User blog comment:Blankslate/Regarding the FC/@comment-3403804-20151102190853

We've discussed this before, Blank, and I do agree with you on most points. I'll just post my original comment to you here, to restate my opinions, which haven't changed since then.

See, this is what you should've just opened with, cause this is a conversation. Right, I personally don't think the fanon canon needs a revamp as much as it needs a clear and good form of pacing, which is admittedly difficult to do, it also needs that whomever is in charge of it plays to their strengths.

Were you a partial contributor to why interest began to drop? Sure, but you weren't the only one, a lot of people simply kept adding plots after plots after plots, without completing the previous storylines first. This destroyed the narrative and tired out several roleplayers at exponential rates (having to respond to three different stories at once, each with a time limit is pretty difficult for the best of us). I seem to recall you warning about that, but we were so caught up in giving everyone a voice that we didn't actually think twice about it.

It should also be noted that when it came to the story, and potential for that story, it was all pretty weak from the get-go, the thing with Kraven was probably the part that was the most solid overall, but like you said, you just kept adding things into the mix, and so did we. Rosa, Sagitanas, The Wandenreich, Yokai invasion, Asumu and Raian, Sei and the Fullbringers. It was, to put it simply, a complete clusterfuck.

For something like the Fanon Canon to work, we need to pick a story and stick with it, and we should try not to add too much complexity into the story, the characters don't need epic fights all the time, and not all opponents are gonna line up to get beaten. In other word, it failed because we weren't all on the same page, and we all lacked the consistency, which resulted in half-assed efforts and just a lot of chaos.

We should keep our focus on the here and now, rather than think about future arcs, which most of us did, half of our work was based upon the future arcs like the Arrancar Invasion, Raian's Coup d'tat and Izanami's Awakening.To get to future arcs, we have to complete the first one, after all, but we failed to take that into consideration. But we can learn from our failures, as they say.