RAIN p854+855 - Finally

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Over six years and eight-hundred pages later, it finally happens!  Is it worth it?  You betcha!  But it's a very anticlimactic moment. XD

I mean, apart from getting that thing you may have wanted your whole life, hormones DO take a while to do anything substantial.  It's exciting because it's a huge personal milestone.  But it's also boring because the rest of your day is probably otherwise like any other.  Personally, I waited until the next morning to start.  My wife had already gone to work, so I ate a bowl of cereal and watched YouTube when I took it (Game Grumps playing Monopoly, if I recall), and went on to draw for the rest of the day.  It was a memorable moment, but not really anything special just yet.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing though.  ^_^

Fun Raindom Fact: I strongly considered naming this page "The End".  Why?  I'm sure I've mentioned this a hundred times by now, but when I started the comic, I wasn't on hormones yet.  So I almost wasn't going to have Rain begin her medical transition in the story, for fear that my inexperience would lead to bad writing and misinformation.  And originally, the final page of the story was going to have Rain take her first dose with more or less this exact dialogue (though the chapter otherwise would've been quite different).  Obviously, there's a lot unresolved right now, so it's not actually the end.  

Anyway, I started hormones over four years ago, and I've since gained the firsthand experience to be able to talk about it, and I decided back then I wanted to cover it.  So obviously, the story couldn't end there.  For what it's worth, this did NOT necessarily make the story longer.  This page just would've come later on rather than on this date.  Surely, there would still be unresolved character arcs and prom coming up at this time either way.  I was just able to bump this scene up so as to make it no longer the ending.  Now the ending is completely different, and the final page has changed many times since then.  But I like where I'm currently going now; it's just a matter of getting there.  ^_^

Coming full circle, I did not name this page "The End".  It's not the end of story.  It's not even the end of the chapter.  I thought it might be funny to make the reference to this being the old ending, but I know not everyone reads my blurbs, and I feared some might actually believe I was just going to awkwardly and unexpectedly drop off the story here.  Considering how many unfinished webcomics are out there, it wouldn't be without precedent either.  So as much as I wanted to do it, I think it might've caused more problems than laughs.  

Maybe if I were posting this on April Fools Day, but this is basically the Christmas post, so I should try to be good.  So come join us again next Wednesday for the natural progression of the story as I would've done anyway. XD


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