Very interesting take on the characters. Enjoyed it!

I seriously adore your style, & consequently I love this, these words, these feelings, this prose, it's awesome.

Thanks for the mention too; I am chuffed!

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Welcome back! This could have used the eye of a beta reader - some missing words, typos, ambiguities. But overall I get what Rachel is trying to think, and I like it; even the rather abrupt shifts seem how Rachel might well think about something like this. And why shouldn't she have a quiet little crush on him? Now you've got yourself into it again, let's hope for more.

I had to think about this one and try to check when it's happening in the sequence, but there is no indication except that it is before Mondler. Myself, I wouldn't describe Ross's choice of women as weird (Julie?), and Janice is not half as bad as people generally make her out. But this is quite a good attempt at getting inside Ross and his relationship with Chandler, and a breakdown in college - only too likely.

I hate to say it, but there's a potential contradiction between saying that Ross has an inherited neurotic streak and that he had a 'perfectly normal' childhood. True, he did not have any of the problems that Chandler did; but he did have ferocious competition with a sister who had an eating problem, and was idolised by his parents to a degree that, if he had self-knowledge, he would recognise was not entirely good for him, and unfair to Monica as well.

I'm sure you'll be able to come up with thoughts for Rachel. They should include why she is attracted enough to dream of him, which we hear relatively early on (1,22). But since she also dreams of Joey, maybe she's just horny!

Well I thought that was wonderful; wish I had written it myself.

I am so pleased to read your comment "it (is) suggested that they go to lunch constantly (especially in the earlier seasons) because that's what inspired my own fic and I have been challenged on that point in the past so I am glad I am not wrong hahaha!

Back to you; I really like your writing style, update soon please!

please please please add another chapter soon or whenever you'd like (how about now?) hehe i really really like this seriously love this story and i'm soo bored right now so i guess i'm begging you to update hehe

Those chapters (I just read al three for the first time) were sublime. What a wonderful perceptive heartfelt writer you are, thank you.

Well it could have used a bit of editing, sure enough (if you're desperate for an editor, I can give it a go, old pedant that I am), but interesting - definitely (*not* defiantly, which means something completely different) interesting. I like the idea of Chandler seeming a different personalitty to each of the other Friends, and this seems a good insight into what Monica's attitude to him might be like.

Thank you for your comment. I like this analysis of Joey's feelings about Chandler, and Joey's of himself. I wouldn;t have said pride so much as conceit; he has a very high, too high in fact, conception of his ability as an actor, and indeed as a lover (all that 'Joey love' crap).

Is the mystery man conceivably Chandler's father?

One thing: Since 'cause is short for because (and sometimes written 'coz or coz), you really ought to put an apostrophe before it, to show that part of the word is missing. Just one of those things that grate on my old-fashioned sensibilities - you don't do others that I've noticed, yet.

I look forward to more, and have 'signed up' for it.

The writing is really good. It's a shame you're not a Mondler fan though. I'll read Chandler friendship pieces, I'm just not a fan of Chandler/other character romances. But Chandler is my favorite and it's interesting that Joey might want to be Chandler, he definitely does idolize him.

*squee* that was so adorable! You've captutred their realationship well so far! Keep writing, I can't wait to see where this is going. _

Well, I can't quite agree with a previous reviewer; there are obscurities and misspellings in this (e.g. deathening for deafening, and what is feminie doing in there?). But it is a very good attempt at trying to get at what makes Chandler tick, at least as we first encounter him - I am presuming this is meant to be set in Season 1.

Except for Ross, none of the Friends has a 'normal' happy childhood: Joey comes closest, but his father is obviously not easy to live with (1,13), and Rachel's father is a real bully.

You set this up for more with the situation at the end, with the person he swore he'd never see again (doesn't sound like Janice, but I suppose it could be). I think you should continue.

Wow, i really think you should continue this. That was beutiful!

so overall i found this to be pretty interesting. i think it would work nicely as the introduction to a story that illustrates these traits in chandler in specific situations.

Hey, this was very interesting. But you can't leave it as a standalone. Because I have to know who came through the door. So please continue.