Author's Interlude:
I haven't ever stopped thinking about finishing this fic… There are still whole ass scenes floating around in my brain that have changed little in the almost 10 years since I stopped updating this story.
But some things happened while I was writing it back then that made in near impossible to finish.
Mostly I got pregnant with my husband and my first child and for whatever reason pregnancy killed every creative feeling in me. It didn't just make me want to stop writing I also stopped drawing. Drawing has always been my first and biggest creative love and outlet so when I lost that I lost everything else creative. Then once I had my daughter, I didn't have the time and energy to sit down and write, draw or even play video games. I had to sell my car, that I had had since I was 16 and was very much tied to in my sense of identity, because car seats don't work in a 1967 Mustang… Then more life happened, we had our second kid during the pandemic, my husband finally graduated college during the pandemic… we moved in with his parents because rent was getting too high and we couldn't afford it anymore, just a lot…
But now I'm feeling like myself again and started being able to play video games again. Which got me super obsessed with Baldur's Gate 3 and it is consuming my brain. But with that in mind, I'm almost done with my long fic, most of the sequel that haunted me after I finished my first draft of said long fic and now, I want to come back to Persona. I'm going to play the game again to get me back into that head space and hopefully be able to pick this back up where it left off. There will probably be a change in tone and writing style, I'm not the same woman I was then as I am now. And now I'm of two minds about how I want this to go. So, I'll finish it with the adorable pairing that is already happening and getting the "True Ending" for the game. And then I may do an alternate path with the dark ending you can do in the game. That will probably be a lot darker, I guess I'll have to put some sort of warning for those chapters. And I'm probably going to put smut in both versions; very different kinds mind you, but there will be smut. I'm a perverted middle-aged woman, and this is what makes me happy now.
So, if anyone from the original posting of this story sees this and would like an ending finally; Thank you for sticking around! Anyone new, lucky you, you didn't have to wait a literal lifetime to get an ending, just maybe several more months from now.