Oct 28, 2017
To:James K.
If you think this is short, I used to write oneshots for some of my fandoms. I think some of my best work (under another name) was for Bungou Stray Dogs and sat at about 1000 or 1500 words.
I never said I liked Shelter, I just said "Humanity's Outcome" reminded me of it.
I've always thought Satoshi suffered from Bland Protagonist Syndrome, which is probably one of my biggest sticking points about this story.
Currently, my main focus is "Half-Paid Heroes", so that might be where the back-and-forth comes from - if it seems like I've forgotten what happened, it means I probably have been away from this story for a few months. This style leans more towards "One Wish..." as a result of being written at around the same time, so I guess there's that too.
I was actually intending for you to learn from "Crying Over Spilt Blood" and not this, but I've realised the tropes in "Spilt Blood" haven't aged particularly well, whereas this seems more trapped in time (kinda like the opening chapters of "Perfect World").