Hello everyone.
Hopefully this should be the only time I'm forced to publish one of these updates. I personally hate dedicating an entire chapter in this platform for Author's Notes, as they break the flow of the narrative. But given that I've fallen completely off the grid for close to a year by this point, I think it merits the intrusion.
Before anything else, I wish to give a massive thank you to all you who have, for some reason, found enjoyment in this kind of campy piece of fanfiction of mine. Throughout all these months of absence, I would occasionally get notifications in my mail of people following, giving favorite and reviewing this piece, and honestly be shocked. Shocked mostly because I was certain that this fic was so overly specific with what I am interested that, without regular updates, this would fall into the endless void that is the internet. So I want to say thank you.
Now, onto what the title says.
So, where have I been? Short answer, doing a ton of stuff.
The long answer. Well, just when I started writing this new chapter, I got a call offering me a job in a construction company, and since money is always a need, I took it. The schedule itself wasn't that hard, but I still ended up burn out, and all other projects I had, well, fell by the wayside. And once my time in that job was done, I still was busy since I moved out of my native country over to Europe (I won't specify where exactly), and of course moving across an entire ocean would take priority over writing a piece of fanfiction, I would argue. By the time I upload this and the next chapter, I should be more or less established here.
Also around this time I kind of grew indifferent to SNK. I won't say I fell out of love with the series, I still read the manga chapters as they came out and such, but the passion was not really there anymore. Add this to the fact I picked up some new hobbies and, simply, continue writing this became kind of tedious. It really wasn't until the start of the new season that I reconnected with the fandom properly.
And where I will be? Honestly, I'm not too sure. My schedule shouldn't be too hard for the next few months, and that should allow to continue this story, and maybe even end it before the end of the year, if I prioritize it over all else, but 2020 has taught me to not make assumptions on what will happen.
I can only say that I will finish this fic, it might take me literal years, a handful more of this apology updates, and end it to an audience of -3, but I will end it out of simply how big my pet peeve of abandoned fics laying around in this site. I should be on good route since I've known since pretty early on where exactly this fic will end and what its main plot points will be, along with a few thematic choices and focuses. So you can say what you want about this piece (and a few of the reviews already took advantage of that), but it will never be lacking in direction or tone.
Also I changed my username. No real reason behind that, just thought my old one was too bland (and if you know where I pulled my new name from, it would be just too sweet)
So yeah.
The next chapter will be uploaded either hours after uploading this or, at worst, the day after. And the one after should already be on its way by then also. I'm not going to promise a regular amount of chapters per X period of time, I know better than that now.
I hope you continue coming back to this whenever I make an upload.
Thank you all again for the support, and hopefully this should be the last time I'm forced to put my notes outside of the chapter's end.
RealRockNRolla.
