My Hero Automata (74-75)

Wohoo! Time for the hopefully-no-one-strangles-me reveal! I've made it fairly clear in the past that I'm not a fan of My Hero Academia's later content. That, in point of fact, I pretty much hate everything past the Eri/Overhaul arc. The Cultural Festival and Joint Training arcs are fine, but they are barely more than filler, really. Everything after that? Trash. Utter trash. The MLA/PLA arcs were nonsense, the Dark Hero arc was worse, the Star and Stripe arc was...pointless, and the Final War arc feels like the writer never expected to get that far and was desperate to come up with an ending.

Thus, it shouldn't be too much of a shock (I've repeatedly said that the Eri/Overhaul arc was going to be the last big arc that really followed canon) that we're launching into Full Story Divergence with this release. I've spent a lot of time over the last 200,000 words slowly shifting and restructuring the world. A few of the major factions (MLA and LoV) will still exist and continue to cause problems in the future. But their roles are going to shift drastically in response to...well...the events of these two chapters. Events I've been hinting heavily at but which I have no idea if anyone predicted the actual result accurately. Give yourself a cookie if you did. You earned it.

A lot of people thought I was bringing Nier content in, only I'm not really. The content introduced here is a little bit Nier-inspired, but only to keep it consistent with the established narrative of how Quirks came about. In truth, the Divergence here is much more heavily inspired by other works/entire genres...but I won't say more until the author's notes.

Anyway! Enjoy the chaos (hopefully)! The release is only around 9,000 words I'm afraid, since that's where the natural endpoint was. But that still brings us up to over 15,000 words of My Hero Automata this month, which is the target. Even if I often overshoot that target by a couple of thousands words...

Anyway, as always, the new content is attached here in PDF and Epub formats. I've gone ahead and added it as a .Docx again, just because it's easier for some people. I'll be updating the Master File in the pinned post shortly. And I'll add some chapter notes in the comments!