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I NEED resolution, I have a hard time with bad (and at times even so-so) resolution, but it's better than no resolution. Sure I can imagine my own end, maybe even a better/more to my tastes end, but it's just not the same! And yea, as wary as I am I'll probably still read Yami no Matsuei, I just love it too much!!

If you mean you want to know about the story I started (and I'll go back to after I get out of here - unless my friends get back to me soon with a "yes we wanna sit around have hot chocolate/karaoke night in your (your being my) living room!") the main character is Seto. It's maybe supposed to be puppyshipping? However while in Tolerance and Distance Seto and Jounouchi are equally the main characters, in this it's mostly Seto and people around him. Plus it's weird because it's thrown Yuugi in for some reason I can't fathom? AND somebody dies - and that was random, unexpected and probably not plot related too. Premises: Seto's company is going under so he's sorta decided to be a prostitute (he's apparently very bad at it - not in like the sex, but in like, he's not good at getting paid - I mean dude, Seto would NOT ******** up the getting paid part, he's much better at business - and prostitution IS a business - than this story lets him be). So yea, that's what I'll give, other than mentioning Yuugi and the fact that some character (hint: not one I've thus far named) dies, everything I've said it's pretty much chapter 1.

I tend to like my characters being suicidal (I am a horrible, HORRIBLE person!!! ~_~), so you have SO intrigued me. I mean depending on how it's done of course, so yea I'll totally give it a shot. I can see Seto being suicidal at points - like maybe if Mokuba was killed (and especially if he was/thought he was at fault). I mean Seto may not display "weakness," but he also tends to hinge his entire life upon one thing - which really sets him up for disaster IF that one thing is lost. Anyhow guess I'll see the situation in a moment right? razz

I'll try and stop at 8, but I'm a masochist, so if I want more I'll take the risk of torturing myself and than moan for a few months. Here is my advanced apology for that ^_~.

Yea I didn't even read the last chapter, it just completely degraded out of character - and apparently also managed to find a way to throw the Jou getting beaten and needing Kaiba to save him thing too! GAH! He wasn't QUITE the damsel but yea, it just got worse and worse. I wouldn't recommend it. I started it because yay rape (~_~) but it was just an emotional out of character mess.

I can deal with "lack of reason" if they stay in character (or you know, don't completely pervert the character). I mean the last story, they worked very hard to develop "the reason" and failed at the actual execution in the reaction. If the rest is solid I can handle the "why" being a little absent.

Haha, you say that now, but after I've complained infinity number of times you might want to take that back ^_~. However you know how slowly my fail list progress has been, so it at least won't be for awhile.

Yea, especially as Seto's such a whiny wimp in this story, so like he can take care of Jou who can't take care of himself?!

I usually don't mind the overprotective/obnoxious quality of the friends thus far actually. Especially with Honda. Hahaha, angry going to beat the s**t outta Kaiba Honda I actually really like razz . In general as long as the main focus of the story is in character I don't mind too much what they do to the other characters (so long as it's not really creepy horrid or something).

Aww...thats not good. I dunno how I feel about the story thus far, I've liked most of the interaction but Kaiba's inermonologue seems a bit too introspective. A little bit more in touch with thoughts and feelings than I really think Seto would ever allow himself to be even privately. But we'll see, I'm only 3 chapters in.

Although thus far the yami/hikari pairings kinda creep me out, haha.

Well they made it seem as such, in the beginning where Kaiba is thinking about what love is and contrasting those examples (before debating the logic of how if any of all this is true he could be in love with Jou). The description didn't make it sound platonic, I suppose that's what could have been meant, but even throughout didn't seem like it.

Anyhow, story was ok but didn't really love it. Too much inner-monologue, which was just way more emotional introspection than I think Seto would ever be comfortable allowing, and then the end, I dunno. I feel like IF you are going to have all that inner-monologue than you have to be building up to growth and learning experience, so the fact that he actually went through with it in the end kind of kills that. So yea, story was ok but probably not to my tastes.

Oh he doesn't consider that he is, he's making an argument against love, thinking on how hate can actually be a mask for love - which would mean he loved Jou since he hated him.

Yea I dunno, there's just something about it that doesn't resolve with me, and I guess it's slightly irksome. But yea, definitely not even close to the worst story I've read, wasn't even a bad story, just - like stated - not my preference.

Yea and then there is the part where Kaiba goes skinny dipping with Yami no Yuugi...hahaha, ok I'm just messing with you now.

It's funny, I think the only recommendations I haven't read are HP stories. The most recent is because I haven't had time and these things are NOVELS - which are supposed to be AMAZING but still. It's called the Draco trilogy, something like that, the author stopped writing fanfiction and started publishing her own stuff because apparently she got to be so awesome, haha. However that reason these stories are now really hard to find because they can't be posted online anymore (yet since as they are fanfiction she can't publish them in her own right obviously - so complicated). So pretty much you need to know someone like my friend who happens to have the PDFs.

Then another friend sent me a rewrite of the 7th book which I haven't had time to check out - another full length thing. Plus I had issues with the 7th book I needed time to get past before rereading it in any sense.

The last is actual fanfiction length, on the longer side but, it's no novel. It's also the oldest recommendation I have (I think I got it 4-5 years ago? Something like that). Yup I fail with HP, haha. Maybe I'll go read this last thing now...not likely, but you know, maybe! ^_~