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Hello!
You know I usually don't do this type of Author's Note, but I feel I must to give important notifications in regards to MS.
First of all, I'm happy to return and see people were expecting the return of MS! I'm sorry for the one-year hiatus, hopefully, all my readers are still here and we get new readers too! Remember to join my server anytime you want, is not very active but we discuss a lot of MS and Persona topics there.
Now on another note, here's the thing MS will have changes. You probably noticed the tags already.
4 years ago when I started this story I had a different vision from my current one, while I do still keep the story the same as I originally planned, I did made changes and added new things, a natural process in fanfic creation and stories in general.
Years ago, I had a vision of having Kazuichi as an important character, I wanted Miu to be a party member too, but sadly this has changed and there's been a swift regarding who's going to end up joining the team, who's going to be a confidant/social link, and so on.
The story plays the same but these changes were needed since many of the characters I envisioned, ended up adding nothing to the story and it pained me to make this change but if I wanted to keep the quality, I had to do it.
I sincerely apologize because in the past I had envisioned Kazuichi/Ibuki as one of the future pairings, I even had plans for eventual Byakuya/Makoto development as a pairing too, but those were ideas from 2020 Rookie who, honestly just was adding fanservice without giving it to much though. I wasn't able to make it work with the story I had planned, and for that reason they will be having different roles.
I will still find a way to give my OG readers at least something to feel satisfied with these characters, I know many were expecting them, and I know it's a kick in the nuts for that reason I will work on alternatives to at least give a well-deserved focus one way or another. That includes the pairings, I can't promise the same relevance or conclusion but I can at least give something that is a promise.
Another thing is the change of Personas, you might not know it but I have a whole list of the personas I'll be using for this story. Well that changed. I updated that list and that includes the Party Members personas, I will change some personas, mainly Rantaro's Persona.
In the past, Captain Kidd made sense for me for Rantaro with the idea I had for his character, but now I'm bothered by the choice, I regret it, so I will be giving him an original Persona just like Kyoko, Mukuro, and the next upcoming party members, the only one who will keep the same Persona unchanged will be Hajime, Izanagi is already a storywise choice.
Kyoko, Mukuro, Makoto will remain untouched since they have more original personas not used by previous Persona users, yes Makoto included, Cu-Chuliu is still a Persona usable only for the player, this version of him is dedicated exclusive for Makoto.
These changes will affect one or two personas that Hajime used in previous episodes but that won't matter much, I still mention it if someone reads from the start of the story and notices that a Persona they swear was there is suddenly renamed. I'm mentioning this because I noticed the list of Personas II'm using is very Persona 5 with a mix of Persona 4, I don't like that. Each Persona has a unique set of Personas, sure a few Personas end up being repeated since they are basic choices to have, but even so, each game feels it has a unique selection of demons from the SMT compendium, and the one I did is just a "wanna be list" so, I'll give more variety.
That said, I hope you guys still continue enjoying MS, I will spend the next two weeks updating the previous chapters, so I hope you all look forward to that. When the next chapter gets published I will delete this message, until then see you soon!