I’m crying. This was one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read. You made me love Feliciano even more and I didn’t know it was possible. The relationship between Lovino and Antonio is so complicated but so beautiful I loved it! Definitely one of my favorites fanfictions of Spamano or in general even!

I'm crying now. So thanks for that.

So cute, but so depressing. Poor Feli. Poor Lovi. Poor Ludwig. Poor everyone.

Re-reading this story and I don’t remember if I reviewed it last time, but I will now haha. I reaaaaally love this story. I like how you really set a consistent atmosphere throughout the story even though it was fairly short. It gives off such a melancholic and rather mature mood to the story. The characters, in my opinion, were spot on and I love them all. So thank you for writing this story, I remember I started reading it when you published just the first chapter and waiting for about a year for the conclusion, but it was worth it and i have found just now that reading the whole thing in one go gives a different feel than reading it piece by piece.
So, thanks again for sharing this beautiful piece of writing and I hope you’re doing great in your life!

C.
Xx

This is a great fic honestly you really do have a talent for writing :3

Damn, this just burn me all over. This story is so strong and gripping with emotion. I am in love with this story, the feels and words just take me to the core. Please continue, because this story is enticing and it burns and warms my heart as well as tears to my eyes in a few places. An amazing piece of writing. Truly amazing.

What a lovely melancholic story. Quite sad, but expertly written. It lets you drift into your own little world but in the story. Ya know what i mean?
whatever you write about, just keep writing!

I AM CRYING SO HARD. YOU DON't UNDERSTAND. First, it was because of your beautiful story, and how everything was so smoothly narrated and how talented you are (you are such a lovely person-author i am just i cANT ARE YOU EVEN REAL), and then I cried so very hard when I read that the next story you're working on may be your last hurrah. I LITERALLY SOBBED I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH AND I WILL READ (or reread) ALL OF YOUR STORIES AND I AM JUST GOING TO KEEP THIS SPINYFRUIT TAB FOR YOU OPEN LIKE FOREVER IN MY PHONE.
But ahhh, there was a quote that stuck out to me! "Thoughts and memories are nomadic, but they're immortal"? I'm not sure if that's exactly how it was written, but it was something along that i think (idk, my brain is mushed from crying- no, don't apologize and if you weren't planning to, that's good. i'm just super emotional rn), BUT AHHH THAT QUOTE JUST. GOT ME. I DON't EVEN KNOW WHY OKAY. There were a lot of things that were memorable about this fic (GILBERT'S PERSONALITY WAS FRICKIN IMPECCABL IM STARTING TO FALL FOR HIM, and you know, basically everything) but that. Right there. I really don't know what about it made me remember it. Poetic? The truth? A poetic truth? Now I'm probably making no sense. BUT AHHH THE ENDING IS SO GREAT SERIOUSLY (i can't breathe w the feels pulsing through my veins) I'M GOING TO REREAD THIS AND EVERYTHING ELSE I'M JUST

(insert more aggressive sobbing)

I love you soosososo much, like I literally admire you so much as an author and even if I don't know you well/personally, i just love you so much and i swear you're one of the best things that ever happened to this fandom (you and The Goliath Beetle) and we will absolutely genuinely miss you and ahhh good luck on whatever you do! and when you go professional, PLEASE LET US KNOW! I'd love to read more of your works!

Thank you sosososso much for posting your works here, for sharing them, for working very hard despite living your own life and despite going through some tough times, thank you so much! I'm just tearing up writing this review (i would've given you a longer one but i'm on my phone and i just NEED to review right NOW) and djejsjsjjskske

We love you sosososo much, and thank you so much for EVERYTHING you've given this fandom! (I'll probably just review anonymously on this story just so I can review again when I reread this!)

(insert an infinite number of hearts and smiley faces) :*

I just reread the whole thing and this final chapter fits very well. Antonio and Lovino are so vivid and imperfect here and the different themes coming into play are perfectly intricate. The burden of past incidents, brotherly relationships, the makeshift family of Gilbert, Ludwig, and Lovino, the comparative fragilities of Lovino and Antonio across the balconies, how each fell in love and how love wasn't the focus of the story - two lonely and broken people connecting was. I really like this Lovino a lot - him from his own perspective, from Antonio's perspective, from Ludwig's, Gilbert's, and Feliciano's. Just as Antonio is, I can't help but be drawn to him.

I'm happy you two are working together once more! Bittersweet that you'll be retiring from Hetalia, but I get it :)

I didn't really think things could get much worse feelings wise until I read this last chapter. I swear must have started crying right from the start. (Really, I probably just haven't stopped crying since ch1.) Then I had that song playing in the background on repeat which probably didn't help as it just added to the melancholic feeling of it all. But by then end of the story, it actually started sounding a bit bittersweet, and then tender and calming, and fuck man, I'm still wiping at eyes, this was beautiful.

At first I was hopeful for a relationship between Antonio and Lovino- that they could find new life with each other. But then that hope turned to worry when I learned Antonio's past and his "habit." Then all I could think of Antonio was, "no, no you stay away. don't you do that to him. oh god no,"
I'm just...internally wailing and silently screaming why right now. as I try to hold back my tears of frustration.

The very second Ludwig entered the scene, it hit me, and my only thought was: No. You. Effing. Didn't. Damn, my heart feels like it's breaking for all of them.
It's odd to see an Antonio who's not all cheer and smiles, but it works and I'm extremely curious about his past now though

I always love reading the psychological kind of story, like the blink-and-you'll-misunderstand-and-miss-it things, even if they are a little hard to understand sometimes. But they're a good reminder in this fandom that not everything is so peachy keen after all. It's... refreshing, to say the least.

So, thank you for writing this. I, personally, am a big fan of both you and The Goliath Beetle, and I'll really be sad to see you go. Then I remind myself I can always go back and reread your stories, so I suppose that makes me feel a little better.

But anyways, I'm proud that you finished this! Good job! It was just as fantastic as the other ones. Bravo! I'm looking forward to the prompt you two are doing. But until then, I hope you have an awesome life. Take care.

Sincerely,
The Forgotten Traveller~

Wow! I really really really loved this story! Like damn, your story really captivated me and was incredibly well written. I also absolutely love your writing style... I haven't read any of your other fics, but after reading this one i'm definitely going to check them out

That's kind of sad, but that's another thought for another day.

I loved the ending! :)