And the lone Writer wanders in once again.

Hello, guys… I… I haven't been myself lately. No, I didn't break up with a girl, none of my relatives died, I didn't suddenly get orphaned by some inexplicable event, and I did not die.

I just don't have the motivation anymore…

I… I'm abandoning this story.

(Sad face)

It's funny, really. I had the entire thing planned. I had the entire story built up, and it was going to be an epic of unfathomable levels, something that would even shock myself if I read it.

So what happened?

It's the start of a new year, and, unlike most, I wanted to develop. I wanted to start my career as a writer, but, if I were to do that, I had to start writing my first story.

And that's what I did.

I played around with ideas for the first few months, and settled on one two months ago. I've been slowly developing it ever since, and, pray tell, my expectations shot through the roof: I wanted it to be a long series of books, up to 10 books, if necessary.

This is where the problem lies. With my creative brain swimming with new ideas, it became a distraction writing the fanfiction. I could not concentrate on it, and, in the end, I broke down and realized I could not write fanfiction anymore. I just didn't have the reason or motivation to do so.

It's a point in life for a young fanfiction writer to realize that the world is closing in on them, and that such a non-profit activity may not last.

I have heard of older people writing their own fanfictions in their free time. My own English teacher once had an uncle (if I remember it correctly) who wrote literal fan-made Star Trek manuscripts. It was a nice revelation to me that I could technically continue this passion in the future.

But this is where my job lies. As a writer, you are supposed to make ideas. Cliché or original, it must contribute to your story. And any other idea may destroy your motivation to continue a story you are already writing. That was where my problem lies. If I continued writing, thinking about ideas for fanfiction, my idea for a story will be lost in my growing motivation to focus on another project that may not even net me any money, unless I wrote said fanfiction as a way to advertise myself.

I do want to be a successful writer in the future. I would love to earn awards, get adaptions of my work, rise to the top in the writing industry.

And I couldn't let fanfiction get in my way.

It's painful, really. I would love to come back to write this someday, if some spark of motivation immolates my entire being in the future. I would love to finish that Senran Kagura X TWGOK fanfiction that I wrote, whose first arc I finished years ago. It was a great journey writing it, but the motivation had wavered, and finally withered. I am scared that the story I'm writing now may also suffer the same fate.

So… Sorry, guys.

In any case, I will try and see if I can redeem myself with a literal summary of the entire story that I had not written.

These are just ideas, and, if I ever come back to finish this all up, it may change.


Now, we finished the story off at when Filia is in her dream-like state with Fukua. There was going to be an epic battle in some hair-walled labyrinth, where a large spire holding both Filia's and Samson's souls would be the large arena. Both the original and clone were to literally battle in who was to get the souls, and of course Filia wins in a stroke of luck. She beats Fukua all the way to the outermost part of her consciousness, and locks her away in the deepest parts of her mind.

This is where the breaking of the glass chamber occurs. Filia is let out, the humongous tsunami of Theonite awakens Peacock from her state, and… I don't really remember how Valentine wakes up. In any case, the Theonite supercharges the Parasites (it wasn't really told how Theonite affected Parasites, so I was placing my interpretation here), and the group rush back up to help save Beowulf's group.

The group gets out, only to find, in literally a matter of hours, the entire city is empty, all its inhabitants abducted and put in Eliza's concentration camps propped up by the EVIL Black Dahlia bots. The group then run for it, and it leaves us in a cliffhanger.

In Lab 0, it is revealed that Black Dahlia had persuaded Painwheel to her side, and they try a daring escape, where it is also revealed that the Dahlia bots are no match for her because 'the real one wasn't even serious during data collection'. Robo-Fortune joins the gang, her processors having envy on Brain Drain's new love for the Dahlia bots.

