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From ANON - Nicholas Sanders on October 07, 2013
I just spend this last week reading your story from start to finish. Let me say it was amazing, and I'm sad that its been 2 years since you've worked on it. I'd do anything to see this story continued, so if you ever do update (or if you see this review eventually) I want to know if it's ever going to be continued! Thank you, thank you, for such a wonderful story. Especially because you used the manga plot and the manga was such a good read. I don't think I've found another fic yet that follows the mangaverse.... Here's one hoping to see this story continue! Til then, fairwell!
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From ANON - B_sparkles on June 27, 2010
Just wanted to say hi! and make sure you're being well and just having a major writer's block.
I miss this story, hope to hear you soon.

B.
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From TheJinxess on February 05, 2010
I made you some fanart!! I hope you like it!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/myamichi/vashwood-2.png
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From Bsparkles on January 31, 2010
You know, it always takes you just the chap's title to make me tingle in anticipation cause your titles are such a meaningful and fair good introduction and just reading them allows me to savour in advance the whole chap.

So, "Changes", indeed there're quite some for two main characters.
Knives has been changing but not quite so much, he doesn't seems to realize his methods are still quite questionable (I think there's an English saying about a leopard and his spots), as a matter of facts it would sound unnatural if Knives transformation was that easy, it's just believable that it's still going to take some time to make him understand how to deal with his emotions and above all to respect the others'will.

Wolfwood has changed a lot too, his barriers are finally crashing down and he's giving Vash a definitive show of trust and love.
I was actually stunned in seeing him admit his weakness and asking for Vash's help but then I'm sure Vash would never let him down and Wolfwood really needed something like that in his life.
I loved how you pictured how Wolfwood feels in his mind, it suits him so much, his feelings are just like him strong, passionate and direct.

Jenk is turning out really funny.

Thank you once again cause you give me always a great time with this story.
*hugs hard*
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From ANON - Senna-chan on January 12, 2010
Wheee, you updated~! And it seems there's at least more chapters to come, yay!

I can imagine Knives acting like this, because in the manga he really did change. The way you described Wolfwood's way of thinking was interesting and I adored the part where Vash "tests" it by saying his love. ^_^
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From Bsparkles on January 04, 2010
This has nothing to do with the story but since I didn't know how else to contact you...

I just wanted to wish you a wonderful Happy New Year!
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From PrettyArbitrary on December 27, 2009
Pitchforks and fire, yep! :D But luckily it won't be necessary, because my farming implements are all snowed in in the garage.

You don't have to thank me! You already did all the work, writing this story! Thorough reviews were the least I could do in return, and it was hardly a chore because it's *fun* to talk about great writing. :)
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From ANON - Senna-chan on December 23, 2009
Hell yeah, finally some good fanfiction!

I recently - maybe few days ago, dunno really - woke up the Wolfwood/Vash/Wolfwood fan-girl in me, but I've been fan of Trigun a lot longer. Can you imagine the misery of getting in to a pairing in such old, finished manga? It means that most of the fanfiction is also dead, and sheesh, finding a good Wolfwood/Vash-fic was. So. Hard.

So I have to thank you soooo much for this lovely story (not finished yet, I hope?) even if you kinda rewrite the ending. But who cares, as long as there's some nice smexing and a extremely good plot, you can write almost anything you want from these guys and I'll like it.
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From ANON - B_sparkles on December 03, 2009
Woah!! I love double dose!

I was looking forward for "Reunion" and I wasn't disappointed.
You're doing a great job in portrating Knives' transformation. No big words and no blatant gestures but broken sentences, confused thoughts, doubts, overwhelming emotions.
And then Knives letting, actually, helping, Vash and Nicholas being close is more revealing than thousands words.

I've always tought that one of the thinghs that felt more wrong in the anime version was the way they delt with Knives, there's such a huge disproportion between the wideness, deepness of Knives' hatred for the human kind and the reasons which are supposed to be the cause of that hatred, he's quite an absurd character, and that affects the meaning of his fight with Vash.
In the manga it has far more sense, Knives' trauma is deep and personal and somehow explains why he's become what he is.

"Homecoming" is the perfect title for that chap.
There is the same feeling of their first time toghether fluttering, all over the scene.
The need of deep, close contact, of breaking through the barriers and the ghosts of the past to find themselves in each other.
It was another touching moment.

