Anxiety · 8:36pm Oct 4th, 2018
Okay, recently and by recently I mean this morning I've begun to wonder if I made a couple of bad choices with my Kamen Rider Kiva story, chiefly with Fluttershy thought to be a serial killer and the mystery surrounding Kiva and her identity being one of them. I know, this isn't Death Note Equestria or something like that and Kamen Rider nerds will know Kiva is hardly a killer of ponies. Monsters yes, but ponies? No.
I suppose it's possible some of the downvotes are coming from Tempest Shadow fanboys who are saying "No, no, my waifu isn't paired up with mah OC in the story and paired up with Twilight instead!" and the others are coming from assholes who see the downvotes and say "Lol, this must be a bad story so I shall downvote it as well!"
But still, I don't need this stress in my life when I wake up to find downvotes are nearly outnumbering the upvotes of a story I kinda put quite a few hours into just developing the first chapter. I'm severely considering taking down the feature to rate the story just because of this really. Never thought I'd do that, but then again I'd never thought I'd ever turn off the comment feature like I had to do for "The Drake for Her" because of similar reasons revolving around asshats.
I mean, I don't need this stress in my life do I? I mean, seriously, the number is ridiculous! Honestly, I keep saying this time and time again, we need a feature that specifically says before you downvote, and forces you to do this, to write up 100 words explaining what you didn't like about the story. I would save so many authors unneeded stress really.
OK. And why'd u change yer name?
*hugs Brick* It'll be okay.
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Joke from Summer Dancer. Said perhaps I thought I should start calling her Autumn Dancer now, (long story) and she said in return maybe I should be called Autumnlayer now. I just went along with the joke.
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Like I said over Discord, I don't need hugs, I want explanations.
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I think it was because people are thinking you are destroying the purity that is Fluttershy. I think by mentioning her in the description people got turned off. If you had left it ambiguous who it was and gave us a few chapters before the big reveal it may have gone over better. My advice is turn off the voting becuase people who are not fimilar with this Rider will not understand.
Like badninja said, making Fluttershy a serial killer destroys the sweet and innocent image many have of her so they downvoted in retaliation. But revealing it so early also ruined the suspense where readers could have enjoyed speculating who the culprit was so spelling out for them ruined the experience per say.
On a lighter note...So will you change it to Winterlayer and change your profile pic to Balto in the snow when the time comes?
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Suppose you have a point there. Probably should have drawn it out further, but the way I'd planned for my story to go would reveal Fluttershy as a vampire hunter pretty early on anyways, like the opening of the second chapter early.
And no, I'm not going to change my name. It's hard enough remembering not to type in Bricklayer when I sign in. I will probably do the Balto thing though, as ever. Hell, the profile pic I have now is based off a scene from Balto's sequel.