One Piece - Halfway Broken 36-39
🕑 Added 2024-08-12 13:50:52 +0000 UTCWhew. Sorry this is, like My Hero Automata, later than usual folks. It's really just a follow-on effect from the delay with Automata, honestly. I caught up slightly, but only by about a day. I'd hoped to make that two by getting this out yesterday, but I just didn't quite managed to get the editing pass done in time.
Anyway! It's ready now. I'm afraid this set of chapters is very much a transition between arcs, which means very little action. Though we do get to see the way things with Robin and Hina play out, along with some more divergences from canon building up. It's also a little bit shorter than normal, coming in at around 13,700 words instead of the usual 15,000. That actually didn't have anything to do with the delay. It was just where there was a logical place to end things.
I also don't feel too bad about it ;-). But the reason for that is that I've got a slight surprise for everyone that will come out alongside the Poll. Said surprise will, I hope, make up for the slightly shorter Halfway Broken entry!
As always, the new content for the story is attached here in various formats. And I'll be updating the Pinned Post with the new master files shortly.
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shabbybook
loving the story
Jose Ricardo Passos
Never asked you to be moved to tears now did I? Just said it was kinda lame, the mildest kinda complaint possible
Érica C. Assunção
That's so true!! I didn't even think that! Now I'm even more curious of what Butterfly Effects will happen!!🤩
Novus Peregrine
Glad you liked it :-). And yep, Butterfly Effects continue to accumulate. Ace left Alabasta earlier than he did in canon, since Luffy arrived earlier and Ace was hanging around for a bit to see if he could catch up with Luffy. Since we know that Blackbeard would be on Jaya for Luffy to run into...I figured leaving at a different time had a very real chance of sending Ace down the right route to catch up with Teach!
Novus Peregrine
...my Patreon literally only costs a single dollar for access to everything I publish for a month. Content that will be 100% free anyway, after the early access period. Somehow, I'm not exactly moved to tears by your complaint.
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Érica C. Assunção
Holy shit!! That was amazing!! I didn't expect to Ace have caught up with Blackbeard in Jaya!! Can't wait to read more!!
Jose Ricardo Passos
Main problem is the 1 day after the month bro, makes it so people who only subscribe for a single history have to pay more than they otherwise would
Novus Peregrine
*blink* I'm not sure why? Once a month is the normal update schedule for Poll Winner stories. Four total updates a month. Two for My Hero Automata (roughly 15k words total), one for the Poll Winner (Halfway Broken in this case), one for Can One Displaced Hero Save a Galaxy. That's my official update cycle and I'm pretty good about keeping to it, with a few days of drift now and then when things get busy with life. I've yet to ever fail to get all four out within a month period though, ever.
Jose Ricardo Passos
Imma be honest novus, no offence but doing an update exactly 1 month and 1 day after the previous one is kinda lame of you