Date: 02/27/12 08:51 am Title: Promise me...
this was so sad!!
Author's Response: yikes this was back in my emo days...sorry to make you sad
Date: 07/01/11 01:36 am Title: Promise me...
You should read this while listening to Harder Than You Know and Something by Escape The Fate or Remember by In This Moment. Those songs came in while I was reading this and it made it more intense ten fold. Really good story but the ending reminded me of a friend of mine who committed suicide.......
Author's Response: Did they? I've never actually listened to those, but I shall give it a try, thank you - and wow, I'm so sorry for that, I truly am. I wrote this a long time ago, but a year after that, a friend of mine committed suicide, and it just shocked me. I can empathize with you, I'm so very sorry for your loss.
Date: 05/09/10 05:06 am Title: Promise me...
D: gah! that was so sad! really nicely written but i wouldnt recommend reading it and listening to in your shadow (which is what i did) it just makes it seem 10x more sad! :(
Author's Response: Thanks....:) And I'm sorry it made you sad :P But that's the point of the story, isn't it? Getting readers to feel the emotion of the characters..
Date: 05/08/10 11:42 pm Title: Promise me...
Escape the Fate is a band. btw. I cried while reading this! I can't believe Billa cut his hair. I hope that Tomi and Billa are happy.
Author's Response: Yeah, I figured ;) Thanks for letting me know ^_^ and hehe, yeah, well...he's insane, in the story. And uh. If you mean in the story, well, they're dead. But if you mean in real life then yeah, I'm sure they're doing fine :)
Date: 05/08/10 04:23 am Title: Promise me...
Wow! Very intense!
Author's Response: Thanks! :)
Date: 05/08/10 12:57 am Title: Promise me...
what i thought? i wanted to cry, alot. so sad, i cant believe there are real people out there who really have to deal with that. it must be so heartbreaking knowing there is nothing you can do.
but still ur story was amazing. good job, very good job :)
Author's Response: Oh, I'm sorry :( I always feel so bad when people tell me they wanted to cry when they read my work. But also in a way I feel proud, since it means I did a good job xD
Thank you very much :)
Date: 05/07/10 11:44 pm Title: Promise me...
Wow.. that was... beautiful.
For Bill, that was crazy[sorry for lack of good words :'( ], made my heart hurt. .___.
He's not even there.. Wesley. I used to know a little boy named Wesley, he was insane too. It was sad, he had to be taken out of school. I never saw him again? :/
Anyways, Tom.. that broke my heart. I get why Bill would want no hair. When people fall into utter insanity they cut the hair. Which resembles 'cleanness' and freedom. Though, I cannot see our lovely and gorgeous Billie bald. XD Haha.
Another note, Bill is lost near the end. To only recognize Tom's voice. Wesley is like his second heart. Telling him to follow it. SECOND heart because his real one is like.. well... true. Apparently Tom killed Bill in the end. Maybe to end the destructive pain eating and ripping his twin. It's depressing. Tom having to watch his own second half, mirror image, brother, twin, own blood practically claw at the bead and escape it all. To be restrained..
I highly adored this. I held my breathe throughout reading the entire thing, this was AMAZING.
And isn't there a song/band called Escape the fate? XD I'm sure I've heard of that.
Either way, GLORIOUS FIC< 333
Author's Response: Thank you so much :)rn
Ah....I'm sorry that you never saw your friend again :( I have a friend who went to the mental hospital, but she isn't insane, merely childish. She wanted attention more so than anything. But I do believe there are people with real problems who need to go to places like mental hospitals, and most of the time the treatment methods are awful, they leave the patients worse off in some ways than they were before. It's emotionally damaging for some people, having to go through that.rn
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And ah...yeah. I wasn't thinking much when I wrote it, I just felt that that would be what Bill would want XD Good to know that it worked out in the end :P But yes, I can't imagine him bald either XDDrn
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Indeed he is. And yes, indeed, Wesley is the closest of his imaginary friends- he is the first friend Bill makes who isn't real, the one who told him that Tom was trustworthy enough to be entrusted with the syringe.rn
I know it seems harsh that Tom would kill his own brother. And the guilt was enough to kill him too, in the end. But I feel that if it were me, I would not be able to watch my brother going through that, either. No human being should ever hold another's life in his or her control, in my opinion, but I wrote in the part where Bill asks Tom to do it for that reason - Bill knew before it happened that it would happen, that he would deteriorate and lose control of even the most basic mental functions, and he knew how much it would kill Tom inside to watch him suffer like that.rn
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Thank you so much!! :) You know, now that you mention it, and someone else mentioned it in a review as well...I think it's possible that Escape The Fate is a band or a song. I thought of Cinema Bizarre but then I checked my iPod and saw that their song that I was thinking of is Escape to the Stars...I don't know, I'll have to check if it is a band or a song, or something.rn
Thank you once again for the lovely review :) b29;
Date: 05/07/10 11:38 pm Title: Promise me...
I LUV THIS BAND! I love them almost as much as I love TH!
Author's Response: I don't understand what you mean by that.
Date: 05/07/10 10:34 pm Title: Promise me...
This made me cry. It was absolutely beautiful and terrible at the same time. The pain and emotion was so real. It was a great read- fantastic job!
Author's Response: Oh...I'm...sorry :P But thank you so much for your kind words! :)
Date: 05/07/10 05:28 pm Title: Promise me...
Hopefully this review doesn't cut off since I'm on my phone. But...wow. This was stunning. I adored how dark it was and the last scene gave me chills. I love it @__@
Author's Response: Well, if you wrote anything past "I love it @__@" then it probably cut off, because that's where it ends :P But in any case - thank you very much for the review, and thanks for your kind words :) I am very glad you like it :)
Date: 05/07/10 04:25 pm Title: Promise me...
I liked it. I never read death fics, so I don't know what made me try this one. I guess you really lured me in with the summary.
What a unique story to tell. It was good as a oneshot, but it would have made a great chaptered fic as well. You could have made it into a tragic love story, while still giving it the same ending.
One thing I think would have improved it is if you had drawn the last moment out longer; really shown how hard it was for Tom and how much it hurt him to both see his brother like that, and to press the injection in.
The last bit about Tom having his own room made me wonder if he's committed for something too?
And I didn't like the noose. It just seemed, I dunno, melodramatic or stereotyped. I would have liked it better if had said that Tom had another syringe waiting in his room for him.
Overall, a very sad story. Kind of reminded me of million dollar baby.
Good job.
Author's Response: Thank you! :) I think I'm getting better at summaries, I never was very good at them :P Hehe.rnrnThank you :) And indeed, perhaps I could have, but I don't write twincest unless Tom and Bill are unrelated.rnrnHmm. Thank you for the advice :) I'll work on that.rnrnWell, I didn't see Tom as being committed for something...it's hard to explain, but I somehow saw it as them living in a house together. They have doctors on call for him, but he's not in a mental institution, he's in his own home at this point.rnrnReally? Hmm...I will consider this and see if I can rewrite it somehow.rnrnThank you. :)