[B-A] Background Ascendancy - Parts 1, 2, & 3 (Patreon)

Still not sure whether this thing has a long term future or if it's just a plot bunny I'm exorcising. I've technically got two more chapters warming up (but not finished) and ideas for what to do with this thing up to the start of DBZ canon, but I don't know if this thing is a viable project long term either, so I haven't put too much thought into it beyond that.

In case it wasn't obvious from the start, this idea was spawned from a certain story on SB written by Silver W King, but I'm twisting even the basic premise away from where he started. The first chapter rehashes a couple episodes from canon DB as a way of comparing and contrasting what's changed, but things go rapidly off the rails after that. Chapter 2 and 3 are even technically flashbacks.

I want to know what you guys think of this. Like it, hate it? Want to see more of it? I can't promise how much attention it'll receive when Hereafter is still my main focus, but this thing wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote at least some of it out, so if it's something people like, maybe I'll do more of it in the future.

Title, by the way, is a reference to "The Eminence in Shadow," because I loved that anime, it was glorious.

EDIT: Lots of comments, but only a single like. I'm not quite sure what to make of that ratio, especially since the comments are pretty positive.

Maybe it's because this is a bit outside my usual fare and people are quite sure what to make of the story either.  Or maybe because it's just three chapters, people don't quite have a strong opinion on it yet.