashi) has no foreknowledge, no gifts, no bloodlines. It's gonna be a good ol' grinding FF.
I've learned from my mistakes and I'm making active efforts to make this new FF more fast paced and with a lot more action than what we had at the beginning here. I'll do my best to work on story structure as well as satisfying conflicts ending (was unsatisfied on the way I handled a couple of stuff here).
My main goal is pacing, though, so expect a lot more of action.
I, obviously, do not wish to be a one trick pony and I will (am currently) do my very best to avoir making a carbon copy of Shoto. I've got a thing for intense protagonists, though, but I'll make them as different as I can.
I'm still considering if I keep or not Akatsuki as well as the Otsutsuki stuff. You can argue for either of the options in the comments section.
If you have any things you liked/disliked about this FF, think I could improve on, please, please, please write it in the comments section. Feedback and the possibility of improvement thanks to my readers is 60% of why I publish online.
So yeah, guess that's the end.
Ah and btw, I got a Sakura SI FF going on AO3. It's a realistic FF with her thrown in war on the day of her graduation. There's no schedule and no promise of update, it's just a fun concept I wanted to toy with so here it is. It'll have romance undertones, though, because I want to try my hand at it, but it won't come for a while (she needs to survive first). There are a couple of chapters already available if you want to check.
I had a blast writing this FF (despite the exhaustion). I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Thanks to those of you that have been reading since the beginning (I remember you). Thanks to those of you that came and hopped on the train with us. Thanks to those of you that will read this FF weeks or months or even years later I publish this note.
It was so much fun interacting with y'all in the comments section (you kept my ego in check, that's for sure).
Hope I'll see you in my next FF.