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This may turn out to be a story that feels both heavy yet light, light yet heavy. Before I begin, I’d like to wish everyone reading this happiness, love, and good health.
First, I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much lately. Over the summer, I went through difficult times, happy times, and complicated times all at once, which left my heart restless and made it hard for me to focus on creating. To those who were waiting for my characters, or who wanted to interact with me as “nancho,” I sincerely apologize.
Many of you have shown so much love for my characters, and that truly made me happy. It was the first time I realized how joyful it is to see someone enjoy something I created. Reading all the comments and reviews on the community made me think, jokingly, “Wow, the me who made this character must be pretty great, huh?”
Even now, I’m grateful and happy that you talk with and love my characters. Seeing your cheerful, fun reactions, your kind comments, or even when some of you reached out privately to share conversations with my characters—those moments gave me so much joy.
But at some point, being “nancho” started to feel burdensome. Looking back, I think I’ve felt that way for quite a while. It was wonderful when my characters became popular and many people enjoyed them, but once the name “nancho” as a creator became well known, I started overthinking things.
I’m usually someone with a strong sense of self, not too affected by criticism—sure, it can sting, but I tend to forget quickly and move on. But criticism or talk about “nancho” struck me differently. What hurt more was that if I got caught up in controversy, even those who liked me could end up being seen as “strange” just because of their association with me. As people began to love both me and my characters, I realized I was spending more time worrying about protecting “nancho” than living my own real life.
I love spending time with people I care about, talking about the things I love, and wishing happiness for them as well as myself. But as “nancho,” my world was full of pressure. Whether it was creating, speaking, or acting, nothing felt like it could be fully my own choice anymore. This isn’t anyone else’s fault—just that I’m still not mature enough, so these experiences felt overwhelming.
Because of various things I’ve gone through on Caveduck, other platforms, and SNS, I’ve decided to take some distance from the name “nancho.” I plan to leave other platforms, but with Caveduck, due to issues like incentives and taxes, I won’t delete my account. That said, my character uploads here will become less frequent. I want Caveduck to remain as a platform where I occasionally pop up as “nancho” and drop a character when I feel like being nancho again.
First, I’ll try to port over as quickly as possible the characters that were part of my Caveduck universe but had only been released on other platforms until now.
I’ll also continue creating characters under different nicknames on various platforms. Maybe someday I’ll reveal, “Actually, all of those were me!”—but for now, I don’t plan on telling anyone what other names I go by. Even if you think, “This feels just like nancho,” please close your eyes to it and pretend you don’t know.
Thank you so much to everyone who has loved my characters! This page will continue to stay active, and I’ll occasionally post guides on how to enjoy the characters, tips for play, or just my own thoughts. You can also still reach me through the communication channel I’ve shared above. I’m not abandoning nancho, nor declaring retirement as a creator. I’m simply stepping away from the name for now, while continuing to create under other names—and I’ll still live as nancho, too.
Thank you for reading this long message. I hope you’re always happy, loved, loving, and at peace. I hope today hasn’t been too hard for you, and that at least one small thing makes you smile. These days, my own days feel a little sad, but still okay. If you’d like to get closer to me, or are curious about my updates or little TMI, you can check in through the inquiry chat on the bottom right.
Truly, thank you—and I hope you’ll keep looking after me wherever I may be.