Note for the Viscounts

Hey everyone,

First of all, I hope you're doing well, that this new year is off to a good start for you, and that you're having a great weekend.

I’m writing this little note in response to a question from Spectator about the new format because, this week, I could no longer hold back what had been bubbling inside me for weeks—namely, the start of releasing the other stories I’ve been writing alongside Aemon Targaryen, Aegon Snow, and Ronnet Connington.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I have no intention of abandoning these stories, nor of significantly slowing down… or even slowing down at all, actually, the usual release pace of these stories.

The goal is still to ensure a certain continuity and to bring each of the stories I write to a proper ending.

These past weeks, or rather these past MONTHS, I’ve had a lot of difficulty with Aegon Snow, so much difficulty that it was affecting my other stories and even my life in general.

I absolutely wanted to finish Aegon Snow by the end of January to properly close the loop, but I didn’t manage to, and I realize that if I keep going like this, I’ll just keep dragging this story out indefinitely.

At the same time, my brain has been in constant overdrive thinking about three other fics, which are actually fragments of one fic that I split into three… Warning, what follows might not make much sense—it’s normal, you’re about to take a little dive into my brain.

Last year, before Naruto: The Divine Tree and Aemon Targaryen, I wrote a fic called Reborn in Marvel or Reborn in the MCU… honestly, I don’t remember exactly, but it was a fic I wrote for fun with a friend.

Eventually, we didn’t continue it and left it aside.

The problem is, I saw a lot of potential in that fic, and I REALLY wanted to write it. But then I published Ronnet Connington, then Aemon, and suddenly I had no time to even think about it because I was putting out between 3,000 and 4,000 words per day.

Let’s be real: at that point, I had NO life whatsoever.

I was glued to my chair for 12 hours a day, on the verge of falling back into depression.

Then, around November, I put a stop to this insane grind thanks to your advice and that of my family, who noticed the rapid decline of my mental health.

That pushed me to adopt a lighter pace.

It even allowed me to take one day off per week. Yoohoo…

But what I hadn’t anticipated was that this insane grind would leave scars.

I had pushed myself so hard and trained my brain to think only about writing that I became an addict suffering from writing withdrawal.

And that’s what was crazy—I completely lost control over what my mind focused on.

The story I had abandoned months ago? I tried to rewrite it, to pick it back up, to make something out of it.

But I was never satisfied.

I always wanted to change things, delete parts, remove powers, even scrap the system entirely.

In short, I had overloaded my character with too many traits that I no longer liked.

However, at the same time, for some completely absurd reason I can’t even remember anymore, I decided to restart the entire The Walking Dead universe from the very beginning.

Did I pull multiple all-nighters for weeks? Yes.
Did I have time to waste? No.
Am I completely insane? Highly possible.

But I did it before the start of 2025, and I found a rather unknown character in Fear The Walking Dead from a fanfic I had enjoyed.

And I noticed he shared some traits with the protagonist of Reborn in Marvel, the story I was stuck on.

When I made the connection between my writer’s block and this character (Calvin Jasper), I immediately realized I could transfer the story—or at least the background of David Copperfield (MC of Reborn in Marvel)—along with some elements I no longer liked, to Calvin Jasper.

(I had originally made David Copperfield some drug-lord edgelord with an OP system, even though he comes from a military family in the Marvel world…)

Please don’t judge me—it was 5 AM when my friend and I created the character, and we were running on two straight all-nighters of Fortnite.

Once I managed to resolve my little existential crisis about this character, I started writing The Walking Dead fic, though in a somewhat messy way.

Right now, I’m at about 15,000 words in French, which equals a little over ten chapters.

But if you think that’s the end of the story… well, you’re totally wrong.

By some miracle, about two or three weeks ago, I decided to watch another series I hadn’t seen in a long time to pull myself out of a post-Aegon Snow depression slump.

And the series in question was Power.

It turned out to be the miracle solution to all my creative blockages, which had been making me go in circles and stifling my creativity.

Did I have to pull even more all-nighters? OF COURSE.

But it didn’t matter because I finally managed to separate all the things I wanted to keep from David Copperfield OG to create three new characters:

• Calvin Jasper – Fear The Walking Dead / The Walking Dead

• David Copperfield (New) – MCU AU

• Shawn Stark – Power Universe (possibly mixed with Gangs of London, Suburra, Queen of the South—drop your ideas in the comments!)

So, to answer the question how am I going to organize chapter releases moving forward?... Honestly? I have no idea.

Over the next few weeks or months, I’ll slowly start dropping chapters to see if you guys are receptive to the four side stories:

• Naruto: The Divine Tree

• David Copperfield (MCU)

• Calvin Jasper (TWD)

• Shawn Stark (Power Universe + mix of crime/gang/spy genres)

If you’re not into them, I’ll slow things down and release one chapter every two weeks, or even once a month, which will slow these stories down until I wrap up Aegon Snow and Ronnet Connington, as we’re steadily approaching their final arcs.

But if you are receptive to one, several, or even all of them… then, well, it’s gonna be a complete mess.

Because that would mean I’d be writing seven stories at once, and I’d have to run new polls and figure out a whole new release schedule to accommodate most of you.

Anyway, you wanted answers—this is all I can tell you for now.

Let me know in the comments which stories you like or don’t like. It’s super important!

That’s really the best way for me to understand which stories you prefer and what you enjoy or don’t enjoy.

Alright, I’ve talked enough—it’s already 12:30 AM, and I need to finish this text quickly before heading to bed, because tomorrow I still have to release a chapter of Aemon.

Recap:

Every week: 3 chapters of Aemon, 2 chapters of Ronnet Connington, and 1 chapter of Aegon Snow.

PS: Sorry for those reading Aegon Snow, there was no chapter this week—I just wasn’t in the mood. But I’ll try to make up for it with a big chapter next time.