Well, damn, folks. It's been a long time. Hey there. It's been three and a half years since I've posted anything. God, it's felt like so much longer.

So if you want the tl;dr, here it is- I'm here to officially announce that this is dead. I don't intend to continue, though I have a lot of stuff I'm leaving on the cutting room floor. I've had some people ask if they could do their own versions of AR, or continuations- it's all fair game. I give my blessing to anyone who wants to do something with this story I once created.

That's the business out of the way. Now for the explanation I owe you guys, after all this time... where to begin? I have, in the time since my last update, gone through a few computers, four jobs, a few places of living, a lot of debt. I went through complete kidney failure, and spent several years on dialysis, barely clinging to life... then got a transplant last year through the kindness and generosity of my mother. I started a site to try and pursue my passion of writing on my own terms, and it's still ticking along. Life has been complicated, I think it's fair to say.

For all that, it's been maybe two years since I worked on Armed Resistance at all. I did spend a lot of time working on that rewrite, but... well. At a certain point, I began to ask myself something. How much more time did I want to spend REwriting something that would never really be mine? To me, that's the ultimate problem with fanfiction. It's a wonderful place to learn your authorial tone and style, to figure out how you write, but after that, where next?

I've tried to do my own creative writing since, but it hasn't gotten anywhere. Every time I got going on what could in theory be my first novel, I remembered Armed Resistance. I remembered the story I never finished, but also never ended. And I started to think that maybe I could start over again, and fix it. Begin the rewrite anew, and finish it this time. It never happened. Each time, it consumed my mind for a while, and then I remembered why I'd given up in the first place- I needed to write something that was MINE. That wasn't living in the shadow of Code Geass.

It happened to me again yesterday, and I finally decided to put it all to rest. I'm sorry it took my indecisive ass so long, I'm sorry I promised and never delivered. I am so grateful for all the support you've given me, and I only hope that if or when I do get something published for real, I can make any of you who still care proud. I would never have figured out what I want to write without this story, and it'll always be special to me.

If you care to look me up after this, I'd be honored. If you're done with my crap after this, I gotta respect that. Either way... thanks for caring.

-Colin Dettmar, aka SixTwoSixFour