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Popularity Poll: Automata vs Halfway Broken
🕑 Added 2025-06-04 04:38:37 +0000 UTCAlright, folks. I've been promising this one for the last month or so. When I first started this Patreon, My Hero Automata was the single most popular of the initial fics I launched. At that time, that solidified is as one of the two stories that got guaranteed an update every month. Originally, the other guaranteed fic was Mass Effect: Final Error, as it was about 80% complete already at that time.
Eventually, of course, Final Error wrapped up. When it did, it was blindingly obvious that Can One Displaced Hero Save the Galaxy? was the most popular of the secondary stories when it happened. One Piece: Halfway Broken didn't even exist yet, as Halfway Broken actually replaced Displaced Hero as the new option in the Poll stories when I made the obvious choice to push Displaced Hero up to replaced Finial Error. Up to that point, I'm completely confident I was updating the two more popular fics every month, then allowing voting to decide the third slot.
Then I introduced Halfway Broken and it went on to win so often and so hard that I had to institute the vote boosting system, lest the the other stories never get updated at all. It won elven straight victories, only finally being displaced by a mildly boosted (only 30%) A Very Confused Pokemon Adventure. Which was, itself, practically new at the time it won and has consistently performed well since then, even managing another such defeat of Halfway Broken.
The thing is, that while My Hero Automata remains immensely popular on two of the three platforms I publish on (not including Patreon), I'm no longer sure it's one of the two most popular stories with you, the Patrons. Several others have also questioned this, leading up to this poll. Note that, while everyone will be allowed to vote, this will be a weighted poll.
Frankly and bluntly put, I'm not exactly willing to piss off all the Patrons who go above and beyond in supporting me. If it turns out that they tip the scale more one way or the other...then tipped the scales shall be. Also note that My Hero Automata is the closest story to an actual ending. So there's that, too. Though it's still a ways out. The story was originally intended to cover only their time at UA, and they are approaching their third year before too much longer. Though the fan-chosen diversion to engineering/worldbuilding has brought where and when it will end into a bit more question...
TLDR Version: Vote for which story you want to see updated every month. Loser ends up (or stays in) the monthly poll for the third update slot. Winner becomes/remains one of the two stories that get's updated monthly.
Comments
Novus Peregrine
I wasn't expecting it to be QUITE this lopsided T-T. But I'm not too surprised Halfway Broken is more popular. If I didn't half suspect that, I wouldn't have run the poll. At least there will still be two non-One Piece stories getting updated every month, though. Which, with how often Halfway Broken won the Story Poll for the third story to be updated, means it might not end up all that different...
Novus Peregrine
Eh, I admit I was sort of hoping it would at least do better. Because, yes, it's the closest one to ending, even if it's still not THAT close. Hopefully it gets decent support in the monthly polls without Halfway Broken to compete with though...
The Foreign Traveler
Was honestly hoping that MHA would stay as the story that was guaranteed to be updated each month, especially since you’ve mentioned that it’s the closest one to an actual ending. I honestly thought, and kinda hoped, that people would go more for MHA than HB due to that. If you finish one story Novus, that’ll mean you’ll have a little more time for the others. …Or more time for breaks and rest. Readers have spoken though…
Artemis
Figured it'd go this way. I was just never really able to get into One Piece.
J.Rogue
If you haven’t yet you should give it a shot, it’s worth it
Metri Boomin
Tbh halfway broken is your only story I read. I’m a bit strung out on MHA fics rn
Novus Peregrine
To be honest, I only liked One Piece up through roughly Alabasta and stopped watching shortly after the Fishman Island Arc. I've learned a lot more, and didn't like most of it, preparing to write Halfway Broken. That's part of why I diverged from canon Luffy early and hard :-p.
Dominique Brassel
Mh I personally like the one piece one more ..... My hero automata is still one of the best mha storys in existence so I still like to see it but the one piece story is for me currently the best one piece story in existence
Danielle
I know this is anime heresy, but I don’t actually enjoy one piece so…
Jaideep
One piece as good to find good one piece stories. Besides not a big fan of MHA/ Hero genre so much.
Alita
I love both stories.
swift arrow
This is so true
J.Rogue
Hard choice but it’s even harder to find good one piece stories that updates consistently.
