I'm so glad you managed to read until here. I made a triple update, so just a warning if you clicked on the arrow to go to the last chapter, you may want to click back. First of all, it's been almost six years ever since I started writing this fic. So many things have happened, I can't believe six years of my life had already passed. I was just a dumb college kid with Peter Pan syndrome when I started. And today I'm a dumb college kid with Peter Pan syndrome, and my life has never been so great! Out of curiosity, is there anyone here who started six years ago still here as well?

I still remember the times that the Gurren Lagann section was alive, it had great fics by CSakuraS (undoubtedly the best writer of the fandom), Zaru, 1 over 0, Largeham-sama, mark-engels among others. The fanart that I managed to get, it's on the Image Links folder in the TvTropes page, thank you for your skills. But nowadays, few people are interested anymore. I guess it's part of the game, huh?

I've met a lot of people in this place. My life was ruined, but I would never prefer other way. Special shoutouts to Toenn Gunn who gave me a great advice ("Go Batsh!t", I'll never forget this), 1 over 0 (who was a great beta) and phoenixbreaker90 (who also was a good beta), may you have success wherever you are. I also grew a lot as a writer. Even while I wrote those last chapters, I had a feeling that I could make something different.

My greatest gripe with the post-timeskip part is that I wouldn't be able to match the ending. It was simply too awesome for me. I mean, I could try something - the greatest flaw of Gurren Lagann are the first episodes after the timeskip. It has a lot of plot holes - how did Rossiu manage to rebuild Kamina City so easily? Where did he get the blueprints to the supercomputer (that's why I created Aika)? Not to mention everything related to the Antispiral Messenger. I'm glad they had a recap episode, because judging by the quality of the writing, they needed to sort out things.

The movie did address some plot holes, but still, I could see improvement spaces. In my plot, Cinoshisa and Rossiu (also his entourage when discovering Aika would be the same that follows him in the post-timeskip opening) fight for Lordgenome's body and his head computer would be activated just a bit later (and after he activated, he would work with Aika, who'd reveal herself as an alien AI dating from the Spiral Wars). Nia would go to the moon, but then the AS would shot down her rocket. Simon would turn into the Antispiral Messenger because the AS would try to hit Nia where it hurts most, based on what they could learn.

Nia would be recovered and then he would waste no time in trying to argue with AS!Simon. The battle would go, but this time the Grapearls would be effective against the AS mechas. But still not as much as Gurren Solvernia. Riots happen and Rossiu has to deal with them, by throwing the hot potato in Nia's lap. She actually confronts Rossiu and he explains he needs her as a distraction until he can pull a lot of plans, including of evacuation. Nia agrees to become a martyr if it means to unite the people again.

There's a plot with Dmitri trying to restore the Spiral King rule, aided by Cinoshisa. Then, Nia is sent to prison, as part of the plan and where she meets Tsuuma, who tries to kill her. Nia hugs her and manages to calm her down. And then, after they evacuate, Yoko comes to help them. And Cinoshisa as well. She wants Nia to end the universe. Her armor turns into a weird crab-like mecha and they fight them. Cinoshisa explains that she betrayed her village because she couldn't stand the pointlessness of life, of her sacrifices and that if no one will ever be satisfied, it's better to kill them all. Nia calls her on her bullshit, but lets Tsuuma deliver the finishing blow.

The evacuation of Teppelin happens as the canon, but Zerael finds a new life by battling the enemies and in the end he sacrifices himself and that destroys Kiyal's heart. The battle goes to the orbit and goes like canon, I'd add a scene where Ameli, who had received Kuratori's key from Irenai on his deathbed, breaking into the museum to steal the Kuratori and goes into the orbit to fight, but she's overwhelmed by the flow of the battle (she's just 9) and loses control, but her siblings could rescue her and they combine with their own combined mecha to fight the AS (and this would make the princes stay on Earth to protect it, because this mecha would be as powerful as Gurren Solvernia, because the Kuratori has a Solvernia-like system, less powerful but still useful). Ameli is a character that I wanted to develop in the timeskip, and the woman Kittan rescued is her mother. She would have to deal with a catatonic mother as well.

Things would go as in canon, with Nia helping Simon to come to his senses and saying that she would turn the universe upside down if necessary to find him, with Kiyal commenting she's not exaggerating. Then, things would proceed as in canon in the AS dimension, but with Kiyal instead of Kittan sacrificing herself and ("Zee, I'm seeing you sooner than I thought"), instead of Simon's silent tears in canon, Nia's would be a loud bawl capable of being heard on Earth, before saying "No more sacrifices!". Then, in the Labyrinth of Probabilities, Nia would recognize the fake Kamina and the true Kamina would tell her to go on (K: "And you got pretty hot! I mean *cough* You grew up to be a beautiful woman" and she kisses him in the cheek and hugs as brother and sister), and Kiyal would also come out of the box, dragging Zerael by his hand, and giving her a last hug to her friend. Tsuuma would dream of Viral and her daughter, while being pregnant of a second one; she would hesitate leaving until Viral says "Thank you" and this gives her the strength to break free ("I can't believe, how human women can stand this giant belly?"). Lordgenome's dream would be him in a table with all his children. And Yoko's would be different: when she sees herself marrying with Kittan, she presses the button to turn off but the image just freezes instead; then Kamina asks, "Don't you wanna see how it ends?" With Kittan, it would be a dream of him wearing Kamina's clothes, holding Kamina's sword, leading the Dai-Gurren, until Kiyal pokes him and gives him his shotgun, he understood he needed to make his own story. Perhaps Aika's dream would be her as a virtual idol performing in front of a crowd, since she's based on vocaloids.

As for the final battle against the AS, I just have no idea. For me, Nia would simply ask the AS to stop and they would comply. I kind of wanted to imply that the AS had a rival eldritch race that embodies entropy and that's what made them so fanatical, but I guess it'd make too complicated. The ending scene would be the same, with Simon leaving. But then, in the epilogue, it would show where most of the cast would be (major differences would be Tsuuma being the captain of Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren, helped by Aika, and Ameli being crowned the Spiral Queen, after all her siblings declined the throne, Kittan and Yoko becoming a couple, with Kittan being a really competent judge), and Nia watching a kid with weird, flower eyes playing with others. Her final phrase would be "The lights in the stars are our friends, waiting to meet us, my son." Cliché, but cute.

As for what I would change if I wrote today, I would try to make the beginning more different from canon. Granted the beginning is so formulaic it's too difficult. Perhaps I'd give Simon more characterization and him being capable of cleaving a ganman on foot (because RULES OF NATURE!). And also Kiyal. And I think I overdone Nia's dark side after Kamina's death. And I probably would do away with Arshun, or try to work his character better, even I thought he was pointless and let Simon tell him this. I also would use "gunman" instead of "ganman" - the reason why I did this was because some translations had the second term and I decided to go on, due to the AU nature of this fic, but, as a reviewer pointed out, this is just awkward.

Again, the reason why I don't want to continue is because I'm unable to top the ending. If I want to do it, I need to do with my own writing. I still intend to finish my NaNoWriMo project I started in 2014. Again, if you managed to read until here, I thank God for being able to tell you a story that managed to get your attention. If not, I guess better luck next time. Again, thank you for everything, hopefully we see each other again. At this moment, I feel like emotional, to say goodbye for my story. Sometimes, I reread my old writing and I cringe - this is crap, but I love my crap.

The End.