extended author's note: trust fall

first and foremost, if you are Here, thank you for going on this fic journey with me in whichever way you’ve done so. this has been a really interesting writing experience for me, and i had a ton of fun posting something weekly again.

i said this over and over in the posts i was making as i worked on this fic, but i tried a lot of new things, and it was really challenging. i think this was the most challenging fic i’ve written, maybe ever, just because it required me to consciously do a lot of things i don’t usually do rather than just being on my bullshit as per usual. P vs NP and no quarter, the only other fics whose word counts and complexity this one rivals, were a lot easier to write, relatively speaking, because, like, it’s just (""""just"""") halo lore. it’s just action/adventure bullshit (affectionate). however, nothing about the plot structure of this fic came naturally to me, so it took some real effort to get this to be what i wanted it to be.

starting off with some miscellaneous notes:

( away we go )