Wow, this was hilarious and kind of sweet, despite Vincent's man-whorishness. The part about common breakfast conversation was a riot! Also, the descriptions of Claudia and Vincent's hypocrisy were really poetic. Great stuff.

The Shakespeare-like quote that was repeated from Mephistopheles sounded true, even though I hadn’t thought of it before. It DOES suck to remember good times when one is tremendously unhappy, doesn’t it? On paper, it seems as if remembering the good should help improve one’s mood, but all it does usually is make the person more miserable to know that something better exists, but isn’t here now. So I think that was one of those things that I knew without realizing it.
Good description of how one acts when drunkenness occurs, in the poetic, long-worded narrative you gave of how our young man staggers home while drunk as a skunk (strange phrase there – do skunks ever drink alcohol? Why was that phrase created?). But I’m not sure I agree with your statement that sobriety equals sincerity. At least in some cases, it seems to bring the opposite, as people find it easier to lie when they’re sober, and they become honest when they’re drunk, even if they’re being honest about feelings that they wish they didn’t have. Weird, I know…

This chapter must’ve been one of the sharpest ones I’ve read from your universes, starting with our protagonist’s opinion of Claudia and how she acted. The quote of “You're still damned to Hell for all eternity. Is there any toast left...?” was really funny as hell :)

Much like your depiction of a lot of emotions in other stories (anger and madness come to mind from other chapters), the description of someone crying, and its after-effects, was very well done. There is a certain physical exhaustion and emotional peace that accompanies a long cry, like it’s nature’s way of forcing someone to rest when that person wouldn’t afford him/herself a break normally. And you seem to have captured that properly when expressing those feelings via words here.
It’s still odd in an amusing way to see blips within this man’s character that contradict how he appears normally. So he can go ahead and chastise himself for being chivalrous. He’s struggling due to the differences between what he perhaps wants to be, and definitely how he appears to others, as in graceful and profound, and what his instincts are pushing him to do, as in seeing every interaction with females as a chance to get sex or a bj out of it. Poor boy appears almost confused that he’s being nice to a girl and then not wanting to get laid from it. It’s cute that he’s making a ground-breaking announcement that his actions are their own reward, as opposed to him considering an action to be a failure if its result doesn’t lead to him having someone in bed or, as he so eloquently put it, against a wall. I suppose self-discovery is always a good thing.

You said you were half-tempted to make this an ongoing story. I think you should go ahead and do that if you have ideas for further chapters. It’s fun to watch people being nice to each other, at least in my opinion.

This was so sweet, and strangely humorous. Vincent/Claudia is my favorite pairing. ^^

I cannot even begin to describe how amazing I found this ficlet.

Great job.

yay! someone finally decided to write a Vincent/Claudia fanfic. Love this pairing(besides Henry/Eileen) This was written with big hard words. But that's the way he is so know big. Good job. If you could, would you mind writing more Vincent stories. There are so few.

Very beautiful. I usually always love what you write and this one is a keeper for me. I do hope you make this into a story, I'd read it for sure. No one likes to write about either of them anymore which is a shame, they're some of the most facinating characters I've seen in the Silent Hill series. you can see a lot between them and I like when people show what possibly happened.

This makes me want Vincent even more than I already do. *sigh* You've got him down pat. Perfect. Just how I imagined our dear Father Vincent thinks. :]

YAY! Its better than I could have ever fantacized about! (And I did spend a good amount today wondering what you would put.) I'm really happy you enjoyed writing it 'cause I FULLY enjoyed reading it. Silent Hill needs more fluff, darnit, more VINCENT|CLAUDIA FLUFF argh. Uber hearts for this. And I think a good set of chapters will fit it quite nicely. ^__~ Thank you~!