I've fucked up. Turns out the guy I gave rights to my story to might've lost their teaching job because of me?
I gave him the first few chapter written by me and the general plot from there, but then things go sideways and by CH33 he's killing my self-insert character. The story was, for me, a lot of introspection and expression of real world events that happened to me, although not as bad for-real. By the combined powers of my undiagnosed autism and care though I basically wrote the rest of the almost 80 chapters in under a month and sent him links to call the result his own. Stupid dumb awesome teachers, recognizing my inner uncertainty in my own writing...
Anyways I'm currently brainstorming how exactly to break it to my fans that they've been deceived about who the real author is and why ""Somber"" has been so unflinchingly resolute on keeping true to the story I wanted to tell myself. Damn me, I've hurt them all. Semi-news for you all but Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons was written by a fellow Discordian. Me. Secrets, I love them begrudgingly. I see them like fossils to dig up.
It's taken me this long to do something because I actually, at the time at least, felt the meta-narrative made it a good idea to mindfuck/gaslight myself into thinking I didn't actually write most of it. If I had actually read it after my initial writing I'd've known it sooner. Too many self-insert-references that are specific to my own life and actually hurt the story by existing. In the final chapters, for instance, I have Aeris as a flamethrower wielder. The way she's written into the story is like a redcoat from Star Trek, which is a notorious meme for being bad writing. I wrote Eris into it, sort of. Boo is much closer to how I would like Eris to see my perception of her irl ofc... Not that you know what I'm actually talking about here.
Anyways, any suggestions as to how to apologize to a teacher that lost their job for defending your story that includes pedophilia because pedophilia, being more of a victim irl, has a lot to do with your mental trauma? Yeah yeah, big mess of fuck. I need help if you have it. Also, think of me like a force of Aftermath that has reality conveniently bend around it unintentionally. Trump much? I predicted Card-pun, my MC for the story is called Blackjack, would win the past election. We all know where reality sits now.
Help? No help is ok too ofc. I'll just keep being here as I am, without you.