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Hello! It's been a while, at least for this fic.
So let me level with you: I stopped writing this fic because I stopped having fun writing this fic. To be completely honest, I wasn't having fun with this fic pretty much at all. I was so focused on the salt aspect of this fic that I forgot to, y'know, actually make the end product something I enjoy.
At this point you'd expect me to say that I'm declaring this fic dead officially, and to that I have to say...no, actually.
The thing is, despite the fact that much of this fic is kind of fueled by anger and frustration, I do actually like the concept. I liked where I was going with it, when I wasn't pushing this salty agenda. And I had real plans for the ending that I was excited to get to, that I am excited to get to. That's why I always refused to declare this fic dead, because part of me just really wanted to continue it because this was a story I wanted to complete, but then I'd actually look at what was already here and where I had left it and I'd lose all of my excitement and motivation.
I think the fact is that I wrote this fic with the intention of just venting a lot of my frustrations with the narrative, but for all that I talked about making it constructive that doesn't come across to me. My anger eventually burned out and I left this fic at a point where the basic concept and narrative was something I wanted to do, but the framework I had built was so based around my anger that I couldn't really keep building upon it. The ground changed right under this fic and I didn't know how to pick it back up again.
So this is me, building a better foundation so I can actually enjoy writing it.
Basically I'm saying, I'm rewriting this fic! Pretty much entirely!
Obviously I'm not abandoning the salt angle completely. Caline Bustier will remain our protagonist and viewpoint character, and I don't intend to drop the storyline of her actually having to improve as a teacher because that storyline is vitally important to the premise of this story. Caline was always the protagonist because she needed to change the most, and even as I've changed my tune on a lot of things I haven't changed my mind about this.
Beyond the fact that this story was not fun for me, it's also two years old and reads like it on my end, and in that time so much as happened in Miraculous Ladybug. I want to take new information into account. Like, for one, the fact that Caline is fricking pregnant in the New York Special? Which raises so many questions and suggests the possibility of me having to create an OC partner for her (though I might not, who knows). Jagged Stone was originally going to play a role and he's now apparently Luka and Juleka's dad. Luka is Juleka's twin rather than a year older than her, and he's also homeschooled. Chloe literally forces Sabrina to do her homework in a dark closet. This information all has an impact on the story.
Useful information going forward:
- This fic will continue to take place during Season 3, starting not long after Chat Blanc. The story will pass through a couple Season 3 episodes, but due to the nature of this plot these episodes will not go the same.
- I'm also keeping the thing about the butterflies being an extension of Nooroo, even if it isn't canon, because I liked it.
- I am currently writing a fic for the Klapollo Minibang event, and once I'm finished with that this fic will be going into rotation with four other works that I plan on either rewriting or updating, with the intention of posting/completing chapters on Fridays. I'll make a post on my Tumblr going into details about that plan later, but the plan is to actually get shit done for once in my life.
- Even with that angle, I don't actually intend to publish any updates to this story (or, for that matter, post the rewritten chapters) until I'm finished rewriting what I've currently got, so it will probably take a while for this fic to start updating again.
- If anyone actually cares about the current chapters as they are, let me know and I'll post them to a Google Doc or something and link it in the end notes.
Love you guys, have a good night.