SO browsers of my folders may have seen that I did a mass clear out of my folders and then had trading bulletins for my unsorted after (which, btw, should I do again or wait a bit?)

BUT I recently had a development breakthrough of Mandatory, and have further organized the characters as I provide you with the revamped(?) story.

When I first published Heart of Glass, my first book of Strong Hearts Are Mandatory I tried a lot to listen to the criticisms and while still maintaining the structure of the story, keep it in mind for the future books, but it has come to the point that Heart of Glass is now approaching it's 7 year anniversary and I've decided to start a new rendition of it geared more as a Children's Book (32 page, fully illustrated book) done in my toony style, with significantly less blood spilling.

I've actually posted two of the illustrations here on Toyhouse, and wanted to showcase them a bit as an idea of what to expect.

However, condensing a 200 page book into 32 pages doesn't come without sacrifices. I've cut down on a lot of characters and what I feel is unnecessary details of the story, and I've felt so happy with the final product, that I decided I want the animated series to go in this direction too, to make it manageable for the 11 minute episodes I plan for the story.

So I have updated the Animated Series folder to only include the characters that appear in the children's book rendition, and now added a Book 1 and Book 2 folder in the Book Series folder.

What does this entail for the book series?

The book series I want to stay true to little 14-18 year old me's ideas and I won't be changing the format for the last two books (5 and 6) and keep going as planned, however, the animated series was always planned to only cover Heart of Glass and Straight to Video, so I can now focus the content easier for the animated on just what happens in those two books with using the children's book rendition as an outline, and then basing the episodes off of this version instead of the books now.

This way I can still have the book series complete, and then have an even easier time with the webseries! I am super excited about this and I hope you all enjoy what's to come! The finished illustrations in the book will also have backgrounds, etc. but it's cute posting them with their transparent bg here xD

Does this change anything about Deviate, Of Events Prior, Origins, or The Main Hiatus?

For now I am not sure since I don't have to worry about OEP, Origins, to TMH, since they're not anything I have to think about until after book 6, as for Deviate I'm gonna finish chapter 1 in its regular style then do the second chapter in a simpler style inbetween toony and my regular style and I'm super excited for it! X3

Thank ya'll for reading and I hope you are chill with the changes! ♥ I'd love to hear your thoughts, otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing 🤔