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It’s post Abandon ending, some time after Sunny moves away, where Hero (and the others, but it’s pretty Hero-centric, especially since it’s taking place in the city rather than Faraway so Aubrey and Kel aren’t even there) are shattered from Basil’s suicide. Hero finds out through his mom talking to Sunny’s mom that Sunny moved close to the university he’s attending, and he starts making an effort to reach out to Sunny, because the more he thinks, the more he realizes just how dead the look in Sunny’s eyes was on his last days in town, and the more he realizes how similar Sunny’s behaviour has been to his own back during and just after the first year. He’s scared he’s going to lose somebody else, and he just can’t take it, he can’t sit by and do nothing.

His efforts bear fruit, little by little, coaxing Sunny out of the house again, but there’s a shadow Hero can’t seem to do anything about and Sunny won’t let him help with, and Sunny’s recovery plateaus.

The truth has to come out at some point, but I’m not sure how or when, since I don’t think Hero would be able to figure it out. The onus for that would be on Sunny, just like in canon. The truth coming out definitely needs to kneecap Hero’s own fragile state of recovery, though, so they can both heal more properly once it’s out.

I don’t really have too many more specific thoughts besides like, Hero taking Sunny out around the town in an effort to get him out and doing stuff, but yeah, thoughts lol