Ohnobad, finish this asap! It's... AMAZING, I have stayed up until 3:30AM reading this. Pleas finish it as soon as you can!

Excellent work, other than the damn cliffhanger. (It's actually just what the story needed, I'm just too impatient)

This first chapter is absolutely amazing. The beginning is morbidly captivating. I've never before read anything quite like this before and I'll be sure to check out your other works.

I just wanted to say how much I like this fic- someone named Thene directed me to it a couple of years ago- but I never got round to reviewing. ;_; The alternate reality of the beginning hooked me in, as did the premise of a few separate but similar realities of the next chapters. I love the idea of a world where Ultimecia is not defeated, and I think you have the characterisation of Squall and Rinoa down pat. It's been a while, but I hope you continue this at some point. ^^

after reading the whole story, I find it extremely confusing as to which is reality and the dreamworld. In addition, how does it connect with the first chapter where squall (the killer) killed riona? Then again, what happened to the rinoa that the present squall has left behind? Anyway, I noticed that you have not updated this story for 4 years. This is a terrific story like I had said in my previous review so I hope you'll continue with it. PLEASE. Thanks.

Actually, I had read this a couple of years ago but had forgot to put it in my favourites list so ever since then, I've been hunting for this story to read this again. CONTINUE PLEASE?

this is an absolutely fabulous squinoa story! Continue please but it's so strange that suqall cannot overcome his passion of killing. To me, this story is more of a tragedy than simply a horror fic although the way you described squall is frightening.

The lack of reviews does absolutely no justice to this fic

The clever in which you put by giving off the motion that "you can love someone enough to kill them" portrays the very darkest of human nature, and in itself compelling enough and original enough to warrant at least another 100 reviews (or praises).

Love all your work, and appreciate the enormouse amount of time you put into each and every one of them. One discouraging thing that i DO notice about your work is that YOU DON'T COMPLETE YOUR PIECES. GARRGH.

Anyway, good...no...mystical work, and I hope you can finish up this and some of your other "unfinshed" fictions

Marking this so I can see where you're going. It's interesting, and mind-warping, and I hope you start explaining a few things, too because frankly, I R Confused. Very original.

I've read a few of your other pieces of fics, but none 'absorbed' me in like this fic does...

The part descripting Squall's 'darker' life is life-like and easy to depicher, plus how you wrote about his meeting with Riona, and their sad but beautiful love is just breathtaking. Like every detail and effort you put into this, keep it up, look forward to see your updates.

To put it bluntly, I love the way this fic screws with a person's head. It's awesome how you've incorporated warm moments (like when Squall is looking at Simone asleep) with the horrific ones. I'm hoping you'll continue this. I like how you portray the characters and I'm curious as to how all this will turn out.

this has been one of the best reads I have EVER had, EVER! keep up the awsome work!

i love this one as well

I always read the entire fanfic before I submit a review, and I must say IT¨S AWSOME! The first chapter made me cry because of the intense situation, we all know Squall would never harm Rinoa, but in a way when the "other" Squall killed Riona (at first I thought you spelled it wrong but then I caught it) he was doing for her, to free her from all the chaos that surrounded her, and of course, because he loved her.
I LOVED the way you fully understand how each character is, I mean, is like you "think" as they do, specially with Squall... and it´s a very difficult thing to do, I must add.
To make it short, you´ve created a masterpiece... When are you going to update? I can´t wait to read more...

This has got to be one of the most mind warping stories ive ever read. Where did you come up with this?!

The first chapter really blew my mind. I thought at first you were just doing a mispelling of Rinoa when you did Riona (When I first played FF8, I made the same mispelling) I think that chapter 1 is the best, though all 5 here are absolutely awesome. The look at the world where Ulmeticia still rules was really scary. I am not one to be frightened very easily, but this really got to the core. Ulmeticia still alive, the guardian forces twisted into something almost unreconizable, the wolves, the death of the captain, it all combines to be better and more frightful than almost every horror movie out there. You really are an excelent writer

...whoa...such...wow...*sighs* Just to let you know, I don't like to review chapters individually...so I'm starting from the beginning.

The first chapter was amazing. The content was kinda weird for me. But I loved it and instantly, I was addicted to this fic. The vision of Squall portrayed in that 'dream' was tough and almost disturbing, but I could imagine him like that. Towards the ending of the chapter, I was almost crying. I didn't really think that that would happen...how could Squall kill Rinoa? But the more I read down I was totally surprised! Like WOW! It was a dream!

