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I'm genuinely disgusted.
Within the past week, both the creators of Grace and Pressure have been outed for doing terrible things and being terrible people. Some worse than others.
If you don't already know, Simon, the creator of Grace has been outed for being a slurslinging homophobic, racist, and ablesit along with his girlfriend.
Ren, also known as NoLongerNull, the former music composer for Pressure, has come out about Zeal, the creator of pressure, sexually assaulting them.
PLEASE, PLEASE, SEND REN YOUR FULL SUPPORT. THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE GAME. THIS IS ABOUT AN ACTUAL PERSON GETTING HURT.
This genuinely cannot be ignored, and I feel dirty and disgusting for even having this story.
But that just begs the question,
What am I going to do?
I will NOT ignore this. This fic was genuinely something I had been so excited for. The Endless Torment Trio was my gateway out of being hyperfixated on other games with toxic creators and communities. Almost immediately being betrayed like this by the creators was genuinely disheartening, and I was contemplating abandoning this fic.
But, if I abandoned this fic, I would feel guilty and terrible. All my ideas for this AU, just gone to waste.
I will not be doing that.
I will be distancing John and Expendable from their base games. For now, I will finish the blacksite chapter, and the Doors chapter will be the final one that actually takes place in the games. I'm changing up my plans a bit. The rest of the story will be about these people, irreparably damaged mentally by these things, healing and re-integrating into Roblox society. They will take on new names. Become their own people. Separate themselves from their own eternal torment, and in turn, from their games.
I will do similar with the other characters, such as HQ, p.AI.nter, Sebastian, and even NAVI. After I finish chapter three, they will grow to have their own lives outside of the blacksite.
I will be associating the characters closer to their V/As, and I will make minor changes to them/their personalities (not great ones, I don't want to too heavily change them to be unrecognizable, just slightly different.)
Thank you all for enjoying what all you have read of this story. I can only hope that you will stick with me on this journey to separate the content from the creator and turn them into something of my own.
AND PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SEND REN YOUR SUPPORT.
That's all I'll say. I have no upload schedule/plan for the next two chapters, given they will be longer than the previous ones as I think I could only stand writing one chapter about Pressure before feeling genuinely ill.