Passion projects. For some, it's creating a feature film, for others, a music album. For Akiho Senomiya, it's building a giant robot. But when progress on said robot comes to a crawl, and her friendships seem to be slowly drifting away with time, she desperately turns to the one person who might be able to do something about both. Just gotta get her to open up first.

For the past year, this has been my passion project. I started this last April, and since then, it has evolved into something I've poured so much time, effort, and energy into. My record up until this point was 25,423 words, a feat I didn't think possible at the time, yet alone something I could ever surpass. Well, here we are. At 26,662 words - an unintentional palindrome, this is now my longest story period. It's...really emotional to finally be done with it, to be honest. I've gotten pretty close to outright crying. So let's get into why.

This is a story based off the 2012 visual novel Robotics;Notes, an incredibly long, relatively laid back and comfy entry of the Science Adventure franchise. For the uninitiated, it's the series Steins;Gate – my favorite piece of fiction period – is part of. I started reading R;N...last April, and pretty much right away, I fell in love with two characters; Aki and Frau.

In a way, I saw them as extensions of myself - which is one of the best ways I operate when writing, honestly. Aki's an always upbeat optimist trucking along as best she can...and Frau's the lonely gremlin wanting to shut herself off from a cruel, uncaring world. But like myself, they're connected by their passion for this thing they love, and that just...makes things all work.

For the past year, I've scoured the internet high and low, looking pretty much everywhere I could think of for any R;N content...in this general sphere, vorestuff, general tummage, and I always came up empty. So at some point I decided, fuck it. Sometimes, if you want something...you gotta do it yourself. Hell, there wasn't even a tag on the site here. That's how uncharted this territory is! So maybe you can see just why this ended up as long as it did. I wanted to do it right, I wanted to do them justice. And I hope I did a decent enough job, because good lord...this wasn't easy.

I had to do so much damn research for this thing. Spending hours in the in-game tip list, finding fan translations of Japanese-exclusive artbooks for in-universe lore about a fictional TV show, 2000s netslang - both Japanese and English, quotes of Char from Gundam - which are a lot harder to find in English than I expected them to be, not to mention the differences in terminology between translations of not just this game, but this entire series. PokeCom, PhoneDroid, Cola Cola, I obsessed over every minute little detail...it was so exhausting. But again, I wanted to do this universe justice, and portray it as accurately as I could. So I pushed through regardless of how much it overwhelmed me.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for putting up with my deranged ramblings yet again. I put my heart and soul into this, so I hope you all enjoy it...at least a small percentage of how much I did making it. I have some big news coming soon, so stay tuned for a blog detailing that in the near future. Probably tomorrow lol

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