South Park © T. Parker and M. Stone.

The following is NOT part of the story, merely a collection of references, author's notes and acknowledgements. Don't read if you don't care. The epilogue to this installment will follow shortly. Thank you for reading!

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First I'd like to thank all of my reviewers: Sorrowsnow, ZombiesOnYourLawn, Kootie Bomb, PiScEs-BlOsSoM69, soquedhozi, pangprego and Doomed-Orange-Parka.

Your reviews and comments were greatly appreciated and kept me going, despite this being my first fic evar and a bit of a struggle to write. You're the icing on mah cupcake.

I'd also like to thank all the anonymous readers for their time. Next time – say hi!

On Characters: I received a couple of PMs commenting on my interpretation of characters, primarily Craig Tucker and Kenny McCormick. I wanted to add a couple comments here, just in case.

On Craig: Craig is my voice of reason in the completely insane world of South Park. I tend to interpret him in a very canon way, complete with stoic reserve, monotone voice and intense pragmatism. Craig's internal monologue, as evidenced in the last chapter, tends to be somewhat more elaborate than his spoken dialogue. He's often a foil for pranks, romance and fun in general. And – as if I haven't said this already – I effing love to write him.

On Kenny: I tend to deviate in my interpretation of Kenny McCormick from both fanon and canon presentation. The girl-crazy, foul-mouthed canon Kenny and the manwhore, broken-doll fanon Kenny are both there, but in a mild form. After five hundred deaths and trips to Hell, and some of the other things that have happened in his nearly 16 years in South Park, he's become more reflective and philosophical. His love of opera/classical music and singing ability are taken directly from the episode "Quintuplets 2000" wherein he uses his mad skillz to sing his way to Romania and becomes a Romanian opera star.

References

I'm not sure I can remember all of these, but I've referenced the following specific South Park episodes:

"Quintuplets 2000" (Kenny's opera thang.)

"Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" (tea parties, ftw.)

"The List" (Craig's status as the class hottie.)

"Major Boobage" (Semi-nude sandbox wrestling scene between Kenny and Gerald Broflovski. I effin love this episode to death, btw.)

"Towelie" (Self explanatory.)

Other literary/mythological sources referenced include:

The Song of Solomon.

The Gospel of Nicodemus.

The Talmud.

The Lesser Key of Solomon.

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

The Aeneid – Virgil

Various Greek myths including: The Judgment of Paris, the myth of Persephone and Hades and the myth of Cerberus.

A note about demons: Nico is completely made up, but his sister Lilith is actually a fairly well known biblical demon – a succubus. In some interpretations she is listed as Adam's first wife. Likewise, Ashmodei is another version of the demon Asmodeus – an arch-demon of lust, and supervisor of all related sins, succubae and incubi.

On OC's: I lurve them. Just cos they're fun. My interpretations of OCs tend to be more serious versions of their original selves. Feedback from owners on my manipulation of said OCs is always welcome. I don't want to mutilate your characters!

On Romance: This is a romance, I swear. You may have realized by now that this is a relatively 'squee-free' zone. After reading other romance fics here, I've come to realize that my story doesn't really read that way, I guess. The intent is still there… I think.

Again, a huge thanks for reading along this far, and thanks to all for putting up with my random, sideways, supernatural version of South Park.

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