There's still a part of me that believes Milo will come back to The Age of Scorpius, but it's going to take a while. Maybe years, if I'm to be honest.
The reason why I say he may come back is because he already did something like this before. When he published The Zodiac Turner: The Five Trials back in 2017, that felt like his milestone was reached. Until he promptly removed the listing for The Zodiac Turner in 2018, saying he was going to rework on it.
If he had stayed with the literary agent and did the work with them to get his book published back in 2021, the book would've been out sooner, but it took until 2025. So, I do believe Milo wanted to publish the damn book way earlier, he was just difficult to work with when all he liked to do is rewrite the entire manuscript instead of listening to editor notes (but that's just how I view that whole thing.)
I can see Milo doing something similar with TAoS, however unlike The Zodiac Turner, there's far too much eyes on him and the book. Coming back to it as he isn't the same as taking down The Zodiac Turner, because TAoS has the heaviest baggage on it: owed refunds, readership distrust, criticism beyond the book, failed entrepreneurship venture, ego death and deep-reaching embarrassment.
At least he could just pull down The Zodiac Turner with no attention on his then book. TAoS, whether he likes it or not, is chained to him.
"But his entire being based around this book is so humiliated, why would he even want to come back to this?" I also ask myself.
It's mostly a vibe I am working with. People have the utter audacity to come back and believe they can make it different this time, or they can reach an audience they promptly ignored or betrayed, or they assume things have quieted down after his departure from the internet. Staying away for months or years can certainly ease the readers, but coming back is just asking if you want to open a floodgate on yourself.
Would he come back to this in a few years under a new pen name? Yeah I can see that. He's already gone through many pen names, so why not add more to the list? But will he be a better writer by then? Will he have committed to changing his old ways of editing and drafting? I can only hope he has and that he trashes those second edition revision notes because wth were those?
Scientology and Scorpio Culture??
Avia character assassination??
We STILL have nothing with Ivara in the eight chapters you noted and posted on your Patreon??
I ain't reading all that.
