hi! im a long time fan of your fic, and its my first time commenting to you- but thanks for your hard work! i havent checked on your fic in a long time- i think i last saw it when you took a hiatus a while back because your wife was sick? (I hope you both are doing ok) but i see youre back and theres new chapters so im very excited! ive been wanting to ask since the movie came out- how proud do you think zoro would be when he finds out connie cut a car in half? (aka had her cutting steel moment)
He’d be very proud of his sword-daughter.
As for me, I took a break when my wife was sick with having my third daughter. I used quarantine to try and start up again, but now my wife has decided to separate from me and I’m currently holed up with only one foot after two ankle reconstruction surgeries, all while on medical leave from my job and trying to be a father to three kids under five.
I don’t have the best luck it seems, but my girls are healthy and that’s what I focus on.
I always get caught off guard when you come back. But it seems a lot of happened.
I am sorry to hear about your separation, bit surprised to hear that (I still remember you talking about her and you watching shows together and her pushing you to do your fanfiction).
Your ankle too on top of all, so it seems you are experiencing “when it rains, it pours”. Although I am curious about what happened with your angle.
I am glad that your daughters are doing well, I hope that you are doing well in these circumstances.
Anyhow, while I might not be person who can commit to being co-writer. But I am willing to help by being beta reader and helping in general (Helping with characterization, fights, and maybe even writing bits if I am up to it).
On the other note, did I manage you to make you read my Zoro vs Jasper story? (Literally fanfiction of your fanfiction lul)
Buddy, let me just say that nobody was more surprised than me when it comes to my wife. I tried everything I could for her, us, and our kids, but quarantine did not do us any favors… I just hope she finds a way for her to be happy and that our kids remain as unaffected by these decisions as possible. As for my ankle, that’s another long story. Basically, I had a major heel spur due to years of walking on my toes so I had it removed back in 2019 (basically, they carved out the size of a plum’s worth of bone on my ankle). However, it never healed (pun unintended but appreciated) correctly and the doctor who did it just told me to wait a year and it would be fine. After a year (which brought us knee-deep into quarantine time), it never got better so I got a second opinion and they immediately realized that I had a problem. So they scheduled me for surgery immediately and had a reconstruction procedure done. A week later, I fell and ruptured everything, necessitating another, much larger surgery to slice up my whole leg and reconstruct everything again with tendons from my toes. In short, I will never be able to play basketball or curl my big toe ever again. So yeah, the past two months especially have been utterly tumultuous. My wife declared that we were separating, I haven’t been able to walk, I had to move back in with my parents, and I had to take forced medical leave despite my students all being virtual still due to the fact that at my school, we just started doing a hybrid style of learning (meaning kids come in two days and are virtual the other three) and the rule was I could remain able to teach remotely from my home as long as my students were not in the building. Right now, only seniors are in the building and wouldn’t you know it, but I have three seniors in my home room that I share with another teacher… whom no matter what my bosses would rather have with me, the personnel office declared that it still counted for me and, as such, I’m on medical leave for another three weeks until I can put pressure on my foot in a walking boot. In short, “when it rains, it pours” is very apt. As for help, honestly, if you want to help me out, I’ll gladly bring you onboard in any capacity you are able to. It’s not like you aren’t already credited with story input and I loved your writing with the Jasper/ Zoro confrontation you send me months back. You’ve got a better view on writing fights than I do I think. Message me about it and we can figure that out.
Damn, it poured indeed. Honestly sounds like what my father experienced. My father got a blood clot in the brain. Survived, but his right sight of the body became paralyzed (thankfully he is left-handed). Anyhow how his long time girl friend at the time (they were living together years by then) left him, he also fell and injured himself.
However he always tells me that we his kids kept him going. Especially back when he was in the hospital. Back then doctors told him he would never walk again. He is walking.
On the site note, the irony is that one of the biggest causes of blood clot was over exercise. So yeah, too much of any type of exercise can be bad for your body if it’s overdone.
So yeah, I want to give help for your story. So let’s make it happen.
