Heart wrenching and beautiful

I love this story so much. It made me cry and laugh all at the same time. Thank you for writing this.

thank you

That was so heartrenchingly beautiful. I cried and laughed and cried, and then I thought I could cry no more but then I did. Ah. You are an amazing author, to do that to a reader and then for them to still want more. Thank you.

Wondering insightful, heartbreakingly sweet, and entirely depressing. Everything a death fic should be. Excellent job.

Woah

Amazingly, horribly sad. My feels have gone and died again.

my heart is breaking apart

Ow... my heart...TTmTT this was so beutifully written, and the grief all the mentorss would feel loosing their partners in such a violent way was so true tolife. You really captured how much young justice was loved andd how much they would be missed. I'm going to go cry my eyes out now.

Why.

I hate u.

Why. I am legit tearing up and I keep going back to re read the on with Bruce and Dick and I just can't. I hate you, but I love you too. That's weird whatever. I'm emotionally unstabpe right now, don't talk to me.

Every dam time. This story gets me every time. Until I feel like crying and screaming and raging and sobbing and yelling to the world that it isn't fair.

So brilliant job. Sad, but brilliant, and the closest a story has come to making me cry. It's so emotionally raw, and it just . . . It's something else, something beautiful and tragic and not truly fit for words, because words won't do it justice.

No words

You just broke my heart. :'( Still... beautiful!

I have to admit that when I first stumbled upon this story, I didn't actually expect much, but curiosity decided I take a look at it.

I'm painfully-agonizingly-glad that I did.

Despite the summary and the note at the beginning, I was confused while reading the first-J'onzz's-part, and it was a while into Ollie's that my brain continued being the annoyingly stubborn thing it is and kept trying to find 'explanations', answers as to how this fic's in-story came to happen and all that.

And then, I read Red Tornado's part, and I literally broke down crying. After I managed to clear my sight, my heart kept breaking a little more as I kept reading, with Black Canary's part threatening to undo me again, especially that about only having to choose one...

And then, Bruce. It was funny in a heartbreaking way to see-because it wasn't mere reading by then-Bruce Wayne smile and be so... HUMAN, but it was also so fitting, so RIGHT, for his relationship with Dick to be like that, that I never stopped envisioning it, as if it had been part of the show all along. Until that sentence about the kiwi-scented shampoo and Zatanna's lavender and HIS CHILDREN. Bruce-BATMAN's children. Because that was when I realized it was TRUE, that I may have not noticed ever before, but that it didn't make it any less real.

And then Batman walks away and my heart breaks FOR HIM.

I felt kind of emotionally numb after that, as if I had spent my feelings, my tears, after that, even if I had to smile-not without my eyes misting-at Aquaman's last words to Kaldur, but I was, once more, wrong.

As soon as I got to the part of Billy finding the Batman plushie in Conner's room, I laughed, because it was such a Robin thing to do, and kind of ironic in a painful way that Superboy had such a toy of Batman when I finally realized the relationship between Batman and the Team, but I kept reading nevertheless, not even stopping, and, as soon as I read the next sentence, about the apple pie recipe, I had to literally turn away as tears suddenly sprang out of nowhere once again.

Strangely enough, at least for me now that I'm clearing my head and have finished reading and putting everything together, I now realize I'm not feeling actually sad. In fact, I feel... warm. That's the closest I can get to explain it. Because despite the darkness, the reason for all those scenes, I just can't make myself feel heartbroken or emotionally crushed or all that 'my feels are drowning in a pool of tears' state. I feel as if I just read one of those "character is at an all-time low for whatever reason and things only get worse but their family/friends come through for them in the end and there's an emotional and teary happy ending with lots of hugging and declarations of love" story. And I know that no matter hor many times I read through it again, I will always feel like that. Almost as if it had been I who had made pace with the heroes, JL and Team alike, instead of the characters.

And I thank you for it. For making me look at YJ in a way I never realized before, for warming me up to characters that were never more than 'those others along my favourites in that cool show'. For making the tears, the slaps in the face, the heartbreaks, happen.

Thank you. Thank you very much.