"Anne" is a 26-year veteran of the Ranma 1/2 fandom, having run an IRC (it's Discord for old people) channel called #Ranmania back in the late 1990s with a group of friends she still considers her brothers and sisters a quarter-century later. She writes Anne-Ominously in the fandom space. It's fair to say that, through her own difficult teenage years, escaping into Ranma's world saved her life, and now, Phoenix is Anne's attempt to give Ranma her own happily ever after in return and gratitude. Along the way, the story has touched countless people at different points on their own difficult journeys, and it brings Anne endless joy to know that Phoenix can be a light in the darkness for people who need it.