*raises hand* I totally care, and it made my morning when I read this post. Good luck with the writing, and I will be over here sending you good writing vibes and eagerly waiting for new chapters whenever you're able to post them.
Today so far I have fixed up chapter 2, done some preliminary edits on chapter 3, reread chapter 15 for immediate context (and made a couple tweaks while I was there), assigned fighting styles to my enemies du jour, hashed out half the fight choreography, and written 350 words. Yay progress!
Oh, wow! You're doing great! I am personally holding off on rereading this fic (and probably "The Way of the Apartment Manager" if I'm truly being honest with myself) until Chapter 16 is released. Thanks for the update, and I look forward to more status updates.
So, I started reading the original Apartment Manager series way back in 2005, when I was in my early-mid teens, back in the heyday of Naruto fandom. Now I'm coming back to it as an adult, and it's held up spectacularly well (probably better, in a lot of ways, than it did for me as a kid!). I've started rereading from scratch (a lot of plot points can be forgotten in ten years, okay), and I'm SO GLAD that this universe/fic still lives.
Even after all these years, I've got major love for Yukiko's particular brand of stalwart sensibility (someone in Naruto-verse who uses the sense they were born with, HOLD ME), and your cast of OCs. (Seichi! I totally fell for him as a 15-year-old, and now I'm more curious than ever to see what's really going on with his character.)
TL;DR, I totally care, yes. ;) All good writerly vibes to you!
Seichi is... well, he took a few turns on the way from initial concept to actual on-page character. Also I think my ancient X-Men crushes show through rather a lot. (*cough*Gambit*cough*) But he's an interesting mess and his issues will be explained eventually. :-)
The series as a whole was born from my frustration at some of Kishimoto's weirder worldbuilding/logistical choices -- seriously HOW do eleven-year-old kids live on their own and why is this socially accepted??? -- so it's not surprising that there's a certain 'dammit, we will be sensible about this' attitude running through the stories.
Anyway, chapter 16 is not quite halfway done and the non-fight-scenes should go a lot faster, so hopefully I will get that up by mid-August.
I'm still stuck on how the Leaf decided it was a good idea to make a six-year-old jounin. Like, we all know Kakashi's a prodigy, but really? Really?? We all saw how horrifying the chuunin exams could get, let alone the jounin tests.
Incidentally, speaking of Kakashi, you write him spectacularly, for which I'm exceedingly pleased. He was a weirdly formative character for me as a teenager, and he remains one of my all time faves to this day. ;)
GAMBIT!!! Oh boy, totally my favorite of the X-Men, back in the day. Possibly, I have a fictional character type, heh.
This is the other reason Kakashi's chronology is weird in my AU -- I flatly refuse to believe he advanced as quickly as Kishimoto claims. It is not physically possible for six-year-olds to have the necessary fine motor skills to make chuunin, let alone the cognitive abilities to run solo missions or lead others. Human development does not work like that. Graduate the academy? Eh, maybe; it is true that some people really are gifted in those areas. But nothing past genin, and even if he did make chuunin a year or two later, I am quite sure he was not allowed out on his own. Konoha is a business, after all, and they can't afford the string of failed missions a seven- or eight-year-old solo operative would inevitably have produced.
I like Kakashi a lot -- he is so very interestingly messed up! -- but his canon backstory drives me up the wall.
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Even after all these years, I've got major love for Yukiko's particular brand of stalwart sensibility (someone in Naruto-verse who uses the sense they were born with, HOLD ME), and your cast of OCs. (Seichi! I totally fell for him as a 15-year-old, and now I'm more curious than ever to see what's really going on with his character.)
TL;DR, I totally care, yes. ;) All good writerly vibes to you!
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The series as a whole was born from my frustration at some of Kishimoto's weirder worldbuilding/logistical choices -- seriously HOW do eleven-year-old kids live on their own and why is this socially accepted??? -- so it's not surprising that there's a certain 'dammit, we will be sensible about this' attitude running through the stories.
Anyway, chapter 16 is not quite halfway done and the non-fight-scenes should go a lot faster, so hopefully I will get that up by mid-August.
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Incidentally, speaking of Kakashi, you write him spectacularly, for which I'm exceedingly pleased. He was a weirdly formative character for me as a teenager, and he remains one of my all time faves to this day. ;)
GAMBIT!!! Oh boy, totally my favorite of the X-Men, back in the day. Possibly, I have a fictional character type, heh.
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I like Kakashi a lot -- he is so very interestingly messed up! -- but his canon backstory drives me up the wall.
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