So since we've jumped into arc 4 of Plus Minus One, I want to talk about the covers that I've made so far and a bit about the story.

Plus Minus One was a fanfic that I didn't think I would get so far and so invested I'm. This is the second book that I've gotten through forty chapters, counting prologue, without losing motivation or interest or it feeling like a chore. The first book I have even completed was an x Reader fix that shall stay in the depths of the closet because that was cringy af that I wrote in 2016 I believe. But that x Reader had like fifty chapters and it was completed so…?

Anyway, past books such as Killing Harmony, Idyllic, Sidelined, and Until We Unlock the Mystery never made it past chapter twenty or below. Once I hit that number, I sort of lost motivation for them. I had an outline, I had ideas jotted for what scene was needed but I couldn't get myself to write them. I love them all dearly with my heart and all of my past ocs but I could never force myself to finish them. It felt like I was trying to complete a chore rather than something I wanted to write for fun. The enjoyment was there but the want to write just left me. I don't know. The only thing I noticed was that they were all Pokémon and not getting anywhere.

So because all of that seemed to happen, I started to lose confidence when it came to writing. Why start something when I couldn't finish it? It was hard. At that point, I didn't want to write anything because I was scared to give up so soon. 

Around the third season of Boku no Hero Academia was when I started watching it. I heard good and bad things about it at the time and I decided to give it a shot because I think I had completed a season of Haikyuu around that time and needed something to watch. 

Bakugou threw me off the first episode when I watched it with the 'swan dive' line and the first two or so episodes were iffy to me. But as I continue to watch it, I grew to love the series. Obviously the fandom has its… ah, problems… but nonetheless, you just look for the right people. 

And against my supposedly better judgment, I started to create a BnHA OC somewhere around June of 2020. Tomohiro was the first OC for BnHA I have ever created and the premise of PMO was originally going to be solely about him, his agency, and the Seraphim with the struggle of being a single parent. But then I realized that as much as I loved Tomohiro, writing a story about him was going to be kind of hard because he's already experienced. He knows the loops and knows what to do. Originally, the only main struggles he would have is figuring how to parent and what the heck the Seraphim are doing. 

So, I aimed toward the twins. In fact, I didn't plan on having twins as my main OCs alongside Tomohiro. I've never written twin perspectives and it seemed kind of challenging at first but I wouldn't change it at all. Akihiko and Tanami are my children and I wouldn't change them. 

I had my main OCs but since the premise of the story had changed with the shifting of Tomohiro’s position, I was kind of stumped. At the time, I wasn't sure what I wanted it to be. I wasn't certain I could portray the canon characters' personalities well and I feared people telling me they were too OC for the original canon characters. But then there was the fact that before this I had read Junie's I'm No Hero, Grim's Guns and Roses, and Shelby's Kita’s Legacy.

Those stories didn't directly follow the main storyline, two way more than the other. I thought, 'well, if I can't trust myself to portray canon correctly, why not make up a story that follows the same rules but is excluded from the main story. Which is what PMO does. Yes, I do like to add small tidbits to BnHA because it's fun but I like that I have my own original world in this universe. It's fun for me. 

Around July 2020 was when I had five or so chapters written for PMO. It was the first time I had pre-written chapters for any story rather than going as I needed. I was still a bit afraid of publishing what I had so far because I was scared of giving up. So I asked if anyone would be interested in reading a BnHA book on my message board and the response was positive. So that was good. 

The problem was that I needed a cover. My blending skills for covers weren't as great as they are now at the time so I haven't even thought of editing pictures to match the twins. My second problem was that the twins don't really have a common design. They look like Houseki no Kuni characters because that's where I gathered inspiration from for their looks but at the same time, the color scheme and jagged hair is what kept them different. So here's where we get the first cover. 

In all honesty, it looks pretty bad. The position, the lighting, the fact that you can only see half of Akihiko’s face and he's outshadowed by the freaking title. It just wasn't good. Good at the time but… *looks at current covers on account* yeah… Well, I needed a cover and that's what I got.  

