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Hello everyone! It has certainly been a while since I last uploaded this story, and well... sorry about that. I'm just going to be entirely honest, on top of the usual situation regarding me being a motivation based reader, so I can be stuck on other stories for a long time before updating other ones, I kind of fell off RoR for a good while. Not so much dropping the series, I still really like it and its concept, but there was a point with the Manga where I just stepped away from the series for a good while, and when coming back to it, there was just a lot that popped up. As a result, it did basically make me feel the need to try and re-plan some of the fights that can happen, and also kind of completely flipped my expectations of how some characters were going to be (example, Loki being in love with Brunhilde when I thought and have wrote his as mocking towards her with what we saw of him in the series before his match) and so some stuff just felt like it wasn't working, and so I decided to step away from this story again. However, for anyone that has noticed, I have now started up another RoR story which is a crossover with Fire Emblem Three Houses, and motivation regarding this series has been sparking back up.
So, with this update, I have an announcement. Since parts of my original chosen roster for this story doesn't feel right with what we now know of the RoR Gods up to this point, I am removing some characters from being part of the roster that has yet to have a fight. The characters being removed from the originally planned roster when I started this story so long ago consists of Gwen Tennyson, Lloyd Garmadon and The Chosen Undead. I'm sorry for the Ben 10, Ninjago and the Dark Souls fans, but with what i have discovered of the Gods, my original plans with these characters no longer works with their opponents and I need the room for newer and better characters to fill up the spots. However, this is where some good news comes in.
If you want to include someone else from your fandoms, then feel free to bring them up to me here and now for a future fight within this story! Because for the replacements of these 3 characters, I'm allowing you all to pick who will be reconnected into taking their place in this story's plot. And to make picking easier as well as an apology for taking so long, amongst the planned fights for the characters who aren't being swapped out, here are the matches for them all (also note, this list isn't an order of when the matches will happen in the story when chapters return, and is instead just a random order):
Beelzebul/Ei vs Poseidon
Pain vs Zero/Hajun
Tanjiro vs Hades
Beelzebub vs Iron Man
Link vs Susanoo
Anakin Skywalker vs Loki
Jonathan Joestar vs Apollo
Sorry again for all of this taking so long to even get any kind of update, but hopefully giving you all the power to choose 3 new characters to take place of the original 3 I picked makes up for this a bit, as well as showing off the matches you can all look forward to. Though, 3 quick rules on the voting. Number 1, until a new character is mentioned or shown taking the place of Gwen, Lloyd or the Chosen Undead in the story proper, the role will remain open, so until such a point, you can basically continue to vote for any number of characters over the course of updates to fill up any of the 3 slots or give multiple suggestions. Number 2, only 1 character per franchise, so since Kaido already has taken a match in this story, there will be no other One Piece character that can show up for this story (though, for a future RoR story I might do, you can still suggest a One Piece character for that for instance). And lastly, Number 3, for the character that you pick to try and take up one of these now empty slots, you need to share who amongst the not mentioned Gods you think should be your picked character's opponent, the why and what can overall make it an interesting battle in terms of abilities and themes.