Author's Notes, Acknowledgements, Thanks, and ETC.

Kiriska, 15th February 2004

I'm. Finally. DONE!! I can't believe it. It's been two freaking years! I cannot believe it took that long. Seriously. I never set off to write a million chapter story that would take two years. That is, to date, the longest freaking thing I've ever written, and probably the longest thing I will write in a very long time. Wow. A hundred thousand words may not seem to be alot compared to most books and novels, especially with my volume of chapters, but hey, for me, that's a bloody accomplishment. Yeah, wow. I'm still sitting here in disbelief at being done. I don't really know where such an optimistic ending came from, because I certainly didn't plan that, but hey, it's all good...Tai deserves a sort-of happy ending doesn't he? Heh...

You'd never believe that the inspiration for this story was Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. They're just nothing alike. I supposed I started off crappily, with half-assed quality chapters and lots of idiocy, some things were obviously taken from JtHM and other places. Lines and quotes and certain little things could be traced back to Zim and the like, but as the story progressed, I'd like to think, at least, that I moved away from copying things. Heh. My original intention was to just have someone kill everybody, because I like killing off the characters I like, and it's just weird like that, I guess. I never planned for it to turn into such a long, drawn out story of friendship, revenge, and all that. Never planned it at all.

It's not the best story in the world, I know, a lot of things were stupid, wrong, and there were a million plotholes, but that's ok, because I learn from them. Never again am I going to pursue a story that requires so much research because I know I'd never have the patience to actually do the research! The court cases? Completely pathetic, undoubtedly wrong, and pretty damn embarrassing now that I think back to it. The asylum? Probably also very inaccurate. I mean, geez, what are the chances of this actually happening? I'm sure the police aren't that incompetent, but the story couldn't have exactly worked otherwise, eh? My excuse shall be that this is an alternate universe where everyone is underpaid and thus is unwilling to do their jobs...heh. Yeah, lots of stupid stuff I should have researched and didn't...very unrealistic story all in all...oh well. I'm still fairly pleased with it, even if it's just the sheer effort and insane need to get it done even though I didn't know what I was writing half the time.

This story's done a lot for me though. Aymichi Resuko, though originally created for this story to be an insane bad guy person, has developed to me my main and favorite original character, whose personality doesn't quite match the one in this story, but still, this story was what gave him life, and I'm grateful for that. I like 'Michi. X3 (As you can obviously tel, I've got more CGs of him than anyone else...)

And here's the part of the end speech where I thank all the little bastards that put me up to this. If you loved this story, you have to thank Claire Jarrard (formerly known as blu, or bluecheesez); if you hated this story, you can also go and blame Claire, because it is ENTIRELY her fault. *nods* It was her that introduced me to Invader Zim, which led to introducing me to Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, which somehow spawned the beginnings of this messed up story. Yes, all her fault. And it was her that gave me some ideas, helped me decide certain events and the fate of some of the characters. And sometimes, it seemed like she was the only one that was still reading this thing, yup. Hurrah for encouragement in the form of pestering friends.

Of course, that would have to include certain unbelievably loyal reviewers at fanfiction.net, hmm? At over a hundred and thirty reviews, I can easily say that The Homicidal Maniac was my most reviewed story, and although a lot of them left halfway through my long periods of no update, some of you actually stuck with me til the end, and for that I'm grateful. It would suck to finish a story with no one left in the audience, huh? I think YumeTakato and sc333 were the only ones that were regularly keeping up with me through those last couple of chapters, but before that there were others, yamatoforever, Dea, formerly SapphireGoddess, ace666, Mechin, Digimon Dreamer, LeChibiUsagi, twilight guardian, all those random people that only reviewed once or twice...they're all appreciated, even that one guy that bitched at me for killing TK, yeah...Reviews are the real driving force behind the story...and comments, sc333 was the only who to have ever emailed me about it besides Claire. XD Thanks, man.

So...that's it, I think? I didn't miss anyone, did I? Did all the thankyews like I'm supposed to and blamed Claire for introducing me to the thing that gave me the idea...talked about how the story was really unrealistic and pretty crappily written...oh yeah. You know how I kept saying I was going to go back and rewrite everything when I was done because the quality of the first 20 or so chapters was absolutely atrocious? I think I'm going to just screw that. I'm just so glad I'm done, I mean, don't get me wrong, I like my story, but after two years, you get sick of writing in it y'know? I'm ready for something else. I think I'll just leave everything the way it is, sure it may scare off the possility of any new readers for an old story, but oh well. And anyway, I rewrote the very first chapter some time back, making five paragraphs twenty or so, and I guess I'll upload the revised version of the first chapter, but everything else is staying as it is. Like one reviewer said, I guess it shows how my writings changed and stuff since I started the story. Besides, if I rewrote everything, by the time I got to the middle again, the end will look crappy, and I'd be rewriting forever!

Yeah, I think I'm done now. Thank you all for having the patience to read through this chunk of text, really hoped you enjoyed it too. Have no idea what I'll be writing now that this is done,...but eh, nothing's ever really planned huh? This story proved that well enough. Man, it feels so damn good to be DONE. Thank y'all, and good night.
 

© Kiriska