First and foremost: I am not familiar with the Persona series as a whole, as I only know P5 and P5R. After someone mentioned that Persona's an extension to Shin Megami Tensei series, I would also like to note that I don't know that series well either. What I write here is merely an experiment to see if my unused characters could fit well into this.

With that said, I will say that the pieces I integrated into this fic is based off of stories/ideas that me and my brother had created in my growing years. Some specific magic systems implemented are ours, so are the original characters and organisations. At the end of the day, respective P5 characters are not owned by me, some of the plot points are not of my own making. They belong to Atlus, and their respective rights. In hindsight, I could have written this off without the P5 setting, but I guess this is my way of trying to write myself out of writer's block.

Yes, I have a terrible list of unfinished WiP in A03. I don't know how I'll be able to face those works. I swear though, I would at least hope to finish some semblance of a fic because I am tired of leaving loose ends.

I must confess however, that this work specifically is something I'm really anxious about. Since this piece involves characters/concepts I held close to the chest for years, I don't know how other people would receive them. There's also the fear that someone might rip them off and plagiarize them (yeah, I think I'm getting ahead of myself).

EDIT: 13/07/2020

Where do I begin?

I know I mentioned these things before, but I really do want to improve my writing. In a sense, I am a terrible perfectionist and when I see flaws in my works, I get the urge to press the reset button. While I was writing the new chapter (ch22), I decided to revise some of the other areas of the fic and saw the many things I could have improved with the previous chapters. The pacing, the string of events, some plot point issues and the syntax...

So I ended up forgoing the rewrite from Prologue to the next few chapters. And along the way, I made massive changes to some of the scenes and pacing, hoping to improve the flow and characterisation of the story.

I know this is a fanfic and I have dropped projects before, but I wrote this fic as a challenge to myself to finish a project from start to finish. (Am I masochist? Maybe I am, doing this to myself) It's a bit childish of me to take this seriously (I mean, this is a fanfic after all), but someday, I want to be able share the stories me and brother created to others in a silver platter. I used this project as a means to improve my writing, which takes me to my main announcement:

Yes, the updates will be delayed (again). I will also be rewriting the events of the story from prologue till the present chapter, so expect an overhaul of changed scenarios and certain plot points. I promise you, the concept will still remain the same, but the steps to getting there will be different.

Which brings me to another point I want to address (which I've said before), should anyone want to see the first versions of this fic, let me know because I don't mind posting my initial drafts up in this site. (I guess its just a way to remind me of my writing progress).

EDIT: 21/08/2020

Here is where I am currently at:

University has come back and I am swamped with my work. As of now, my rewrite progress has covered from the Prologue to chapter 7. Chapter 8 is almost finished in its rewritten process, but I am held back by assessments currently. I was hoping to at least finish rewriting these past few chapters before my birthday but... haha... I guess life has other plans in mind. So anyway, I said this many times before, but I wanted to at least try and finish a big story project like this at least once. (the other finished fic technically didn't count, because that fic was written in like a collection of short fics).

On that note, thinking about this now, I guess I could technically call you guys my beta readers? I know my grammar is less desirable and sometimes my vocab sucks, but I tend to be blind-sided on certain areas of my work. So thank you again to my readers, followers and people who've been dropping kudos on this fic. This fic may be shabby, but for as long as someone is reading this work, I keep doing my best in this fic. (still gotta do assessments though, so my progress might be delayed further)

Anyway, thank you for reading this.