ehmci In reply to xXOriginalSinXx [2013-04-28 03:10:21 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.! Stay awesome.!

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ehmci In reply to KitakLaw [2012-01-05 21:32:41 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome,
..thank-You for writing awesome stories,,

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KitakLaw In reply to ehmci [2012-01-05 21:33:15 +0000 UTC]

Aw...that's so sweet of you. And if I may ask, what is it about the stories that you like?

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ehmci In reply to KitakLaw [2012-01-06 05:01:29 +0000 UTC]

for me, it's the general flow of the story,, (cuz they are easy to follow) and your characterizations.. your multi-chapter story is well thought-out.. i can easily recognize what you're referring to whenever you mention something about past chapters in your author's notes,, and no uneccessary deaths though it wouldn't hurt to kill off those that are supposed to die anyway.. plus, they're easy to understand and visualize too.. and the fact that you actually do research first and try to be as realistic as you can,, (and it kinda helps me remember remarkable dates in canadian history since i've only started learning about it a year ago [and in french which i still haven't mastered yet..] cuz i tend to remember only the years.. though now in sec 4, the important thing to note is in which epoch such and such happened... but, of course, that's another matter.. )
i also like how the titles connect to your stories.. if anything, i'd like to see more dialogues in french (or even spanish though i don't really speak that) provided that they're not from online translators... though i understand if that's not possible (^ ^')...

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KitakLaw In reply to ehmci [2012-01-06 05:14:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the input

I do work hard on the characterization and the research, since I try to make the Hetalia characters my own and think outside of the popular fanon conventions.

"No unnecessary deaths though it wouldn't hurt to kill off those that are supposed to die anyway" - um...not knowing which of my stories you've read, I'm not sure what exactly to make of that. Help, please?

lol - I don't recommend you using my stories to help you study for school! I do use quite a dose of artistic license and there's always the chance I'll just make a mistake. I know I've caught myself doing that several times already. However, I DO encourage you to take what you see, pick whatever interests you, and try to learn more about it yourself

As for the language things, I don't use all that much French and Spanish dialogue because A) most of my audience just knows English and B) I want to be able to do the stuff myself instead of using an online translator, so I'm restricted by my actual limited skills

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ehmci In reply to KitakLaw [2012-01-06 19:44:42 +0000 UTC]

so far, i've only read your multi-chapter stories (the sous la rose series and one-shots though i think i've read some of your other stories in fanfiction.net waay before.. i'm checking them out now, actually..) what i meant by that is, well.. your character deaths are timely enough and make sense.. like charles'.. but i got a feeling that you don't really like killing off your characters..? i dunno,, i just thought that in the brother of absalom, matthew would actually shoot alfred at that one point, at least in the shoulder or the knee or something (when they met alone to talk and arthur said alfred killed charles, and then snapped!matthew ..yeah ).. though i guess the way you ended that scene worked to your advantage, anyway, yes, i'm just saying that if a character's death is inevitable and would work for the story, don't hesitate.. (though i know that only works for your OCs since you work with history thus you can't just kill off people for the sake of accuracy.. )

hehe~ i know, school is school and a fandom's a fandom.. they don't really match,,

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KitakLaw In reply to ehmci [2012-01-06 19:52:37 +0000 UTC]

Ah. Okay, I see what you're getting at. And...yeah. I have a REALLY hard time killing off characters - doesn't matter if they're supposed to die at that point in history (like Joseph Warren) or an OC (like Charles). It still hurts. But...I'm glad to see that you understand how things work into the larger context of the story.

And I think that having Matthew hurt Alfred in that scene - as much as it would make sense - would...kinda prevent him from moving on to the next bit of the story. He can't exactly be in Philadelphia for July 1776 if he's hurt

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ehmci In reply to MorriganFearn [2011-06-22 16:09:58 +0000 UTC]

heehee~ i kinda like dark.. i actually thought you were gonna go for a bit more sombre serious mode but then, canada, and england, and france, and america, and italy, and romano..
anyway, your characterization (esp. norway) and your wordings (? esp for that 'dance' scene) are awesome.. i can't believe nobody has commented on that part, that was PolLiet right there... (i am also guilty of not commenting.. but.. yeah..) and thanks for bothering to comment on me~ haha

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MorriganFearn In reply to ehmci [2011-06-22 16:59:26 +0000 UTC]

It's polite to thank people for reading something that you produced. Unless they have a name like '~getmorepgveiwsplz.' Then they are usually a dA bot and that is a little dispiriting... u.u

And thanks for noticing my diction. I had so much fun with that scene. I adore PolLiet, but they have a very complicated and turbulent history, so I wanted to get the difficulties of their relationship across. Every scene is working back to the first chapter, where it will all be explained.

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