Preface:

Hello! I'm aware some people like to read prefaces after they finish the story but as this particular story is just over 100000 words long you should really read this preface first.

While what this is is a preface, it's really more like a warning. I'm writing this preface on December 27th 2010. And what this preface is is a history of how this thing came to be and what exactly it ended up as.

It all started when I was a naive 15 year old who thought that forcing myself to write fanfiction for pairings I don't support wouldn't cause me to hate writing fanfiction and lose interest in Kingdom Hearts. "I'll be exactly as interested in this series a year from now!" oh how naïve indeed.

Really though I got the idea from another challenge that was very similar. I saw it on Y!Gallery(because I had nothing better to do, I don't think I've been on Y!Gallery since. It's really not as interesting as people make it out to be. It's just like DeviantArt but with slightly more penises, many of which are upside-down or just completely wrong anatomy wise. Mostly because they're either drawn by women that don't know how male anatomy works or by men who don't know how male anatomy looks from the outside so they just look down and draw what they see. ) It was called, just as this is, "Organization XIII Calendar Challenge" except as it was on Y!Gallery it was about drawing porn rather than writing romance.

The rules of that one however were "Draw a pairing every single day, based on the date, So 1/7/08 is Xemnas/Saix/Luxord all having a threesome and such. Skip the female members such as Larxene and Xion because this is Y!Gallery and instead use Sora and Riku. After the 14th just start doing whatever you want." It was much loser and nobody was actually following the rules. They just did it whenever they liked the date-pairing. But nonetheless this was what inspired this challenge.

The idea was that I wanted to write and writers need to write righteous amount of written... stuff(such as poorly constructed tongue twisters.) I didn't take into account that I wanted to write because I wanted to tell original complex stories or that saying "I can't I have a writing challenge" causes people to go "Oh! Explain! I want to read it! Please!" and then I have to go "Well... Each month and day correlate to... characters... and I have to write them as a pairing, and if you don't already know the characters then it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And it's really sort of parody writing... and stuff."

But regardless! On January first I forgot that I had decided to do this writing challenge and ended up writing the first and second chapters at around 12:04am January 2nd 2010. And I made up a stupid excuse so that I wouldn't have failed the challenge on the very first day.

And from that point I began writing it!

So! What are you about to read?:

At the beginning I was genuinely trying to write romance stories of a substantial length. Also, I was double-spacing it in the text editor I was using to make it look like I had written more than I really did. Because of this I didn't format anything at all. It took me quite a lot of time to realize that after I posted the chapters there were no paragraphs or anything. And then longer to figure out how to fix it. So the earlier chapters have horrible formatting, which I apologize for.

After a while though I stopped trying to make actual pairings and just tried to get through the chapter at all. If it was two people who would never ever ever ever be together I just turned them into ridiculous parodies that in no way represented how they would actually act.

At some points real life interfered but by the time those came I realized that writing it every day really didn't matter much. And nobody was going to cry "YOU CAN'T STOP WRITING FOR THREE DAYS BECAUSE YOU'LL BE AT A CONVENTION! YOU HAVE TO DO IT NON-STOP! WHAT? YOU'RE GOING CAMPING FOR A WEEK? OH NO YOU AREN'T!" So in those situations I just said I'd write all the skipped chapters on one day. The rushed nature of them would supposedly make up for them being late.

During the Summer I became very apathetic and never wanted to write fanfiction again. I still don't intend to write fanfiction again. The quality of chapters in the Summer decreased quite a lot to the point that many chapters were literally "Character 1 kisses character 2 who kisses back then they do a thing and it's romantic in some way. Then this goes on for 500 words and you all leave reviews that are more like youtube comments." But once school resumed the quality returned as well. I believe some of the best chapters came after I read the book Nightlight which inspired the style of writing everything from October onwards.

On multiple occasions I had simply no idea what to write, so I wrote a My Immortal parody which would make the same jokes about My Immortal. These were spaced enough apart that I had always forgotten that I'd already written 3 chapters which were My Immortal parodies so hopefully you'll forget by then too.

And that's about it for a preface.

So to recap!:

In 2010 I wrote a KH fanfiction whenever the day and month matched up to a pairing in Organization XIII.

Many of these were horrible.

Some were very good.

You have been warned.

None of the chapters were proofread and it takes until maybe May or April for them to formatted in an easily readable format.

And now

The guide to reviewing.

Every single month usually around the 9th of the month, my inbox would be spammed by 100 messages because someone found the challenge and decided to review every single chapter after they finished reading it. Except usually they had nothing to say so the review would just be

"Great."

"lol"

"Haha."

"Neat. Look forward to the next one!"

169 TIMES.

So here are the rules to reviewing!

Do not review every single chapter.

Do not review half the chapters per month.

Do not review half the chapters in the year.

Do not review anything older than October unless you have something extremely interesting to say about the chapter. The date of the chapter is in fact when I wrote it, My writing style had changed quite a lot since January 7th 2010.

Do not leave reviews which are merely comments such as you would find on Youtube. Actually review the chapter! "I liked this portion and this portion but thought it was overall dreadful to read and I will now proceed to pour salt into my retinas." Not "haha" not "Cool" not "Will you do a Roxas/Xion chapter? -Anonymous person that can't be replied too."

Don't leave questions as reviews. I won't be answering them.

If you leave an anonymous review, don't expect a response. Anonymous meaning anybody that doesn't post connected to their account.

Please spell your words properly and use readable grammar. I have received many "reviews" that I couldn't even understand.

Make it relevant to the chapter you're reviewing.

Don't feel obligated to leave reviews.

And that's it! For some fun, If you discovered this in December, try reading each chapter on the date in 2011 it corresponds too. All this will do is drag out the experience over the full course of a year and will add nothing substantial to the experience!