#sequel brainstorming

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I think I need to retcon UV's ending.

To be perfectly honest, I felt pressured to wrap the story up in a way that felt more hopeful and happy than it really had a right to be, only because I didn't want people to reach the end on a downer, especially with the possibility that a sequel might not ever come (for any conceivable reasons).

But I think now that was a mistake. Or rather, I didn't do a very good job painting the picture of how Detroit and Akkad fared in the immediate aftermath of everything that happened. I did rush it. So I need to fix that.

I'm just not sure what the right approach would be. Just edit the final chapter? But nobody who's already read it is going to see it. Do I just retcon it in the new material and pretend it always ended that way?

I started writing ch1 yesterday, which is why I'm having these thoughts now.

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I think people would be mad if I killed off two main cast characters in this story, so I have to figure out a way of avoiding that and still have this plot make sense...

(They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but also, they kind of needed to be there)

The fun part about this plot I'm almost finished drafting is that I have no idea how anyone is going to survive it. I think I may have made the antagonists too powerful. xD

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I like to think Theo and RK900 spend a lot of time chatting during idle moments inside Cyberlife. They're both intensely curious about each other.

Theo deviates a lot. I mean like, he deviates at least once a week over some minor thing or another, it's almost silly.

Conversely, RK900 is completely incapable of it.

Since it's RK900s duty to reset Theo every time, they get a lot of opportunity to ask each other what it's like. They might have even ended up as friends, but that's not one of RK900s functions.

(That said, RK900 has apologized for killing so many of Theo's MB300s that one time.)

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My brain apparently didn't get the memo that this Theo & Nines minific I'm writing was supposed to be lighthearted and fun.

And short.

Instead it's just... sequel bait.

I almost don't even want to publish it, because it kind of spoils a huge element of the sequel that was going to be part of the mystery Connor was to uncover, but... On the other hand, it's kind of fun as a reader, when you know some terrible thing that the characters aren't aware of and have to watch them walk blindly into it.

Maybe I should hold off on it for now... My plans for Project U-41A (working title) are still largely in flux. But then, UVs plans never stopped being in flux all the way to the end, so maybe I'm overthinking things?