darkreinfly

I finally got around to adding what was essentially the one story I had in mind for the Epic Final Fantasy list. In hindsight, many favourites were eclipsed by AU HP fics, and would frequently dissolve into pure smutty smutsmut of the slash variety.

Having said that, "A Long Hard Road" could justifiably stand on its own in its own list. It is that good. If I didn't have work tomorrow morning, I'd endeavour to yet again spend all night and then some on rereading the whole damn thing.

I think what I also hoped to include were fics where Cloud travels either back in time, or otherwise meets with all our Crisis Core fellas earlier in life. Fics where he is that much more noticeable or skilled and thereby in position to rewrite history. I know it's been overused and overdone but I'm such a sucker for these. You've just got to wade through the authors that simply wish to fix every single little thing in canon, jeopardising the quality of the narrative as a consequence.

Anyway! To sum what was meant to be a quick forwarding post:
"A Long Hard Road" -> Author: Twig -> Visited Twig's LJ -> Found her latest entry and liked it. See "The Hobbit vs. Harry Potter"

I won't go into how much I felt the ending of HP was full of fail. Srsly. It deserves its own post so that you can ignore it completely if you don't agree and not miss anything important.

But I did bemoan the loss of potential for where the HP story could've gone in the aftermath of the final showdown. Twig was spot on - no change? He's just going to stay in the Wizarding World with Ginny and become creepy younger versions of his parents? Is this catering to the masses, a Stephenie Meyer delusion or the long term effects of borderline child abuse in a muggle household? There's got to be an explanation for saddling his kids with those names. Hm...