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Rose
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 77: Home
Wow. What an amazing end to this story. I have followed it since I was in middle school, and wow. Despite all the negativity you say about this, you did an amazing job!Reply: Thanks for reading!
Please stop me if you think I'm getting uncomfortably self-deprecating; I think my assessment that there's a lot of ridiculousness early on is pretty realistic, but I've also experienced enjoying a story only to see the author hate on it to the point of making me feel kind of crappy about it, and that's definitely not what I want. I'm still extremely fond of this fic and always will be, and I'm thrilled you enjoy it!
[06/19/2018 23:31:12]
Shadeinmordor
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
Are you still working on the series?Reply: Yes, I'm working on chapter 77 (the final chapter).
[06/09/2018 13:33:00]
Pinkie Pie
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
hi i just wanted to say that i genuinely truly appreciate that you've kept up with writing this for so long; this fic has been a huge part of my life since i was about nine years old and it inspired me to start writing my own fanfic and honestly just as a story has stuck with me in a really serious way for so long - it feels kind of weird to imagine it being over? but at the same time this conclusion absolutely feels earned and as bittersweet as it may be i'm excited to have seen it this close to the end as a now 20 year old, and i can't wait for the final chapter. thank you so muchReply: Thanks for reading and all your kind words! I'm glad to have managed to entertain you for so long. I hope you enjoy the finale (and perhaps come back for the commentary)!
[04/27/2018 22:00:28]
Doot Toot
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
Wait, is this the end?Reply: No, there is one more chapter left.
[03/06/2018 17:37:22]
Coronis
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
Wow, just wow. Better than I ever could've expected. (no not Coronis on Serebii).
[02/09/2018 15:12:36]
Bluwiikoon
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
These two chapters made me cry so much and I love them. I can't even articulate my feelings right now, I'm just so happy and so emotional! Thank you, Butterfree, this was worth the wait and I'm so glad I got to read it. Mewtwo2 is now my fave character oh my GOD (Chalenor is also fantastic, what a brilliant plot twist!!). I love all these wonderfully flawed individuals!
[01/24/2018 03:43:48]
Venomoth
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
Mew is inconsistently referred to as "he" and "she" here. Is it more than one Mew?
"Mew bounded across the grassy landscape," Doesn't Mew only move by floating?
Reply: Mew has no gender preference. Throughout the story, it's been referred to as "he", "she" and "it" by different characters - "he" has been most prominent because it's what Chaletwo uses and what Mark took up after him, but e.g. Entei and Mewtwo called it "her". Here, from Mew's point of view, the pronoun used alternates consistently between scenes.
I didn't think of "bounding" as a verb that necessarily precludes that Mew is floating - just doing so in bounds and leaps. But I could be entirely wrong about the connotations of the word; not a native speaker.
[01/23/2018 22:15:38]
ShadowKaiserin
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 76: Chalenor
*Tears, After The Cloudy Weather plays in the background* Sure Butterfree, just throw every curveball you can think of at me and then break my heart to finish it off. I'm gonna need a day to process all this and 3 months of therapy to get over my tragic friendshipping feels…
[01/22/2018 22:27:25]
Happy
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 75: Mewtwo²
lads good thing I started reading this fic as a fan of pokemon & happened to end it 10 years later as a fan of existential horror bc that was a PAYOFF
Congratulations, butterfree - hope you're throwing your dang hands in the air :) Can't wait til the day you can finally say you've posted the final chapter - for this version, anyway ;)
[01/22/2018 16:18:48]
Shadowkaiserin
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 74: Unraveling
It's finally happening! I'm so excited!
[09/08/2017 10:14:02]
ShinyBlazingReshiram
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 26: Dead or Alive
This is a cool story thus… I LOVE IT!!
[08/24/2017 08:28:10]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 74: Unraveling
Kaflinn er mjög góður framan af. Vitnað í margt sem áður skeði og útskýrt. En ég botna ekkert í restinni og alls ekkert í endinum. Í fyrsta lagi, af hverju safna þau ekki restinni af hópnum saman, þegar Chaletwo segir þeim að Mew muni birtast í þessum skógi? Í öðru lagi, af hverju var Mark ekki búinn að ná í þennan bolta og endurræsa hann til að geta lokað Mew inni í honum? Í þriðja lagi, af hverju kemur þeim allt í einu á óvart að Mewtwo2 sé laus, þe. að Rick noti hann til að efla kraft sinn eða ógna, ögra, ná valdi? Í fjórða lagi, hver er Razor og hvaðan kemur hann og hvað er hann að gera þarna…Reply: Chaletwo veit ekki að Mew muni birtast í þessum skógi, hann er bara búinn að sannfæra sjálfan sig um það (rétt nægilega mikið til að segja þeim að halda áfram og að þetta takist örugglega, en ekki nóg til að kalla allt liðið þangað). Fyrr í kaflanum sagði hann sjálfur að það væri ekkert víst að Mew kæmi aftur í skóginn; það var Mark sem datt það í hug. En Chaletwo grípur þetta svo á lofti undir lokin af því að hann er hræddur og taugaóstyrkur og þarf að sannfæra sig um að þetta takist. Endilega ekki ímynda þér hann sem rödd skynseminnar, hann er alls ekki sérklega skynsamur. :)
Venjulega eru óvirkir boltar bara óvirkir; þess vegna sagði Mark í byrjun kaflans að boltinn hjálpi þeim ekki neitt af því að hann er óvirkur. Mew Hunter er hins vegar með sérfræðiþekkingu; hann eyddi löngum tíma í að lesa sér til um pokébolta og tæknina á bakvið til að geta breytt þeim. Þetta kemur líka fram: "Don't you remember? I studied Pokéballs."
