I read the first chapter and oh my god. YOU DIDN'T WARN ME IT WAS GONNA BE THUS EMOTIONAL! (and long, shit was very long)
Where do I even BEGIN?! I loved everything! Every little detail, from Roxas' fear of falling because of his past experiences, to Aqua's slow but certain change of view on Roxas, to Ventus and Aqua being adorable dorks, to Terra talking to Roxas about how Aqua (his future wife (I so ship them)) rocked his shit when they were kids, and finally to Roxas just being unable to take in that Aqua asked him to stay for a good ten minutes...
I LOVED ALL OF IT!! Immaculate work fr...
that first chapter, im ngl, was like the biggest risk i thought i was gonna take by posting, and i feel so insane bc of it. the first half of it, id actually posted as a tumblr bit, hence why it probably feels a lil rushed, bc i had to get the word count down to make it fit? but yknow, that stops being an issue on ao3, thank god
THE SECOND HALF of that chapter, i dont remember if i said it anywhere, i have no recollection of writing it. deadass, i stayed up all night one night in the drowsiest, fuzziest state writing it, fell asleep immediately after posting the whole thing on ao3, and then fell asleep until in the 4 afternoon the next day. i dont remember writing it at all, i just woke up and found an entire second half of that first chapter written.
AS FAR AS MY IDIOICY GOES THOUGH, thank you for the kind words AGHHDFS. MY APOLOGIES FOR THE EMOTIONS, BUT IT'S ONLY GONNA BE MORE EMOTIONAL FROM THERE. my favourite fuckin part of that chapter was the ending where roxas is going back and forth with his choice on whether or not to stay, but the moment he looks at ven, he feels certain. idk, that kinda shit just warms my heart and im glad that feeling got across really well.
the chapters (sadly(?)) get longer from here. the last chapter i wrote was 30k words long. i dont think the next chapters are gonna be much shorter either. there's a lot of detail work i do, i write what im feeling i need to, it's messy and it's not the easiest to follow. but i just want to make it feel immersive as best i can. even if the shit that's happening is nonsensical to an extreme LMAO
tHANK YOU AGAIN, IF YOU DECIDE TO READ MORE, I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!