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Okay, first off I apologize for probably giving some of y'all a heart attack with the chapter count suddenly changing last minute, I didn't add a secret special bonus chapter in or anything, just me spewing gibberish. 💀
With that preface out of the way though… holy shit, where do I begin. The love and support this fic has gotten has been amazing and completely surpassed my expectations, especially for the relatively short duration the fic was being updated. I get 300 kudos is far from the biggest number on this platform, but considering this is my first published work in the fandom (somehow, considering I've been in it for like seven years by this point), and how lengthy it is, the fact that over 300 people read this work that cost me most of my remaining sanity and appreciated it enough to kudos it means so much. I cherish this fic and the game it's based on so much and to see my interpretations of the plot and characters be so valued by readers is nothing short of amazing.
As I've stated before, I started writing this fic proper back in August of 2023, but I had the concept of a Security Breach rewrite in mind basically ever since the game came out, which longtime followers of my Tumblr might recall me mentioning a few times (if you don't remember it, please don't go digging for it, 15/16-year-old me is fucking insufferable). The oddest thing about this fic to me is that it didn't actually start out as a Save the Glamrocks AU - it much more strictly followed the plot of the game, including having the hijacked Glamrocks all being decommed and having an ending that was a mix between the Burntrap and Van Getaway endings, with Gregory and Freddy taking the remains of Freddy's decommissioned friends with them in hopes of repairing them one day. Stuff like the SAVE EVAN protocol and Gregory's backstory were still in these early rewrites, and Roxy was even planned on being the only one to be freed from the virus and briefly join the party, sacrificing herself during what became the raid on Fazerblast to save Gregory. Vanessa's fake-out death? Yeah, Vanessa was supposed to die there for real in the early drafts, but once RE:Breach became a full Save the Glamrocks AU I just didn't have it in me to kill Vanessa off. And looking back on it… Jesus am I glad I ended up overhauling the entire fic to be a Save the Glamrocks AU, because following the entire game so strictly would've been so goddamn boring. Both for me to write and for you all to read. The first four chapters of this fic were by far the most exhausting to write, constantly going back and forth between the Google doc and a game playthrough to just copy-paste actions and character dialogue, even with the amount of additions and changes I made. I just cannot imagine writing almost an entire fic of that, much less reading one. Tossing most of the game's structure aside in favor of my own was the best decision I could've made for this fic, and I can't imagine RE:Breach without it.
And I have Ruin to thank for it. Ironically, leading up to Ruin's release I was fully believing that it was going to be a dumpsterfire with the sour taste the GGY revelations left in my mouth (and trust me, I still have some…thoughts on GGY). So imagine my surprise when not only was Ruin light years better than the game it was a free DLC for, but it also made my FNAF brainrot return and hit me like a freight train. Brainrot means reading fanfics, and reading fanfics usually means discovering a lot of hidden gems, and those were a lot of the inspiration for the RE:Breach overhaul (again, massive shout-out to Phrogggslayer's wonderful Showtime series, the main inspiration for this fic). That, and Ruin - stuff like finding Bonnie and the Eclipse appearance 100% wouldn't have been in the fic if it wasn't for Ruin. But in spite of the innumerable amount of changes RE:Breach went through due to its growing number of inspirations, I'm still satisfied with what it became and still very much feel like it's my own - ever since the beginning, the fic always focused around the existential dread of being sentient as a corporate product, and the individuality of the animatronics from their built-in code. And I'm very proud of how it turned out!
As for what most of you have probably been waiting for - will there be sequels? Yes. Eventually. I have a lot of ideas for the sequels - some a lot more vague than others - but I really need to spend at least a bit of time recovering after working on this fic non-stop for almost six months (especially since there's still a bunch of character art and illustrations I need to finish just for this fic). So RE:Breach's narrative is far from over, I just…don't know when it'll pick back up. Sooner rather than later, hopefully, but I'm absolute shit on following up on due dates so I can't really pinpoint a time.
Once again, thank you all so much for your support on RE:Breach, it means the world to see this fic that started out as a silly little rewrite that I basically gave up hope on ever coming to fruition turn into this massive project that's brought so many people joy (and tears. Mostly tears, actually). I'd love to answer any questions people may have in the comments, so feel free to ask away! Now, I'll be signing off for a bit, but here's to hoping I won't be gone too long. See y'all on the flipside.