If I were you, I would continue as normal until we know the launch date, then I would look into moving your now-main onto an alt-toon so that when you transform your now-main into an Au Ra, you can easily use the alt-toon to wrap up the RP that you want to phase yourself out of because you wont have the time/will to maintain both characters with the same level of involvement. And simply allow yourself to take the time needed to get things sorted 
 That's of course assuming you wont continue with the same character on your au ra.Â
I have quite a few alts myself and my secondary alt is the only one I get involved in long term plots/storyarchs because I know I'm able to manage both. So I understand the whole thing with feeling like things can be a bit pointless, as my third alt can't ever really get involved in too much - But at the same time she can have a big effect on the characters around her. The fact that she is also a rare appearance gives the RP a different touch as well as you'll always be able to ask people what they've been up to since last and I find I have to find more reasons as to why she's not always around and that. For me as well though, it's kind of split a little between "types" of RP, my main is very prone to getting involved in srs bisniss where as my alts do better in social/bar-type RP. So when I get tired of all the serious, I usually log over to one of them.Â
That said my third alt is likely going to get sacked/retired in favor of an au ra, all depending on what kind of lore they're served up with.
 That's of course assuming you wont continue with the same character on your au ra. I have quite a few alts myself and my secondary alt is the only one I get involved in long term plots/storyarchs because I know I'm able to manage both. So I understand the whole thing with feeling like things can be a bit pointless, as my third alt can't ever really get involved in too much - But at the same time she can have a big effect on the characters around her. The fact that she is also a rare appearance gives the RP a different touch as well as you'll always be able to ask people what they've been up to since last and I find I have to find more reasons as to why she's not always around and that. For me as well though, it's kind of split a little between "types" of RP, my main is very prone to getting involved in srs bisniss where as my alts do better in social/bar-type RP. So when I get tired of all the serious, I usually log over to one of them.Â
That said my third alt is likely going to get sacked/retired in favor of an au ra, all depending on what kind of lore they're served up with.
