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No, just that the odds of Hisao getting Hanako and Emi are probably greater than Shizune getting Hisao. Of course, if the ‘Come on Shizune!’ comment was merely about her helping Lilly getting Hisao back, the odds are much better. Anything greater than zero is still better, right? I think Shizune he...

…Sure. Good luck. Are you saying that Shizune is a Jägermonster? (She would need a nice hat.) At this point, whatever Hisao ends up doing in the end, I get the feeling that someone's heart is going to be broken. Given the way things are going, I think it will be a bittersweet heartbreak than a pure...

...idea... While a different story, it would be far more reasonable, and in character. Thinking on it some more, I think it would be possible to do a cheating Hanako story and keep everyone basically in character. I would require three elements that Mendacium does not however. First, it would need ...

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but for me, the overlapping POVs gave me the feeling that we've perhaps reached the apex (or nadir, depending upon your POV ) of the plot, and will now start the downhill (uphill?) rush to its conclusion.

I know you. Emi doesn't say anything as we look at each other, and I know she knows me now, too. One of my favorite things (among many) about this story as a whole is that at chapter 1, it started as what seemed to be a story that focused on Hisao and how he would cope with the loss of Lilly -- and...

What? She can’t be serious. I’m not trying to pick her up. ... What a shame. Kenji and Miki would make a cute couple. And by "cute", I mean absolutely hilarious. There's actually a fic (a Hanako GE epilogue, if I recall correctly) out there somewhere that has Kenji and Miki as friends wit...

...words... Given the author's justifications for writing Mendacium (outside of disliking Hisao), I'm now convinced that it would have been better cast -- and probably far less OOC and controversial, as well -- if it were derived from Hanako's Neutral End. With that ending, where Hisao and Hanako h...

It occurs to me that the concept behind Mendācium would have worked much better as a Neutral End continuation. Like most Good End Fracture Fics (the only term I can think of for the opposite of a Bad End Fix Fic), it pulls the protagonists too far out-of-character to be believable. (In general, the ...

I would like think the author tried to convey that Hanako does need some genuine affection and helpful friends, just not the doting kind, but failed to execute on that. I agree, there was a halfway decent concept (maybe??) behind Salvage , but the out-of-character portrayals of the cannon character...

That's why I've never found the idea of her reconciling with Hisao something that would make her any weaker of a character. She isn't crawling back to him and admitting that she was wrong. She set her foot down, established her boundaries, and spoke her mind. Perhaps she didn't mean everything she ...

Really good, for a "highly experimental" piece. My take on Rin's breakdown at the art exhibit is that she had something akin to a panic attack. A different sort of panic attack than the one Hanako had when she found out about Hisao and Lilly buying her a birthday present, but a panic attac...

You know, I'm thinking of revising my statement about BEFFs. There is exactly one bad ending with the potential to be successfully BEFFed, and that bad ending is The Deep End. It depends on how loosely one defines a BEFF. For continuations and epilogues, the loosest possible definition for a BEFF (...

Lilly is also busted... Though you could say that her good ending is literally* a BEFF of her bad ending^^° *Yes, I do mean literally . I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that about Lilly's good ending... All that said I still wouldn't write a BEFF after Misstep unless I had a story to tell...

Hanako felt that Hisao running with Emi was better for his health than not running with her . That isn't necessarily exclusive of Hisao dating Hanako. (Granted, in practice, it'd be pretty painful for Emi, but hey...) In addition, I believe that Hankao feels that losing Hisao to Emi (or even Lilly)...

Well. And now I don't have a clue how this is going to end again, except now I'm certain that Emi and Hanako's friendship is going to be more solid than Lilly and Hanako's ever was, by the ending. (I also think that Hanako's going to be who Emi opens up to, not Hisao. They both now know that they s...