Oftast eru pokémonar inni í kúlunum sínum; þess vegna gerðu þau ráð fyrir fyrir löngu síðan að klónin sem Rick á yrðu líklega ekki vandamál. Þau vita að Rick er að leita að þeim, en gera ráð fyrir að hann sé þá gangandi um með Mewtwo^2 í kúlu og sendi hann bara út ef hann finnur þau. Þau hafa hins vegar ekki pælt sérstaklega í því þannig, Rick undanfarna kafla hefur verið allt önnur ógn, á sér plani, og þau tengdu þessa hluti aldrei saman á þann hátt að byrja að velta meðvitað fyrir sér hvort hann sendi Mewtwo^2 oft út nú þegar hann er að leita að þeim. Þau eru búin að vera að einblína á Mew, og ég hef reynt að skrifa söguna þannig að lesandanum detti það ekki heldur í hug fyrr en það gerist.
[06/23/2017 14:07:37]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 73: Recuperation
Spennandi kafli og einlægur. May er hrædd við eigin hugsanir og tilfinningar, sem getur auðveldlega orðið að þráhyggju. Það er áhugavert. Hlakka til framhaldsins
[06/23/2017 07:15:58]
Altissimo
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 74: Unraveling
ive been following this fanfic for like twelve fucking years i am ready to see the end!!!! omgomg excitement
[06/19/2017 23:25:45]
Silverlatios47
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 74: Unraveling
Wow, seems I made a lot of similar remarks in the last comment I made at the end of last year, and that would be because I reread the previous few chapters to get back into things, so sorry about the repetition.Reply: Don't worry about it, haha! I really appreciate all your comments and look forward to them.
[06/19/2017 21:50:25]
Silverlatios47
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 74: Unraveling
I can't lie. I cried a little when Rob showed up.
And I almost did out of nostalgia as Mark did the drawings of previous epic moments in the story. Those moments were practically part of my childhood, and it puts so much into perspective. Those may have been triumphs, but faced with apocalypse it made them feel so bittersweet as they ultimately may have amounted to nothing.
It really felt desolate and like the story COULD come to its suddenly dreary end before they found Mew, and only knowing there are two more chapters after this made me feel safe that everyone wouldn't be slaughtered soundly.
One of the huge things I love about this fic is the stark contrast between the fantastical and far-off threat of legendary wars and said apocalypse, and the more domestic and equally lethal threat of Rick's assualt – almost more terrifying because it's tangible. And I love the conflict that comes of this.
I don't think I will ever find the words to describe my adoration and admiration of this fic, or to describe the impact it's had on me, being a presence in my life for probably half of it or more. (And TCoD as a whole!!!!!)
I can't wait to see how it concludes. With each of the sparse amount of chapters that have been coming out the past several years, I am torn between devouring the words as fast as I can read and savoring each and every sentence. I'll stop rambling now.
<3
[06/19/2017 21:42:00]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
Hver kaflinn á fætur öðrum meira spennandi en sá á undan. Gott að fá upprifjun á því að Rick hafi kastað pokebolta með Mew að Mark og beðið hann að taka hann og fara með hann. Þessu var ég löngu búin að gleyma. Hvernig tapaði Mark Mew aftur?Reply: Mark sleppti Mew einfaldlega lausum - þetta var áður en hann var fenginn til að reyna að fanga alla goðsagnapokémonana, svo það var engin ástæða til að halda honum. Þetta verður reyndar rifjað upp í 74. kafla líka.
[04/28/2017 06:34:40]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 71: Shattered
Allt að gerast. En það er ein málsgrein sem er óljós. Hún byrjar á "And you yelling at your Vibrava…" Ég var lengi að átta mig á því hver sagði þetta við hvern, og þó ég gæti klórað mig fram úr því þá er vísað í atburði sem urðu fyrir svo mörgum köflum síðan að það er ómögulegt að rifja það upp. Það er aftur á móti góð upprifjun á fundi Marks og Mew Hunters, alla vega rifjaðist það upp fyrir mér. Ein klaufavilla eða tvær þar sem vantar skáletur þegar Chaletwo talar.
[04/15/2017 09:42:11]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 70: Waraider
Þetta er frábær kafli. Að vísu fannst mér erfitt að fylgja bardaganum, en plottið í lok kaflans kemur á óvart og hefur dýpt og skírskotun til margs í sálarlífi okkar mannanna.
[04/10/2017 07:22:07]
Rindstone
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
It seems kind of unlikely to me that only one trainer in the whole league had a Tyranitar.Reply: The Ouen League didn't have that many participants (less than a hundred people), and Tyranitar are supposed to be pretty rare - Mark and May only found Dratini and Larvitar when they did because they happened to be in the right place at the right time (I wrote it very shoddily at the time, but that was certainly meant to be the idea).
Note that that's just the participants - it's quite possible there was somebody in the (much larger) audience who had a Tyranitar. Rick is obviously not thinking terribly rationally here; he heard there was a trainer, looked up the teams of the League participants to try to find that trainer, found May, then made up a narrative where it absolutely has to be her, which only coincidentally aligned with the truth, and latched onto it.
[12/31/2016 21:47:46]