We're doing everything we can to fix this issue, applying to everything and considering student visas (though most are full until 2027).
If you have spare good vibes (or some connection to a Japanese company that provides visas, haha), please send them our way.

Like I said, I'm not a fan of talking about IRL, but this is a little too large of an event for me to not mention since it will most likely affect my readers if I'm stuck in an impossible situation within the next two months.

We were told we needed to be here already for the visa processing to start. We were working with professionals to have this move happen. Now we're desperately scrambling. We already have our cats and personal belongings here. The money and time needed to go back to our home country is too much.

I just was reading and stumbling upon Vlad the Impaler history recently and KCD got my brain going yaoi edition history so. Also historical brutality and angst also write themselves around him. He was loyal to the dude who arranged his father's death at one point. The potential is endless.

See, you get it. I also had thoughts about that favoritism. Vlad himself was noted to bounce around a lot in loyalties after being released from the Ottomans too. I think there could be some fun in crafting a story around those times and Vlad's future brutality.