Project Heartbreak | SOPE ✔️

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Congrats on finishing Project Heartbreak!

I hope you liked the Epilogue 🥺 (it's okay if you didn't 😔)

I also hope we're feeling good, right now <3

I can't believe it took this long to finish Project Heartbreak. Originally this was supposed to be done in October (the latest). But, of course, life comes in and is like no, ❤️ so I didn't get around to actually finishing it until now. Still, I am in awe of all the continuous support I've gotten from Project Heartbreak.

I was supposed to finish this on the 15th, but because I just flew back to uni, my mind's been focused on other things. Nevertheless, I'm so grateful that you stuck to the end of my story. The epilogue made me kind of sad if I'm being honest. Maybe it's because it's the final chapter of Project Heartbreak, like the end of an era. AHHH IMMA CRY GOODBYE 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 

I always say it, but without you guys, I wouldn't find much motivation to write. I do write for myself, but it still feels nice to have your works noticed by someone, you know? I love reading the comments, watching your reactions to the many twists and the style I write. Honestly speaking, for a work with less than 25 chapters, this story has gotten an incredible amount of support, which I appreciate a lot.

Project Heartbreak has been successful, at least to me. When I first started, I wanted to try out something new, something that would push my writing of sorts. Project Heartbreak was always going to have an unrealistic edge to it, mostly because falling in love (at least to me), is something that takes a long time. Obviously, Project Heartbreak doesn't give you all the time in the world, so I had to keep everything extremely fast-paced, while still trying to make it enjoyable, which was honestly a pretty big challenge. 

As you know, I'm someone that writes a lot in my stories. Other than Wish upon a Mistletoe, Project Heartbreak's my first full fic where I write less than 30 parts. On average, I think that write 45 to 60 chapters so 21 chapters this time around is wild to me. Still, I think that I've done a good job with the little chapters I wrote (even if the contents were a lot). 

While holding unrealistic tendencies, I still managed to keep some reality functions— particularly from Yoongi, who doesn't immediately jump into Hoseok's arms. He stays where his loyalties lie before the epilogue reveals what happened. Yoongi was incredibly fun to write. I'd like to say my Min Yoongi is one of a kind because tbh I've never once read anything in which Yoongi has the personality he has and I've read a lot of books including Yoongi (so I'm very proud of my Yoongi). 

Originally, I was going to have a completely sad ending. I wanted to emphasize the meaning of the organization Project Heartbreak, so all of them would have succeeded in their missions— including Yoongi. In the end, all of them would have been heartbroken, and it would have all tied in together. Jungkook would still be trying to get Yoongi, but Yoongi wouldn't pay him attention, his mind too consumed with grief over losing Hoseok.

Yoongi and Jungkook were never going to end up together. While it was true that they could always have been a thing, the original ending wouldn't have fit into that. Yoongi would never return Jungkook's feelings, no matter how hard he would try because he'd never get fully over Hoseok, taking the name 'Project Heartbreak' literally.

I decided against the original ending, mostly because I wanted sope ending up together (yeah i whore for sope goodbye). I wanted to have a formally happy ending because I wanted to end with the "Yoongi finally met his match".  It's shown how Yoongi, despite being happy with the life he lives in the first part of the epilogue still feels empty, but once he goes to Hoseok, he feels complete (BRB IMA CRY AGAIN)

Taekook wasn't going to end up together, but, after genuine thought, I thought that I could at least have them start to bond (you can draw your own conclusions from that). Also, nothing bonds people more than trauma so I thought that maybe igniting that spark in the epilogue would give you guys something good for them at least.