And that, my dear readers, concludes If You Trust Me - An Onward Fan-Novel!
Wow...I just...I don't know what to say! Let's start with that! LOL
What CAN I say...except...what a wonderful feeling this is! This still feels SO surreal.
To get to share with you all a year and a half's worth of work has made me feel so much joy!
When I began writing this story, it was the rise of COVID. My semester in college got cut short, I had absolutely nothing going on, I was super bored, I had plenty of time on my hands, and I didn't know what to do!
What I did know was that I loved Onward, I loved its worldbuilding, and knew that it deserved a lot more love and attention than what it was getting because it got stuck in the middle of all this and that it was as unfair as the whole pandemic.
Knowing that much, I wanted to do something about it.
I wanted to write something that would make me happy and make all of you in the fandom happy too.
I knew in my heart that if I didn't share this amazingly epic story with you guys that I would have spent all my time working on it, day and night, for nothing.
And so, I want to thank all of you who have been here since the very beginning, who have followed this fanfic from start to finish. Your enthusiasm and anticipation for every chapter each week has made this entire experience an absolutely great one!
But I also want to go out there and thank my mom and sister for supporting me in this endeavor too, being the Laurel and Barley to my Ian. I love you both so much and am super thankful to know every single day that you both will always have my back and be there for me in all of my storytelling pursuits!
To Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, I wrote your characters' dialogue with your voices in my head. Thank you both for bringing Ian and Barley to life! A proper continuation of this world would not exist without either of you.
Finally, I want to give a huge thank you to Dan Scanlon, Kori Rae, the story artists, the character designers, the animators and everyone at Pixar for creating this magical world. I wrote this story out of love and respect for what you made. I wrote it because I want the story of Ian and Barley to be remembered for as long as possible.
Onward is an amazing, inspiring, relatable film, and I wanted to carry all of that forward.
But now to answer the questions which I am sure are on everyone's minds: is this the end of the story? Is there more? What happens next?
Let's just say that I'm not going anywhere.
It may surprise you all that this story is the first fanfic I have ever written...but after doing so, I am tempted to write more!
I have more ideas cooking up behind the scenes that I cannot wait to put into story form and share on here!
They definitely won't be as long as this one (of course, no promises!). But I do have more ideas after this one. This story just had most of what I had in mind, and now there is definitely more.
But also! To keep IYTM from getting completely buried in the fanfic site bottomless pit, I am putting together a commentary series!
Right now I am gathering up all the facts, details, and whatnot about the making of this story that I am going to begin publishing on my Tumblr blog in the next month or so.
So if you haven't already and if you enjoyed reading this story and want to learn more about its development, follow my tumblr: https://cdmagic1408.tumblr.com/
But for now, I really hope you had an amazing journey with this fanfic cause I know I did.
Until my next story, this is CDmagic1408, signing off!
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If You Trust Me - An Onward Fan-Novel
FanfictionWhen Ian Lightfoot unexpectedly comes upon an unknown talisman, it leads him and his older brother, Barley, on a path to try and figure out its purpose. But when they are unable to follow the traditional quest right away, the brothers come into conf...
