Date: October 28 2020 5:04 AM Title: Chapter 22: Battle
God YES!!! I can’t tell you how happy I am to see this story continued! My heart literally stopped when I saw the words that meant we had a new entry! I’m very sorry I haven’t reviewed this story yet but this is one of my absolute favorite ongoing stories at the moment. I binged the entire thing close to the beginning of quarantine when new chapters were dropping like hotcakes and….wow…..just wow. I’m going to work my way through and try and review every chapter, which admittedly will take a while but is totally worth it. This story is just….please PLEASE don’t let this die! Life without the story of Teagan and Sihil is too bleak to bare. I swear I’ll get to you a more detailed review, just please continue writing it!
I'm right there with Laeron, feeling what he's feeling. There are those moments.
Loved this chapter, absolutely brutal. Volkhard is becoming quite the interesting character. I also love some of the little moments with Teagan, her sparing the kneeling soldier and the mini speech she gives to Laeron after her rampage were particular favorites of mine.
You have been consistently getting me with this Author Notes and Chapter End Notes. Man I really thought there were pumpkins in here. I really wanted that skin. :'(
Date: October 24 2020 7:57 AM Title: Chapter 22: Battle
>I hope we're getting the lore I so desperately crave. Like, where the tomkins come from, how they got here, how old Firkon is (in human years not tomkin years), how long this tomkin-human war took, how long before that humans and tomkins had an uneasy coexistence, WHAT EMPEROR THEY'RE ON NOW
>Why Volkhard is so screwed in the head, seriously this goes beyond "I've assimilated into their culture and have learned to understand them"
>Just how hard Firkon is going to beat Volkhard when he finds out Volkhard is and has been a "monster" all this time.
IIIII kind of want Firkon to get hurt. Like a lot. Not die, just.... maybe some humiliation and domination, show him his place. I wonder if Firkon truly believes humans (real humans) really are just basically like... Indominus Rex from Jurassic World (absolutely animal but is conscious enough to do things outside of instinct). Propaganda of the empire, to make you feel less bad about killing them en masse (like every war ever)? Is it just something he's convinced himself of so he doesn't have to feel bad if he kills a baby?
Author's Response:
>yes! yes!!!! yes!!!!!!! its all coming but i have to deliver it all as slowly as possible to inflict maximum reader pain like the sadist shit i am. can definitely say that they aren't really on any specific emperor number right now, since the united tomkin coalition of days gone by has been replaced by a litany of city-states, nations, and smaller sub-empires, many of which have leaders fighting over conflicting claims of dubious legitimacy to successorship of the shattered empire
>thank you for the intermission idea
>painfully and thoroughly if he gets over the denial
and yeah, Firkon is definitely assimilated deep into the tomkin propaganda for one who's had multiple encounters with Teagan and lived to tell the tale. He's definitely becoming disillusioned with the idea that humans are brutish by nature, but he wishes he could still believe it to be true.