Author's Note:

You made it to the end! Congratulations! Thank you for reading this story, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This was a warm up piece for a series that I wanted to write for a while but never had the motivation. Now that I have been able to delve into the realm of Frozen Teardrop as much as the available translations will allow I have found the motivation to "fix" some of the things I don't agree with about the new series continuation. (Namely the cryo part.)

The main theme for this fic was friendship (ahem, the title). I wanted to explore the different types of friendships the pilots could have with one another.

Another thing I wanted to play with was was how Duo perceives what is going on around him. Early on in the story he reflects on how his relationship with Heero wasn't traditional like the one he had with Hilde. He failed to fully grasp all of the small nuanced things Heero had been doing for him for some time before he came to his realization that the relationship between them could be just as deep and meaningful as any traditional relationship could. I find this tendency to compare things a common thing for Duo. In the show he is comparing people, places and things to others all the time in the show.

In this story he is dependent on Wufei to help him straighten out his life and make positive choices, and Hilde for emotional support. Duo relies on all of his friends for different things and values them greatly though he doesn't always confide everything he should to them.

The sign language thing is derived from the need to have another level of communication. This story has Duo and Heero communicating in a variety of ways, which I found to be fun (Wing-One, Verbal, Intimate, Jokes, and messages on devices). I wanted them to have a way to communicate privately in later stories. Sort of like a secret(not so secret) language. Can't hurt to be able to silently talk on mission, right?

It is 0330 here and I had considered writing out more of my fan theories here but I am wasted, but I didn't want to put off posting this massive conclusion any longer.

I will be taking a break from writing to attend a local anime convention as well as visit with family, but intend on continuing this story early February now that the stage is set in a series that will include missions, flashbacks of the time passed before Heero was set in cryo, as well as time jumps to canon scenes from the series and manga to try and tie all of the old and new together into a more palatable story than Frozen Teardrop has presented thus far.

Also, if you enjoy mobile suits, tech and science fiction the next story in this series is going to be extremely heavy with it. Wing-One, ZERO AURORA and the pilot's capability to Join through the system will be major factors in the following plotline. Heero is going to finally be able to stay true to his word that he will no longer have to kill (poor baby…) but that doesn't mean he can't fight for what he believes in and babysit ice pop Relena at the same time.

Also, if anyone out there in fandom land is a fan of 00Gundam there will be a lot of stealing from that series, considering Lennon is a blatant ripoff of CBS-70 Ptolemaios but on a more massive scale.

The concept for this ending actually came from the Super Robot Wars Z2 games where it is revealed that Jay Null (Dr. J) along with other various Gundam Scientists were all members of CELESTIAL BEING where they developed the ZERO system before leaving to go do their own things. (Celestial Being in the main organization behind the pilots in 00Gundam). That little tidbit had stuck with me for a long time, and after re-watching both Wing and 00 I decided to see if I could play with the concept. I feel like 00Gundam became the continuation Gundam Wing deserved, and Celestial Being was the organization Preventer should have been. Thus, this series was spawned!

The name Ouroboros is nod to Treize's (God rest his soul...) quote: "History is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever." - the concept of cycles and infinity.

I intend on rewriting this story gradually in about a month to fix some consistency issues and small grammatical errors. I will indicate when it has been revised in the title once it is completed.

Take care, and thank you to everyone who posted support and constructive criticism, your feedback has been invaluable.

Keep an eye out for Part 2 Of Gundam Wing Ouroboros

See you on the other side.

Update: So yeah it totally isn't February yet and I got crazy and started the second part early. :O Oops. Time to wake up Heero in GWO: The Other Side Pt 2