Eight years later, and this is probably still my favorite TF2 fic ever. Just wanted to say I'm glad you wrote it.

im crying

Well diddly damn. That was spicy.

Dear Lightnings:

Tiny thing, but - would you really call that summary K-rated?

Sincerely,
Qoheleth

*wincing sharply* I. . . This whole story was a punch to the gut, I cried a little at parts, gasped in horror upon hearing about Mikey, and, and. . . This. . . This is a really good fricking story, you know that? Even if it was brief and centered more on Scout and a little on Spy, but you captured everyone really, really well in this. . . Great fracking work man, never stop being awesome!

Jesus Christ I was not expecting such a story. Honestly feels like a work of art, from the story to the way the characters seem to be so relatable.

...I had to log in because I needed to impossibly attempt to spam this as a favorite story.

*Is a legit user too lazy to log in*
I'm not crying, but I pretty much am at the verge on tears.
Amazing.

Aw...why did you have to go and mess with my emotions like that, huh? Of course somebody had to go take a humorous throwaway line and make it heartbreakingly tragic. :( You've ruined that taunt (and strangely enough, the word Technicolor) for me. The hematemesis was appropriately chilling, but that does tend to be appropriately chilling either way...
I'm curious about the description of the peptic ulcers (gastric or duodenal?) as "gaping holes", though - that makes me think more of perforation than ulceration. But then again, perforation is possible with ulcers.
Anyhoo, forgive the intrusion, don't mind me, carry on _

Nicely done! I think that's a great concept taken from that line!

Good job, great storytelling from scout, although are the scouts related? if so, why are they fighting each other? these questions burn though my mind.

So, was the Spy Scout's father? I'm not entirely sure. Great story, though.

Make more! You have an awesome style of writing!

Loved you fic, you write so amazingly well that it's easy to think it really is Scout telling the story. There are a couple of things I don't understand, though, namely the relationship between the teams' scouts and spies. Are they clones in your fic or how is it that the Scouts apparently both have the rainbow issue and the same mother, yet are not brothers? And why would RED Spy need to inform the other about what? I'm all confused now.

Alright, number 1? Not cool.
Number 2. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT
3. Please
and 4. No stop it.
You've done the one thing I've always wanted to do when writing. Emotion. Like, holy mother balls, the emotion in this. And the insane amount of character kept in this, especially from Scouts side. And, come on, Spy - you need to stop being a dick-bag to your team-mates, you grumpy sod!
But seriously, I loved that ending, those last few lines, that bit with the bleeding rainbows. Man, I don't know what to say other than I bloody loved it. Not many stories get me in a "hey i wanna write long paragraphs of speech and just speech because hot diggity". And you also taught me not to rush shit just to get it out there and to just take time on chapters, cause that's not something I do well. But, my goodness, this was amazing, from start to finish.
...Sorry for this being so long.