Author's Note

                                    

                                          
Finally, the second rewrite of Clan's Rising (CR) is done! Don't leave after this note, though, since there are two side stories (two for Wattpad and two for AO3) coming out next week!
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, this is a drag. The last thing I wanted to do was do another rewrite for CR and Our Dark New World (ODNW) while trying to focus on the third one I wanted to get out. I was never happy with how the first write looked of it, since that was when I was still doing it in first person. When I first went back to it, I just decided to switch out any first person things to names and pronouns so it looked awful. Then, I wanted to rewrite it fully this time to actually make it look decent. This story has such a special place in my heart since, when I first wrote it, I was proud of myself for being better than ODNW along with how much I loved Perci, Cocon, Mahi, and Android 1 as characters. There's a lot to the "behind the scenes" of it, so I'll try going in a chronological order...but I have bad memory, so it might be bad.
So after ODNW finished, I wanted to follow up on it in the present time. I wanted to focus on the Black Star Clan again but I wasn't sure how I wanted to go about it. Actually, Clan's Rising wasn't the first followup. There's a lot of history to ODNW so I'll try summing it up the best way possible...which, actually, this is a good moment for a quick behind the scenes of ODNW!
ODNW was, of course, the first DBZ fanfic I ever wrote, but the story was entirely different...like, I'm not shitting you, it was CRAZY different. I liked Zamasu as a character and so I brought him back...as a girl. Yep. He came back as a girl (I never explained it in the story why this was the case) and started fucking up the future again. Everything else was the same, Raimu and the gang exist, Valli still eats shit, Raimu goes back to the past with (previously) Mai and Bulma, Cori finds Trunks, etc. But when they return to the past is where things are different. Zamasu used the potara earrings to fuse with Raimu, with Raimu liking the power before...yeah, I forgot. I forgot how the two unfused, but they ended up unfusing, they defeat Zamasu, and everything is back to normal yay!!! And actually, their names were different for this first draft, too! Raimu's name was previously Arrow (because he used a bow and arrow or something idk), Daikon was Daikon, Valli was Volt, and Cori...Cori was a special case. Cori, for some reason, was a demon hybrid but he was still Trunks and Mai's son, idk. Trunks basically ditched after Cori was born so there was no time for him to be named so the group called him "Xeno." I lowk thought of the name from Xenoverse but whatever, they just called him that. Anyways, his real name was Aikon and then Aikon changed to Cori! The only reason I really did change his name to Cori was because "Aikon" was just from "Daikon" and they were too similar so I fit Cori with the theme of the Briefs having clothing names. So Cori is meant to reference a "corset."
Anyways, back to the original follow up on ODNW. The next story was actually supposed "The Face of Darkness," which followed Raimu in the present after the events of the ODNW. Actually, since I was smart, I still have this draft with me which is so weird to look back on. With a quick synopsis, Universe 13 was readded as the G.O.D. from 13 along with her Angel come to their universe for help, as there are two androids in her universe who she can't defeat. Raimu ends up going with them, against the will of everyone else, only to be kidnapped as they have to get Raimu back. This is where the first draft of Mahi and Android 1 came from! Android 1 kept her name while Mahi was actually Android 38, though she kept the same story of turning herself into an android. Their goal was to make an android to overthrow the G.O.D and take over the universe, you know the song and dance. I only got to chapter 9 of it, which was when the Supreme Kai and his assistant saved Goku, Vegeta, and Cori while they were fighting the two androids. It's still awful to read but I ended up stopping at 9 chapters because I got busy and wasn't happy with it. This is soon when Perci and Cocon were born and when I switched over to making CR!
CR was my favorite at the time. I was still writing in first person but I thought it was decent. Unfortunately, I can't remember how it originally played out but I do know a lot about Cocon and Perci. Cocon's name was previously Zen, again switched to fit the theme of silly names as DBZ is trademarked for. She was just about the same as she is now, so not much changed about her. I really, really liked Future Trunks so I decided to give her two katanas to fight with. Now, Perci, oh my sweet boy Perci. His name was originally Loki...because I liked the Disney show/villain Loki (Dr. Strange is better fr). The only thing I can remember from Perci is how his death was originally different. Now, I was working on CR during junior high (god it's been too long) and something I would do was always try and think of more ideas, always just daydreaming big moments I could lead up to in stories (btw, Road to Heros [RTH] was made way later than this). So instead of paying attention in math class, I would daydream about what I would want to do next. For ODNW, I was daydreaming about the moment when Daikon would reveal she's alive as she tries protecting Raimu while fighting against Zamasu/Lych, with her confessing her love in the moment when she was yelling about how she'd never let go of him. When I moved onto CR, I began daydreaming about the moment Perci would die. His death was originally different. Originally, he would have been protecting Raimu and the other three kids against an attack as Perci thanks them (forgot what for, could've been thanking them for their help or thanking them for making him like good or some shit) before sacrificing himself in front of them. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything else after that moment so I assume it was the same as the first rewrite.
It's so weird to see how far my writing has come to be honest. Chapter 7 (Mission Paused: Finding a Wolf) was a big moment in the original story since that's when chapters started to get longer. Then, Chapter 13 (Clan Leader Showdown) marked the first chapter over 3000 words which I was proud of! I'm so glad I can finally look back on this and ODNW and actually be happy with how they truly are now.
And so, this is the end of the note and the end of Clan's Rising. I still have a lot to work on with the third story, Forgotten Light (FL) so it might be a bit before that comes out. I still want to thank any readers who have read this story! I publish for fun but I'm still grateful for those who truly appreciate the stories I want to tell!
So, hey! If you're bored waiting for the side stories and get bored waiting for the third story, go check out my MHA OC story, Road to Heroes! Pretty good, too!
Thanks for reading and I'll see you all in the next story!