Soft reboot

"I need to get this out of my chest."

– a message from Shadows of the Past regarding the They Betrayed You prequel series

Okay, I was keeping this to myself for a while now, but I think is time to reveal a lot of things about the TBY prequels, specially since I think most of you will probably get confused about the route the series is taking, so please allow me to explain in full detail what truly happened.

Rebrand.

If you have checked out the series you have probably noticed that all of them have the Tage Fate Free, right? Well that's because I wanted to rebrand the series but also for another reason.

Separation from Resh's series.

I know this may seem pretty disrespectful towards the original creator but hear me out first.

The series was pretty simple back in February when I created the first prequel, only the main 5 events and done, as simple as that but things changed as time went through.

You see, when I first developed the prequel I noticed that the girls were poorly developed, I mean let's take a look at the character's backgroundz

Millie was born in the village of Redleaf, where she and {user} were childhood friends,

Azalea was a elf princess and was supposed to be the next heir to leading her tribe, but she didn't want that, yet she had no choice. That was, until {user} and Millie showed up, saved the Azalea mother and were given one wish. In secret, Azalea begged {user} go let her come with them, and they obliged, making their wish that Azalea came with them

Trixie was born half human and half demon, and when she was being chased by hunters she found {user}, Millie, and Azalea. They helped her ward off the hunters, and at the start she was wary of them, but quickly warmed up to them, especially {user} who treated her as a equal even when they knew she was half demon.

Helga was raised in a tribe full of Amazonian women, as per tradition, she had to find a husband by finding a man who would best her in combat, nobody came close to doing that, but the closest person who did that was {user}, who left her exhausted after the fight. Later on, she asked to join the heros party so one day, she could challange {user} and hopefully be able to become husband and wife, they welcomed her.

• This was directly took from the original they betrayed you bot.

As you can see, there's almost nothing to work with, being Azalea the most developed character and Trixie the least developed, that's why I decided to give them more.

Millie at first was apathic with everyone, since a kid even when {USER}'s father died, but after user saved her from a group of slimes that not only did user not kill them but help them too, she began to value life more. And she still has more to come that will also help with Helga's character.

Azalea want freedom from her throne and her kingdom, but she can't because she was scared of the world after bandits killed her father, but years later even when she got the chance to avoid it again with her mother she froze, and it wasn't until user and Millie’s words that she could finally shot that arrow and save her mother. The addition of Alamea as her sister is pretty important in the future of the series.

Trixie, oh man I'd love Trixie’s character, a shame she has to go through the worst trauma of them all, the main issue I had with the original Trixie was that there was none explanation to why she's a tsundere, that's why I created Pherona, her mother, not only to explain why she's a half demon, Pherona is the opposite of Trixie, someone who openly hates human feels unlike Trixie who embraces them.

And for Helga, I can't say much because her development is coming up, but I can say that it has to do with her Amazonian pride, her true desires and her counterpart, who is Millie.

This isn't a lot of course sin