Amazing.
Absolutely amazing.
Forget the cookies, you get a whole bakery.

wow, i'm usually not an angst person bu your dang good at this thing. gotta say your a darn good writer. major bummer about the medical crap.

Congrats, thats all I can say, because I can give no suggestions. Great work, you painted the scenes very vividly.

Ohmigosh! This was one of the BEST Riku drabbles EVER! I never thought about him coming back home to a broken, terribly flawed mother before. So this was a first for me! It was beautiful and the ending was awesome. :D To be extremely honest, it made me go all 'emotional me' again :P I'm so glad I read this. This is gonna go on my favorites if that's ok!

Gahh!! i think i'm crying *wipes eyes* that was a really touching little oneshot...i LOVE IT!! hmm, that's all i wanted to say
- C.Pess

Great Riku-centric. How could anyone not love that bad ass xD

I like how you personify Riku's mother. It somehow seems fitting, using her background to justify Riku's character. You can't help but feel sorry for the two of them.

My favorite line in this story was: ...even though we’re all flawed, we can still strive to be right, and in the end, isn’t that really all that matters? Awesome moral right there.

So, your sarcastic Riku? Yeah, he's love.

There were so many brilliant lines in this, seriously. Such as right here: "Besides, Satan’s a lame ass anyway. The guy can’t even convince a starving Christ out in the desert to eat a stupid piece of bread." Um, awesome much? xD

The colloquial tone of this oneshot was cool. Riku's POV was really interesting - can't say I've portrayed him in such a way before - and it was actually rather amusing. Plus, I enjoyed how you made his childhood less than cliche. He just had a bad mother. He wasn't abused, he was just...neglected. And his relationship with his mother was cool. The comparisons between them, the tangible awkwardness both experienced, and the slight reconciliation near the story's end were all really amazingly done. You're a wonderful writer, you know?

Oh, and the end. Especially the line, "Broken people breed broken off spring, but somewhere down the line one of them eventually learns and is able to change things around, for the better, no doubt." I dunno. It just seemed...calming. Refreshing. I really loved the whole wrap-up of your story, and that part was one of my favorites, because it's as if hope was brought into a hopeless situation. ^^' Or something.

So, I really enjoyed this oneshot of yours - wish I'd read it sooner. You did a great job.

Omfg. -cracking up so hard about the Titanic rant.- XD Vixen. You're insane. And I love it.

Okay. I am so... angry. So I got the alert for this a week ago, right? And was all "WOW another Vixen story." And I clicked on it... but it said the story could not be found. -death.- So I thought you deleted it ( FOR SOME ODD, UNKNOWN, INSANE REASON ) and waited to get another alert when you posted it again. Well, I never got that alert. So I randomly went to your profile... AND SAW THIS. AND WAS ABLE TO CLICK ON IT AND READ IT. WHOA. Stupid FFnet and its ever-constant glitches. --; I could have probably read it much sooner, but noo...

So, let's see. RIKUU. AND RIKUU. AND MORE RIKU. AND ANGSTY FIRST-PERSON RIKU~ Whoa whoa whoa.

You can shoot me and I'll shut up right now, you know.

Haha. The first paragraph of characertization -- yep. That's Riku. And WHAT. Do I even want to know why you're talking about your balls, Riku.

'I’m stubborn as all hell and as angst ridden as a middle schooler listening to an Evanescence CD.'

XD I'm in high school. Do I count if I listen to Evanescence practically 24/7...? But, soft! I'm actually listening to The Academy Is... right now. And they could be considered more emo. :]

Discordia. ^^

AWW. Poor Riku. What a bad mother. XD This is so awkward. I love the conversational bluntness you put into it. I'm just wondering when one of them will break down -- who'll be first. Because it'd just be depressing if neither of them did.

'He could come back as a flamingly homosexual butt banging zombie and I’d just quirk an eyebrow and hand him a condom.'

OhmyGod Vixen. You know, I wouldn't doubt that. But I think he's coming back as a bald guy with an overgrown goatee, as it seems in the new Final Mix Secret Ending.

OHMYGOSH VIXEN YOU RUINED EVERYTHING WITH THAT IN STORY AUTHOR'S NOTE. Just kidding, love. It was actually a nice change.

Hey. I'll have one batch of his babies and you'll have the other. We'll share. XD

Jeesh. His mom's a little stupid, isn't she? Those teenage mothers. They're ruined for life.

