This is wonderful and brilliant and GIVING ME ALL THE FEELS! sobs

This is so beautiful! I wish this was canon...

AWWOWMDNWKN Perfect mix of humor, angst, epicness plus your daily dose of feels. Really enjoyed this look into Kul Elna and Bakura that I've never seen before .

A brilliant story and a wonderfully refreshing way of looking at Bakura/Zorc! _ If only the anime/manga could have thought like this!

Soooo. Fiver.

I kind-of-sort-of DON'T want to leave you a review right now. I just came from your profile, and found out that you've discontinued all the fics on this site. That means no more Homecoming, and no more Newlydeads, I suppose.

Yeah. I probably shouldn't write to you when I'm mad right now, but even when I'm really annoyed, I have to admit...

Damn, I love your writing.

I've never, ever seen anyone write Zorc from this perspective. He was just protecting his people, and Bakura, and all that jazz. That was fascinating. The "in the name of the Pharaoh" dynamic also intrigued me, and of course, the mini-Bakura and chibi-Atem interactions were adorable.

Not proof-read and not beta-d and you still kick fanfiction butt. Everything flowed smoothly, great description, deep character portrayal. Decent pacing, although I think it could've moved faster in some places, slower in others. But awesome overall.

Well. I guess this is the last time you'll be hearing from me, since I believe this is the last yugioh fanfiction you've written that I had left to read. And I've never read Beyblade or Supernatural. Come to think of it, you may not even check reviews anymore, regardless...

Thank you for posting, though. I think I might be giving up on the yugioh fandom soon, myself, given that it seems to be dying...but...if you ever decide to finish Homecoming or Newlydeads, I'd definitely still be interested. In fact, not knowing the ending of those is probably going to haunt me. Aw man, I'm so disappointed right now, I can't even...merp...I can wait ages for new chapters, but knowing that I'm never going to get the end...

I guess, if nothing else...I'll just say that I love your writing and ideas, so thanks for sharing them. You really were one of my all-time favorite authors on this site.
-Crystia

Aww! How romantic!

this was... wow... really well thought out and executed. i always wished atem could have seen for himself what bakura had seen. anyone would be understandably unhinged after witnessing that massacre. i also love the addition of the stolen memories, that was a nice touch
K

ERHMAHGAWD.

First of all, what an amazingly detailed story. It was very beautiful, and well crafted. I can tell you put a lot of thought into all the layers of the story. Very well done.

ALSO AHHHHH ATEM AND BAKURA AHHHHHHH. Freaking adorable.

Wonderful. Truly amazing and interesting and well-written and emotional and incredibly and just awesome.

it was truly and amazing story. i loved it!

So many fics happened while I was occupied with work... This is good! I liked how you put it all together. I was continually wondering where you were going with it, but that seems to be a frequent thing, you always seem to surprise me with the way you take your plots, and I don't know many writers who still do.

(Faint tears in eyes) Beautiful. Just bloody beautiful.

An INCREDIBLE new twist to the story of Kul Elna & TKB & Zorc Necrophades. I mean, I know this is a fanfictional interpretation/creation which is in no way canon, but to think!-such an amazingly inventive expansion of a loophole that I didnt even know existed! Zorc Necrophades actually being portrayed in a non-antagonistic light!-all the fuss starting which a simple difference of RELIGIONS! He was a God of Darkness, but in the sense of "Protector of the Night," rather than having any evil tendencies. Amazing twist! Simple, but brilliant! And so, Atem and Bakura would actually be friends underneath their amnesia, and the "evil tomb robber" was a product of an angry Zorc, but in a completely different way than originally assumed.

Hey-I really liked your characterization if Akunadin. You didn't simply dismiss him as "an evil old man," but as a man driven to commit a horrific crime to save his country from destruction in war. You showed him as a man who refused to forgive himself until he was forgiven by the victims. (soft smile, and eyes become teary). And ya know-I WAS wondering about his being in the Afterlife... Interesting explanation.

Lovely ending: I really liked how the people of Kul Elna were released, and that there was a joyful reunion. And I really liked the final meeting between Bakura and Atem. :)

By the way, "sceptically" is spelled "skeptically."

This story is being faved and getting a very high recommendation from me!

Huh, this was so different. It's like you took a 180 degree spin on things, craned your neck and looked at how Zorc in particular and his story could be so diametrically different from what we could expect or what we thought. It's a clever, creative approach, and it's written well. I think I like the italicized sections best, although I don't quite think the parenthesis are necessary. This line was my favorite: "Nothingness does not speak. Therefore I am not nothing yet. I am still here. I am still me."

Good job on this, and keep up the good work! D

~Jess (MMF)

I loved Of A Lesser God.

What an eye opener. With this none of any villains they fought was truly bad!

Actually really funny!

I spent the rest of my day in a great mood.

I sure love to know a game that the Pharaoh looses at!

To tired to give some real feedback...

I love the sort-of unusual nature of this story; the different spin that you put on things. The idea that 'who says that the story that we know can't be the /only/ story?' That was really cool.

I think I liked the italicized portions better than the rest (probably because I get really distracted by formatting and italics is like the neon blinking sign of pay attention to me xD), but I thought this was definitely solid. Good pacing, good plot.

This is one of those things that probably won't make sense, and the thing that I've actually been trying to cure my own writing of, but the actual sentence-structure of your story goes through these phases that are kind-of formulaic, formula being:

"Dialogue," he said descriptively, direct action stated.

"Response," she answered, and then more action/motion/movement.

It reads almost like erm, stage directions or something? The action parts feel like they're there only to have something between the dialogue, and then the parts of description and storytelling get kind-of lumped together in their own little sections. Maybe integrating both of them would make things a little more compelling to the reader? I want to read stories like this with my eyes (wow, no kidding, right? xD) but like a movie, where I see everything happening as I read, and just marvel over every moment. Sometimes, the 'action lines' seemed like placeholders. You can be much more eloquent than this!

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, and I'm not trying to be harsh or anything-it happens in my own writing a lot. I really did enjoy reading this, and I can't wait to read your Tier 4! :D