It has been a long, long time since I last looked at this story. It was one of the first I read and followed on fanfiction, back when I joined in 2012. I thought then it was a wonderful story to read and having done so again now, I still do.

Thank you for taking the time to update this and I hope it inspires you to continue updating. I'm not sure I could cope with another ten year hiatus! Best of luck!

This chapter update is going down in history as one of the few gems of 2020. Thank you so much for returning to this. Admittedly, I hadn't thought about this story in a very long time as I myself have sort of drifted from the ff world, but nonetheless I was thrown right back into the storyline without any hesitation. I wanted to wrap myself up in your words. Such beautiful characterization. I am always here for Tidus and Yuna. Always.

I’ve only read your author’s note but I just wanted to say on the get go: THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE!
I literally just checked your page yesterday hoping for an update, so you can imagine my surprise upon receiving an email notif today!

I’m sure the overarching bg plot isn’t as juvenile as you think. You’re a wonderful writer! I’ve been reading ff for more than a decade now, and yours is easily part of my top 10! The unique and glorious opportunity of fanfiction is that it’s essentially a study of adaptations, allowing us not only to revisit the story we all know and love, but also to explore the characters & their world in a different light which fleshes out other details and complexities only hinted at in the original source material—and well, the way you recreated the FFX story for us has been so realistic it could’ve been easily canon... but also what you’ve built everything is also so refreshing that it feels as if it’s an entirely new work! (Sorry if I’m rambling! I’m writing this in a rush before breakfast!)

I’m definitely here for Tidus and Yuna but I wouldn’t have been as hooked without your overarching plot and all the wonderful (big and small) details of the world you put in this—all of which greatly factors in to the characters’ identities and the complexity of their relationships. Plus, you’ve crafted it in such a way that it wasn’t just an icing on the cake, but an integral part of the whole story! I’m as invested in the Tidus-Yuna relationship as much as Auron’s & Jecht’s past and the yet unrevealed details of Braska’s pilgrimage!

Please have my infinite thanks for updating! I’ll take my time to reread this again from the beginning before I touch on the latest chapter!

Oh and one last thing: you may also want to post on AO3. I know there are more readers there :)

I've come back and reread this story so many times over the years, as it never fails to make me happy. I can't even describe how excited I was to see an update on this latest reread!

I love the way you've written Tidus and Yuna (and all the others as well, but those two are undoubtedly my favorite), and it's been so wonderful reading everything from their first meeting to where we are now. Your writing continues to be captivating and I could not stop smiling while reading this latest chapter. Thank you again for sharing this story and continuing it!

It's been a long time, but I still love the story as much now as I did the day I first read it. It's just so wonderfully written and imagined. Like a flower, just keeps blooming into something more and more beautiful. Even if you never read this review, I just want to thank you so much for every word of this. Take care, friend.

This is really beautiful; sweet and complicated. I love the way that Tidus and Yuna talk about love bringing a shift in perspective, and the slow path to the realization of that love, and the giddiness that comes from finally giving it words. I love the complication of it too; Tidus’s intense feelings of worry-anger-resentment at seeing Yuma’s sending, the fear of someone you love being in this intense and intensely important place/experience and being out of your depth and helpless and not really understanding. Tidus grappling with that feels very real, and I liked the way he came to appreciate that part of her and recognized how important and beautiful it is too. I really enjoyed the framing of the Les Mis Marius/Cosette relationship; the story and the city feel very richly painted, like Paris and Rue Plummette in Les Miserables, and the parallels between Auron and Jean Valjean are really interesting and well done. At the same time, the story feels very much original and it’s own. I think it’s all very beautiful. I know this review is coming nine years after this was posted, but I have enjoyed reading it very much, and thank you for posting it.

This is amazing and very well-written! I love it-all the growing relationships and the growing tension of the mystery. Poor Auron and Yuna.

I hope you're doing well! :)

Hello ma'am, I'd like to let you know that you said it would not be teen years until the next chapter. However, it seems that the time is coming and you only have so much time to keep your promise ;)

It's been seven—maybe eight?—years since your last update and I hope if finds you well.

Just found this, read it once, read it again, it's even better on a second read. You've transposed the characters into a new story in what's effectively a new setting while still preserving—and arguably even refining—their essences; your prose flows so well and it's styled just so...judiciously: unafraid of simplicity, yet unhesitating to dazzle where it should, and always with an understated elegance.

I could go on and on, but, honestly—you can write; you can really write.

My life's the richer for having read this. Thank you.

PS: this reunion reads much more realistically to me—and thus much more convincingly for me—than any Hollywood-esque run-and-hug. I don't think that's cynicism, it's just life more as it is.

PPS: I don't consider it a cop-out to translate the 'love scene' as you have. Aside from being a nod to the source material, doing it as you have hits the same emotional notes: the vulnerability, intimacy, and expression of support for Yuna's chosen, difficult path are what resonate—at least for me—and it lends itself well to languid floating broken up with some kissing here and there.

PPPS: If I may dare to make a suggestion—motivated only in hopes of seeing you bring this to a conclusion, should you so wish—I think one way to move forward again is just to have Tidus and Yuna meet Jecht ASAP. This seems like it can be done naturally: his friends would be glad they're "official" but keep telling him Yuna deserves better than to be sneaking out every night, and Lulu seems like she'd make that introduction a condition for her ongoing assistance—no more sneaking around on her watch! Jecht seems like he'd inadvertently reveal her true parentage to her, provide some of the context to explain why it's been kept from her, and—surprising himself, even—find himself vociferously-defending Auron to Tidus. In the same way that the more-"cynical" reunion rings truer, for me at least, it would ring very true for Jecht's side of the decade-old Auron/Jecht feud to just...evaporate...as soon as Jecht sees that Auron has realized Braska's dream (of a happy life for his daughter). He would still have to reconcile with Auron, of course, but he'd find himself barely remembering what they were so mad about back then.

Or something, I know you said you planned this out and I wouldn't presume to tell you how this story should go.

Thanks, again, for writing this and, again, I hope this finds you well.

I can wait 3 years. ;)

lovely, i love this tenderness between the two made me blush and smile. (psst btw, its been 6 years, you said 10, only 4 for your promise to be broken haha. but no presure, you write really well!)

I knew what I was doing when I started reading this. I saw the date for the last chapter, I read the update on your profile from 2012... I knew that it wasn't completed, but I couldn't stop myself. Your writing is just so beautiful, so compelling and raw. I drank in all the stunning words you wrote and dreamt where the story would go next when my eyelids became too heavy to continue reading. And now, here I am. Despairing, because there's been no update for 6 years. It's always the best authors that take ages. I accept that, because it's always worth it. But please, just know, this story is not forgotten and will be pined after for as long as it takes. Thank you for this beautiful story. I hope to see more from you soon.

Well um, you said it wouldn't be 10 years, so...

You got 4 years left :D

DARN IT,KIDS!GET MARRIED OR SOMETHING! Or at least get engaged.
Again,I'm half ...
I'm curious about the secrets of Yuna's father actually.

You said that Tidus's thoughts about Yuna for his age were unnatural. They aren't unlike mine,in the sense that I don't stray into unclean thoughts. I've recently had a slight crush for someone. Im a teenager so I sometimes have ahem.. urges yet even when I do I'd shield parts of my mind from the burning onslaught it brings. Those parts include her,the same way i do for my family.

meh,perhaps I'm wrong but here iit is my 2 cents of thoughts.