This was a very insightful piece of writing, and I did rather enjoy the format.
Interesting to get all three sides of the story. I never did like Lucrecia much; always thought there was something wierd about her that Vinnie never let on, and I think perhaps you hit the nail on the head with your analysis.

That was MAGNIFICENT. I could use many, many more synonymous words, but let's face it: you're GOOD. And I mean DAMN good.

And now you have my attention, and I'm reading your stuff...and I'm loving every second of it. Goodness, I can't believe I never knew about you before, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE.

"Vincent Valentine holds that there’s a difference between genetically experimenting on a child and killing one. One is playing God. The other is just bumping up an inevitable appointment."

GOD that line was good. It was all good, but that line made me stop and go "wow".

I read proffesional hazards and loved it so now i'm going through the rest of your fics and ticking the nice add author to my favourite authors button.

Your fics are @£%&* awsome as cid would say.

I absolutely love the line - "The paperwork would be horrendous." That ones probably my favourite either that or - "Vincent Valentine holds that there’s a difference between genetically experimenting on a child and killing one. One is playing God. The other is just bumping up an inevitable appointment." It's such a hard choice

In the original game lucrecia doesn't eexactly seem very attached to vincent at all, you know the entire "stay back" thing. Then suddenly in dirge of cerberus the only reason she's avoiding vincent is because of her guilt trip over his father which seems rather odd as she doesn't feel guilty about experimenting on her son. I like your characterisation of her as more manipulative

Okay, okay, I'm officially a huge fan of your work, Sztorm. This was freaking awesome, I just can't even draw up words for it. The way it was written, the portrayal of the twisted relationship between this trio is perfect. I can't get over it- your words are magical and they strike a different chord in me. The way you write is great- I can't get enough of it.

Haha, I'll stop the gushing now.

Keep up the fabulousness, please :)

- WAS

This was most assuredly but creepy and beautiful. A most excellent character study of all involved.

*shiny eyes* That was so cynical, and amoral and, and, I love it! It makes perfect sense to me. I guess I'm just a sucker for nontraditional characterization. Keep on writing!

extremely interesting. It's a very dark look into Vincent's mind, and Hojo's, although I find Lucriecia somewhat mild-mannered to pull off that level of manipulation. Still, perhaps the act was part of it...

My favorite line:

"Dr. Crescent’s diagnosis of Vincent Valentine’s affections toward her is accurate."

I'll admit that I am so so SO wary of reading Project-fic these days. There are about three people in the world that can pull off just how DARK it is and well, not turning Lu into the martyr-saint.

God, how that annoys me.

Then again, I write some WEIRD Project fic that usually has Veld as a peripheral. XD

But anyway, I like the format, I like that no one is innocent, I like like like.

~Cendri

An excellent peice of work.

So good. Then again, all your fics are wonderful, so it's no surprise.

You're a very talented writer. I've meaning to review one of your stories for a while now, but could never bring myself to do it. Everytime I click the review button, a little voice in my head starts screaming 'I'm not worthy!' until I chicken out with my (nonexistent)tail tucked between my legs.

Anyhow, now that I've finally conquered this little voice, I can finally tell you 'keep up the excellent work!' :)

Have I told you yet I love you? Well, let me get this over with:

I love you.

And not the way Vincent obsessively, jealously loves Lucrecia. No, this is shining admiration and adoration of an excellent author. =)

Seeing Lucrecia as a "manipulative badass" instead of a whiney tart, a victimized angel or any of the other sickening portrayals of her makes me grin widely and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. The oh-so-slightly-psychotic-human way you portray Vincent is also heart-warming for me. Seeing passive, kindly, fang-less Vincent's, while all right in certain situations (perhaps when he's left alone with Marlene), grows nauseating after a while. And Hojo! Again, the glimpse of him is a wonderful one. Being jealous of Vincent for the title of 'Turk' is a new and interesting idea that I like.

Various lines in this piece made me smile with unadulterated delight, but the two that are my favorite would have to be, "He would rather shoot people than poke needles into their arms because loaded guns can’t lie through their teeth under the smiling pretense of medicinal purposes." and "Hojo often wishes Valentine would stop being so unpredictably finicky with his ethics and would just initiate an affair with Lucrecia already."

Those two lines are delightful.

As for the style itself, it's almost stream of conscious in a way, and yet it's not. It's too orderly for that. It's more like ... the extra strips of film left on the cutting room floor. Sometimes they're almost whole scenes, but sometimes they're just facts, bits of dialogue or interludes that just don't fit anywhere else - and yet, somehow, they all go together.

Or maybe snarky should get her sickly, sleepy butt in bed and quit fawning over fanfiction. Hm. -smiles- I'm not crazy - I swear. Just slighlty sadistic with a tendancy to ramble.

- Snarky

“I’m opposed to it!” “But Vincent, you shoot babies.” “Shut up, that’s different.” Oh, Valentine. I love that line about him hanging morals in the closet. Badass. It’s cool how you wrote Lucrecia’s thoughts about Valentine in that logical fashion, like she’s writing lab notes. But I like how you’ve made Hojo, Vin, and Lucrecia a trio from hell. Funny Vincent aims his gun at them a few times. Again, certainly not a man of ‘fairytales.” And how he describes the differences of scientists and Turks. I suppose shooting people’s easier anyway, because you’re at a distance.

Anyway, this is a cool fic, and it’s almost humorous how they’re all lying to each other even though it’s er… I guess I don’t know what genre to put it in either. Fitting song, for sure, but it helped me to listen to NIN while reading this. There are infinite possibilities for their characterizations, at any rate, and it was interesting to read your portrayals here.

I know I can always count on you to write something unique and badass at the same time. Till next time.

wow. that was new and different. the only one of those three that fits my own mental picture is hojo (that is almost exactly how i'd picture him)--but vincent is very close and lucrecia is surprisingly good with that dynamic. i like it.

and that little bit about "things lucecia crescent does not know about vincent valentine"...is probably the most unexpected little piece, but perfect.