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November 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Hey Nova! I've actually read PoV 1/2 and all its 'side stories' multiple times, and I love your writing as well as Black Foxs'. Anyway while rereading PoV 2 yet another time, I kinda noticed that Szayel never got injected with the serum to counter kyoka suigetsu'a illusions. And as Aizen has used it on him before (the episode with gin regarding Abisara's punishment), how did szayel manage to see and rescue Karin during the grimmjow/ichigos battle with aizen?
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May 4, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Was reading this for a long, long time. Still missing seeing a new chapter every week. Hope all is well with you and yours, hope you're still writing.
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April 26, 2015 at 12:00 AM
I can't believe pov 2 is over! I had stopped reading for a while (school work life got in the way) but Grimmjow's official return in the manga brought me back! I can't wait to catch up!
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April 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Only one thing I wished I could have seen happen. That was for Grimmjow and Ichigo to give Aizen some 'justice' to his 'weapon'. I thought once they both realized what happened, one or the other would make that part of his body pay the price for all he had done to his victims, especially to Karin. Oh well, still one hell of a story and I think we'll miss seeing you write, unless you two have something in the works. Please just don't do the 1000 Year war or whatever the current arc is called, it sucks. Hope to see you guys in action soon.
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February 18, 2015 at 12:00 AM
So I've finally reached the end. This 2nd half, was more intense and gut-wrenching than the first, and you promised it wouldn't be as dark. :P
Seriously though, in lieu of repeating much of what I said about the first half of the story, suffice it to say that it is very well written. I really do hope you keep writing stories, and even if I'm not reading and reviewing them, know that I'm rooting for you to have the success that you deserve. You have a wonderful way with words, and that goes for your co-writer also. So here's to your continued success and maybe some day, I'll see your name on a published work, I think you could do it. Thanks for the wonderful story. Have a great life. :D
Sincerely,
bug_trevor
Seriously though, in lieu of repeating much of what I said about the first half of the story, suffice it to say that it is very well written. I really do hope you keep writing stories, and even if I'm not reading and reviewing them, know that I'm rooting for you to have the success that you deserve. You have a wonderful way with words, and that goes for your co-writer also. So here's to your continued success and maybe some day, I'll see your name on a published work, I think you could do it. Thanks for the wonderful story. Have a great life. :D
Sincerely,
bug_trevor
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February 15, 2015 at 12:00 AM
as with finishing any of your works, I feel a little empty inside that it's over. I know you mentioned there will be more… I await it with trepidation
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February 8, 2015 at 12:00 AM
I have just finished both parts of Prize of Victory in basically one go courtesy of a flu that has kept me in bed for the last days.
Well, wow
When I opened AFF to look for some Bleach fics to spend some time, I really didn´t expect the first one I opened to be such an epic tale that had me hooked from the first page and kept me reading patiently chapter after chapter and following everybody´s, yours, the readers´ and the heroes´ path over the last couple of years until its (current) conclusion.
I can hardly give you a full review on every aspect worth mentioning, but I would like still like to say a few things.
First off, from this reader´s point of view, you really know how to tell a story. I kept wanting to know what was going to happen, I felt with the characters and part of me lived the story with them.
That´s a skill even some good writers lack, but I think you have it in spades. I have been an ardent and voracious reader most of my life, but I can´t remember ever reading such a long tale without needing breaks in between or getting bored at some point, or stuck for a while.
The fact that I already knew and liked the canon characters helped of course. I am on/off currently on Bleach fan. The entire set-up for the story is not new, but what you do with it is quite amazing, spinning the the tale from a simple Grimmjow-Karin piece, that in itself already works very well, to a larger and larger patchwork of first isolated narrations of the various Shinigamis´ fate until it all slowly comes together into a tale of courage, love, endurance and hope of quite epic dimensions, quite worthy of Bleach in its best moments and even surpassing it in some ways, with all due respect to Kubo sensei.
I really like what you did with the canon characters. While it´s quite hard to say who would or would not do what in such an extended story spread out over so many years, I think you have not only juggled such a huge number of leading and supporting characters quite admirably, you also kept everybody in character for the most part and given them development or lack thereof as would be appropriate for each of them, you´ve deepened quite a few of them in ways that completely make sense to me. Some such deepenings make so much sense that I already find it hard to remember which parts are actually Bleach canon and which are the parts you added.
That´s especially true of some "old" favorites of mine such as Gin (poor guy, not that I wanted him to suffer), Starrk, Yumichika, Unohana and Byakuya.
I also really liked the kids of your creation, especially the original trio, no quintet. They are original, nicely fleshed out and alive and quite charismatic while they´re at it.
I will have a hard time remembering they don´t exist outside your story...too bad really....
While you really seem to know your Bleach and incorporated it well,I also loved the numerous small details and entire "systems" you needed to invent to make the story work (the "mating" and its workings comes to mind, what the kids would look like), the way Aizen would set up his society etc. etc. There is so much detail to enrich the story in enjoyable ways.
As for the larger scale, the plot, I think that was extremely well done and thought out, from the first hintings of a larger scale to the small workings towards a change finally resulting in the alliance to attack and bring down Aizen.
I really liked how you did the chapters describing the attack itself, I thought those extremely well written. Well of course they were very very satifying too :o) but they were also well written as in easy to picture and follow, even the more complex scenes.
As for the sex and the gore... Well I enjoyed the sex when it was consensual, there were some, eh many truly hot scenes...so that was nice...
