You read right.
I took the beat outline for the ending, saw it was making things too long and drawn out, and decided it would be smarter to cut stuff and trim things down. So, I did. I stopped and restructured it, then trimmed scenes AGAIN.
I felt pretty good about it. I didn't want it to end up in that classic pitfall, where only a few characters are useful and everyone else just picks their nose for an hour. So, I kept everything in that allowed the FULL cast to be important, or for enough exposition to make things work.
Ah, that's still a very big cast, and a lot of info >.> So, while I'm really happy that everyone plays multiple parts the whole way through, and while I kept all the 'out of control' rambly growth scenes I could in...yeah, I checked.
It was 117 pages. XD AFTER THE CUTS.
...Eh, so rather than bludgeon you poor souls with a chapter that absurd, I'm splitting the finale into two parts. That way, structurally, it does have a logical buildup to the fight, and then the final confrontation and aftermath. You can take a break between. You probably SHOULD take a break in between! Also, they surprisingly wound up nearly the same length, which was kind of neat!
I'm just gonna warn y'all now, it gets about as crazy as you might expect. XD It's chock-full of silliness, but hopefully it stayed in-world enough to justify the insanity.
Lastly...THANK YOU ALL! Holy crap, you gave me the time I genuinely needed to keep this ball of string wound properly, and do it as right as I'm currently able to. Nobody rushed me, everyone was super-supportive T///T Really, this was a great time, more so than I expected, going in. (Not like it was terrifying at first, hahahaha >.>)
I really, seriously hope this concludes this monstrosity in a fun, readable manner. I tried to keep it as fluid and smooth as possible, there's just a whoooole lot to cover in it X3
Enjoy! Just...you know, pace yourself, because even for me, this is HUGE
**P.S. I will be reediting this over time, and releasing it back to y'all as a full novel, all cleaned up (and trimmed again, slightly, probably) <3 You'll all know what that final poll was for pretty soon, too, I haven't forgotten!