Posted : Dec 15, 2002
[Ron throws Escaflowne soundtrack 2 into CD player and starts playing Track 16, "Love". Ron and his Sakura jump up onto stage. Ron starts bowing and his Sakura starts blowing kisses to their utterly cool fans.]
R: Thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU!!! We've been floored by all the reviews you wonderful people have sent us. 157 reviews! Who would have thunk it!?It makes us feel all WAFFy inside.
hS: we've tallied up the count and since 20 of you are wanting that epilogue, we will do it, as promised.
R: and now the results of the tally! WHICH of the POVs did you choose! Sakura, give us the final count!
hS: the results are:
either POV: 6
Allen's POV: 1
Eries' POV: 6
both POVs: 7
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! We will be doing both POVs!
R: BOTH!? [Music screeches to a halt. R hisses at hS] Both POVs wasn't a choice!
hS: [shrugs] What can you do? They ARE our fans after all.THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! We will be doing both POVs!
R: [sweatdrops] Fine, but YOU have to tell Dryden that his fan fiction will pushed back for another two months.
hS: don't worry. I dropped him off at the Library of Congress. That should keep him tied up for a LONG time.
FYI, both epilogues will be written in 1st person. We will try to get the first epilogue out around New Year's. However, we can't make any promises, especially since we are the same people whose "last chapter" ended up bloating into three chapters. Until then, here's some other material that we hope will be of interest to you!
Following in the tradition set by "Secret Life of a Girl" and "Neko-hime", we have included some author's notes for those of you wondering as to some of the origins of this story.
This is our first fan fiction. We have never really thought of doing such a thing until last year when two things happened. If they had not, "Asturia: Love and Duty" would never have been written.
First was our discovery of fanfiction.net. Entirely by accident. hS was surfing the net for Card Captor Sakura images and somehow landed on the fan fiction site. Being anime fans and avid readers, it was a great find. However, it did take as a bit of time to figure out how it was set up. Which comes to the second impetus for this fan fiction.
Aerika S's "Secret Life of a Girl." We read it and absolutely loved it. However, this was before we figured out stories on fan fiction.net had multiple chapters and how to navigate from chapter to chapter. Suffice to say, we thought that Aerika's chapter 1 was IT. We came away from the story feeling that much more could have been said. We started throwing about what ifs: what Allen and Eries' first real face-to-face meeting would be like, was kind of relationship they would have, and so on.
We DID figure out soon about multiple chapters (thank goodness) and Aerika had MUCH more to say. But then again, so did we, and so, "Asturia: Love and Duty" was born.
So big round of applause for Aerika. If it was not for you, we never would have written anything. We love your writing. It was extremely gratifying to know you were reading and reviewing our story and it was great writing Eries stories in tandem with you. …Are we gushing? Guess so , BUT her stuff is really, really, really, really good so go read it if you haven't already!! (Note to Athena: No, Aerika has NO affiliation whatsoever with Ron and his Sakura…MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!—sorry, private joke there.)
Also, give a hand to Yoko Kanno for her lovely Escaflowne score --we think you can tell that we have got it all just about memorized. It was great background music for writing.
The original outline was 12 chapters to be completed in approximately nine months. Well, that did not happen. Asturia took on a life of its own-- we think a lot of authors can relate. We enjoyed writing Dryden so after hS is done with her novel, we will begin "The D Files: Dryden's POV". It will be a prequel for this story, ending right where Asturia begins. We hope that this will appease the Millerna/Dryden fans out there. However, as we have mentioned before, we will not start on our next story until hS finishes the first draft of her novel. We are estimating that will take six months. But , despite the break, we hope that all of you will please look forward to it!
Serena B. suggested a Sid fiction. We considered it, however, although Sid makes a great secondary character, we could not think of a good enough plot with him in the starring role. Sorry. (Pats Sid on the head)
Also—
Check out Mystic Wolf's "Sanctuary" here on fan fiction.net. We're so flattered our fic inspired your work!
And finally ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS! (R starts playing "Mystic Eyes" (the ending theme to Escaflowne).
Special thanks go out to:
Didodikali: Thanks for being our first reviewer—and for helping us get into the Asturian's and Dryden's mindset.
Elizabeth W., Sherlgirl, Mystic Wolf, Gabriel Asas, Meghanna Starsong, Kenta Divina, and Wintermute for writing back and answering all our random questions.
Hey, last final random question—what's a lime? We know what a lemon is but what is a lime?
StarSapphireZ ,Leila Hime, Aria Nereid Fassa, Shuro, and Aerika S: thanks for including our story on your websites. We hope that everyone will take a few minutes to go and check them out.
The Eries websites:
http://www.geocities.com/eriesariaaston/
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/princesses/eaindex.html
http://www.geocities.com/delirium_ph/eries.html
The fan fiction websites:
http://www.geocities.com/leilahime/
http://www.opalwings.com/escaflowne
Note, if anyone else would like to include our story on their website, we would be flattered. Just sent us an e-mail to let us know about your site.
And thanks to everyone else who reviewed (in order of appearance) (if we inadvertently left anyone out, please let us know of our mistake):
Feathers of the Wind, Fayr, Lili/Ice Princess/Aluralas Silverstars, Ashley/Lady of the Ink, Mary-chan, Serena B, Lady Laran, Lady Ravenshadow, Seiki, Enya, M. Lecroix, JadeGoddess, Athena Masterson, Janine, Shinomori no Kami Daiji, rei, NickelS, madpostman, Mistress Noin, Wooshie, onescape, Dirty-Faced Angel, Rayven Blackwood, Lori, Lady-daydreamer , Ladyk, and a couple of anonymous and humorous others.
ALL OF YOU MADE IT WORTH IT J