Eliza's action during this is very vague in my head. I think I never really considered what she was doing…

I was going to do a Cerebella chapter here. With her being dead, it was going to be some recap chapter about Vice Versa looking for her dead body. I didn't really know how it would play out after that. Vice Versa WAS going to coincidentally see a few key scenes in the story, such as a few scenes with Valentine on the rooftops in the distance, to seeing Beowulf and the gang escaping through the streets. I was originally planning to make it so that Beowulf spotted the little hat hopping around the city looking for Cerebella, but eh. Vice Versa was to find her body somewhere near those humongous sewer outlets, though her body's a bit more gruesome than some may say…

This is where it gets blurry. I had not really found an idea in how Vice Versa, with a rotting body of a circus performer in tow, was going to be inducted into the gang. Writing this, however, has given me a new idea. Perhaps the hat was going to bump ways with Dahlia's group, and, with the ex-bodyguard recognizing Cerebella's affiliations with the mafia, Dahlia bluntly calls for the group to find a coffin.

In another chapter, Double sudden arises from the Church! YAY~!

The next chapter was how the two groups were going to meet. Sure, if this story was longer, I would have had the two groups brood about the situation for a few chapters before the buildup to their eventual meeting, but whatever. They meet, and the group mistake the lone Black Dahlia (I don't remember why they're alone) as a Dahlia bot, and engage in jolly cooperation in trying to take her down. She's super swift, however, and fends off the attack before she negotiates with the group.

There was going to be a scene where Painwheel reunites with Filia, and all goes well. It was also a time when the group was readying themselves in truly striking the Medici Tower.

This was where Sh*t got real.

My original prototype idea was to get the other Kingdoms involved, but that would've overcomplicated the story, so eh.

The citizens are all forced laborers building Eliza's new kingdom of Egyptian-esque architecture, by the way.

The plan for the group was to fight their way up to the top of the building where Eliza is. Seeing how they suspect Princess Parasoul, Umbrella and the other Black Egrets to be below the building, they scheme that if they can get their help, the operation may be a success. Big Band, Painwheel and Valentine were to go off to see if they can kill Brain Drain, and the others try and ascend the tower.

Also, Vice Versa was supposed to be on the head of a coffin, so… yeah.

In any case, the group storm the building at the dead of night, and succeed in entering. Dahlia and Peacock, though rather antagonistic, at first, board a lift by accident (not the big lift in the game's stage), and miraculously never get stuck or cut down until the higher floor, where they climb out to get to a floor. Dahlia begs to differ, however, because she knows something is below, in one of the lower basements. She cuts the elevator wires, and plummets down, leaving Peacock alone on the unspecified higher floor.

The Beowulf and gang fight their way up the stairs, seeing how they heard the lift plummet. Annie leaves to find the so-called 'Dungeon' the Medicis once had, and Beowulf, Robo-Fortune and Vice Versa find the headless body of Ms. Fortune. Recognizing the body, Beowulf opts to take it with him and ascend to find her head.

In other news, Eliza is brooding evilly, waiting for the group to come to her. In the corner, a glowing box begins to shake.

Big Band and the gang (Valentine is hiding, by the way) arrive at Lab Zero, where it is oddly empty. Brain Drain is taken by surprise at first, but quickly regains his composure, and fights the group by manipulating Painwheel and her worried, suspiciously weary state.

Dahlia reaches the bottom of the shaft, and finds herself in a maintenance hall, empty. She strolls by, and finds a secret door she remembers was used by the Medicis. She enters, and finds what she has been looking for; an ornate coffin, said to hold a detector of the Skull Heart. Weary of the Skull Heart's powers, and afraid that the mission may fail, she instead decides to destroy this artifact so Eliza may never try her hands on the Heart in the future. Insert cliffhanger here.

Annie finds the many surviving Black Egrets in a new underground complex crudely made to keep them in. She tries to reason with them to rise and try and fight back, but the disheartened group, including Adam (who hints of his whip wounds), deny. She storms to the Princess's chambers, and frees the two royalties. Parasoul immediately, even though she is weakened, calls for action. Her nobility and want for justice pushes her out, and she joins Annie; sadly, the others are still too frightened of the prospects. Only when Parasoul leaves do they begin realizing their cowardice, and, with a small push from Umbrella, they rise and begin marching out with crude forks or table legs as weapons.

