this story rocks! I love it and can't wait till you add more. I do have a question is this the battel at the high road with the al bhed cannons we see in the game or is this before that happens?like a precurser to their meeting lady yuna.

This is the best Elma/Lucil ever!!
You MUST update it!
It would be a shame to not see this beautiful masterpiece finished

I'm glad to find someone who also thinks that Lucil is a great character. All too often minor characters are ignored. I enjoyed this fanfic, and it is also a plausible relationship. I haven't found many same-sex romances in fanfiction that would work in canon. I think Lucil and Elma deserve more credit. I was glad that, despite X-2's flaws, they kept the characters' personalities mostly intact. Elma was a bit too perky, though, and they really emphasized her admiration for Lucil. Well, I applaud you for writing this, and for including some believable original characters. The only comment I have is that, in the world of Yevon's severe restrictions, I think that homosexuality would be considered blasphemous. But maybe that's just me. I hope to see more fanfiction about Lucil, since she's one of my favorite characters.

I like this fic a lot. I just hope you continue updating...

Elma/Lucil rocks!

This is a really great story. I love how you don't try to rush into things, letting the story and relationship progress realistically. Your fic is well written and I look very forward to reading the next chapter!

Sometimes I suck at keeping up with updates. I hate that. Anyway, I liked the chapter. It's almost three in the morning, so suggestions aren't popping into my head, so I'll just say please, please continue the fic. I'd really like to see Elma and Lucil together.

Oh, and thanks. Tio was okay, though it frustrated me to no end that he always had better stats than my chocobo. I still won. And I enjoyed it way too much.

Anyway, please write more. I love this story.

I forgot about this story until I saw it again, and started re-reading it. I have to say, you've come a long way. The only real mistake I saw was on chapter 8, about 3/4 of the way down, beneath one of those little lines, you spelled watch 'wtach'.

As a bit of advice you don't have to listen to, you could try building up more around these next few chapters, your pre-game chapters were nice because they had more characters and story to them. Introduce someone new.

Wow! just found your story! I love it! We have needed an Elma x Lucil fic for way too long! Please update soon!

What can I say? I've missed this story. I didn't even realise exactly how much until you updated. You're a great writer, you know. Just thought I'd remind you.

...No, don't stop to read this; keep going. C'mon!

Great fic. I can't wait to see Elma and Lucil get together. As for the FF reference, Tio is the name of the Chocobo jockey Joe's black chocobo in Final Fantasy VII. I don't expect an Elma plushy :D, but I was amused to see that. Hope to see the next chapter soon.

Much much better and coherent. ^_~ I'm happy you made the revision so quickly. Everything flows much smoother in the chapter now, I do believe, and the time jump was my major critique for this chapter. A memorable scene was the origin of Elma's headband coming from Tylahn. Sweet and cute... almost felt sort of sudden. Did you plan it like that from the beginning?
Looking forward to the next chapter, which you've promised to be soon! Ever loyal and reading, though mostly procrastinating on writing now... ~_~; -tally

woo, It does make more sense now lol ...I can't entirely remember what happened before the rvision, but I do remember the parts that weren't there and they do clear things up, a lot actually, and it also made the chapter even more interesting I think ^^ *thumbs up*

*Laughs* Good old stick-in-the-mud Auron. You did really well with him, Jecht, and Braska. Very spot-on characterizations there! I'm also glad you decided to improvise on the FFX script; just using the game dialogue makes things tedious. I like to see authors put a twist on things like that.

Will you be weaving Yuna's pilgrimage into this? Maybe Elma might recognize Auron...

Overall, yet another fine chapter from you. I do think the time jump was a bit abrupt, considering a major character -- Tyhlan -- might not be playing a major role in this anymore (I'm gonna miss her, if that's the case ^^;). It's always hard to pull off gaps in time like that easily. A good idea to start them is to give a little parting scene between Elma and Tyhlan, something where they acknowledge (or are told) that they'll be stationed in different places and won't see much of each other. If Tyhlan is going to continue to play a major role in this, then that may not be necessary, but if she's taking her leave, you have to have a little parting scene to wrap everything up. The choice really depends on what you're going to do with Tyhlan, see?

Oh, speaking of Lucil and Elma, a friend of mine gave me their ages as they are in FFX-2, according to FFX-2 Ultimania Omega: Lucil is 27 and Elma (and Clasko too) is 21. Just thought you might want to know that, since you're a fan of these two, too :)

I do agree that you jumped ahead a bit too fast. You could've played along for a chapter longer and come to the calm and then to after the calm just as easily.
Anyways I still like how it's going.

Great story! I've never played FFX or FFX2, but I still managed to enjoy it. Can't comment on the uniqueness of the pairing or anything, but I can say that you've made a believable character of Tyhlan. From an outsider's perspective, she blends in perfectly with the other characters.

One small thing that I've noticed, is that many scenes are a little dialogue heavy. Not that that's necessarily bad, because in some places it works wonderfully. I just wanted to point it out. On the plus side, some of your more descriptive passages are very well written. I particularly like the ones detailing Lucil's thoughts.

Anyway, good luck continuing this, and if Elma and Lucil weren't only minor characters in the game, I might actually look into playing it.