Complete Remarks

Although I have said it once through Alicia's mouth, when I deleted the "Chapter 6" that was automatically refreshed on the title and replaced it with "Completion Remarks", I really realized that this story that has been with me for a year and eight months is really coming to an end.

According to convention, no matter how good or bad the results are, I always have to say something when the book is finished. In the past creative process, I have also held back a lot and imagined a lot of things to write in the completion remarks - for example, the complex and contradictory personality of the character Mikael cannot be summed up in one word "weak". To be honest, he has never been afraid of fighting from beginning to end...

Perhaps in my eyes, the protagonist of this story that I have observed for nearly two years is actually a very brave and even impulsive character. His sadness, despair, and the subsequent escape are just because the "fate" he has to face is not even bright.

But since he gives most people the feeling of weakness, it doesn't matter.

Just like Shinji is also a very impulsive character, and there are even many chapters used to describe his bravery, but in most people's impressions, he is a classic weak protagonist. The underlying logic of this phenomenon is that a character's behavior in a certain environment has left such a deep impression on the audience that it is abstracted and becomes the characteristic of this character.

From this perspective, I think a character that is generally considered weak is not bad.

Compared with the stereotyped brave, firm, and confident male protagonist, a protagonist with obvious character flaws may discourage many people, but as long as they can accept this setting, those who stay will have a deeper degree of empathy with the protagonist - this is what I thought when I first heard someone say that Mikael is weak, and I still think so until now.

But I still have some things I want to defend this character.

For example, the [fate] that caused Mikael to become like this...

I have seen some readers who are quite disgusted with the fatalistic setting, and some even say "Ah, this author is an extreme pessimist and nihilist, who believes that everything is fate and nothing is meaningful" and so on...

I can only say that, for the former, the fatalistic setting is an official setting, and the story of Abonia has already made the [fate] of the previous civilization very clear. This setting has nothing to do with me. If you want to blame me, don't blame me, blame the official.

For the latter, Mikael does often say/think "nothing is meaningless" and so on, but I think that if Mikael is regarded as a pessimist and nihilist based on this, there are only two possibilities-

The first is that there is a problem with reading comprehension.

The second is that you are a pessimist, so you see everyone as a pessimist.

I did write that compared to Ellie's optimism, Mikael's perspective on the problem is more pessimistic, but that's because he knows the ending of the whole story. If he is still laughing at this time... is that a normal person's brain circuit?

Is Mikael a nihilist? Obviously not, because the choices and behaviors after "everything is meaningless" are what determine whether a person is a nihilist or an existentialist.

Except for the most devastating period, Mikael tends to give up - but the essence is that he thinks he should not continue to interfere with the plot, so he just goes to the end in the original direction and then changes. In fact, he is not indifferent or giving up, but still wants to do something.

And the rest of the time, Mikael never gave up doing anything in the past.

Of course, another point that can prove that he is definitely not a nihilist is that the book also says that Mikael, like Kevin, is a person who is easily addicted to the past.

I want to argue for Mikael only these points. After all, everyone should be able to see that Mikael is a rather awkward character, and there are many contradictory personalities in him, but at least for me, it is precisely because of such contradictions that I like him so much.

But let's stop here, I don't want the final closing remarks to completely turn into a character analysis of Mikael.

Back to the creation of this book, in fact, I am not an old captain.

I started playing Honkai Impact 3rd in April 2022, and this book was released in August 2022, with only four months in between.

I started playing Genshin Impact not too early, at the end of October 2021. Before that, I wasn't even a fan of the second dimension.

Maybe it's because I lack the filter of long-term companionship, I personally prefer the pre-civilization. When I first wanted to write fan fiction for Honkai Impact 3rd, I wanted to write about the pre-civilization, but the Eternal Paradise chapter hadn't been released at that time. At that time, my favorite character was Paduo, and the beginning of the idea was that Paduo picked me up on Dusk Street, and then they depended on each other, and finally they were sent to the operating table together.

