Hi *waves awkwardly* It's been a while.
I haven't touched this fic since 2019 and i'm not entirely sure if anyone reads this fic anymore. However, I haven't updated this fic to tell you i'm resuming or discontinuing it because, to be honest, it already was completed in 2018. Though at the time, i didn't see it that way. When i first started writing Among the Water Weeds, I literally just started writing. It was my first time even writing a multichapter fic of this caliber, which is insane now that i'm looking back on it. I'm so happy that i wrote Among the Water Weeds because it brought me a lot of joy at the time, and even though i have no plans on continuing it, i'll think of it fondly. Years ago, i loved the idea of tragic stories, and i set up the fic with that idea in mind. However, recently I've come to treasure happy endings over tragic ones, and i think that's where i want to leave Elodea and Killua. With this fic, i made maaaany mistakes and pitfalls, and hopefully now i know how to get around them XD I mean, you have to crawl, stumble, walk then run. And Oh man, did i stumble O_o With ATWW, i learned that i really really like writing, and i want to continue it for as long as I'm able to. Even if it isn't here any longer.
ATWW is always going to be a part of me. I never mentioned this before, but part 1 of the fic was based off the Greek civil war & Greece during wwII and the stories of the people leaving the islands were based off my own family fleeing Greece during that time. So like, the part where baby elodea was crying in the boat and all the people in the boat who wanted to drown him because the enemies were going to find them-that was real. Instead of the rebels, in real life it was the Nazis. Also for Madrid, one of the first OCs i made for the fic, was based off my great yiayia (great grandmother) when her and her family had to flee Marmara when the Turks invaded. HISTORY LESSON OF THE DAY :D
ATWW was a lot of things for me, doing things for the first time and experimenting and GOING WILD and things i'm even just realizing now. It was a war story about fractured families finding hope again in their new lives, the strength and love of found families, tribute to my family who worked hard to survive and thrive in a new world, deterioration of the old world and growth of the new world (i was going to explore this in part 4), and...silly things like baby antics and peek a boo games and lots of burping and all around silliness. And discovering my thirst for Illumi XDDDD YES, the greatest discovery for me was realizing that he is SUPER hot. Then shipping him with a butler! Man, this fic was a wild ride for me lmao
ATWW was a mess, but it was my mess. My writing still needs a lot of polishing, but i'm going to be making more messes, so hazzah.
There were a lot of things i wanted to write in part 4, but 3 parts is good for me and i hope it's okay with you all too. Part 4 was going to be a hodgepodge of many things: Elodea and Killua were finally going to have a permanent residence and elo was going to attend public school after being homeschooled his whole life XD Letters to Yesterday was going to take off, with illumi's tragic backstory and brief ROMANCE with Oz. More OCs. Zoldyck family drama. Family reunions. Dark Continent Explorations. Lost civilizations and ones that still lived on. Elodea would have found out about killua's past life as an assassin. I was going to kill off a lot of characters...i'm so sorry elodea *shies away* Anything after part 3 that i wrote, i consider extra. Thank you to those who read the fic, and to those starting right now, hi!
Maybe one day, you'll be able to read my work again. Elodea or not. And wherever that may be, here or not.
May the world be kind to you and may you find happiness. Thank you for reading and farewell.
*waves*