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<p>Magic, Swords, Adventurers, Friends, Family, and the Meaning of Life. Everything that life holds, is everything that Aria will discover.</p> <p>A child of unique origin, Aria awakens to find herself in a ruined temple within a grove without any recollection. With little to no knowledge or common sense of the world around her, she begins her journey to find her purpose with the voice in her head to aid her in the world of Infinity.</p> <p>Will you come along?</p> <p>Warning - Might be kind of a rant or ramble. It's gonna be long.</p> <p>You really don't have to read this part onwards unless you want to understand me better/know more about me (kind of?), the story, or various things related to Aria's Odyssey.</p> <p>Oh, I will also talk about some of the tags (like the content warning tags) a little bit, which will be at the very end (after the next 'break line' as you see above the Warning sign) so you can skip to that if you'd like.</p> <p>First off. This is really my first attempt at a story, with a handful of characters albeit not completely fleshed out. I love my characters. I love this fantasy universe I have sort of cultivated in my mind the past couple of years (I don't know when it first started but I think the first word I have written that is related to this universe/MC was in 2018 but I only got a bit of a better understanding of my universe in 2019/2020). And to be absolutely, completely honest. I'm terrified. I really have this shadow looming over me telling me that I'm bad at writing, which I am. I know I am. And I feel that I am incapable of writing a story worthy of my characters, my world, my universe. I really feel that with my skills I'm going to fail gloriously at translating the 'ideas' in my mind that I so love into a reality that you all can enjoy. With my skills, I won't be able to do it justice. It terrifies me because I know that it's a fact right now. It's my first story, I'm not going to be perfect, great, or even somewhat average on my first try. Even right now, I feel as if the writing is shallow, bad, and not giving the full picture for each scene. I feel like it's running off of dialogue mostly, and that there isn't much growth or proper story-telling happening. Then, you guys might say, 'why not write other stories first to get better and gain experience'? I can't. I have no motivation for any other reality right now. But, I know that I'll improve as I go along writing this story and this story isn't going to be a short 50 chapters story or something. I don't want to be super good at writing so that I can be famous or sell millions of copies to make bucks out of my writing, but I wish I was skilled enough at writing to have done that. I just want for everyone to enjoy this reality I have created, that's the best outcome and final goal for me in my side hobby of writing. So! I'll write about the world.. or rather, the universe of Infinity now. And as I develop my story, I'll develop my author's voice. When I think about it that way, that I'll improve along with my story, it doesn't seem too bad and I'm not too demotivated. But this leads into another topic.</p> <p>At the time of writing this, there are 10 chapters and I feel that the story hasn't even begun yet. Granted they are only about 1500-2500 words each. This may be due to my inadequacy or it may be because I'm not completely sure how to progress at this exact point of the story, but it's probably both of those combined. Although I know various things about my little universe and know the extremely vague over-arching plot, there are many sub-plots that would actually be Aria's Odyssey (and two or three other potential stories (Aria is not the MC of those), one I'm definitely going to write) that I simply don't have yet. With this said, I know for a fact that I will do a reboot of this story (x) chapters in. I'm not completely sure how many chapters until I decide to do so, but this means that I will end the story early (without the story/plot actually being over) and restart it to revise what I have gotten down so far like fixing plot holes and whatnot. There really shouldn't be a big change in the story and only minor changes like an event or two getting added or removed for the story to make more sense and be better overall. In the end, this revision would (hopefully) just make the story even better. At this point, I'd hope that I would have better prose, a better understanding of each scene and the plot, etc. With this in mind, I already know that I want to revise the beginning of the story (~first 2 or 3 chapters?) as I feel that it is kind of bad. Not necessarily completely irrelevant. But I feel like I had a different direction in mind when I wrote those but found a better direction after chapter 3. It won't be completely different so don't worry too much about this, though if you notice that there are changes in the story a bit in the beginning part after I start the reboot, you won't be caught off guard. It won't be a completely different plot. Probably.