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Author: cornerofmadness
Title: Fresh Start
Recipient: Catw00man
Rating - teen
Characters/Pairing - Gracia, Roy, a smattering of minor characters and OCs
Summary: Gracia needs a new beginning
Notes: (optional!) - the prompt was ‘Gracia Hughes. We've all seen her as the perfectly sweet most understanding and forgiving woman ever. I want to know who she really is. She's a

Comments

[catw00man]

Oh my goodness this WAS worth the wait! First off I need to apologize for not replying sooner, but when I saw the fic I wanted to read it when I had the time to sit down and enjoy it, which I most definitely did today!

I really love how you developed Gracia's story while still remaining true to her feelings about Maes and how she's dealing with it. I don't think you can get away from that because he was supposed to be her world and future. I did enjoy how you developed things to get her to the flower shop and you made it a suitable job for more reasons than I would have expected. I could see walking into a shop like that making her smile and lifting her spirits, both things she needs! The fact she can work with Roy was just an added bonus on an already excellent idea.

Your details in this were very well done. I particularly loved the mention of Elysia with the colored pencils, as it reminded me of my nieces, and how the military would love to "marry her off" so they didn't have to deal with her anymore. So not something I had thought of but so very true. I also very much enjoyed the fact that Gracia was so smart and observant on her own. You can definitely imagine those as being qualities Maes would appreciate and you worked it in very nicely. The way you worked in the other characters checking up on her was also very well done.

I could definitely go on, but suffice it to say I really enjoyed this. Thanks so much for writing it! :-D