Then, thinking in retrospective, I think that "Guided Steps" is a significative title in more than one way.
I've always tought that Nicholas somehow completed what Rem started, making Vash understand the true extent of his power, of his possibilities, of his aims and of his feelings.

I'm so happy this story is going to continue, I could understand if you're willing to finish it, it has been keeping you busy for so long, but, you know, if it was for me I'll keep you chained to this story for something like forever, it's just too amazingly good.
Thank you
B.

(I check out this story regularly, so I know almost immediately when you update, the reason why it usually take me so long to review, is that I always start planning to read the previous chap. to catch up and I always end up reading the story all over again! But guess what? I don't mind! At all! Not even one bit!! ^__^)
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From PrettyArbitrary on November 12, 2009
And here I am at the end so far (aside from the bonus Halloween round). I'm kinda glad I found this before it was quite finished, because that way it's more like praising you to your face when I review. And you do deserve praise. Original fiction is missing out on a helluva writer if you only work on fan fiction, but for a story like this I can't say I'm sorry about it. I've already told you how perfectly written the characters are, and how much I love that you paid attention to the nuances in the manga that didn't necessarily get a light shown hard on them. I've told you you've got some beautiful language. I don't think I've told you how Vash and Wolfwood and Livio make me laugh when they're being weird, bickering children. The scene where Vash tells Livio that Wolfwood's pretty but dumb nearly slew me, and Wolfwood's comments about being the "idiot whisperer" were possibly even funnier. The sex scenes...ho man. *fans self* I admit to a special fondness for a dominant Wolfwood, and here I cannot complain because you delivered on that, but more importantly they are beautiful and respectful and as in-character as you are with everything else. You write as mean a fight scene as you do a sex scene; the confrontation with Legato was utterly badass, and the fight with Knives might just as well have been drawn in the manga for how visual it was (actually, I lie; it was considerably easier to follow than the fight scenes in the manga).

It's obvious that you love all the characters from the way you write them, but your rendition of Wolfwood bears a special sensitivity...or should that be insensitivity? I dunno, but you write him so flawlessly that I strongly suspect that he's your favorite. :D I'm so glad he lived here; as poignant as his death was, I can't think of a character I've ever been sadder at seeing die (dammit, do the Japanese *have* to do that samurai hero thing? They're as bad as we are with Westerns...oh wait ;) ). At any rate, I believe this may in fact be the perfect Trigun story. I'm glad I came along when I did; in time to read almost the whole thing but with a bit of epilogue to wait on.

Thank you so much for writing this!
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From PrettyArbitrary on November 12, 2009
I realized I forgot to mention how much I like Livio. He's a little crazy; it's adorable.

Not as crazy as Wolfwood or Vash, though. Hoo boy, those boys are wrecked up in the head. I'm such a sucker for crazy paired with mad skills. You do such a brilliant job with their inner voices. It makes me feel like I'm reading a story about *them* rather than a particular author's interpretation of them.

Also, I think I should mention how incredibly hot the sex scenes are. *Damn.* I also like the equality of their relationship. Both these men are alpha types, but they can both be very vulnerable too.
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From PrettyArbitrary on November 11, 2009
Oh. My. God. I don't know what to say. This is incredible. Wolfwood and Vash are so *perfect.* You have their masks and every desperate, painful, bittersweet thing underneath. I've never seen such good characterization for them, especially their manga versions, which are so much more complicated than they are in the anime. Wolfwood is pure and undiluted. You arguably took a few liberties with Vash, but they make *sense.* I see the same thing you do: that not killing isn't a simple matter of hero = selfless sacrifice for him, but something much more conflicted; a reasoned choice he has made over and over rather than a reflexive purity. It's something I love about manga-Vash: that the sainthood, all the perfection has nothing to do with innocence (like the girls, who so very much don't understand the world Vash and Wolfwood live in) but is all a matter of choice. That every time he throws himself in front of a bullet, he's deliberately choosing Rem's way, and that he is not at all impervious to the same fears and angers that sway Knives. You're the only writer I've ever seen to pick up on that, let alone actively explore it. So the extension of that, that there's a certain conviction lacking behind his pursuit of his brother and that Wolfwood gave him a personal reason that he hadn't had before, makes perfect sense. (Especially recalling the emptiness we see in him after Wolfwood's death, when he stops smiling, stops even pretending like his life isn't a devastated wasteland.)

