MCSM: A World Unwound [OLD]

~Afterword~

*deep inhale*

*loud sigh*

Well. That...that's the end. Wow.

*shakes head and sighs sadly* Holy crap.

Eight months, fifteen chapters, 5K reads, and seventy thousand, five hundred fifty-five words (not including A/Ns).

This story...was a lot of fun to write. I think I can honestly say that it's my best book yet. I enjoyed murdering everyone and confusing my readers much, much more than I should've.

I love dark-but-funny things, and I hope I can say that this book is one of those. The overall idea is dark, but I still managed to add some funny bits. I never thought I would get this far, and am a little unsure of how I even got here XD

I started this in January, and it's September now. This has been my biggest project to date, and while I will never be fully satisfied with myself, I think I'm happy with how this turned out.

I love writing the Authors. I love the dynamics between the different characters, the arguments and friendships and romances. Well...most of the romances XD

Even though there are those three who didn't make it back, they're not out of the story for good; trust me on that. They're going to play a VERY important part in the next two books.

Ah, yes, next two. I know that somewhere along the line I announced that this was going to be a trilogy, and I'm going to finalize that claim right now. I am SUPER HYPED for the sequel; it's going to be a chaotic, evil roller coaster of a story that will make you question most of what I've told you in AWU.

* lil bit more on that in next chapter because I don't feel like explaining it in detail right here

Another thing I'm really happy about is the friendships. Sure, I already knew most of the Authors. And I'm pretty sure that most of you knew each other as well. But there were a few (Star Wolfe Megan Cindy Aisho), that I didn't really know before this. So for those of you who didn't know me as well, thanks for tolerating my insanity, evilness, and laziness xP

Thank you all. I would not have finished this story if you hadn't all been right there with me as I was writing. Hell, I wouldn't've STARTED this story without most of you! And even though I had a lot of struggles with pressure and anxiety towards the end, I greatly appreciate all of your support. I mean that, from the bottom of my heart.

And to anyone who wasn't in the story but was still a faithful reader, thanks a million. It makes me so ridiculously happy to know that people are enjoying my stories, so thank you for that ^^

I just love the little community that's sprung from this chaos; you all make me so happy. I like the insane theory comment chains, and the betting on who's going to die, and the more ridiculous aspects like the draw-your-squads I've been doing XD
This whole thing has just overall been very fun, and I have endless gratitude to you all for making it like that *hugs everyone reading this*

Another quick thank-you to my IRL best friend GennaJ8232, who helped me with two of the last deaths and tolerated my stupid rambling throughout the whole time I was writing this story. I'm sorry that I bug you as much as I do. You deserve a much better friend than me.

...I technically also should thank my little sister for pestering me nonstop about it. "Rush, are you working on AWU?" "Have you started chapter thirteen yet?" "How many words do you have so far?" "When are you updating?" "Why are you drawing when you have AWU to do?" so yeah kudos to her for that lol.

I have depression, and I can be kind of a pessimistic person sometimes. My outlook on life is...generally rather dark. So when I say that this makes me incredibly happy and that I am truly and fully grateful to you all, I mean it with all my heart. I feel like this story has really changed me as a person, and helped me grow a great deal as a writer. I still don't quite fathom why some of you seem to adore this as much as you do (it's still just a fanfiction, guys!), but I love it anyway.

Thank you for this. Thank you for the support, for pointing out my mistakes, for nagging and motivating me when I needed it, for the references in other books, for tolerating my slow descent into madness, for giving me ideas and joking around with me, for your crazy comment chain theories, for spamming me with over 200 notifs every update, and for being in it, of course.

Basically if you've read this whole thing, thank you for everything. I know I'm being sappy, but I think this is a good time to be that way rite?

I will miss writing this book, but hey, that's what the sequel's for, right?

So this isn't goodbye. It's just 'toodleoonseeyasoon', which, of course, is Dragonese for 'the story continues'.

Love you all,

-Rush💙