Chapter 110 – End of Arc 3 Author’s Note

Chapter 110 – End of Arc 3 Author’s Note

HELLO!

Am I sorry for the 108 Cliffhanger? No. That thing was planned for so long you can be happy that the waiting time between the chapters was this short. Arc 3 turned out a lot short than Arc 2 for some reason. Likely because I had a better idea what I wanted to achieve and didn’t want to stretch it like last time (Also less erotica which I always use separate chapters for).

Goal this Arc was to get John out of reactive and into pro-active territory. He saw something he wanted to change and tried to. Now the whole thing went a bit south because he didn’t know what exactly he was trifling with. While on the topic of saving Thana: It has been brought to my attention that the part of ‘Why’ John wanted to save her may have been a bit short. After thinking about I agree, I should have brought more reasons up aside from ‘Because it was Travolta’s last wish’ given John’s more cautious nature. A last wish is a good and powerful reason but there might have been a bit more needed.

All of the story from like Chapter 20 onwards, when I realized this would a bit more than a side-project for me, have been building up to the end of this Arc. Originally, I wanted Aclysia to actually die at the end of this Arc and be replaced with Aclysia 2.0 (A2, anyone? No, I am not always creative) but that storyline got scrapped because I already have spent to much time building up Aclysia to go through the same motions again. So when I got my hands on a love plot Rave was the logical next person on the chopping block. Except that I didn’t plan to actually kill her.

The idea moving forward is a training arc, but I am getting ahead of myself. This Arc spells the death of Victoria, Igor and the other Bloodfallen. You might have noticed that Thana talks about killing the other half but assured, by the time we get there, there will be nobody left alive so you can categorize that organization as extinct.Updated chapters on novelbin(.)com

Thana herself was also shallowly introduced after being teased for such a long time. I hope you are not to disappointed with the little you got to see. There is more to her, I promise, but it will take a while to get there.

Was Victoria designed to die though? No, Victoria came into planning first when I made the plans for Arc 1 where she was simply designated as Girl 2 (Which since then turned out wrong because she is actually Girl 3, Girl 1 being Rave and Girl 2 Aclysia) but the base for Slavic Sniper was what I build upon.

I designed her fighting style first, because that was easy enough, then her character design and only at the end did I decide on how to introduce her and where she came from. It just happened that I had a much more prominent character in my mind, Thana, that I wanted to introduce with a BANG! So somebody had to die. Victoria is the one that was the best for this job because of how her and Thana’s backstories intertwined, sorry for the Victoria fans out there. If there are any.

When I made her character, I decided to go for the less likeable approach. Partly because I didn’t want people to get to attached, partly because having a story full of likeable protagonists is boring. So, I made her slightly bitchy but mostly the stern ‘Has not time for bullshit’ kind of character.

Running her with the Bloodfallen (Which I created separately btw) was an easy decision. She was from a fleeing family, they were anti-communist, bada-bing bada-boom, match in heaven. Things aligned nicely, happens sometimes.

And now she is dead. This will probably be the last you ever hear of her. Nah, okay maybe she will be mentioned one or two more times but don’t expect too much of me, a chapter only has that much space.

This is it for me. I will create another chapter after this that shows all of the current Stats of John and his Elementals as well as Aclysia. Then I will take a one-week break (maybe a bit longer, I will be on vacation for a bit) and see you all again for the fourth and final arc of Season 1 ‘Shadow of the Day’.