</p> <p>The reboot will probably happen at least after 100 chapters. It definitely won't happen until I have a clear, precise, and in-depth understanding of my plot. So, it's really a thing for the long long future so you guys don't really have to worry about it right now. I'm simply letting everyone know as a heads up here. I'll probably also put it in the pre-story author's notes when the time comes at least a couple of chapters before I stop and do the reboot. Sorry, but it will also probably be on a cliffhanger (knowing me, it definitely will. I'd love to see everyone's anguish and reactions. But at the same time it might make the future chapters that come after that point in the reboot even better :O). I hope I have a decent-sized audience of people that appreciate the story and characters ^~^ (even if not my writing) because I'd love to see everyone's reactions and hype. Just thinking about it makes my heart flutter haha.</p> <p>Alright, now let's move on to the tags. Most of them are really self-explanatory so I think I'm just going to talk about the content warning and the 'Attractive MC' tag. The 'Attractive MC' tag is really a joke, but come on. Who doesn't like their MC being attractive? ANWAYS, on to the content warning tags like Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, and Traumatising content. There really won't be much stuff that is actually that bad regarding these tags. I only used the mainly as a heads up/warning in case one episode does have a little bit of it so people aren't caught too off guard, but really, I don't like this stuff to the point of unhealthy obsession nor do I have any weird fetishes (i think?????) so they're going to be within or less than 'normal' amounts. I will also put warnings in the pre-story author's notes if there are particularly bad scenes or something but all in all I don't really think anyone needs to expect this often. The universe of Infinity isn't focused on these things. But that doesn't mean dark moments aren't possible.</p> <p>* Profanity: there's going to be curse words. It's nothing special I feel in stories nowadays. The tag says obscene or excessive swearing, but it won't be that bad. There may be a moment with an unsavory character or something but rest assured, it won't be regular excessive swearing. Again, it's simply a heads up that it's likely to occur at some point in the story.</p> <p>* Gore: Who doesn't like gore? Regardless, it's not going to be that bad. There might be points where wounds are described vividly to add to the atmosphere whether it be an atmosphere of tension and despair, or an atmosphere of genocide (just want to say these things aren't guaranteed, they're just examples. So don't feel spoiled or expect things like this. Maybe). There might be a few mutilated heads here and there or something, but not often as our pure, innocent, and adorable Aria isn't prone to these scenarios. Maybe. Again, I'll place a warning in the pre-story author's notes.</p> <p>* Sexual Content: I'm not into writing this stuff at all (I say that like I've written stories before.. lol. But I still mean it. I'm not into writing these kinds of scenarios). There might be hints or implications where such things can be inferred or mentioned for a sentence or two. But I find it highly unlikely that there will actually be a full-on descriptive sex-scene or something taking up a whole paragraph or more. At most, there might be brief descriptions of the aftermath of such scenarios, but again, I won't have full-on descriptive paragraphs/chapters of sexual stuff. It's not going to be common, especially considering MC is a minor. If there is sexual content or mentions of it, I'll place a warning in the pre-story author's notes for an additional heads up.</p> <p>* Traumatising Content: This one is similar to sexual content, but not as mild. There might be some dark moments here or there, but that's not really a focus in the story (at least I'm pretty sure it won't be). There are chances where the story could get into traumatizing content with someone's backstory or the like. I will place a warning in the pre-story author's notes.</p> <p>For the most part, it really shouldn't be that bad. So don't worry about these things in the chapter at all unless there are pre-story author's notes (I generally will not use pre-story author's notes because I don't want to ruin the immersion into the story before you guys even begin reading the chapter. Therefore any author's notes will be at the end (unless it's super duper extremely important)). Also, if I do have a warning like this in the pre-story author's notes, I'll include how bad I personally think it is and whether or not I recommend skipping it for people sensitive to these tags.</p> <p>I hope you will enjoy my story and at least come to love the characters. Comments are greatly appreciated; it let me know that my readers are real which boosts my motivation a lot.</p>
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