Herein lie a few words from the author about the purpose of this story and the reasoning behind dropping it.

I started this story on a bit of whim just over a year ago. In a moment of frustration over the fact that I can’t seem to ever focus on a story and actually finish it due to constantly coming up with new ideas (I’ve got the beginnings (4-8k words) of over 30 stories in my stories folder and that’s with only about 1 in 10 making it to the page), I decided that this would be the story I finished. It didn’t have to be a masterpiece or even all that great, all this story had to be was done.

There are a fair few problems with this kind of thinking/plan as I found out while writing, so as a compromise, I finished the first arc and then brought this story to some kind of conclusion. Below are the lessons I learned while writing/the reasons this story is being dropped.

1. It’s a fanfic.

No shit Sherlock I hear you say, but hear me out. As you might be able to tell from how different this world is to the original world of Fairy Tail, the fact that I made my own magic system loosely based on Fairy Tail’s own, and how I barely used most of the Fairy Tail characters I didn’t actually want to write a fanfic. The further I got into this story the more I felt held down by having to deal with characters and events I had zero intertest in and the more I decided to not deal with them, the more the inconsistency started to bother me and mess with my planning.

2. Characters.

As anyone remotely versed in literature might tell you, characters are pretty central to a reader’s investment in the story. As a consequence of starting this on a whim, I don’t have characters. Sure Juvia is a fine SI, but she’s pretty bland and doesn’t actually have any concrete goals. She’s just wandering around and doing things. All the other characters just kind of serve their purpose in the story with no real idea as to who they are and what they want behind them. Cana was the romantic interest because I thought she was best girl back when I first watched Fairy Tail in 2016 and because I felt that of the Fairy Tail girls I’d vibe best with either Cana or Mira.

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So yeah, overall the characters in this story suck and that gets boring and frustrating to write, and I imagine pretty boring to read as well.

Also, worst offender here is definitely Zeref. You might’ve noticed that even in the summary I didn’t actually give him a motivation for his plans. This is because I couldn’t come up with one outside of the Saturday morning cartoon villain reasons. I had a thought that he was doing it to eliminate all life on Earthland that wasn’t created by him out of some strange sense of paranoia/not trusting anything that he didn’t create, but that felt kind of weak, even if potentially cool in some other story.

3. Plot

This ties into the whole starting on a whim thing, but I started writing and having Juvia do things, and only then did I start to come up with ideas as to where this was all heading and how to tie it all together. As a result, the plot is a bit disjointed and weak.

Just to end this on a positive note, I do think I did a pretty good job with the magic system and more specifically, the actual usage of the magic. Maybe I haven’t read enough water mages, but I’ve never read a fight quite like Juvia vs. Jiemma.

So yeah, these are my thoughts on this story, please do share any of your own if you have any, I’d love to know where I can improve for my next story.

Thanks so much for reading!