Nolonar

That's amazing! Looove it!♪

Very cute and the clothes & coloring are particularly nice. ^^b

Split it across chapters.

I also cut my intro. After it was finished, too. Sometimes, we have to make hard decisions to (hopefully) get a decent result. But, as others said, you could always recycle parts of it later. Here, have some extra motivation: *ö,ö+ (<-- that's an owl, cheering you on)

Or add it later on as a flashback.

You could just do a simple bad ending, one where they blow up everything in a 50 mile radius. Hey, no bad guy anymore at least!

I wish I could recall where the quote came from, or even the exact quote. "We make characters that we love and then because we love them, we do the most horrible things imaginable to them."

How to make a character being 'loved 101: make tragic backstory + tragic ending