Your reviews make me so happy! Thank you so, so much for commenting on the last few chapters; it's incredibly kind of you, and I was ridiculously excited when I woke up and saw the comments this morning.

These characters are the beeeeest and I love writing them and I can't tell you how happy I am that you think they sound right. In particular, I'm ecstatic that you think Squall is right. He's embarrassingly important to me as a character.

(I was half-tempted to put up this chapter without the 'this isn't the ending' clarification and see what happened, but in the end I couldn't bring myself to.)

Thank you so much for sticking with me through this! I hope I'll be able to post the ending soon.