Hello everyone, this will be my first attempt at making an Adventure Time related story, but I am no stranger to writing fan-fiction. This is a story I have had in mind for quite some time, the idea first coming to me around the time Islands premiered, which was actually what got me back into Adventure Time after not having watched it since season five. Since then I have been writing down a bunch of story ideas and working them out in my head until I was eventually able to come up with several episodes worth of story content that would be enough to fill up maybe two seasons of Adventure Time, and now I want to write a story using those ideas.
My primary goal when writing this story is to make it feel like a natural continuation of the show by ensuring that it fits with the established canon as much as possible. At first I was debating whether I should just wait for the show to finish before starting this story or if I should just start it while the idea was still fresh in my mind, and eventually I decided to go with the latter option. A big problem of mine when writing fan-fiction is that I rarely, if ever, finish the stories that I start because I would often lose the motivation to continue writing them after a while. I started this story around the time Elements aired, so at point the show was still ongoing and certain plot points from it had yet to be resolved. I made it up to Chapter Eleven of this story before I then decided to take a break and just wait for the show to finish before continuing any further with it.
Now that the finale has officially aired, I am able to adjust the plot of this story accordingly, and as such I have taken the time to go back and rewrite some of the earlier chapters so that they better align with the events of final season of the show. As a result of these changes, some of you who are just now finding this story for the first time might notice that a few of the older reviews left by readers make reference to things that happened in the older versions of those chapters that are no longer there, but do not be alarmed or confused by them and think that you missed anything important. The original name I had for this story was Adventure Time: The Unofficial Final Season, but now that the show is officially over I have decided to change its name to Adventure Time: The Unofficial Season Eleven and Twelve and have it act as a sequel to the show.
I call it the "Unofficial" Season Eleven and Twelve for two reasons. The first is because there is technically already an Adventure Time sequel comic series called Adventure Time: Season Eleven that continues the story after the finale, though the creators of the show have gone on to say that these comics are not canon. Even so, I still put "Unofficial" in the title to differentiate the two, so as not to confuse people. If the events of the Season Eleven comics do not conflict with this story too much, then I might even incorporate some elements from them into it, as well as from other Adventure Time comics if I feel they will help enrich the experience. The second reason I have decided to call this story the Unofficial Season Eleven and Twelve is because of how long it will probably end up being. This story will have two parts to it, the first being called Season Eleven, and the second being called Season Twelve. I know this might sound like a really ambitious undertaking for a fan-fiction, especially with a name like that, and who knows if I will ever finish it, but I sure as hell am going to try.
If you are wondering when this sequel story takes place, it picks up a few months after the end of the Gum War. It will attempt to resolve a lot of the loose ends and unfinished plot points left over from the show, while also telling a brand new story of its own. It will be a roller coaster ride of emotions that at times will make you laugh, cry, and smile. The pasts and origins of many different characters will explored and expanded upon, and the story will take some unexpected twists and turns that may shock you. As for what to expect, the story will have a slightly darker and more mature tone to it, kind of like what the final season of Samurai Jack did, but no need to worry, as it will not be anything too extreme or out of character for Adventure Time. I will try to keep the core of the show and its humor intact. The story itself will have a few overarching themes and messages sprinkled throughout it. Much like how the previous seasons of the show taught lessons about childhood, this story will build upon those by teaching lessons about adulthood, in particular for Finn as he transitions from a teenager to an adult.
In a way, this story could be viewed as a deconstruction of Adventure Time as a whole, one that will constantly try to subvert your exceptions. Something that always bugged me about the show was how it never allowed the status quo to change in any major way, and any change that did happen would usually be reversed within a few episodes and ultimately amount to nothing. The characters would just get together, sing a song, and then everything would be made right with the world again. That would always be their get out of jail free card. Things will not be so simple and easy here. The actions the characters take and the events that surround them will have lasting consequences that carry over from chapter to chapter. Expect the status quo to be turned completely on its head, and in fact one of the main driving forces behind this story will be the characters having to come to terms with an unexpected change to the status quo, one that they cannot reverse. Even if some things do get happily resolved in the end, they will never quite be the same as they were before.
Lastly, something to keep an eye out for at the end of each chapter is a little section written in bold text that serves as sort of an Author's Notes segment where I will provide commentary on the events of that particular chapter. In these segments, I will reveal various tid-bits of information that range from what the process of writing that chapter was like and what was going on in my head when I wrote it, to what sort of things served as inspiration for me and the ways in which certain events from that chapter could be interpreted, both literally and figuratively.
