Future of Ruining Harmony series, more · 11:47pm Aug 20th, 2017
To open, don't panic! I've not abandoned Ruining Harmony 2. The delay is because unlike the first story, I don't have an editor (still), and not being popular to have a huge following, I can take my time in deciding what will happen next.
I have an ending for RH2 in mind, but I need to come up with the path the story takes to get there. And since I don't write directly on here, I often have to check what I posted last so I make sure it all fits together.
So what am I referring to in the blog title?
Simple, what the future RH stories will be. Even now, I'm starting to form the idea for RH3. The very first story was designed to give multiple timeline branches, and from there, future stories can take place. Right now, RH and RH2 end and start in different timelines (RH's ending is not in RH2's timeline, and vice versa with how they start). This still leaves the headache my editor had to deal with in understanding RH to help edit, the timeline branch points.
I'll start here by pointing out, RH2 wasn't an intended branch point. But from here, there are spoilers, so only look if you want to know.
Time branch 1; Rainbow Dash mini arc. In the main story, she awoke and prevented the event, her crashing into the ground, that caused the grim future. In one branch, this continues to play out after she saves her friends and the Princesses.
Time branch 2; Pinkie Pie mini arc. Pinkie is unable to prevent Dash dying. Currently how this timeline would progress is unknown nor planned.
Time branch 3; Fluttershy mini arc. She remains in the past, her kindness holds back Discord and even alters how he was defeated.
Time branch 4; Applejack mini arc. Again she remains in the past and is swiftly defeated by Discord. What happens after this is not planned nor intended to be explored yet.
Time branch 5: Rarity mini arc. Rarity never goes back in time. She instead invests time in trying to save the world and get the sun and moon moving again. This timeline is intended to be explored in the near future.
Time branch 6; Twilight mini arc. Twilight fights Ulysses in the past and the zone between time. This is intended to be explored, though no firm plans as yet.
Time branch 7; Irvest Saga arc. The mane six remain in Irvest, but Dash eventually heads out to Equestria alone. Intended to be explore, no firm plans yet.
Time branch 8; Final Saga arc. This is the new one, and is Ruining Harmony 2: Pillars of Harmony. Though this is the split and RH2 was going to be a direct sequel to the first story where Irvest was explored more than it still remains.
In short, the Ruining Harmony stories have the potential to be a series, akin to the Austraeoh series by Imploding Colon. Probably not as long for each story, and not in a running order. It would help to think of the RH series as being like The Legend of Zelda, each story can easily be read alone, and references to previous ones will feature, but they will not be in a firm reading order.
This also won't mean my other ideas for stories will be forgotten for RH. I still intend to do High and Dry season two, when I can come up with funny ideas, The World Tree and the feel-good Scootaloo stories will continue when perfect ideas for them come along. I will never write just for the sake of writing something. I will always write to a quality I expect, so people can enjoy reading the stories over and over again.