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Hello, everyone!
A few notes about the story:
- It's about characters. It's literally not about anything else, what little plot it has is there just as an excuse for the characters to talk to each other.
- I started writing this for myself and my wife. It wasn't originally meant for anyone else's eyes, so there are some things and even characters in it that don't contribute anything to the story as a whole, they are there simply because we have elaborate and interconnected headcanons (with different focus characters), and we decided on a few points in time, where our stories intermingle.
- I'm not an expert in anything Japanese, and I have no interest in writing about the real world in a literal sense in the first place, so I'm keeping the setting vague on purpose. My three-week-long exchange to Japan in high school, and years of watching anime are really my only references. I try to consider what I know about the culture, but I'd say this fic is more suited for people who have somewhat similar disposition to mine: general human nature is more interesting than specific cultures. Not to deny that my own cultural background affects how I write things, of course it does.
- This story really doesn't contain much basketball. I doubt I could do it justice anyway. This fic is everything the manga/anime isn't.
- I know some of my OCs are improbable, but that's kind of the reason I wrote them. :)
- The timeline doesn't make any sense. There is evidence for the original story to be set in either 2009-2010 or 2013-2014, but most evidence points to the former (although it's probably an accident and the story wasn't supposed to be set in a specific year). I chose 2009-2010 as my headcanon because that's when I started high school, and imagining these characters were exactly my age was a cherry on top for me because I already related to the story so much. But... it didn't take many chapters for my fic to become anachronistic. (You'll notice if you will.) And the further I got into the story the more fed up I got with the lack of smartphones, so... if you can, just try not to care about what year this is set in. Because, I stopped caring. ^^' (Or rather, I only care when it suits me.) Mostly because I wanted people to be able to have group chats instead of some nightmarish e-mail chain. I tried to be sort of vague about their means of communication, but I just gave up towards the end. This problem is too widespread for me to feel like it's worth fixing, so... deal with it. Thank you. :)
- If you start feeling like the impossible timeline or vague setting and lack of understanding of cultural nuances and everything like that really bugs you, it might be better to just imagine this as a sort of alternate universe to our own where everything is the same but just a bit off sometimes. I mean, even the original story is more like a fantasy story in high school disguise, so I feel like this is still within the range of believability, considering the source.
See you around!
-Eve/Glasssneaker
06/27/21
Currently going through an editing process for this fic again.
7/5/23
