You are my favorite author on this entire site. And I really hope that you will one day come back and write the third book in this series. The last chapter of this story was so moving. Your characters have such depth. Thank you for writing this!

um.. this was freaking amazing! one of, if not THE best fic I've read in over 15 years on this site. I sincerely hope that the reason you are no longer active on here is because you've had the opportunity to write and publish original works. your writing style reminds me of my all time favorite author, brandon Sanderson. If you have/do publish anything please let me know, I'd love to read it!

This story is amazing thank you for creating this world! Awesome story can't wait to read the sequel. One of the best fics on the site.

I like the premise but the build is so slow I kinda lose interest by this point. I do believe there’s is such a thing as to much detail and the entirety of what I read feels like filler and it had no end in sight

You did an amazing job... I want to shake you and - HOW DARE YOU WRITE SUCH HEARTBREAKING SCENES YOU MONSTER...! You genius of angst...
I... I don't know how to express the sheer amounts of tears this story has made me shed... Even as a reread... And amidst all that pain, the hope.
It seems fitting that this story's ending makes me burst into another fit of sobs at Luke's recounting how he went to his grandmother's grave.

Omg... I had forgotten how much delicious torture were Luke and Vader's conversations and games of evasions...
Luke is one of the most frustrating, and tragic, and beautifully crafted characters I've ever read of, I think.

I feel like I want to say that this fic is horrible, but that makes it sound like I don't like it.

I love this fic.

It might be one of the best ones I have ever read. Whenever you watch Star Wars, I feel like they glossed over what it actually takes to become a Sith. Even Anakin's Great Fall was reduced to "What have I done?" and "Arise, Lord Vader" like it was just that simple for Anakin to fall to the dark side. You are so adept at really looking at all of the psychological manipulations, lies, tricks, and torture that it takes to twist a person into a Sith. Even Luke, who we all know has some semblance of good in him no matter what Vader and Palpatine have reduced him to, can't escape the years of brainwashing and manipulation that Palpatine has put him through. So when I say it's horrible, I mean that it is so real, and I can totally believe how messed up Luke has become and it's almost horrifying to read because it is so believable.

Of course, I couldn't stop reading. I'm not a torture-smut person and in no ways is this fic graphic to that extent. It's way more subtle and well done, and I think that's why I like it. You made Palpatine into a true Svengali without reducing him to an evil cackling caricature.

You hear that? That was the sound of me climaxing like a schoolgirl over your tech porn of the TIE Interceptor's description. That is how a good Star Wars fanfiction ought to have. A good tech porn with the appropriate lingo used. This is rare. Its like an author of Star Wars EU wrote this story.

I wonder how many he took...

This chapter is just... so beauitful. Your writing is poetic and visual. The story is incredibly compelling. Thank you for sharing this with us. My god, it's probably my favourite LukeVader fic!

Just WOW

Hey i just wanted to tell you that this story is one of the best I never read

I spent an entire week doing nothing during my free time but this. I just don't have the words to express how incredible this story is. Incredible in it's complexity, in the character's perfectly developed psychology, in that bittersweet ending which tore out my heart, in the relationships between every character, in the subtle politics, in the way you deal with addiction, in the way each detail is carefully thought out and researched. You are an amazing writter. Have you ever thought about publishing a book? If so, I would really like to know which one!

Wow! Others have put it more eloquently, but my god that was a good read! That ending was simultaneously heart breaking and freeing. Utterly perfect. Thank you for writing!

Wow. I just read the last chapter, and I am trying to slowly come back to reality. You certainly know how to create suspense and hold your readers on tenterhooks. I stayed glued to the screen for the last few chapters, unable to put it down until I finished this.
You are an exceptional writer - the story masterfully composed, the characters genuine and your language superb.
This story was everything I was hoping to read, and then it wasn't. The end satisfies as much as it doesn't, and I don't know whether I should be happy about the outcome or discontent about all the devastation.

There were many a time when I grew a bit restless and frustrated with the stories slow pace, hoping that the characters would finally realize a thing or two, hoping for a few mysteries to be finally revealed. But of course that was your intention; you took your time developing the characters, to grind into us their beliefs and their backstories, just to take these made assumptions from us in the last few chapters. That was brilliantly done! What we suspected about the Organas - wrong. Indo's son - wrong, and the shining happy end I was unconsciously expecting, including the tearful reunion of father and son and brother and sister, snatched from under our very nose.
You know the very idealistic and naive part of me wanted to have this happy end where Vader lives and reconciles with Luke, where the Alliance wins and everyone lives happily ever after. Of course that's not how things would go in this story which is in all its brutality in the end of the day only brutally realistic. You showed people, most of them wretched and broken yes, but in the end of day people with all their flaws and how live is never fair. No heros and no fairy tales in the real world right?
There were many a times when I flinched at the inhuman treatment of Luke and the pitiful state he was reduced to by years of abuse from Vader and Palpatine, only to think that sadly such abuse is common in our normal world (despite there being nothing like Sith Lords), and that you portrayed the fractured and broken soul of an abuse victim masterfully (especially how he would hold on to his loyalty to the Emperor to the very end, despite everything that has been done to him).

I loved how you drew up that growing friendship between Luke and Han, how the characters developed and learned, and I loved how you spun the intrigues and took them sometimes nearly past the endurable for the reader, only to culminate everything in such a furious finale. There were many moments when I thought I knew how the story would go, only to be surprised yet again.
The most brilliant thing though is, and I only realized that now reflecting about the whole thing, is how you managed to destroy and alter every single character's preconceived view of the world in this story. Everything they believed in, what they thought was right and wrong, who they thought was friend or enemy was taken from them, and they were forced to change their point of view. And they are all left standing in the middle of the broken bits and pieces of what they firmly believed in for years.
It's not a happy scenario, and therefore it's fitting that there wouldn't be a traditional happy ending. Apart from that the wounds inflicted and the scars acccumulated over the years could never really heal properly. I see that, and I know that the outcome couldn't realistically haven't been any different, still I mourn a little for all these broken people - Luke, Vader, Indo, Kenobi, Leia and Han - and I would have wished them a little happiness and the ability to salvage something from the mess.
I think this story will hang with me for a long time, especially because it's so disturbing at times, and because it denied me the easy satisfaction that everything is going to be alright in the end. That's how it normally is, or not? Challenging stories move you to think, and that makes them so good. This is certainly one of the best Imperial Luke stories I've ever come across, and big kudos to you for writing it and sticking with through all its (incredible!) length!