Draft 4: THE GERITA SCEEEEENE (more like chapter actually, it’s 9 pages)

Should have been: SHIPPING SHIPPING SHIPPY SHIP SHIPPIIIIING. And the letters from Final Loop, because heartbreak </3

Preceeded by: That other scene I posted, with the angsting in Grandpa’s ruins and the printer ink and the no eye-contact. (which Feli has kept btw).

Followed by: Feli going home to tell Romano the same thing he tells Germany here.

Problems: I spent the entire 17th chapter in Draft 5 emphasizing how much the Itabros trust and rely on each other, but Draft 4 had Romano’s smothering actually smother his brother. Moving through Drafts 1 all the way to 5, this story became progressively more about family and a WHOLE LOT LESS about Romantic or Platonic loves. Romano, Seborga, and Vatican gobbled up chapters and scenes previously reserved for the other 10 mansion nations, and Feli’s just walked away from most of the interactions I tried throwing his way. ‘Tis so.

But I loved this chapter weeeeeeeh ; A;

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Q:Hello! I love your work and out of curiosity, do you have an idea on how long Recovery will be?

Anonymous

Thank you, Anon! That’s really sweet. At the moment I’m aiming for 35 chapters of Recovery, and will be quite upset if it creeps beyond 36/37. It’s plenty long enough and has covered nearly all the ground I wanted/expected, so there’s no point pushing it past the current end-point.

I did have plans for a 3rd part, but at this rate I’m 99% sure I won’t be able to pull it off, so it’ll sit as this prickly little AU in the HetaOni archives.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ HetaOni: Recovery, Chapter 27!

Sunny’s current favourite chapter! Think of it as a reminder of how far this story’s come?

Okay, I had that gif here of Bart holding the remote saying “you can see the moment where his heart breaks in half!”, and it was funny, but I’d much rather leave people with a quote I saw literally 5 minutes before uploading the chapter:

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak… it just means you’ve been strong for too long.”