I found out there might be almost no audience for the fic I’ve spent two years writing

I started writing a fic for a pretty popular fandom almost two years ago. It’s a fantasy royal AU with a canon character paired with an OC, and I’ve put a huge amount of time into the writing and researching...The fic still isn’t finished, but it has become a really important project to me! For those two years, I deliberately avoided looking at what other people in the fandom were writing because I didn’t want to compare my ideas to theirs or accidentally influence my own story. Last night, I finally decided to check, and I found two other fics with the same general AU concept. Their plots were completely different from mine, so that honestly didn’t bother me at all. What did bother me was realizing that canon character x OC stories seem to be very unpopular in this fandom. Most of the popular fics are reader inserts, canon ships, or college AUs, and I could barely find anything similar to what I’m writing. I never expected my fic to become massively popular, but I also didn’t realize there might be almost no interest in this type of story at all. Now I feel completely discouraged because I’ve spent nearly two years putting so much work, and thought into something that people might not even want to read. I still care about the story...but suddenly continuing it feels much harder because I can’t stop thinking that I’m writing for an audience that doesn’t exist :(