I love the voice that Matt has in this, how it feels a little choppy and how some of the sentences are a little over-long. It's still good, though. -Real- good and sad and I feel bad that things aren't all sunshine and rainbows at the end, but I love it for not being that way, too. :D

This was beautifully written, I suppose that's what I was trying to say from the beginning.

I really wish I could write the long reviews beneath me, but I don't feel I can. However, I just want to say that I'm just so impressed by your ability to write! Especially a story with both Misa and Matt. I believe you really got into their characters, with Matt's ambivalent emotions mixing with his laziness and Misa's sorrow after the death of Light. Overall, you're an amazing author with tons of talent. Keep it up! :)

O_O This was... amazing, and really depressing at the same time. It seems like they were both reaching out to each other, but they weren't quite sure /how/ to do that, and how to accept the other in a way that wouldn't make them feel guilty, or wrong, or ashamed, or something like that. Matt more than Misa, I think. He seems to want to forget, and she seems to want to /never/ forget. A barrier that will always be between them, maybe?
I really, really liked this. It was so, so well-written, and it was so original. It was weird to read something like this, but only because I've never read something like it before. I liked the way that you phrased things, it made it seem like they were thoughts running around inside of Matt's head, running into each other, being cut short before having a chance to fully form in his mind. Things that he almost doesn't want to think, but he does anyways because thinking is what he's been trained to do. If that makes any sense.
I also liked the way that it started off more light-hearted and fluffy, like they were both enjoying themselves, and transitioned easily into darker thoughts, darker things. I'm surprised that you were able to pull it off, as it's hard to find someone who is able to make that move believable, but I think you're one of them.
I also like the way that they're relationship progressed; not in a normal way that you would think. They became friends, and it seemed like they were trying to become more, but they were really hesitant about it, and branded by the ones who they had before, Mello and Light. But that also connects them too. Wow. Complicated.
I like this ship, and you're helping me fall in love with it even more. ^_^ I think I'm going to go see if you have any more stuff that strikes my interest. :D

I never really was a huge fan of MattMisa, but Jesus, this was gorgeous. I loved it so, so much. I was crying by the end.

i never thought i could enjoy a matt-misa fic so much, even if it was written by you - and yet, i stand corrected. this shows just how much i can't get over your style. you should be crowned queen of the stream of consciousness technique. that, and you're a natural at understanding the characters in their canon form; as in, alright, this pairing is fanon, but the way you describe their thoughts, their feelings, their character, they're the spit of the original characters (what a stupid, stupid expression...). i want to marry with your fics. *dies*
on a side note, comparing matt to horatio was a superb idea. subsequently, mello would be hamlet, right? -that would match him, in a way, fit like a glove. and i could go as far as to say that l could portray hamlet's father, but skip the family connection and keep only the respect and love. maybe i'm just going to far.
also, mello russian? now that's something to think about... although, i've always wondered about this thing: mihael is the from of michael only used in slovenian; in the same time, it said somewhere that actually the writer of the manga intended the actual mello to be near and vice versa, but the one who drew got them wrong in the first reply addressed to both (when they're kids, at wammy's), and they decided to leave it that way. and nate river is beyond any doubt an english name, don't you think? or in the least a germanic name. so i wonder just what his original nationality is.
ah, but i'm going off topic. i'm sorry.
just one more thing. one tinsy tad thing. maybe it's because of ffnet's weird formatting system, but the words you wrote in italics are always glued eother to the one before or to the one after...
alright, i'm shutting up. :D
very good job, but you don't need to be said that.
lotsa luv and respect,
adina.

Wohmuhgosh.
You are perfect.
I swear, this is the *first time* a fanfiction has actually made me cry, but it did.
Right there starting at "Two and a half months later Misa will..."
Damn.
*Damn.*
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Honestly, Miss Saulie, this is amazing. I love your writing style and characterization.

How do you only have three reveiws!?
This is great, keep it up

Omigosh, Emily. I have no clue in this world how I missed this.

Gorgeous. Just-- so gorgeous and all the details, all the tiny descriptions were so oddly perfect and wonderful. The "what's addictive is what's forbidden," the line about Kira being branded on every inch of her skin, because it's true. I loved the image of all the things he might do and how he wants her to be, without forgetting how screwed-up Matt himself is, too. And the end was perfect. I'm pretty much incoherant right now, I'm so sorry-- but it was so achingly lovely. I think my muse may've finally been stirred up again. Thank you so, so much for writing it for me. I completely loved it.
Sincerely,
Ava
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This is absolutely AWESOME! I just love how you portray Matt, it feels so natural, so much like him, though we actually don't know about his personality. And Matt and Misa interraction is weird, but I find it very likely to happen the way you describe it.

My god, everything you write is so gorgeous. It's so bleak and simple, but rich at the same time. Matt is perfection (because he is so imperfect of course), and even though I'm not precisely a Misa fan, I LOVE this. Keep writing more and I shall sacrifice a muffin in your honor.