#6monsters

So, for any of you who are Knowers, you’d know I used to very unfortunately publish on Wattpad. Hell, that was still happening super recently! I wrote a shadow slave fanfiction! But isn’t there something so embarrassing about using in Wattpad in 2025? There is. So I decided to just bite the bullet and jump to ao3, because I’ll get zero readers all the same on there but at least I don’t have to sit through ads for block blast.

Publishing to sites, regardless of view count, has always been a great motivator for me. Something about writing with the knowledge of “after this is out, other people could read it!” is a different kind of motivation I don’t get all too often when writing. Writing’s mostly for me! Hell, this still IS for me! But it’s the focus that motivation gives me that makes me want to publish this. I’ve been drawing close to burnout recently after being spread thin over a million different projects.

So I just decided to finish and publish the first chapter of one I’ve been thinking about sitting down to properly write recently. That’s this. It’s not anything perfect, or special, but it’s a Six Monsters story you’ll be able to read! That’s more than I can say for most other things I work on! It’s a semi-important story, being the midpoint between Insubordination and Suspended Moon, a cute little “point five” between two critical recruitment stories leading up to REVEL8R.

It’s a tale where the Six Monsters are still coming into themselves as a unit, while also moseying into some connections that become important after REVEL8R. Xoc isn’t exactly my favourite character by any means, but I’ve always enjoyed writing him and about him. Hopefully you’ll see his “charm points” when I get around to releasing more chapters.