Beowulf and the gang do ascend up, but find that the hordes of Dahlia bots are thinning. They reach the floor a few floors below where Eliza is, and find Lorenzo's- now Eliza's- bedroom, where Ms. Fortune's head is fussing about someone touching her. They put her back, and, though somewhat weak from all that unactivity, rushes to battle the new wave of Dahlia Bots.

Big Band fares well with Painwheel, but is concerned by her oddly confused state. Brain Drain is also suspicious. Big Band beats her, and she reveals, before Big Band is struck by Brain Drain's hologram of his own attack, that she senses the Skull Heart.

Dahlia is about to shoot her shotgun, before the coffin begins to shake, and Squigly and Leviathan burst out. I didn't really think this part through… I'm thinking of the 'we'll talk a bit to establish character', or the 'I fight you because I remember you' route.

Peacock, on the other hand, actually reaches Eliza's room, having beaten both Albus and Horace. She appears from the large lift, and, enraged by Eliza's part in the death of Lab 8, fights her. Sadly, this was also a cliffhanger.

Brain Drain beats Big Band, but, before he can deal the finishing blow, is apprehended by Valentine, where he is brutally killed by the vengeful nurse.

Beowulf and gang find the large lift, and ascend to find the top wrecked, with Peacock in her last breaths. Yeah, she dies, abruptly so.

It doesn't go well for some time until Dahlia and Squigly appear, having ascended the building by literally super-charging Leviathan with Theonite. His arm swing destroys the columns of the floor, and the spire roof falls, leaving it without a roof. They again try to fight, but again don't go so well until Annie appears, having found an airship with the Egrets, who fire upon Eliza. She of course destroys the airship, sending some of the Egrets to their deaths D:

More jolly battle... And it seems like all is lost, what'd you know, Big Band arrives. With a combo regarding a blood coagulant, Big Band's bell, and Painwheel's circular helicopter saw, they seemingly kill her.

Of course not.

And so, in her rage over how weakened she has become, she kills off the cast one by one- yeah, it gets that dark… I guess, you have to see how I write it first- leaving only Filia alive. But, before she is killed off, she, being told by Samson of the Skull Heart in the corner, makes a mad dash for the item, and successfully grabs it, falling off the building in the process.

The Skull Heart sides with Filia, seeing how it wants Eliza dead. It promises her that she will not immediately turn into a Skullgirl, and will have 'fleeting moments before her passing'. She wishes that all her comrades, those she made, those who had helped her in this battle, would return. And it happens. The Skull Heart teleports her back in time to before she made the dash to the heart, and, before Eliza is able to deal the blow, the entire cast comes back to life, and blocks the hit together. With all their hands tied in blocking her move, it is revealed that even Cerebella has been revived (for reasons), and proceeds to punch Eliza away. Then they press on with their barrage of attacks, while being cheered on by the now-revived Black Egrets below.

Eliza is on her last knees. She mocks the gang, realizes that Filia had used the Heart, and begins to gather spilt blood.

But then a shadow looms.

It's Double!

The Preaching's all over now.

The group stare stunned as the monster engulfs her, and, in my head, if it were to be animated, it would have ended in a cool eagle-dive off the building, hops through the street, before the plunge to Gehenna ending the sequence of 'Oh, please don't take me's from Eliza.

Then, it's all over. The group cheer, and Eliza is no more.

This is where my 'Endings' come into play. I was going to give every character, or small group of characters, their own endings.

None of them are in chronological order. I did this just to fool around with your heads :P.

Beowulf's ending was the simplest, and so is the first. It starts with him in his apartment, a week after the incident. He's quickly dressing for work, and quickly leaves the house on a scooter. As he drives around, he looks at the newly rebuilt Canopy Kingdom, with all its citizens returning, and some new houses on the way. He arrives at his new studio, where he meets Annie and they return for a new season of Annie: Girl of the Stars'.

Cerebella's ending was going to play out like this: she's back at the Circus, sorting out old stuff. Cerebella reminisce about her old friends and Vitale, and begin to cry for her losses, with Vice Versa trying to comfort her. The Black Egrets arrive outside the circus with a shipment of all her friend's old gear. She marvels at it, and is told by Roxie to prep for a new circus, one that represents the Kingdom as a whole. But, seeing how there is no one else other than her, her first request is for Panzerfaust to be the strongman, in which he 'politely' declines.

