I'm so glad you liked this, I was really excited for the challenge of writing an established relationship. I'm always writing get together stories, so this was so much fun and such a different dynamic to take on. Plus I never write enough Matsumiya :)

I knew I wanted to write a space AU, so I was going through Star Trek plots, seeing what I could maybe adapt. And as soon as I found the episode I did, I had no choice because that episode had the funeral scene with the one character profiting off the other's death - how could that not be transformed into a Nino situation, I figured! And then seeing how that contrasts with who Jun is here and getting their relationship to still work in spite of that...ah, so fun!

I really love a Smart Aiba Masaki in fanfic because he actually is really smart??? He has airheaded moments but that doesn't in any way diminish his actual intelligence/cleverness! So being able to bring that to the story was fun too. I had such a hard time tagging this because Aiba """dies""" so early but he does, of course, come back. I tried to include him as much as I could throughout the story so that his triumphant return was good in the end :)

Thank you for such fun prompts, I had a blast!