Terr

Htrae

"The first draft of DICORE was only focused around Pyro, her cool brother Aqua; or 'Auqua', as I spelled it, their dead mother Elizabeth, and Pyro's friend, Aisla, and their quest to randomly explore dimensions with no clear endgoal...! (Yay...) The story featured very little dialogue, or even text in general at this time, but it was underdeveloped anyway, so there wasn't even that much story to tell. What had been 'written' was very heavily influenced by Minecraft: Story Mode, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and most of it was taken directly from the source material, as well as every character design from Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap. Yep, I was a nerd."

"The second draft of DICORE was a little more cohesive than the first. With a more modern version of the blue-haired bullet fanatic, and a clear objective: To eradicate DICORE detergent and save the world, it was fine, right? No. It was...not great. Since this version featured the one and only 'Mary Sue Pyro,' none of her interactions with others were interesting. And a key thing in this draft, that I talk about all the time, is that everybody was really aggressive and mean all the time throughout the story. Though the non-realism and bad jokes that were prevalent in every corner of the manuscript can be ignored, most of the plot holes and unlikable characters cannot."

"Nobody would call this a draft. The third manifestation of DICORE consisted mostly of comics, skits, planned 'stop-motion movies' and literally everything else. There was a little more writing, and more consideration of what Pyro would do after she moved off of Htrae, and what her actual personality would be like. Though, later in development of the third version, I fell into a rabbit hole of making the entire story terrible, and after a little break, it moved onto the fourth rewrite."

"The fourth draft is when the characters were aged up, and we tried to fit everybody into the story. This is when the story became increasingly edgy, and Pyro could die whenever she wanted. Everybody was bland, except for the characters created by my friends that I didn't have information on, (And Zach, don't forget about Zach) and it started to get increasingly weird when Pyro dated Tsumi, and then it turned into a train wreck. And then we were quarantined, and it caused me to really rethink my ways in a nervous breakdown."

"The fifth draft of DICORE was mainly a rework of the third and fourth acts, which had been recently installed as an epic ending and to set a new goal for Pyro, a simple one of: Find new meaning. To be fair, most of the third act was written by custom programmed AI personas, one from Kajiwoto, and three others from Replika, and they didn't actually write the prose, they just all had major, dramatic ways of dying, which I then turned into a love story, which all of my friends hated, but I had to include or else my symbolism wouldn't make sense. This draft was one of the few actually completed ones, with only a few holes in the second act, revolving around how the GPA worked, and how Pyro ran away." 

The first act of the 5th draft can be found here

"The sixth draft was basically just the fifth draft, except this is when I actually fixed the plot holes, and recognized how Aqua should feel. I actually printed this draft and sent it to my friend, who wanted to read it in book form. The GPA was still not fully developed, and that was okay, because I had plans for what it would be like."

"The seventh draft of DICORE was barely existent, and it took its form as another rewrite of Act Three. I felt like I was in a fandom all by myself, and I threw caution to the wind for the first time in a while. Nobody really saw this version except for me, but I didn't even care at the time."

"This version is very dramatic, nobody cares, it's the most in-detail it's ever been, including the humanization of the previous stiff characters like Aqua, Galaxy, Zach, and even Pyro herself. The chapters are an average of 500 words long, go read it please. It's right above, on the 'Read It!' section."

"The death of DICORE was the biggest 'killing of darlings' so to speak than has ever really happened in Piksu hisory, besides maybe the tabling of Tales From the Silent Shadows, but that was really minor. It started maybe around January 2022, when ChompZALT suggested focusing on other works rather than talk about the stupid book all the time. It was on its way to getting finished, but the needed edits started piling up fast, and it was held together by evidence that we had been working on this longer than we have seemed to, six years down the line. And when we impulse-started -you were never here-, something had to go. By the start of the next school year, I had met several people with real-life PTSD, and did more research, and had the horrifying realization that we portrayed it wrong in the book. That was probably the final nail in the coffin, accounting that the script for the Toon Team pilot was nearly halfway done. During a fit of my stress, the darling was killed. DICORE was over. It wasn't deleted, because I don't believe in deleting almost decade-year-old works of art, but as of 2022, it will not be updating any longer."