A BREIF AUTHOR'S NOTE
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Thanks so much to everyone who's been reading and reveiwing this story! I honestly wasn't sure just how many hits I would get because Chrono Trigger is a fairly old, but still great, video game. I've gotten a few reviews from other authors who said that there were a few confusing parts of the story. So, this author's note is going to explain most of them:
1. First of all, this story was an AU -- "ALTERNATE UNIVERSE" version of the game.
2. One reviewer pointed out that Chrono's three year search through time was a little confusing, so I'll explain: because their gate keys were all messed up, they really had no control over where -- or when -- they were going. Chrono had been showing up in the exact same time zones as Marle pretty much every time they warped from place to place. I figured that it would look a little too obvious and planned out, so I made his gate key go to all sorts of other different time eras before hand. And because it took him so long to jump from era to era without any real control over it, it took him two years before he was able to get back to his own time. When he met up with Lucca, she developed the Epoch, which took a year to build. (I know that she's an genius, but building machines like Epoch take some serious time! That's where I had to get a little realistic.) And while all of this was going on, Magus took Marle to the Dark Ages, which really didn't take that long at all. What took them one fluke trip took Chrono and Lucca three years... I know it's hard to understand, but that's the best I can do.
3. I had to do a little reasurch on the game as I was writing this and from what I read, Schala is actually Magus' older sister from the Kingdom of Zeal. To my knowledge, she really has no place in the End Of Time. I had hoped that the other End Of Time characters would have more of a part in the story, but I really couldn't break away from Chrono and Marle until the very end. The idea was to make the reader forget about Schala and Gasper for most of the story up until the last chapter. I hope it worked...
4. I just wanna say one thing about Magus: even though I made him the bad guy in this story, I actually like him. I think he's a pretty cool character. The only thing was that I couldn't think of anyone else more perfect for the part of the villan in this story.
5. The order in which they were traveling through time to all the different eras is pretty much the same order as it was in the game. In order to make this work, I wanted to follow the same flow of time travel as the game did. I'm glad I did that too, because otherwise the whole Lavos thing would have been an abrupt surprise in the end.
6. Originaly, they were all going to just go back to their own time zones as if nothing had happened. But then I remembered that Marle was a princess and I didn't think it would be realistic in their own time era for a princess to be engaged to a peasent boy. If I did that, there might have even been a Romeo and Juliet kind of sequel about how she had to fight for the right to love Chrono against the entire royal family's wishes... I just didn't feel like opening that can of worms! Then, I thought of the idea of them actually getting married and the last chapter opening up with their great-great-grandchildren inviting their friends over to their house and showing their friends a portrait of Chrono and Marle that hung up on the wall, thus bringing on the explination of their liniage and their grandparents' story of how they fought to be together... I threw that idea out too, because I didn't want the "happilly ever after" to take place years after their deaths. Plus, because all of their memories were erased, they wouldn't know the real juicy plot of the story. I figured that the main characters were all good friends anyway, so I just plunked them in the modern era... Well, sort of. They're in the year 2000, but you get the idea.
7. Because the story turned out the way that it did, I highly doupt that there will be a sequel to this one.
8. In chapter two, the character of Stella was just made up on a whim! I even had a joke about that one in one of my reviews. (Thanks LiRiNCaNdY! Thank really was funny!)
9. At first, because it was about time traveling, this was gonna be another Inuyasha fanfic -- the classic Kagome, Kikyo, Inuyasha love triangle thing... But I was getting a little sick of writing Inu-fics for a while, so I decided on Chrono Trigger. I had more time traveling options that way. Kagome only jumps to one time zone and that's it... But I still like the show!
Well, that's about it for now! I hope that I've covered as much about the story as I could. If you have any more questions, please leave me a review. Thanks for reading!
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