The rape and torture.....that was a little hard to take, very hard at times, especially with characters I really like. It was slightly easier with Szayel because he had done some slightly sadistic or at least heartless dishing out himself. Still very hard. And not that I don´t like him, I do. Just not a favorite.
I still read most of it since I imagine it had the purpose of making us angry and understand the changes the characters went through.
It worked with me, I ended up slightly tense and nervous whenever Aizen made an appearance.
I also enjoyed the flow of the writing, the varying POVs, the pacing and the wry humor, especially in the choice of words sometimes.
Well nothing much I can think of to add now.
I haven´t been able to do your work justice with just a few sentences I realize, I just wanted to express my appreciation to you both!
So thank you very much - I have truly enjoyed reading your story! Very much looking forward to whichever follow-up stories you may come up with...
Oh and my best wishes for you and your baby!
Well, wow
When I opened AFF to look for some Bleach fics to spend some time, I really didn´t expect the first one I opened to be such an epic tale that had me hooked from the first page and kept me reading patiently chapter after chapter and following everybody´s, yours, the readers´ and the heroes´ path over the last couple of years until its (current) conclusion.
I can hardly give you a full review on every aspect worth mentioning, but I would like still like to say a few things.
First off, from this reader´s point of view, you really know how to tell a story. I kept wanting to know what was going to happen, I felt with the characters and part of me lived the story with them.
That´s a skill even some good writers lack, but I think you have it in spades. I have been an ardent and voracious reader most of my life, but I can´t remember ever reading such a long tale without needing breaks in between or getting bored at some point, or stuck for a while.
The fact that I already knew and liked the canon characters helped of course. I am on/off currently on Bleach fan. The entire set-up for the story is not new, but what you do with it is quite amazing, spinning the the tale from a simple Grimmjow-Karin piece, that in itself already works very well, to a larger and larger patchwork of first isolated narrations of the various Shinigamis´ fate until it all slowly comes together into a tale of courage, love, endurance and hope of quite epic dimensions, quite worthy of Bleach in its best moments and even surpassing it in some ways, with all due respect to Kubo sensei.
I really like what you did with the canon characters. While it´s quite hard to say who would or would not do what in such an extended story spread out over so many years, I think you have not only juggled such a huge number of leading and supporting characters quite admirably, you also kept everybody in character for the most part and given them development or lack thereof as would be appropriate for each of them, you´ve deepened quite a few of them in ways that completely make sense to me. Some such deepenings make so much sense that I already find it hard to remember which parts are actually Bleach canon and which are the parts you added.
That´s especially true of some "old" favorites of mine such as Gin (poor guy, not that I wanted him to suffer), Starrk, Yumichika, Unohana and Byakuya.
I also really liked the kids of your creation, especially the original trio, no quintet. They are original, nicely fleshed out and alive and quite charismatic while they´re at it.
I will have a hard time remembering they don´t exist outside your story...too bad really....
While you really seem to know your Bleach and incorporated it well,I also loved the numerous small details and entire "systems" you needed to invent to make the story work (the "mating" and its workings comes to mind, what the kids would look like), the way Aizen would set up his society etc. etc. There is so much detail to enrich the story in enjoyable ways.
As for the larger scale, the plot, I think that was extremely well done and thought out, from the first hintings of a larger scale to the small workings towards a change finally resulting in the alliance to attack and bring down Aizen.
I really liked how you did the chapters describing the attack itself, I thought those extremely well written. Well of course they were very very satifying too :o) but they were also well written as in easy to picture and follow, even the more complex scenes.
As for the sex and the gore... Well I enjoyed the sex when it was consensual, there were some, eh many truly hot scenes...so that was nice...
The rape and torture.....that was a little hard to take, very hard at times, especially with characters I really like. It was slightly easier with Szayel because he had done some slightly sadistic or at least heartless dishing out himself. Still very hard. And not that I don´t like him, I do. Just not a favorite.
I still read most of it since I imagine it had the purpose of making us angry and understand the changes the characters went through.
It worked with me, I ended up slightly tense and nervous whenever Aizen made an appearance.
I also enjoyed the flow of the writing, the varying POVs, the pacing and the wry humor, especially in the choice of words sometimes.
Well nothing much I can think of to add now.
I haven´t been able to do your work justice with just a few sentences I realize, I just wanted to express my appreciation to you both!
So thank you very much - I have truly enjoyed reading your story! Very much looking forward to whichever follow-up stories you may come up with...
Oh and my best wishes for you and your baby!
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January 30, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Whew! I finished reading it, finally. Definitely one of the best fanfics I have read. It was quite a ride and I enjoyed every minute of it, opinions on shinigami fertility aside.
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January 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Great bit of porn with plot - I'm very impressed you managed to keep at this for so long and still wrap everything up in the end. I'm surprised, but interested to see where you're going with some of the more unconventional pairs in whatever comes after, particularly since you leave a lot up in the air with Uno/Gin/Zaraki and Byakuya/Yoruichi.
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January 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM
I haven't read the last 20 chapters or so (I'm saving them to binge on now that the story's complete), but I wanted to say thanks for sharing this epic tale with us all. I've been reading from the beginning, and along the way you've inspired in me joy, fascination, rage, tears, regret, hope, and all sorts of other emotions -- even visceral hatred for Yammy. Your writing skills have matured immensely over the course of the story. Like with all the best fanfiction, your story has deepened and expanded the Bleach characters in my mind. Best wishes for you with the new kid, and I hope to see you and Black Fox posting more stories in the future. Thank you!