This is a fantastic Remix, merging my (admittedly very old) story in with the AtS and BtVS comics canon (which I know nothing about except in the most general terms, I'm afraid).
The language is very evocative, and I like how you "show" the full horror of Hell and the blasted landscape Faith finds herself in. I also love how the exterior horror is a perfect mirror reflect of Faith's inner horror.
Faith's voice is also really good here. It's mature, wounded, and bruised, but unlike the Faith in my version, she's not broken. Cracked, definitely, but not broken.
I also have to admit that I'm glad that the deal with Angel in this story is more on the level of UST. In my story it was admittedly tacked on (*wince*) because I wrote it for a fic-a-thon and either Angel/Faith or Angel/Faith/Wes was the parameter of the request. I don't do 'shipping all that well and it was admittedly a weakness of the original. While I'm not sure what I would have done differently, I loved how you re-wove that into a tricky, prickly relationship for this.
I can see that this was more of a "concept" remix as opposed to a "straight" remix. (Hell, I basically did something similar for the one I wrote.) I can kind of see where you took jumping-off points from the original, but honestly this story stands very much separately and on its own.
As you can tell, I enjoyed this quite a lot. Thank you for your work on remixing my story, and thank you for doing such an outstanding job.
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The language is very evocative, and I like how you "show" the full horror of Hell and the blasted landscape Faith finds herself in. I also love how the exterior horror is a perfect mirror reflect of Faith's inner horror.
Faith's voice is also really good here. It's mature, wounded, and bruised, but unlike the Faith in my version, she's not broken. Cracked, definitely, but not broken.
I also have to admit that I'm glad that the deal with Angel in this story is more on the level of UST. In my story it was admittedly tacked on (*wince*) because I wrote it for a fic-a-thon and either Angel/Faith or Angel/Faith/Wes was the parameter of the request. I don't do 'shipping all that well and it was admittedly a weakness of the original. While I'm not sure what I would have done differently, I loved how you re-wove that into a tricky, prickly relationship for this.
I can see that this was more of a "concept" remix as opposed to a "straight" remix. (Hell, I basically did something similar for the one I wrote.) I can kind of see where you took jumping-off points from the original, but honestly this story stands very much separately and on its own.
As you can tell, I enjoyed this quite a lot. Thank you for your work on remixing my story, and thank you for doing such an outstanding job.