When we get to cover 2, I honestly didn't have much of an outline completed. I had gotten up to chapter 20, deleted it, rewrote different scenes, and deleted it. There was supposed to be a circus scene and villains were introduced much quicker and easier to tell what was going on. Less cliffhangers that's for sure. The only thing I knew for certain was that I wanted to deal with time, Junpei’s significance to the plot, and obviously the twins. So I try to incorporate that in this cover. It isn't necessarily bad but could be better 

By the time I had gotten to cover 3, I had my whole outline scripted out, all oc files completed and ready to be used when needed, and that enjoyment I felt when I had actually gotten this part completed. Originally PMO was going to end with 35 chapters. *looks at the 39 chapters and prologue* I didn't expect to have written so much at the time. Ending chapter turned to 40, then 45, and now 50, hopefully. This cover is nearly identical to cover 2 in the sense that they carry the same aspects. But I don't like how the text practically overshadows the twins.

I believe cover 4 was introduced once arc 3 had started at chapter 26. I decided to take a crack at editing pictures to look like the twins and to be honest, they don't look top bad. I could have chosen a different font color or positioning but it isn't bad. I do like this one but I tend to grow bored and tired of my covers after a while. There's nothing much to say about this one. 

Cover 5 was made nearing the weeks of my finals. When finals come, I study for like five hours and take a one hour break to rest or whatever. I wasn't really active on Wattpad at the time and I had this surge to go in and create a new cover and summary description. And after looking at cover 5 for a while, I've come to like it. There's nothing I would change. The light is fine, the twins glow enough to showcase their gemstone look, and the text isn't drowning the rest of the cover. It just looks perfect to me and I don't think I can create something better with my graphic skills at the moment. I'm also pretty proud of my new summary description as the last one kind of sucked. 

Plus I like my new beginning quote. 

Returning back to what I was talking about at the beginning, I feel proud and warm inside to know that I've made it this far in a fanfic. PMO doesn't feel suffocating or like something I need to write rather than wanting to write. It's fun for me even if I hit a couple of roadblocks at the time. This book is like my baby. It's my project that I truly love and have gotten so far without giving up. In fact, I haven't even thought once about giving up. I've thought about making chapters shorter for my sanity but I guess my pride won't let it go or something. 

Alongside this project, I do have others I have in store. Counter Clockwise is one that I plan to finish or almost finish by the time my winter break is over. Spitting Image has one chapter up on here but I don't want such a big project to be posted at the same time as PMO. Both of these have full casts of ocs and I don't want to overwhelm myself hence the teaser. To you, I'm Indebted, Tomohiro’s short story is something I want to start posting sometime around January once I settle out the kinks of it once and for all. 

Partiality and Fluidity, now changed to Polar Duality, is more of a 'I'm tired of reading generic and harem BnHA oc canon followed stories that are all the same minus Foxy's Muted Voices, Grim's Bionic Bloom books, Sunjin's All That I Am, Aaron's Glittering Gold, T's The Hero from Beyond because what I've read so far is not horrible like others so I'm gonna make a book that follows canon in a way out of spite.' I am literally doing it out of spite after going through like 300 stories just to see if I could weed out an original or good plot line. Yes, I could be doing other things with my time but lowkey went venturing to see if it's possible. 

And even if there are good ones, like always, they are never finished. Also I never understood harem books. Sounds like a headache to read but that may be because I usually stray away from romance because I'm a lonely potato. But then again, some writers just throw away canon characters' personalities sooo…

Well Polar Duality is something I want to update alongside PMO when posted because it doesn't seem as big of a project like all my OC only centric stories. Plus PD has my first Chinese OCs, first fully French OC (Nico is only half French), and nonbinary OC. I'm excited for those things. 

Thank you for listening to my spiel of PMO and thank you for reading this fanfic. I hope you've enjoyed what you've read so far and enjoy arc 4 now that we're diving deeper.

Also if you haven't noticed, I make graphics for stories I really like because I suck at leaving comments and feel like graphics show my appreciation for other author's works besides I vote. I feel bad sometimes that I can't comment because I get invested and forget or don't know what to comment.