Yeeeaaas! I have finished this fic before 2020! What an achievement on my end!
But as you can already feel, this is not the end.
Oh boy is it not the end.
I can never fully understand why I decide to stretch a perfectly good, one book long story into a duology or worse, a trilogy, but I do.
Maybe it's the reason I have ideas for about 7 other types of stories, but don't even know the main characters' names…
ahem
There is something I'd like to mention.
DBH is a very tightly planned story, I've noticed. There's lots of meaningful filler and not a lot of meaningless filler if you know what I'm saying. It has symbolism, metaphors, good characters, a decent plot and so on and so on.
That's why I feel unequipped to write a competent fic.
(You probably already know this because of my meaningless ramblings I tend to forget to delete from my drafts…)
I don't plan often. I have an idea for a chapter or three, maybe some interesting dialogue I want to write a scene for, and I just… write. I make out the finer points as I go, and the plot magically puts itself together with only a few tweaks.
So… you see my issue, don't you?
I do have plans already for a sequel… A second season perhaps. But I already feel like I'm straying away from the original far too much to make it any interesting. I can understand the appeal of short, one-shot fanfics of a single "scene" with only two to three characters in a set environment, but… this kind of… extension of canon that will be brutally smashed into pieces by an upcoming canon sequel is… hard to follow at times and even harder to write.
But I'm gonna try. Even though I might fail at times along the way. I'm gonna try to make the second part/season/book/fic competent and interesting to read.
So… a pause is in order. A time for me to replay the game a few more times and properly plan(even though I'll probably throw out the plan the second I start writing anything). But, if I know what I want to have in the sequel, I can probably map out the possibilities and see which one of them is most interesting.
It may not be the best idea for me since I'll think of many things and I'll want to have them ALL, no matter how small they might be, but… I was never a logical person anyway.
So far, I want the android revolution to expand beyond Detroit, a few of my new characters to make an appearance, however short, Kamski to return, poor guy deserves more screen time, ra9 to finally come into play, a complete RK900 to finally come into play, CyberLife to be a pain in the ass, Amanda to haunt Connor and Connor himself to go through some shit.
Let me know what you think, what you honestly think – of not just this, but overall. How bad of a job did I really do? Did I do anything good? Should I quit? I just wanna do this right. You could say I'm taking this way too seriously and… yeah. I kind of am.
Is that weird? XD
And for the very end, a self-plug.
user/EndHall
If you're interested… at all. I am EndHall over on Wattpad, I write mostly fantasy/action/adventure type stuff and I try my best to not make them too boring or confusing.
Actually, my hyper-fixation on DBH now makes a bit more sense.
One less secret about myself I guess.
Take care!