In the second chapter the interaction between Knight and Sorceress felt natural. It was probably the only time where it was fluffy. I kinda missed the other characters though...anyway, I started to get really confused near the ending to this chapter. REALLY confused. My brain couldn't comprehend where you were going with this. And congrats, you're the first writer to EVER make me think that.

The rest of the chapters were probably better than the previous ones, although the first chappy was my favourite. It was heartbreakingly angsty and somewhat tame compared to the other beginning chps, at least some parts were. I felt so much sympathy towards Rinoa and Squall. And the description of Simone was so...heartwrenching. I felt like crying.

Squall's thoughts felt soo...natural. Although, I must say that the alternate realities were pretty disturbing. I don't even know what is real and what isn't in this fic. It kinda reminds me of the movie with Tom Cruise-'Vanilla Sky'. Creepy...

I can't wait until you update again. Hopefully it will be soon...(HINT HINT) ^_^ I really, really am hoping that Squall & Rinoa get a happy ending. They really deserve it. Oh! And I loved the length of the chapters. They were just perfect!! Keep up the wonderful work! You really are talented!! ...UPDATE SOON!

The battle was really impressive; the wolves were definitely among the spookier things ever, and it didn't occur to me that they'd make perfect horror-flick demons until well after I'd finished reading. (Ultimecia's probably got a thing for demon-creatures, anyway.) I did become concerned that they seemed a little TOO dangerous; since it seems like there's no place left in the world for Garden to get new recruits, I'm wondering why SeeD hasn't been wiped out by attrition. Of course, this would presume some knowledge of how many students and SeeDs there are versus how many wolves, so this could only seem like a problem.
In the scene describing the mysterious shepard entity, there's a few (excellent) paragraphs of exposition about the fall of Esthar. The exposition itself is terrific, but its placement seems a little awkward. In one paragraph, the Garden is launching interceptors to fight the creepdrakes, then six paragraphs later they actually engage the creepdrakes. Those five paragraphs in between are good information and important to understanding the situation, and there really isn't a much better place to put them; but I'd suggest moving them one paragraph or so farther down, to the point where the fighters have actually engaged in battle. Comparing the way the SeeDs fight and the way Esthar did (didn't) should work a bit better, I think.
While I'm being picky, one of the lines in the following scene—[He did not ask himself what was going on. He’d been in the middle of a melee too often to be confused by the chaos of war.]—seemed a little strange to me. I first read it as meaning that Squall has the ability to size up a situation, even a particularly frantic battle scene, hence not being confused by it—but it seems fairly clear that Squall really has very little idea what is going on in this battle, and he just saw an inexplicable maybe-black, possibly reptillian thing out the window; combat experience wouldn't necessarily help someone not be confused by that. I have a suspicion that you mean he knows enough not to let such concerns distract him, in which case maybe using a word like...well, "distracted" instead of "confused" would fix everything. ...This has been a really long paragraph to recommend changing one word.
Squall's lamentations on his own ineffectuality are a bit odd, too; it's been established that his magic works against the demiwolves that are presently overwhelming Garden, so he could help in the defense by fighting against them. (It seems like he should be able to deduce that there are more of them than the group that attacked Rinoa, considering the number of mutilated bodies if nothing else.) I can understand why he wouldn't want to leave Rinoa, and he could be in serious trouble once he ran out of magic, but he COULD do something, and would have to choose not to, making him unwilling to help rather than strictly unable. I suppose he might not be thinking straight given the general weirdness of his situation, but if that's so, it wasn't clear to me.
I really like the twist with Dane; you may please forget all my earlier complaints about him. (You might have done a little too good of a job not making him look particularly respectable for the twist to seem completely realistic, but given how I read the last chapter like eight months ago, that could be in my head.) I do wonder about Rinoa's behavior right at the end, though; Squall has a track record of being kind of self-absorbed in dealing with other people's deaths, but Rinoa making peace with him over the dying body of someone she considers to be her best friend seems a little callous and jerklike. I think it would work all right if she didn't answer him in that last sentence; the line about how maybe she hadn't lost a best friend after all is really what makes me think that she's already forgotten about the one she's -about- to lose.
I seem to find it a lot easier to criticize than compliment, which is probably a character flaw for me. Really, though, I did really like this chapter; the intense action and meaningful character insights go together excellently, indeed so much that I think I just invented a new adverb. So, many good thoughts here.