Aww. The end. Nice. ^^

But ah, I've missed your Riku. T_T This makes me want to go back and re-read Flaming Shadows ( hee, shouldn't have mentioned it ).

Anywho, I liked it. It could have had more... depth. Or something. I don't know. Riku's an ass. But a hot ass. The end. ( I'm not very good at offering you any criticism because your writing is always so good. Gosh, don't blame me. )

.x. Constance.

Oh, that was so sad! (But wonderfully written :)

Awesome one shot. I was wondering how Riku's parents would handle finding out their son made a deal with 'the devil' and tried to destory the universe. One thing that really sticks in my mind was Riku saying he was attracted to Kairi because of her soft voice. I don't why it just does. So many things about this story I like but I'll just leave it at this: This fic shows Riku is much wiser for his stay in darkness.

Vixen. Oh my gosh. Oh. My. GOSH. That wasn't just a Riku-fix--that was like...crap. I can hardly even describe it. That was just /heavenly/. It was addicting, I swear! It was almost like a drug or something--though I would like to at least think that fanfiction is a good deal healthier than meth.


Aha! Another parent on Destiny Islands is revealed! xDD

Okay...but honestly, here. I really did love it. It was amusing, hearing things from Riku's perspective again. He's so much more of a raw, snide little wise-ass than Axel is. Not that I don't love Axel too--but we can definitely be assured that Riku is more near my age group. Heh. I don't want anyone pointing fingers at our favorite pyromaniac and calling him a pedophile just because I'm obsessed to the point where I would probably tackle him and cling to him if I ever saw him.

The whole conversation between his mother and him...oh wow. It had me captivated, just listening to him retell his past for a change. (The falling down the stairs thing cracked me up immensely, by the way, as I actually fell down a flight of stairs by myself once when I was quite little.) Once again, I love the moral behind it all. Family simply sticks together, even if the family is a little broken.

-insert mine and Sora's cheesy, lame comment about how hot glue guns can fix anything broken here-

There wasn't a single moment throughout the entire thing that was out of character. You portrayed Riku, and his mother who I have previously never even thought to consider, perfectly. x3 As usual.

Goodness knows, Riku's mother would have a lot of people out to kill her had they known Riku was coming and then his mom went on and had the abortion anyways. Heck, I'd probably be leading the mob with the torches and pitchforks.

I love you. So very, very much. I am obviously putting this on my favorites list, and I adored it so much that I may just have to go back and read it once more. I feel so remarkably honored that this was actually dedicated to me. Lord knows, I and my chicken scratch hardly even deserve to be able to read your superhuman writings, much less have one meant solely for the purpose of soothing my insatiable Riku-obsession.

-clings to Riku plushie and shoves a piece of ice cream cake your way- I literally did have ice cream cake over here the other day. Gosh darn it, it was good. But I digress. In any case, you give everyone around here cookies so often, I figured it was time to give you something in return! :3

--Hope

P.S. You know quite well that everyone (Myself included) loves Flaming Shadows because it is simply breathtaking. Four years ago or not, you still wrote it, and your writing magic is everywhere in it. 8D

I liked it. I've always wondered what Riku's reunion with his parents would be like. I think this departed nicely from the usual dramatic sappy stuff. This was pretty snarky actually.Much more realistic.
:P Good job, keep it up datcha?
*bliss*

Ha! I hand out cookies, too!

Now: the 3rd paragraph about how grotesquely he could be killed and the other part I'm not going to mention...I'm sensing a combination of Monty Python and a nasty Chuck Norris joke, am I correct? ;) I'm usually pretty good at picking that kind of stuff out. LOL! Love ya, man!

This is beautiful. I love that you're punctuating your angst with little nuggets of dry wit. It makes for a spicy combination.

It's funny - Riku is far from being my favourite character in the games, yet I find myself reading and writing about him more and more often. I guess it's because while he's not on my fav., he's a very interesting character. I can identify with him in some way.

Your description of his mom was both hilarious and saddening. She isn't mean, just badly misguided and bruised by life. It's easy to see Riku coming from a background like this. Well done.

Also, I adored the opposing references to Satan. Good...I don't know what you'd call that, but you did it good anyway.

And a thousand lashes for the author's note in the middle of the story. For shame, Vixen! ;)

I love when he's defining his mother. It was just so perfect. The variations of a real mother to her. I don't know. There was just something there. It's not many people who can capture someone thinking of a mother who was never quite orthodox. I think you did so fabulously. This was a great story.

Iggy