Date: 08/07/08 11:18 am Title: Prologue
This fic just gets better with time
Date: 08/03/08 06:35 am Title: Epilogue
Confession time. I just now finished reading this story. I knew the ending was going to be heart wrenching and back when you actually finished the story, I wasn't in a place emotionally where I could handle reading it. I'm glad I waited, because if I'd read this a month ago I would have been sobbing uncontrollably.
It's the ending I expected. I still don't know if it's the ending I wanted. I don't think Bill will ever love Tom the way he loved Bushido. I know he loves Tom, but it's just not the same. I'm happy for Bushido. He had an honorable, purposeful death and found peace in the afterlife. That's probably the best outcome that could have come from all this.
It's sort of strange that the only person in this story that I feel got a happy ending is the one who died. I feel horrible for Bill and the loss he's going through. The confusion he must feel over that last message. May the Gods take pity on Andreas if Bill ever finds out what he did. I suppose the same can be true of Tom finding out what Bill has done. Poor Tom. I feel so angry for him. I hate that he's in the dark, but I don't want him to find out what happened because I don't want him to be hurt. I guess I hope everyone stays in the dark, but that leaves them to live with their guilt and that leaves Bill to suffer through his grief alone.
There's so much more I could say but I can't collect my thoughts.
This story is beautiful and it is still one of my favorite stories on the site. No, that's not quite right. It's just one of my favorite stories.
Date: 07/23/08 06:08 pm Title: Epilogue
captivating, heart wrenching, edge-of-the-seat anticipation. i have read literally thousands of fan-fiction oriented stories, this one is in the top ten. WOW
Date: 07/22/08 03:06 pm Title: Epilogue
I cried. I'm still crying...
Date: 07/22/08 01:33 am Title: A Time To Be Born, And A Time To Die
Wow. I really don't like the Bill/Bushido pairing even though I like both men, but this story was executed flawlessly. At times i had to stop reading because the angst got to me and I couldn't concentrate, but I always came and read some more. It was very well-done and it was quite inventive. I couldn't help but feel deeply sorry for Bushido, but ultimately I wanted to see the twins together. I like that the love between between the twins wasn't as passionate as it was with Bushido. I guess it was sweeter that way.
Again, well done and thank you.
Date: 07/18/08 07:39 pm Title: Epilogue
this simply can't be the end
seriously, i have to read more.
i actually cried at reading this....
i never cry.
Date: 07/18/08 03:49 pm Title: Epilogue
I can't stop crying. this story was wonderful. Alone the both of you write wonderful stories but you two together it's just.......words can not describe it. I wish that one day i will be able to write a story that is so amazing. I thank you.
Date: 07/18/08 03:03 pm Title: Epilogue
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cliffhanger much?!
*cries*
Date: 07/17/08 06:03 pm Title: Prologue
Interesting start, i need to keep reading.
Date: 07/16/08 05:11 am Title: Epilogue
I... I can't... I can't... Oh MY GOD, I can't find words... Holy Shit, I seriously can't find the words to describe what this made me feel, spending all night to read it. I don't know if the ending was worth it, but the story certainly did.
It's the first time I was torn between Bill/Tom and Bill/Bushido.
You can't just DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO ME D:
lol, I'm kidding. I love you, seriously, I enjoyed something after lots of time. I'm glad I checked this out, even this late.
Date: 07/16/08 04:38 am Title: Epilogue
this story is amazing!
i think i prefer tom and bill than bill and someone else but i felt the whole forbidden love going on which was captivating as was the emotion of the story. i didnt want the story to end but i was glad bill choose tom!
Date: 07/15/08 08:06 am Title: Epilogue
I'm speechless. This was just simply great. Marvellous. I'm sad and happy at the same time! More sad, though. I feel so sorry for Bushido, although I didn't like him that much at the beginning. I had wish some kind of chilldlish end for this story that everybody would live happily ever after and still I could never have imagined to end this more properly. Loved it ! Hope you understood, I'm not a native speaker.
Date: 07/14/08 07:12 pm Title: A Time To Be Born, And A Time To Die
ur story was so good and i cried so much at the end! i just really wish that bill and bushido could have been together:( lol i was soooo angry at andreas when he deleted the message...but great job thought, all ur stories r so well written
p.s. maybe one day u could write a long bill/bushido story? pritty please with cherries on top lol?
Author's Response: Haha, we have a Billshido story coming actually. Three chapters of it are already written and we're currently working on the fourth, this moment. It will be up very soon. Until then, go read the Unfurl series. ;) Hopefully, it'll scratch that itch a little.
Date: 07/14/08 06:46 am Title: Epilogue
Not a single fic has made me hurt this terribly in a very, very long time, nor has one made me cry as hard in months, perhaps years. This was utterly, and completely incredible. The end just ripped my heart out with no forgiveness. I will definitely have this in my head for a long time. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Date: 07/13/08 10:41 pm Title: Epilogue
I dont think i have the words to give this a proper review, but I will try to get my thoughts out and into this before they leave my head.
As a 'twincester', as you called them (us), I felt very conflicted while reading this, because it just didn't seem right that Bill was being forced to marry Tom. I felt their love wasn't real in comparison to what Bushido and Bill had felt for each other. That in itself is so very weird for me, because once im in a fandom, if the pairing of choice doesnt end or work out the way i want it to, i lose will to even finish reading the story. More than once i had to stop reading and just convince myself to try again.
I dont think Tom could ever possibly love Bill with the amount of passion that Bushido had. It didnt seem right that Bill would continue to be with Tom just because he was his sahvahd. He should've been with his true love. Tom made me angry so much in this. He didnt respect Bill. He practically told Bill how he should behave and feel. Bushido never expected that of Bill. Tom didnt even care enough about Bill to tell him about Daniel. Even after he'd learned about it, he still didnt properly explain it, and i was expecting Bill to hash it out with him. When it sorta leveled out instead of cresting, i was sorely unsatisfied.
