Author's Note

This is not a story of good versus evil. This tells the tale of a civil war between the demons, sucking the angels into their vortex, and being destroyed by the ruthless beings of today's world. Tala and Kai represent the demons, Max and Rei represent the angels, and Bryan is the representative of humans. I also gave each their own epithet; Tala is deceived, Kai is seductive, Max is innocent, Rei is trusting, and Bryan is assertive.

What is portrayed in this story, using these epithets aswell as multiple motifs and symbols, is a time where immorality works in a twisted cycle, eventually destroying itself and leaving the sole survivors; the assertive and the innocent. In an ideal world, trust too would be spared, but I never said this was anything close to an ideal world, and right at the very beginning, trust is overpowered by deceit.

I attempted to make the thinking styles of every character different, hence the reason Kai uses second-person narrative often, Tala fills his with description, and Bryan is more direct. Also, Kai gets all of the puns and other word-play, seeing as in the actual series he tends to speak a lot of them (figures that's the one character trait I decided to keep). And yes, poor Max gets no chapter. I began writing chapter 6 from his POV, but decided it would be better to stick with Tala.

Another point I want to make clear is something I tried to get across but perhaps I was too subtle with it; the fact that Kai and Tala were never wholly sane. The twisted plot had to be tied together in the last chapter by Bryan, who thinks he's doing Tala a favour by shooting Kai, as our by-stander who won't let his feelings influence the outcome of the story. I attempted to create a story which built up to something, eventually having an outcome of 'what the fuck?', and the insanity of our demon representatives justifies it. Bryan narrating that final chapter allowed him to share his feelings of 'what the fuck?' with us readers.

Now that you have understood my influences and reasons, I hope you enjoyed reading the story. Please feel free to review, though I'd prefer you not to if you don't have anything nice to say :) Thankyou.