I have some bad news.
The Fanfic is dead.
Unfortunately I had some personal matter to attend to and so I missed one week of update, then I decided to read my Fanfic to bring me back up to date and I realized I don't like this Fanfic.
Not so much the idea, but the execution.
For the sake of myself I will list what I dislike about this Fanfic.
1st: The puppet clones. Using them to spy, is all well and good, but they should have only remained back ground tools. Making them into characters was just tedious and weird. Tedious because, it forced me to open way too many plot lines and it turned this story into a 'as big as an ocean, as shallow as a pond' type of story. I particularly came to despise them.
2nd: Way too many characters. I didn't need to involve every character under the sun. It only played into the previous point of tediousness. I should have focused on a smaller cast, resolved one character arc at a time and then go on from there. The most blatant example is the X-Men cast. I was trying to show that the world does not revolve around Bell and that it advance even without him, but I probably lost the forest for the trees in doing so. Even if I do think I somewhat succeeded in doing that, I am sure I could have achieved thing without making the story shallow.
3rd: I was way too fixated on keeping Nexus in NYC. His gifts are wasted there. Something akin to tiers exists. Spider-Man for example is a street level hero, at best he can be a support character in galactic battles (I guess). Nexus on the other hand is a reality warper and cream of the top as he can punch with the best of them, especially with what else I had planned for him. He should come and go as he pleases and do what he wants to achieve his goals, whatever those goals are.
4th: Show, don't tell. I feel like half the words inside this Fanfic is justifying why Bell is doing something or what stance he was holding on something. I should have only explained his reasoning when absolutely necessary and otherwise left it up to the viewer to interpret stuff. The plot would have advanced far more if not for that.
5th: Arbitrary stuff mostly. Like pretending that he has a weakness. Or skipping the tutorial, instead of using it to explain his character (which leads back into the 4th point). Constantly mentioning the war and tidbits of his past life instead of using it for the tutorial to explain his morals his values and his character. And a LOT of other stuff.
6th: This was entirely my own failing. People have been describing the protagonist as edgy and dark. Fair enough. They were not wrong, but I should have showed that there was a reason for that (plays back into 4th and 5th point) and then have him go through a longer character development arc to become a better person. Maybe even by being helped by other peope, either trough confrontation or discourse or something like that. Instead, I was spooked and then I rushed his character development.
7th: I sincerely think harems can work if done right and if the cast is small. After Storm, one more would have most likely joined and then that would have been it. Alas too many joined too quickly and I did not really achieve this natural connection between the characters that I was hoping for. Mostly (I think) due to the 1st point.
All these points robbed me of my desire to continue this fanfic.
Or at the very least THIS execution of the idea I had for the protagonist.
Because while I have lost the desire to continue this fanfic, the idea I still very much find interesting.
I will not delete this Fanfic, but I will try my hand again on putting that idea to paper.
In other words I will start another fanfic.
Hopefully this time I can be more satisfied.
I apologize for any inconvenience caused, but I hope you show understanding.
Happy reading and stay healthy out there.
Cheers.