I loved this. The completely dark and desolate world you've created--the horde, the virus, it's all so dark and gritty and very post-apocalyptic. The world-building was fantastic. I don't know if I said, but that scene in the hospital with Dean and Victoria--when he gives her the knife--was one of my favorite ones, because it almost had me tearing up and it was just so emotional and real, you know?
I really like how you've incorporated the S2 storyline with the special children and Jo, even; all of our favorites are there. And Andy! What a twist, having him kill Azazel like that at the end. Andy is one of my all time favorite characters and I loved him here. Great story, congrats on posting :D
Wow... I think this is brilliant: brutal, bleak, hopeless and really sad. It gave me a very vivid image in my head of this post-apocalyptic wasteland with small bands of survivors here and there trying to survive. Really well done and beautifully written...
I do have a fetish for apoca-fic since The End... my favorite is Gekizetsu's Last Outpost of All That Is but this is definitely hot on its tail... Thanks for sharing: it's obvious you put a lot of effort into it. ;-)
Jeez, I think I should applaud you for not pulling the punch, even a little, but right of now I want to throttle you a little too.
It is a brutal read (so exactly what I do not need right now). It is beautiful too, I think I will have to come back to say more. But, really, this is real literature.
and yeah - I really couldn't soften it much, because I felt like it would take so much away from the mood of the fic. I know that this thing isn't what a lot of people want to read (and you're so sweet for doing it, even though I know you don't much care for darkfic), but it was the way I felt best fit the story as a whole.
*hugs* you're a sweetie for reading and leaving me such...sweetly threatening feedback, LOL
Well, this is a beautiful piece of literature work. For the record, I do not deal well with dark fics because the not so good ones are dark for the sake of being dark and I do not have patience for those, and the good ones are just downright depressing. I think the whole point of sci-fi world is to explore/investigate what-ifs, and at the bottom, it is the humannity of it all that stays with the readers. It is scary what humans can and will do when put to test, and despite the noble things we are capable of, I'd never ever think it is a good idea to put it under any stress test
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I did really try to avoid darkfic just for the sake of darkfic. I wanted it to have meaning, and be integral to the story. Like you said, we can be noble, and are a lot of the times we are, but what situations would humanity most likely not be? That's what I was interested in for this fic.
Also, ...died a little inside when I realized that you went with cannon about the special children...
I'm so glad you mentioned that - I got excited about those little details, and wanted someone to like that as much as I did.
And, yeah - Sam is relatively absent, physically, in this fic, so I'm glad his prevalence in thought was tangible.
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Poor tormented Dean. Thanks for sharing!
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I was warned, after all.
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I really like how you've incorporated the S2 storyline with the special children and Jo, even; all of our favorites are there. And Andy! What a twist, having him kill Azazel like that at the end. Andy is one of my all time favorite characters and I loved him here. Great story, congrats on posting :D
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The Dean and Victoria scene was one of my fav.s to write, so I'm happy that you pointed it out :DDDD
Thanks for reading it, hon!
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This was heartbreaking and utterly horrible in such a stark, vivid way. And I just…Sam…no…ToT
Great job though! I loved this piece!
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Thank you for reading - I'm glad you liked this :D
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It is a brutal read (so exactly what I do not need right now). It is beautiful too, I think I will have to come back to say more. But, really, this is real literature.
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and yeah - I really couldn't soften it much, because I felt like it would take so much away from the mood of the fic. I know that this thing isn't what a lot of people want to read (and you're so sweet for doing it, even though I know you don't much care for darkfic), but it was the way I felt best fit the story as a whole.
*hugs* you're a sweetie for reading and leaving me such...sweetly threatening feedback, LOL
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I did really try to avoid darkfic just for the sake of darkfic. I wanted it to have meaning, and be integral to the story. Like you said, we can be noble, and are a lot of the times we are, but what situations would humanity most likely not be? That's what I was interested in for this fic.
Also, ...died a little inside when I realized that you went with cannon about the special children...
I'm so glad you mentioned that - I got excited about those little details, and wanted someone to like that as much as I did.
And, yeah - Sam is relatively absent, physically, in this fic, so I'm glad his prevalence in thought was tangible.
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