Wonderful. Yes I guess so.

Yay! I finally found it! I remember reading this fic about four years ago but I didn't have an account then. I also read it without realizing what the show Utena was about. Yet I remember enjoying the story without needing to have a solid base of Utena.

I've got an account now and I've been looking for ages to favorite your story. Today's my lucky day! Now after watching Utena, I can appreciate the story more fully. All the characters act like how I'd imagine they act and the details are amazing. I can totally see this AU happening. Good job!

I've put off this tory until I've seen Utena, and hence I'm here writing a review like...three years after you've completed the fic. I don't know how you've managed it, but you've captured the feel of the Utena universe perfectly, all the while incorporating my OTP into the fic.

I can't believe how in character they were, and perhaps even more developed, in an alternate setting.

I've always been addicted to melancholy. Things that could have been if we've been more honest about how we feel. Things that could have been if not for our damn prides. Things that...even if we knew what could flourish if we did something differently...we would still stick to our mistakes due to the emotional surges of the moment, that we would rather die than to back down at that precise moment. I cried at Quatre's introspective chapter...It scares me to see so much of myself in Quatre. So much of a hypocrite. So imperfect. So afraid to lose no matter how well I take it on the outside. Always jealous. Always envious.

I really don't know how the express the multitude of feelings your fic has inspired. That, and I'll never read Act I scene One the same way again. (R&J had always ben far from my favourite Shakespeare, but your quotes of it made me see it in an entirely new light.)

Thank you for writing this.

And here I am. it's only one fic, and I suppose it's so old that a review doesn't make much of an imapact, still - I feel after the work I went into reading it, I almost owe it to myself to write something down (and how selfish of a motive is that?)

It's a beautiful piece of work. There is a surreal quality to it that I'm unsure (given that I've not read anything else you've written) if it's a style or a chosen tone for the story. Nevertheless it works well here.

In particular, I enjoyed how you wrote as if your reader would understand everything that had passed, only giving small tidbits of information here and there to enforce the responsibility of the reader to be confused and go along for the ride. (In many ways, I am walking away feeling as if I've just finished watching 'lain' or 'Brazil' and sensing that my toes were dipped into something fundamental but having no solid clue as to what just happened.)

A joy to read! I'll have to come back and read more of your things.

Let me begin by saying how much you story is good. IT'S GOOD.

After this, let's begin with comments, which's what this review thing is for, right?

Well, I don't know very well why, but your story attracted me - at first -, and as I started reading, and kept on reading it, it kept on having such an attraction effect on me. And, okay, that might not be all that difficult to happen, but with a story involving a whole world I know absolutely nothing about, well... Let's just say this might only be the very first time. If you let out original stories (as in the ones in fictionpress, just to specify and leave out doubts about it).

The story has a flow pretty interesting, mixing the present with past reminiscences (I like this word! n_n) with monologues not all that understandable, as they really are in first person (duh!), and they go so deep into the character's feelings, and they come, usually - or at least that's how I think -, out of nowhere, but they blend in so perfectly with the rest of the story it's quite impossible to dismiss them or pass by them completely - as the rest of the fic, they involve you in such a way you don't know how it happened, and only notice it when the chapter is over.

It's actually interesting to see the interaction between Trowa and Quatre with the characters from this strange series, seeing as they don't seem so strange together, and they actually DO look as if they belong, not as if they were aliens on Earth. The way they act around each other is natural and perfectly acceptable, nice and good, and it fits what the Gundam Wing characters are in the original series. This is something to comment on especially: you preserved the essence of the characters, and that's not only great as it's almost an impossible thing to see in AU fics - because, even if it's passed in an alternative world, it shouldn't mean the author can just make the characters act in a way that they wouldn't, according to their original characteristics, and if they faced the very same problems or issues. Very nice.

The romance between Quatre and Trowa doesn't seem very... How should I say this...? Well, it doesn't seem as if it has been completely or perfectly explained, even with their reminiscences and monologues on the past - or in past? But I'd like to see how it goes (by the way, this's being written as I read chapter 07, and moving towards the end of it). Maybe it's because I'm too much of a romantic, but how can they act the way they do around each other after so much has passed? Love, sex... Shit, I AM a softy... Damn.

Another thing I liked - or rather DO like - is Quatre's relationship to his family, as well as Trowa's with his. Angst right there... And in such a soft way it's not heavy as in many stories - you have the gift to make those hurts that makes one wants to kill themselves sound distant, as if they DO hurt, they DO cause pain, but it doesn't matter... No, not that... As if... As if such hurts exist, pain, but that's it. Don't know how to explain it better... But it's another show of your gift for writing.

