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Reviews for: Eulogy For A Dead Friendship
anon 10/3/10 . chapter 1
I love the 2 beginning paragraphs and unfortunately I can really relate to them. I lost a friend and never heard from him again... Anyway, good story! I had tears in my eyes when I finished reading this.
LIONC482 1/3/09 . chapter 1
Amazing... Simply amazing

poor tails :'(
Dennisthefox 3/11/08 . chapter 1
*sob*

You are the best Sonic writer on Fanfiction...but you're gone. It's been over a year. Good writers die young...
Shika1929 6/21/07 . chapter 1
MAN! Sonic is such an @$$h0l3 to Sally and Tails!

How could he ever forget them!

GOOD STORY!
Phoenixbinary 5/9/07 . chapter 1
such an emotional story... each phrase gets to you... great work! )
Disjointed Silhouette 12/15/06 . chapter 1
Sort of a continuation to Forgotten?

Written very nicely. I always loved the Sonic fandom due to the interactions between the two, and you described Tails' view on the lost of them beautifully.

Nothing more I can say.
Wingless Rain 9/6/06 . chapter 1
One word: Beautiful.
Faded-Myth 6/30/06 . chapter 1
I'm not much of a reviewer, since I tend to write from the heart more than the brain. So I'm not the right person to critique the writing structure itself.

I do know a good story, though, and what makes characters real and interesting, and it's pretty obvious you do too.

First person can be easier to write than third person in that it's somewhat easier to simply write from perspective, and offer the characters impressions of other through him or her. You don't have to worry about dealign with multiple charaters to the same extent as you would if writing from many perspectives. But it also offers up it's own set of challenges which can in turn make it harderthan third person; it's easy to ramble, to get lost in a characters mind and lose sense of time and warp a perspectve too much int hat you lose interest in the surroundeds. Everything is described through this one perspective, so you have to be really thorough and yet keep it all moving lest the scene start to stray from the main interests, and therefore lose the interest of the reader.

But here, in this story, you keep a great pace, and you REALLY get into the head of the character your telling the story from. It's never too dramatic, you don't send the character bouncing around and being too extreme. If anything, Tails seems somewhat loose and disconnected. Not to say that he's separate to the events around him, but he truly comes across as an observer, watching events that he can't really have too much a say in. And that lack of influence really comes across in his descriptions of the pain he feels, and how his relationship with both Sonic and Sally goes from strength to weakness and back (at least, with Sally it comes back to strength). It seems honest and true.

There's also that whole metaphor that seemed to stand out to me in regards to Sonic turning his back on his fans, his friends, his true supporters, the people that helped make him who he is and brought him fame. How he seems to have forgotten his roots not just as a character but a personality, an icon.

It's hard to describe really. It's the sort of story I like to read. Something honest and from the heart. Something that's almost conversational, and personal. Like Tails is narrating almost to himself, and to anyone who will listen. To me, that makes it above average. Well written, and lovingly crafted.
Gryffindor-Sword 6/10/06 . chapter 1
Not a bad chapter and it was very tragic. You seemed to know how to hit on someone's emotions. A great job!
Professor V 6/10/06 . chapter 1
You really know how to wrench a guy's heartstrings, don't you? P

What can I say, but another excellent story. I too can't help feeling the original cast like Tails and Knuckles (and even Sonic, to some extent) are being gradually sidelined in favour of the newer, 'cooler' characters and you expressed yourself on this matter eloquintly as usual. The imagery in the different friendship 'periods', the surprising tidyness of the universe merging, the portrayal of loneliness throughout...

Oh, great. Gushed everywhere again. Don't worry, I'll mop it up. Not much more to say, but bravo again for helping to make the Sonic section a pleasure to visit for us older fans!

Oh, and you're damn right. Snively IS the funniest Sonic villain of them all. B)
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