My Hero Automata (Chapters 43-46)
Added 2024-01-17 12:28:01 +0000 UTCWhew! I just finished up the editing pass for the latest My Hero Automata release. I'll be honest, I'd hoped to hit 20k words of this story this month, instead we're only getting about 16k total (including the 9.5K of this release). That, frankly, is entirely the fault of the amount of combat I had to write for the Final Exams. As I've mentioned before, combat isn't my strong suit. I can write it, and produce at least fairly decent results, it just doesn't come naturally to me and takes a lot more time/effort as a result. I'm also mildly annoyed I've been too busy to get work done on the art piece. I still need to clean up the lines at the very least, ugh -_-. I'd hoped to get that done before releasing this...
Still, I'm actually extremely pleased how the final fight of the Exams turned out. And I think I did a decent job of some more world building as the I-Island arc starts up. Overall, I think this release as a whole is quite solid. A note of warning, though, for those that aren't into lemons. There is absolutely a lemon in this one. No questions or 'is it just a lime.' It is, of course, clearly marked and can be freely skipped. Aside from establishing more romantic depth for Momo and Izumi, it isn't plot-critical.
As always, the new content is attached here in both PDF and Epub format, and I'll be updating the Pinned Post with new Master Files shortly. I'll probably hold off on doing the fanfcition.net update until later. I'm pretty wiped out at the moment. Need to sleeeppp.
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*blink* It's...literally pinned to the top of the 'home' tab on my Patreon page. I'm very very confused why you keep having trouble finding that post. Literally, if you just access the main page of my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=93048562), it's literally the first thing. Right up top.
Novus Peregrine
2024-01-22 23:07:22 +0000 UTCWell I guess I can just post stuff as a comment and you decide if you wanna use it or not. Also, I still have no idea how to access the stick post with the master files, so I just saved the link instead. No comment on the e-security and beachwear comments?
Christian E. Y.
2024-01-19 23:28:37 +0000 UTCI'm glad you got that figured out! Part of the reason I provide the epub files is that the various apps have a lot more support for that sort of thing. PDF files are so everyone can access them (PDFs will run on basically anything with a screen. Probably even a smart toaster). While the epub is actually what I'd personally recommend reading, but requires an app of some flavor. As for the chapters being short...they are, yes. That's why I don't release single chapters at a time, but batches of chapters equal to 5-10k words (depending on which story I'm updating). My writing style has always tended toward smaller chapters, since chapter breaks are more natural places to create scene breaks, time skips, and perspective switches. It's a personal style thing, with examples/arguments both for and against it. Guest Author Omakes: I'm completely find with people writing them, so long as they credit/link the original work anywhere they are published. If you mean for me to publish them in the actual work...I'm not sure, honestly? I've seen a few authors do that as footnotes to stories, but I've always had mixed feelings about them. On the one hand the inflate word count in ways that aren't officially part of the story. On the other, some of them are genuinely great. I suppose, if they were good quality I could collect them into an extra Omakes post/story?
Novus Peregrine
2024-01-19 04:00:07 +0000 UTCSo, your point on the technology gap is something I had to work through myself ;-). Five points, beyond the strict time frames, that I had to consider though are these: 1) The androids got smashed back to near-bedrock multiple times over those thousands of years, losing a lot of knowledge in the process. 2) Most of the technology they DID keep eventually merged with 'magic' (Maso use). Meaning a lot of their technology is closer to magitech than regular technology. 3) The HSN is built on fairly primitive tech by YoRHa standards, as Momo and Izumi have been stuck in a situation where they need to build the tools, to build the tools, to build the materials, to build the tools, to build the tools, to build a working product. Momo can bypass a lot of that by using her Quirk to print things to exact blueprints, but not on a mass scale. 4) MHA is set an unknown amount of time and technology development beyond our time frame. We know that All for One is at least 200 years old. And that he was from an 'Early' generation of Quirked Humans. I have a hard time believing that 'Glowing Baby' and 'Stealing other Quirks' came in the same generation, though. So I'm assuming MHA is a minimum of 300 years ahead of our tech level. They had setbacks...but NOT in the area of military tech, since that's the one thing they'd be pushing the hardest the whole time. 5) Quirks themselves allow potential rapid advancement. Intelligence Quirks, Cyberpath Quirks, etc. It's hard to say how fast the MHA world can jump forward with their tech. In the end, I mixed that all together and gave a very conservative estimate of a few decades. In reality, if they kept upgrading the HSN, they could probably stay ahead of things for centuries. But just on the current HSN basis, they have at least a few decades jump on everyone, even with Quirks involved. Moving on to the Exhibitionist thing! I know what a C-string is ;-). And a whole lot of other stuff. Aside from fanfiction, I write full-blown erotica as well. Much of it with kink themes. Here, I'm being very careful to consider realism, though. Momo and Izumi are only 18 going on 19. They've been together long enough to decide they are into some less vanilla things...but they are young enough to still be feeling their way into those less vanilla things. It's a bit of a balancing act to make their experimentation feel fun while still being plausible with where they are in life :-).
Novus Peregrine
2024-01-19 03:49:15 +0000 UTCOh, also I finally figured out how to open the epub files on my cellphone and have it read them to me, which improved my experience IMMENSELY since it's really hard for me to read nowadays, and reading has been my constant companion since I was 4 y/o, so that's nice. It did made me realize how short the chapters are, tho. Are you interested in accepting some stuff as guest author's omakes? I'd like to write some silly slice of life or lemon-flavoured stuff for this story. I think Momo and Izumi are super cute together.
Christian E. Y.
2024-01-19 02:51:26 +0000 UTCConsidering that YoRHa tech is from 12.000 years in the future, and had to spend hundreds of years at war with a highly advanced machine enemy, saying that their electronic security know-how is 'merely' a couple decades ahead of the rest of the world is basically a criminal understatement. Technology, specially military technology, grows by leaps and bounds when it is faced with opposition, so considering the androids would cyberattack the machines, just for the machines to patch that up and then cyberattack them back, just for the androids to patch that up and cyberattack back, over and over again at electronic speeds for hundreds of years non-stop, means that Izumi's and Momo's security should be quantum leaps ahead of anything a fleshy, mortal mind can possibly hope to get past. Honestly, it shouldn't be possible for anyone to hack their hero network for dozens of thousands of years. On a less boring note. Okay, so Momo is an exhibitionist, that's fun and all, but if you're going with that, a mere thong is actually pretty tame. Look up what a C-string is, as well as tape bikinis. They're both way more showy, and if you care about your tan, all-around better for it sicne there won't be any bothersome tan lines. Finally for the lemon... look into butterfly vibrators, since it seemed like Izumi had to do some gymnastics to avoid lifting the vibrator off Momo while she repositioned. But seriously, there's basically no way anyone should be able to hack into their tech within the timeline of the story. It just wuldn't make any sense.
Christian E. Y.
2024-01-19 02:49:03 +0000 UTC