And something about the way you handle the attraction between them is so good! I mean, not that the manga exactly makes it hard to see ("I want to share my tomorrows with him?" At the *least* it taps the homosocial ambiguity lurking about in Westerns, if not going straight-up Brokeback Mountain). But here it's not a tacked-on thing; it's an unspoken, accepted outgrowth of how they're already stated to feel about each other.

I'll also do a shout-out to the characterization of the other characters. Knives is uncompromising; Legato is appropriately terrifying; Meryl is (bless you!) magnificent in her fierce loyalty even to a friend she's terrified of.

In all (and keep in mind I'm only finished with the first chapter so far) this is purest, unadulterated awesome, and I am *so glad* you wrote it and that I found it.
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From Bsparkles on October 31, 2009
I liked the scream/calling, it was unexpected and it startled me, I could almost hear it, from the very deep of his being, it was intense.
I also liked the feather thing, did you have it planned in advance or it just jump up to your mind? 'Cause it's a very good idea!
I have a feeling this is going to turn adventurous.
And then...a changed/reformed Knives?? This is quite a hard task, but, I guess, a good author can only enjoy such a challenge, anyway, I wish you good luck, my dear.

And I absolutely love grumpy, sarcastic, chain-smoking, smart-assed fairies ^___^

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From Bsparkles on October 15, 2009
He woke up! *sighs of relief*

I was fully expecting the showdown between Vash and Knives being a duel of willpower and I always tought that the best way to dealt with Knives's crimes was making him experience first-hand the pain he caused, so I'm completely satisfied with this chap.

But, still, there's more to come, and I'm thrilled.

I was pleased with Luida apparition in this chap 'cause I love the way you have every secondary character perfectly defined and even if that dialogue works as a link, supposedly connecting two main series of events, it still keeps the right, intense, atmosphere and it's an elegant solution to explain, shortly, but effectually, what's going on.

I'm glad to know that there're at least two more chaps, that means I don't have to say goodbay, yet.

(And if you have some spare time, may I suggest you to check out Wolfwood's voice in the italian version of the anime? I think you'll be pleasently surprised!)
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From Bsparkles on August 26, 2009
OH. MY. GOD! I think you have absolutely outdone yourself with this chap!
The fight with Legato truly reminded me of the most hard, strong, graphic pages in the manga, your writing is so wonderful that it enobles even the most gruesome matter.
I love the switching of setting/point of view, it's very cinematographic, and it slowly builds up an enormous tension that kept me chained to the page.
I was truly hoping that Wolfie could menage to get trough this without further damage but it seems it has to be always the hardest way for him (sigh!), but I can hardly complain, 'cause it touched me to no end to see him seeking refuge in the sweetest, tenderest place inside his memories, and then summon all of his strenght and courage to face hell, one more time, in the end, I like the way he shots down Legato, it's the perfect brutal ending for such a sick depraved character.
I totally appreciate the way you developed Livio/Razlo, making him such a meaningful charater, exploring his very soul, finding that hint of a deeper feeling for W. that was buried inside him all along the years, for me it has a lot of sense like that.
The masterstroke is the ending dialogue beetween Livio and Wolfwood, I absolutely went crazy for the way you keep them such in character, even in the hardest, darkest moment, they're just covering their feelings behind a shelter of cool, ironic, smart-assed remarks, then... the kiss was genious and the hugging was so sweet I could cry (again!), I love the way you do sweet, never sickening, always justified and realistic.
Finally, I want to make you know, as far as I love deep, meaningful, intense, incredibly well-written angst, now I'm fully expecting a big, fluffy, smutty, HAPPY-ending, (please? I know you can do it!)...well... at least as much fluffy as it can be anything involving Wolfwood ;)
I'm looking forward for the next chap, it promises to be as beautiful as this one.
(By the way, I haven't read the last volume of the manga yet, I've ordered it some months ago but it seems hard to get it, but this doesn't matter anymore 'cause since I've started reading this fic I've instantly decided that THIS will be my own personal official version of how Trigun ends!)
Thank you.
B.

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