In fact, some of this idea was retained in this book, for example, the title of the first volume was not "Origin" or something, but "Dusk".

But this project was quickly killed because I went to write Genshin Impact (bushi).

In fact, I felt that writing Honkai Impact 3 would not be read by many people.

When I wanted to write fan fiction for Honkai Impact 3 again, it was after August 13, 2022, when the Eternal Paradise chapter was completed.

I was a senior at university at that time and had plenty of free time. I failed many times in a row and didn’t care whether anyone read them or not. I just wanted to record something.

This formed the original intention of writing this book - the idea of ​​this book was not even a novel at the beginning, but a "Chronicle of Pre-Civilization".

So everyone saw a lot of original characters and completely original Luluye chapters in the first volume, even including the policeman who checked Mikael's driver's license in the second volume. I was going to write about it in detail, because the idea at that time was that the Yingjies were the ones who fought to the end for this civilization, but not all of them. There were too many warriors who did not leave their names or even had no superpowers and died on the road to saving the world. I wanted to write about this, but later I really couldn't grasp so many characters, so I could only focus on Yingjie himself and write some original characters.

The reason why Mikael was weak at the beginning and did not have the heroic spirit of an ordinary male protagonist was originally based on the setting of "ordinary people".

I even had this idea in my mind - if there is such a protagonist who can directly pass the collapse at a very small cost with the pre-civilization, then is it disrespectful to the story of the pre-civilization and the people who sacrificed to save the world?

It's like the anti-Japanese drama, which shows the bravery and strength of the predecessors on the surface, but in fact, it is also disrespectful to those people who shed blood and sacrificed.

But now, I am not sure whether the reason why Mikael is like this and the reason why this story is like this are my will.

When I started writing this story, I didn't notice it, but when I was halfway through the first volume, I found that the smoothness of the creation was far beyond my imagination. I didn't seem to be [creating] a story, but witnessing a story happen and then recording it.

Then I naturally got the ending I wrote now. Strictly speaking, my idea of ​​the ending of this story was several months earlier than the ending of the first part of Collapse III... Otherwise, I wouldn't have written about Suo, Luo Xing and the story of Collapse later, because the ending was completely finalized before the first volume was finished. Although I had doubts later and considered whether to change the ending, I was still bound by the original idea in the end. Maybe this is why everyone thinks this ending is stable but not bright or perfect.

Anyway, this is the first story I have recorded in full, and there are many more people who have witnessed this story than I thought.

But because of this, I feel very nervous.

I understand that the reason why so many people read this book is essentially because of the popularity of the completion of Honkai Impact 3rd, and there are not many people writing Honkai Impact 3rd fan fiction on Qidian, so the probability of being discovered by everyone is higher. But for my next book, I want to try originality. Although it is an original story derived from EVA, Honkai Impact 3rd, and some of the foundations of this story, I really don’t know how many people can follow me to witness this next story.

But there is no rush. I have been writing almost without rest for a year and eight months. It is really a waste of time and brain. I have to take a good rest for a month and complete the preparations for the next book. The new book will probably be released after the May Day holiday. I will notify everyone in the group at that time. If you are interested, you can try to take a look (you can click the last link to join the group and take a look. It is also good to treat it as the original game chat group of Honkai Impact 3rd).

By the way, the theme of the new book is related to dreams (Stigmata Project? Pinoconi?)

Finally... I still want to repeat what I have repeated twice in the last few chapters -

This story itself does not have much meaning. I do not think that a story can make a person understand something and change his or her mind. I believe that most stories cannot do this.

If a person's mind is easily changed because of a book, it should not be that the book has a particularly strong influence, but that the reader has read too few books.

So, I just hope that one day in the future, when you face a certain choice, you will think of this story, whether as a means of motivating yourself or using Mikael as a negative example, as long as it can help the final decision, it's fine.

And everyone can also give meaning to this meaningless story in this way.

Finally, thank the readers who have accompanied this book for the past year and eight months, and the platform and my editor Penglai who gave me the opportunity to finish this story.