[Skyfall]

Originally Posted by Blago

Spoiler for Aiyoku no Eustia, finished!:

So, I've finished it!
Since the start I knew who the baddie would be, though I didn't expect him to be Aim until a few moments before he clearly revealed it, anyway I did like his character in his own way.

Such a bitter end, even though I can't say it was bad, it left me with a feel of emptyness, and why the hell there is no epilogue? that sucked, seriously.

Also I missed two things in the last chapter, one was more interaction with Sieg, it was a great character and IMO deserved it, I expected him to directly help Caim at the end (or viceversa), and second, at least one epic fight of Caim, there wasn't even one in the whole VN, I always expected a rematch against Gau, but when that became impossible, I expected him to fight powered-up Sistine, Lucius obviously wasn't enough of a match for him, physically speaking.

Some parts became kinda annoying, I guess the highlight of annoyance is the third chapter by far, I did like the chapter's plot overall but Eris was unbearable; at the fourth chapter Collette's arrogance at some points also became very annoying, but nowhere near Eris, and as I'm a fan of action, I missed some kind of it in the whole chapter, but this is not important at all; also in the last chapter Caim's first decission was VERY annoying, even if I understand it, I couldn't help but hate it, though it's not that I didn't like the plot development there.

Spoiler for about the ending:

I definitely share the sentiment regarding the ending - as far as writing goes it wasn't a bad one, but emotionally it was one of the more unfulfilling endings i have encountered in a long time. Talk about a depressing, hollow note to end the story on.

It wasn't so much of it being a Bad End - i was having suspicions the story was heading in that direction for the better part of the last chapter. It was the incompatibility of Tia's and Caim's respective regrets that made the whole deal so bitter. Her biggest regret would be allowing Caim to pass away while she had the power to do something about it, his biggest regret would be not saving Tia and living in a world made of her sacrifice. Yet one had to give, and the other remained.

I found the line of Caim likening living in a world made of her sacrifice to sleeping on her corpse a particularly powerful one. Yet Tia is no longer, and Caim is left with exactly that. What is the birth of a new world for everyone else is Tia's funeral for him. The very world is indeed her corpse, so to say, and yet he is forced to live in it, because that was her wish.

Frustrating ? Hell yes! Especially considering Tia certainly deserved a better end than being mistreated and emotionally manipulated in to a self-sacrifice to the very end. Damn that bastard Lucius, i demand an appendix scenario of him rolling within a pit of chaos Considering one of the questions raised by the story on several occasions is whether Tia was born only to suffer a life of hardship, i find it incredibly vexing that, looking back on it, i find myself unable to give the answer she would deserve.

And then we have Tia's appendix scenes ... talk about rubbing salt on a wound. Tia is dead and Caim, who is left behind, now lives his life while experiencing dreams and delusions of a future that they couldn't grasp, constantly being remind it's but a dream ? I found the process of sitting through her appendix scenes quite weird because of this, talk about a bitter taste in the mouth. Pure evil.

So ...yeah, a thoroughly depressing ending all around, not quite something i was expecting from August, even with the darker-than-normal setting. I found it so unsatisfying i am pondering the merits of a fanfic continuation of the story, an impressive accomplishment in itself, considering it has been 3 years since i felt the urge to write anything