I couldn't stop smiling while reading this. I absolutely love Naomi as a character and I think you served her well in this fic. Unfortunately, there aren't many AWSW fics to compare this to, but this is 100% in my top 10 one shot stories, maybe even top 5. There is so much about this that makes me smile, mostly because you gave an ending I'd describe as perfect. Sure, the "True" Ending may be the right ending for the game, but if I were in the MC's place there would be no better way for me to live the rest of my life I feel. I'm really, really happy I was told about this story and it's predecessor, and this is a perfect end to my night. Keep up the amazing work, and you'd better bet I'm reading your Spyro stories next!

Neat again

A pretty good job!
Yeah, I can certainly relate to the pain of having to keep track of a ton of characters at the same time. Why do you think they wander off for a bit at some point? :P
VN format helps in one way, b6ut in the other I also had to keep track of expressions for everyone present, many of them not saying anything but still reacting to certain things and words.

Plot-wise, it was an interesting mix of Savior and ASM. Certain lines felt rather familiar, not going to lie. You've got some curious dynamics going as well. Maybe, some of them felt a little too sweet overall but good stuff nevertheless. Nice work on revealing more of her "possessive" side as well.

Also why doesn't anyone tell me anything about people writing stories about my mods? I like reading too. :P

- Certainly not ECK

PS: Small sidenote. There's a bit in your story where Naomi was concerned about losing her job settling for a simpler life. But in the mod she says that she doesn't even need to work to keep herself afloat. She's doing it because she wants to feel useful and to accomplish something by herself.
PPS: You might be relying too much on the lavender unicorn syndrome when talking about Naomi. Though it's pretty hard to avoid it tbh.

I read this amazing work of art and was ready to type, "another great chapter," but then realized that this isn't one of your longer stories :P

I played AWSW a few months ago and loved the game. The abstraction of replaying an event to expand the available choices within the same event is something that is very interesting to me. I didn't play any mods for the game until I saw a notification for this chapter. Needless to say, I revisited the game with some addons before reading this.

It must be handed to you, your ability to warp universes and common themes such as gaining strong powers in a new world (using Aimless as an example) is really extraordinary. I love it!

In all honesty, this is a great OS that I guess I had unknowingly wanted to see how it would play out. You did not disappoint. I think you created every character with near perfect accuracy. Bryce's not so contained debauchery and enthusiasm to... to... I'm not even sure what to call that thing Bryce does. Flirt maybe? Anyways, other characters too! Anna's seemingly elevated mindset and Maverick's grumpy monotone(ness?) It's all there. I especially like Zhong's presence here. I enjoy seeing him as their babysitter like he even acknowledged in the end.

I can see the nightmare appearing with lack of images to determine setting, characters, etc with a plot that involves numerous conversations. I kind of want to see Aimless as a visual novel. Probably would be pretty graphic huh?

Completely random and adding it because i'm too tired to stop myself atm, I've always seen time travelling scenarios like the one portrayed in AWSW as mind deteriorating. Something about revisiting the same time to either save some friends, lose some friends, leave the time knowing it's impending doom is ready to come crashing down, and even co-existing with your alternate self which would raise many red flags within the universe's book of laws, I think all of that would place a crazy toll on one's mindset. I even tried to write about how I believe the mind would attempt to cope with such events! (although i'm not quite happy with it yet.)

Like I said, I'm tired and not sure why I added this, but I thought it would be an interesting viewpoint to project in the end.

Thanks for taking the time out of your life to share this with all who read! Peace.