Ah, good question, and I should have said something about it up front.
![e_confused :e_confused:](http://excelsagaforum.com/Smileys/default/e_confused.gif)
I'm trying to make a point of doing it differently from the actual series; for example, Excel meets Umi in vol 16 (which isn't really a spoiler, since they're on the cover together), so I wrote Excel meeting Umi in my fic. In the fic, though, it's under completely different circumstances, so Excel treats her differently and different things happen as a result of that meeting. Except for that core, 'Excel meets Umi', there's nothing to be spoiled. And if you don't know that she's meeting Umi anyway, it's not really a spoiler; Excel will also meet people in the fic that she hasn't met in future volumes.
So I guess what I'm saying is, small parts of it are inspired by little things that happen in future volumes, but there shouldn't be any spoilers at all.
...Exceeeeeeeeept the two-Excels thing, which I think (hope?) everybody's already caught onto by now.
I will also be writing Excel and Il Palazzo's emo emo backstory later in the fic, but rest assured, I am
completely making it up.
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