Filia's ending pairs with Painwheel and Peacock's. It's nearly identical to the oh-so-somewhat happy ending in Filia's game end, though now they find out Peacock has enrolled for the school, in a special class just for her. It ends with the same scene that end's Filia's ending cutscene, though now there's Peacock smoking in the distance, and the silhouette of an Egret (maybe Adam) approaching the two friends.

Big Band's ending ties very closely to Squigly's later ending. He visits the graves of everyone in Lab 8, and, as he plays a song, promises that the future labs will do no harm, and will be just. Yeah, it's as simple as that.

Squigly's ending is, as I said before, closely tied to Big Band's, because they are literally in the same area. Squigly is visiting her parent's makeshift graves, and apologizes for not visiting so long before. Leviatha comforts her, and explains that, because the Skullgirl's essense is in Filia, she will still 'live'. Squigly listens to Band's music, and begins to whisper a small, indistinguishable opera, before Big Band tells her that they should go. She complies.

Black Dahlia and Ms. Fortune's ending tie together. Robo-Fortune sadly was never really in my head when I was writing the endings, so she'll make a cameo appearance here. Fortune confronts Dahlia, who is planning to leave the Kingdom and find her place elsewhere, where she speaks to her about her gang. Dahlia forlornly apologizes fo the death of her 'family', but she humbly declines, saying that she can never truly forgive her. Instead, she challenges her for a friendly duel, and the two spar until Adam appears from a jeep, and ends the ending by telling Dahlia that she has been hired by Parasoul to be her personal bodyguard, and jokingly implies that he should have been the guard, instead of him being babysitter to Umbrella.

Valentine's ending starts in a jail cell, with Valentine asking herself of her place in this world. With her bosses dead, she is now alone, and waiting for her days in prison. An Egret arrives to open the gate for her, saying she has been bailed and the person who did so wishes to meet her outside. She exits to find Big Band and Peacock waiting, and they share a conversation about the revival of the Labs. She scoffs at the idea, but Big Band reassures her that it will be different. Surprised by the fervor, she chuckles, and the ending… well, ends.

Parasoul's ending was to see her issuing orders to rebuild the entire city. She has become Queen, and Black Dahlia now follows her around, though her attire has been subtly swapped to have the Kingdom insignia on her small cape thing. She enters a special laboratory where scientists, and coincidentally the entire gang are watching Filia's slow transformation into the Skullgirl. The group gulp and ready their armaments as the process slowly finishes. But then the view is transported to Filia's mind, where it is revealed that Fukua is the one being taken over by the Heart, and she becomes the Skullgirl, revealing herself to be, in a technical sense, the final boss. Filia manages to put Fukua deep within her consciousness, and awakes to tell the group. The gang, though wary that Fukua may get out one day, celebrate the coincidence and applaud (though a few are skeptical of this 'person' inside her)

And it ends…


Yeah, it ends.

Sure, there are a few problems with the story. I didn't have time to develop Ms. Fortune, Parasoul, Cerebella and Squigly, but it's inevitable seeing how my story was going to go.

Eliza and Double should have gotten an ending, but I hated the idea of a sequel, so I left it at that, where the illusion that everything is over is casted.

Nonetheless, now that I'm writing this, I'm marveling at my old creativity. It was an ambitious fanfiction, one that needed no OC, one that needed no romance, one that tried to use its source material smartly, tried to give its own spin to it. I still love this fanfiction, but I must lay it to rest.

For those who were reading this since day one, thank you fo your time. It has been a great journey into the World of Skullgirls, and I may never forget it. My to-be-Masterpiece, dead upon arrival.

And let us applaud for the death of one I envisioned to be so mighty in the fandom of Skullgirls, let's-

Okay, how narcissistic can I be?

Sorry.

In any case, thank you, and goodbye, guys. Hope I'll see you again.