"Oh great its this little shit who keeps flopping back and forth between this damn story" is what I assume you, who followed this story all the way back in 2014 are thinking. Which is understandable, I have flip flopped with this story over the past few years on whether or not I will continue this story until last year when I said I wouldn't and this story was abandoned. Which I instantly regretted, to be honest but I was in a rough time period in my life during those few years and at the time my interest in Hetalia seriously waned. I lost my passion for writing, and it seriously took me out of commission for a while.

But its 2024 and I realized suddenly that it's almost 10 years since I wrote those first chapters. Reading back on them now, I kinda cringe at how I wrote things yet people still loved it. I went back sometimes and read those same reviews that lit up my passion for writing, and going back to it at the end of 2023 made me realize I want to go back to it again.

"Octavia, are you done with your soap opera? I wanna read fanfiction, are you abandoning this story or not?"

Short answer: No. As of reading this the first two chapters of the story have been rewritten and posted on both FF and AO3. I had plans with this story, and though I've forgotten or lost those plans, I still want to at least finish this story and write a few more connecting to it. And now that I'm older, I'm hoping that I've grown much more as a writer and that the story I tried telling as a thirteen year old will be told in a much better light. Despite some inaccuracies that will be there no matter how much I research. That was another thing that put me off from the story, was the fact that I genuinely wanted to make sure I was being respectful of the cultures here. That is still my goal, and I still heavily encourage those of those cultures to correct me if I put anything incorrectly.

If you decide to give this new story a try, thank you. I'm grateful that you'll stick around and I hope that I continue to put out good work for you all.

I'll catch ya over in Bloodlines