Author. Unwilling participant. Increasingly unreliable witness.
Jon began writing The Interdimensional Apology Initiative under the reasonable assumption that authors control their stories. This assumption did not survive the second draft.
Somewhere between the appearance of the orb and the misfiling of several metaphysical documents, the manuscript developed a degree of operational independence. Chapters rearranged themselves. Appendices emerged without consultation. Administrative language appeared in places Jon does not remember typing.
He remains, in principle, responsible for the narrative.
In practice, the narrative now accepts responsibility for itself.
Jon spends much of his time attempting calm negotiation with a text that responds primarily through structural alteration. Tea consumption has increased accordingly. The dog remains supportive but unconvinced.
His defining strength is persistence in the face of narrative drift.
His defining weakness is having written a universe capable of continuing without him.
Current status: present, but no longer in charge.