Reading this story has severely altered my perception of the Bill/Tom pairing, at least for this fic. I walked into it expecting it to be the other way around, where i would want Bill to end up with Tom, however, now, i am left feeling like this is a bitter ending rather than a happy one.
I have to wonder why someone as "Devout" as Bill would allow himself to lose control that many times in Bushido's presence, and then i am reminded that it was almost like he was being kept in that marriage agreement against his wishes. Bushido, although the tempter in this story, was meant to be with Bill, and that's why Bill lost himself every time they were together. It made me feel bad for Tom whereas if Bushido had been in Tom's place, I dont think I would've been as upset.
Please dont read this and think i am insulting it. If i truly didnt like it, i would've stopped reading a long time ago. Fantasy as always been really difficult for me to read, and I'm not really sure why. But I've really been wanting to read this for so long, and just decided to finally finish it today. When i was taking Mythology in high school, it was the same thing. I practically had to force myself to read the stories, and if they were as good as this i wouldnt have had to try so hard, ugh. XD. But along with the mythology thing, I almost see Bill as a tragic hero in this. Trying desperately to save people who end up dying because of him anyways.
This ending..Only makes me see it even more as a horribly bitterly sad Billshido fanfic. The TWC sidepairing, which is what it truly feels like for me, is heartbreaking to read, because eventually they will learn to love each other, but Bill will always remember Bushido, and he will always wonder what it would've been like to be with him. I think had Bill received that message, he would've run away with him. I would've felt bad for Tom, but i would've seen it as a happy ending. Again, this is so very confusing for me. ^^'
Plllease dont take this as a flame, i just really wanted to get my thoughts out there, BECAUSE this fic was so very amazing. Congratulations on this, it was truly an amazing ride. ^^
Author's Response: We're not taking it as a flame. :) It's evident that it's the opposite. It's a great compliment to know that this is not your favorite pairing or your favorite genre, and yet you enjoyed it so much.
As for Bill losing his mind, while he did love Bushido, the gods did give them a nudge with the overwhelmingness of it (yeah, I don't think "overwhelmingness" is a word, but whatever). As for it being a Billshido fic, while we won't deny that at all, we meant for it to be just as much a twincest fic. Not sure it came out that way, but that would be our failing as writers, not yours as a reader, lol. Would you believe we started with a plot that didn't include Bushido at all? And then we thought we'd introduce him as an annoying former suitor that Bill had rejected. And then we thought, "well, let's do a love triangle." And then Bill started writing himself and falling more and more in love and we couldn't really stop the little bastard.
We just haven't given Tom as much chance as he should have had... yet. ;)
Date: 07/13/08 12:44 am Title: Epilogue
Uwahhhh! D:
I'm a die hard twincest fan, but just as avid a Billshido fan. I was utterly torn through the entire thing, and still am!
No matter though, it ended beautifully, and my heart aches. I thank you both for your brilliance and talent. I love you guys!! :D
Date: 07/12/08 03:31 pm Title: Bittersweet Surrender
sad to say, i have no sympathy for bill...all of it is for tom. damn, see how well you two've written? ^^
Date: 07/12/08 02:32 pm Title: Penance
....bill makes me uneasy...he couldn't have thought of tom?
Date: 07/10/08 08:32 pm Title: Epilogue
I'm trying to think of a proper way to begin...
I first encountered this story about a week and a half ago. At first, I was a bit hesitant, as it was around a time in which I didn't care much for Alternate Universe stories (in fact, I outright avoided them). But from the first paragraph of the first chapter, I was instantly hooked. Everything you described in this story was so rich and so creative that I felt as though I were reading a genuine novel. I knew what I was about to indulge in was going to be amazing.
So, every night from then on, I'd wait until everyone went to sleep, and I started reading. And... every night I went to bed, I stayed up thinking about what I'd read. I wondered if Bill and Tom would ever come to like each other. I wondered how Bushido would play in on their relationship. I wondered if Bill would break off his engagement with Tom in order to be with Bushido. I wondered how all of this was going to work out for them in the end.
Honestly, I am a Billshido shipper, and would have loved to see them together. But I knew very quickly that this wouldn't and couldn't happen. It's very... tragic, in a Romeo & Juliette-esque sort of way. Beautiful in its misfortune.
The end chapter was a perfect way to ultimately cut the ties between Bushido and Bill--the intense battle scene crossed with the love-making scene; Bushido fighting for Bill, while he gave himself to someone else. That scene in itself almost made me have to stop reading, just so I could collect myself. It extremely powerful.
I'm just so happy I was able to find such a magificent piece of work. I have never read anything else like it, and doubt I ever will.
Author's Response: Wow. Just... thank you. That means a lot.
Date: 07/09/08 12:48 am Title: Prologue
Wow.
Congratulations on writing the first Tokio Hotel-related fic that has reduced me to tears.
The end was painful, almost a little too much, but necessary. My heart breaks for all three of them, I can't even decide who for the most; that was something I could never pin down at any point in the entire story. I had a hard time cheering for either pairing, to be honest... I wanted Bill to be with Tom, but I wanted it to be because Tom was his choice, his preference between the two, so I got my way but it was very bittersweet :P
I truly believe that you could switch the names out of this and publish this as original fiction - you have created SUCH a fascinating world here, I'm left craving more. Not even just of this story and its characters, but of the universe itself.
I have to admit, I'm not saying even half of what I wanted to say, but I just read this entire story within the last two days, so you could say I am feeling a little overwhelmed. Thank you both for creating this and sharing it! Excellent work :)