Template:The Last Three Years



It took me a little over half a year, working on and off, to write this. I started it in the summer of 2015 (early in the summer, if I recall) and finished it a little after New Years.

It's a long ass story; around 90 pages. I one point, I spend 3 pages quoting another book.

The story is rather rambling. My ideas about where I was going with it changed as I worked, as did Ileana's. I tried to smooth it out some, and I took out a few tangents, but I didn't totally rewrite it to go in one direction, because it's Ileana's story, and the path of her thoughts is a big part of it. Life is rambling.

It's not perfect, but I put a lot of work into it and I'm proud of it. So here it is: What happened to Ileana after EESM fell.

At first I called it Trimūrti, then The Past Three Years, and sometimes just Ileana's Story

Notes
 * Unless google lied to me, pelmeni are culturally kind of like instant ramen.
 * I wrote some of the emotional parts when I was in Italy, the spring of 2015, and we were in this bus driving though the country side and I was feeling really earnest and emotive and thinking about Borgia stuff.
 * I had a whole idea about a different system of patronymics and matronymics, which I cut because it had nothing to do with anything and (while being a cool system) was a completely off-the-wall linguistic tangent of mine.
 * I started writing it during the EESM fanfic era, when I wanted there to be a not-totally-fatalistic fanfic, and then I started liking it and so I kept going and it turned into this.
 * The letters part evolved more-or-less like in the story (first the Luca one, and writing it really helped express and clarify stuff, so then the others were written too), but they weren't written in the order they are in the story.
 * The part about haircuts was based on a really random real life experience of mine with cutting my hair.
 * I have pretty clear concepts of what all Ileana's emotions are, but they're often difficult to define.