Maybe the ONLY thing I can say I DIDN'T like about your story was the following: where's Hee-chan...? I ADORE him, to death - he's my ultimate favorite male character! -, and I don't see him much, except when the story changes its focus to the past. And that annoys me. Well... Maybe THAT and the fact he isn't with Duo. Maybe I've read WAY too many fics in which they're gay and together... Oh, well. Not so much as a fault, as a detail I'd like to comment on.

Well, quite frankly, I have NO IDEA what else to tell you, as I believe I've already made my thoughts enter the computer in words - which isn't a very good thing for authors I review for, as I tend to write... A LOT -, and, even though I usually tend to ramble in reviews (huh... And that's what I'm doing now! Damn), I don't feel like doing so today, particulally.

Well, I haven't got a clue if this review ended up TOO big, so if it did, and you don't really go for long reviews, gomen ne, and delet it, delet it.

stranger12

PS: Your story really IS great, well written and has a very strong attraction power. Keep with it, please.

That was an incredible story.

I was heartbroken and heart strung through the entire peice.

I loved the way you had them hate each other so violently, showing the thin line beween love and hate. And revenge to soften hurt.

For somone like me, who has not really watched any Utena, only knew the basic plot outline, I found it incredible.

Your lack of reviews is disgusting.

The way you were able to incorporate the shadow scenarios was... breathtaking.

This story shows a dedication to the craft of writting that it has been a long time since I have seen.

It was and is a truly beautiful peice.

after following this story for awhile, it's a pity that it's now over. this was very nicely done. i especially enjoyed the little piece included at the very end, how it accompanies and reflects the story. hopefully some sidestories with these two characters are in the cards. i'll keep fingers crossed u

Wonderful story, wonderful end... I liked ut very much, you're in my fav authors list!

Congratulations!

I like the way you write, you have style.

Continue like this, maybe you should write a book or something!

This... is an amazingly well written, thoroughly engaging fic... the characters are perfect, the setting perfect, and your knowledge of just stuff in general is awesome... I (im)patiently await the final chapter of this tale, even though it will mean it's finished n.n

Great story!

I love everything between Trowa and Quatre, and Utena is my idol!

I really hope you update soon, I'm hanging in desperation!

alright an update! it's wonderful how this story explores the conflict of its 2 main characters and in a fitting utena setting too!

oh yay! I've got to say that finding chapter 8 here was unexpected and an absolute joy! The quality of this story is so solid, written with precision and love.

I kept finding myself smiling when I'd read a well phrased thought:

"It was funny how the physical reaction of embarrassment was the same as that one experienced at the moment of feeling his heart was understood."

"A guilty man thinks of everything."

Excellent! Of course, I was keen on the Nichol and Une cameos. I had such lovely images from your words, "Nichol slumped against the door frame. 'You’ve gotta be kidding me—'" and those scenes. It's so nice to actually get to READ someone else's Nichol scenes.

thank you for continuing. However, you did leave us at an awful 'tbc' . . . :) I'm excited to read more.

Ou, I like how this is starting out! So descriptive! ;-; *is reviewing just so y'know this odd person is reading it* X)

Y'know, I'd be honored if you read my 'Shounen Kakumei Duo' fic~! ;-;

I like this interlude to explore the past: the complicated friendship, complicated relationship, and-most of all, complicated Quatre.

Quatre's honesty of emotion-love and envy in equal parts. Wow. But it's very in character, this is the boy who first piloted Wing Zero after all. He's very capable of shooting down those he loves once he'd worked himself up into a certain mindset.

I'm so happy to read each new offering. And I don't particularly mind the wait-since it's certainly worth it. I like being surprised with the new chapters!

Interesting idea ::nods:: It somehow reminds me of Snow Tigra's "Revolutionairy Duo-kun" story, although this is more a little like a 34 centric story _.

Very interesting idea. Nice description and kinda confusing style, but I'll manage _. Even though I don't know Utena, I like to know what will happen next -. So I'm not sure if I can give you a high 10 for originality -_-. Other than that, I like the twists and the anger flaring in the characters.

Chapter 4 is kinda a shock and chapter 5 was a little heartbreaking for me too. No wonder the drama and the angst category. Overall I like it... is it going to stay a shounen-ai fic?

Keep it up! _ Update soon!