My goodness this was even more bizzare than the first one haha! But I love weirdness ^_^ I like how raw and dirty you made blank and zid, I think it makes them very human and realistic. One question though, why did you make him go for 2 years when the game said he was gone only one? As usual, love the writing style ^_^ WRITE MORE!! *glares*

OH My FRIGGIN' GOD! this took me THREE days to read! and it was GREAT! I LOVED it! I mean! aww man...

Poor Vivi, he was so..so...aww...you nailed the death scene, and in Zidane's presents too, aww, I nearly cried. I thought the way Zidane reacted was cool too, nailed that.

The whole Iifa thing took me a while to grasp but i got there! lol, the dream Zidane had was cool, the kid's Rocked, Duck was so cute, especially when he learned a new word, Ti ws cute too, though I'd imagine she'd be the most torn up about Vivi's stopping.

I finally found a Mikoto fic! you should really do I sequal, I mean, you could so totally ruin Zidanes happy life with Dagger when he visits Mik' maybe she could have had a kid? that'd be cool!

I loved it! thankies for the FABulous read!

Brilliant... Just brilliant. Both "Tree of Life" and the epilogue are masterpieces. The way you express the main character and the reader feel what he feels is just mind-numbing. I love how you capture the moment and convey exactly what you're trying to express. Your angsty moments are sad, your humorous sections are funny, and the moments of panic set me on the edge of my seat. If seems like you can handle just any level of writing that you want to. I've never felt such a wide array reading just one story before: I was bug-eyed, laughing out loud, crying, you name it. I also love your unique wording. It seems like you've conjured up your own way of rephrasing old cliches and figures of speech that I find absolutely addicting. Everything is so much more interesting the way you word it.

I would - dare I say it? - love to see an epilogue to your epilogue. Haha... I thought it was a bit odd that Zidane just went home with that whole green thing still going on.

And just to get it off my chest, I am for some reason struck by the funniness of these two lines:

1. "'Make him stop!' Some collective gasps."
2. "As an answer for this conundrum, Zidane put forth his most scientific hypothesis. 'Shit happens...?'"

There were a lot of other great lines, of course; there are too many to name. But I thought these two were particularly hysterical for some reason.

I look forward to future works by you. I don't know how the rest of the FF IX population hasn't found you yet, but they're missing out. Stupid automatic 'M' filter.

One of the most beautiful fic I have ever read. To make it even better, Mikoto's my favorite character and she acts like the person everybody imagined she would act.

Tea rape indeed. Wow, I never thought anyone could make Mikoto so desperate.

Hey again. Time for another fragmented review.

The baby Black Mages are cute. I always wondered how Vivi's kids came about considering the Mist disappears completely and I like the idea of borrowing the "essence" of deceased Black Mages to create new ones. I suppose in a way, this is recycling Mist, only in a safer way.

Often in the game, Vivi appeared lost, like he was searching for his place in life. The transition between in-game Vivi and "leader" Vivi, while not described, just seems to work somehow. I can picture Vivi in a mentor role; he seems far more worldwise and emotionally mature than the other Black Mages and it only seems natural he should be a huge authority/mentor figure in the village.

I like how you incorporate quotes from FFIX into various characters' thoughts. It makes the characters appear more realistic when they reflect on events gone by, and it makes nice connections to the game.

Nice description of Mikoto. I never looked so deeply into her character, and most authors don't concentrate on her much. The entire dream sequence was pulled off well -- I couldn't help but shake the inkling that it just may have happened, even though Mikoto seemed OOC. But hey, if she'd been drinking it's still plausible. (Alcohol is the true friend of the fanfiction author, ain't it? ^_^)

...Okay, after reading further along I'll conclude that Zidane *was* dreaming, though it works extremely well nonetheless. As you know, I enjoy questioning things.

Hints of Zidane/Blank were also interesting. I've always thought this relationship possible, if fleeting, in their younger days.

Oh, the photosynthesis thing was priceless! It has a warped kind of logic behind it, but the thought of a green Zidane is just too funny.

Favourite line: "He's trying to eat my hand!" (So adorable!)

Once again, those ever-persistent errors (No matter how many times you re-read a piece, there always manages to be *something* wrong with it, doesn't there?):

"As thrilled and relieved [as] the diminutive mage..."
"Weeks of trail [trial] and error..."
"He coughed and spit [spat]..."
"He bolted upright in bed [and] squinted until he recognized..."

Finally, I couldn't stop laughing at your comments about QuickEdit. God, I hate it! I battle trying to get remembered words typed with the proper formatting (I write it in italics, but like .:"No one will know better. They think you're dead already.":. and QuickEdit destroys the colons all the time.)

Until next time,
~Aqua~

I gave you a review on this once before, so I'll just say, having reread it, that you are a rarely talented individual to make semi-incestuous green monkey-sex into one of the best FF9 fics I've ever read.

This premise is unspeakably perverse.

I, of course, approve.

In all seriousness, this is a very well-written fanfic, with a skillful juggling of characters, keeping what otherwise would essentially be a lot of Zidane lying around interesting. Blank in particular was a good addition and, (whatever you may SAY) genuinely funny.

The language itself was also well-used,never going over the line into the overly flowery and producing some really beautiful structures in the process. The result is interesting, almost like something you'd see in poetry. It works; I particularly liked the closing lines of the first section, comparing Vivi's efforts with Zidane's condition.

As for the main pairing, I was left feeling pretty much as Zidane did at the end: confused, mildly pleased, and mildly disturbed. The deranged side of me approves, and you did a great job crafting what I consider to be a believable reaction on Zidane's part.

ok that was weird...but still good :D

I have been waiting for this ever since I read "Tree of Life" some time ago. I must say, it was well worth the wait! You captured the spirit of the game so well...by turns funny, touching, and sad, with that little touch of fairy tale thrown in somewhere. Thanks again for a truly enjoyable read.

Wow.. just, wow. I haven't read your other fics so I didn't get some of the stuff, but I thought that was amazing. So did Mikoto just sleep with Zidane to keep him there, or did she really care about him? Either way, just amazing. I loved every little bit of this and it has to be the best FanFic I have ever read. Really.

Wow, freakin awesome (and the longest single chappie fic Ive ever read). Seriously awesome and Im surprised that there are like no Zid/Miki fics out there now that I think about it.