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My Hero Automata (74-75)
🕑 Added 2024-06-15 21:59:36 +0000 UTCWohoo! Time for the hopefully-no-one-strangles-me reveal! I've made it fairly clear in the past that I'm not a fan of My Hero Academia's later content. That, in point of fact, I pretty much hate everything past the Eri/Overhaul arc. The Cultural Festival and Joint Training arcs are fine, but they are barely more than filler, really. Everything after that? Trash. Utter trash. The MLA/PLA arcs were nonsense, the Dark Hero arc was worse, the Star and Stripe arc was...pointless, and the Final War arc feels like the writer never expected to get that far and was desperate to come up with an ending.
Thus, it shouldn't be too much of a shock (I've repeatedly said that the Eri/Overhaul arc was going to be the last big arc that really followed canon) that we're launching into Full Story Divergence with this release. I've spent a lot of time over the last 200,000 words slowly shifting and restructuring the world. A few of the major factions (MLA and LoV) will still exist and continue to cause problems in the future. But their roles are going to shift drastically in response to...well...the events of these two chapters. Events I've been hinting heavily at but which I have no idea if anyone predicted the actual result accurately. Give yourself a cookie if you did. You earned it.
A lot of people thought I was bringing Nier content in, only I'm not really. The content introduced here is a little bit Nier-inspired, but only to keep it consistent with the established narrative of how Quirks came about. In truth, the Divergence here is much more heavily inspired by other works/entire genres...but I won't say more until the author's notes.
Anyway! Enjoy the chaos (hopefully)! The release is only around 9,000 words I'm afraid, since that's where the natural endpoint was. But that still brings us up to over 15,000 words of My Hero Automata this month, which is the target. Even if I often overshoot that target by a couple of thousands words...
Anyway, as always, the new content is attached here in PDF and Epub formats. I've gone ahead and added it as a .Docx again, just because it's easier for some people. I'll be updating the Master File in the pinned post shortly. And I'll add some chapter notes in the comments!
Comments
Riley Thatcher
I know this is late, but I do hope you incorporate more Nier stuff. Nier has so many cool things to offer, I do understand though
Novus Peregrine
Glad you like it! I admit this divergence is the one that made me nervous how people would take it. Since it's obviously a pretty large AU split off from canon, which had been at least loosely followed...sort of. If you squinted ;-).
Luke Matthews
exiting stuff, looking forward to where you take it :D
Novus Peregrine
Chapter 75 AN: Yep! It's a worldwide invasion, not just Japan. Japan isn't the center of the universe in this story, the way it is in a lot of Anime. Even if they'll get it the worst, since the bleed over of Maso into the world happened through the Nier dimensional counterpart of Tokyo. So, if anything, this story now features I crisis that dwarfs the MLA/PLF wars...and the MLA are being opportunistic bastards, too. Nor are groups like Humarise going to react well to the idea that 'Quirked people brought this down on us' once that spreads. As for the LoV...well, Shiggy is unhinged and unguided at this point. So that's going to be its own form of ugly...
Novus Peregrine
Chapter 74 AN: Mwhahahaha. No one expects the interdimensional invasion! Or, well, maybe some of you did. As I mentioned in the post above, this actually isn't really Nier inspired. Oh, in order to keep the narrative of how the two worlds are related, there's some Neir bits woven in. But, for the most part, this was actually inspired by Invasion Gate fiction. Common in LitRPG, but also no exactly unknown in other media. The Burning Crusade invasions in Warcraft, for example. Or even certain DnD settings. My version is an amalgamation, rather than specifically from one place. Though several of the monsters were inspired by the Dungeon and Dragons 3.5 Monster Manual. Which I happen to have a copy of.
Novus Peregrine
The comments below contain author's notes for chapters 74 and 75, I highly suggest reading the chapters first!
