#anomatsu

I’ll use this ask as the official announcement then! And I Will Never Look Away From The Light is on an indefinite hiatus until I... scrounge up the motivation and inspiration to write the last chapter. Unfortunately, both of those things are in short supply right now, so I haven’t gotten much writing done in general.

Yeah no I definitely know what you mean about it being a little rushed. There was a lot more I wanted to get down before hitting the climax, but I couldn’t get it out so I wound up with what we see. umu

Ahhh I’m glad you like the line though! I’m pretty fond of it too, it felt good to write it down. One of those moments where you just sit back and think, “That’s exactly where that needed to be. That’s exactly the way I wanted to communicate that feeling.”

Aw man, that sounds super cool!! It feels really uplifting that just one line has hooked into your mind so deeply. Yes, of course you can use/adjust/revamp/take inspiration from the line!! I’ve had a handful of times where a single line or piece of dialogue has revved up my engines.

Oh gosh, I’ve never gotten fan theories before, that’s kind of exciting!

When I was writing each chapter, I was thinking about how each brother would bring a unique reaction to the situation. Osomatsu would be filled with a sense of failed responsibility; Choromatsu would try to think logically about how to proceed, but all he’d end up doing is realizing his own shortcomings and how they led to this; Todomatsu, of course, has to be the blunt brother, because everyone else is gonna be tiptoeing around the problems and he really can’t depend on any of his older brothers to face this with an iron fist; Jyushimatsu is the obvious one since his chapter addresses this directly, his being the ray of sunshine, the bright side of the situation, thinking ahead to all the good times that’ll be had despite this tragedy.