Reply to reviews from "Guest" reviewers
Hello my lovely readers, I'm sorry to tell you that no, this is not a new chapter. I'm sorry that this "update" isn't a new chapter but I've received reviews from 2 guest reviewers and I feel the need to reply to those reviews in some way and, since they're guests, this is the only way I've found and I also feel like their reviews would damage the readers' image of my story, therefore it would bug the hell out of me to wait until I had a chapter ready to reply to this reviewers.
The first guest review I'm going to answer is about the focus of the story. This is the review: "I like the story but I think that you should really get the FOURTRIS relationship going". Just to be clear, this is not a mere love story, this is the story about a conspiracy, about Tris' and every other character's development, it's not simply about Tris not being dead, coming back to Chicago and getting back together with Four. Seriously, person who left this review, do you think that a conspiracy takes such little time to explain that in 5 chapters I would have changed the focus of the story to the FourTris romance? How naïve are you? A conspiracy is a silent kind of war, it's one of the deadliest. The entire Cold War was spun around conspiracies, people don't just simply stumble over one and have it completely unfold itself before their eyes. It takes time to unravel and it takes a lot of time to explain. Plus, Four isn't the only one Tris left behind in Chicago, are you forgetting about her friends? It's ovious that Four is the most affected one of them all, that's why it will take even longer to get them on good terms than with anyone else. Again, I feel the need to stress that this story is about a conspiracy, it's about a war, not about everyone getting a happy ending in 5 chapters.
The second and third reviews are apparently from the same person, although this person doesn't seem to have much knowledge of the human nature, nor is he/she/it very skilled at picking up on nuances or actually understanding what he/she/it has read. This is this person's first review: "I have just started reading this story. I like to read the reviews first to see if the story is worth reading. One reviewer states that the author should get the FourTris story going. I have just read as far as Chapter 1. It seems like basically Tris left Tobias without any communication whatsoever to become a government agent which displays a total lack of love and affection for anyone other than herself. So what type of FourTris story can be built from this? Tris seems to have this attitude of grandeur where only she can save the country and to heck with all her family and loved ones. She acts like she can live without them. Or did she simply run off with Matthew? It seems as if she did exactly that. I can't wait to find out how the author will spin this story with this selfish Tris character." First of all, Tris did not become a government agent, she spied on the government and well, last I checked, the assistants of councilmen are not considered government agents, as government agents is what the White House security staff, the CIA operatives, etc, are called. Second of all, why on Earth would Tris run off with Matthew? Third of all, do you have absolutely no comprehension of the human nature or of Tris' personality even? I have made sure that Tris is completely in character, so no one could even get the chance to state she's OOC. Having said this, how can you even consider Tris as being selfish? Who, on their right mind, would run off to check out some shit about a random conspiracy and leave all their loved ones behind without being completely and utterly selfless? If, as you suggest it, Tris is a selfish bitch, why would she have left and leave them thinking she was dead. I wouldn't, for sure. Forth of all, "to heck with her family and loved ones"? Are you forgetting that Tris would have lived and Caleb would have died had she not loved him enough to go in his place? Fifth of all, I don't think you've ever even had the potential to excel at something, otherwise you'd know that with great power comes great responsibility. Whether Tris liked it or not, she was powerful and with that came the responsibility to take on this new conspiracy problem. Adding the responsibility that comes with power to her selflessness, you get a Tris that is willing to leave her friends, her family, the man she loves, her home, everything behind, basically giving up her life, to go make sure that other people won't get hurt. It's not like only she can save the world, it's that only she has the responsibility, since she has the power to put an end to it and she knows what's going on. As I have stated before, a conspiracy isn't something you simply stumble upon. Do you think anyone would believe her if she tried to warn somebody? To conclude my reply/analysis to/of this review, I have one more thing to add. Do you, person who reviewed, think that it would be anything close to fair to let Four, Caleb, Christina, etc, know that she was alive when there was the possibility of her never returning? Do you think Tris could ever be heartless enough to leave them all hanging and thus prolonging their suffering? Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
Well, moving on to this person's second review, which appears to be a conclusion to the first one. This is the review:" Yeah, I think I was right after reading the first chapter. This Tris seems like an arrogant, insensitive, dope smoking jerk." I don't think I have anything to say about this one, I believe I've said everything there was to say on the reply/comment/analysis/whatever to this person's first review, although I feel like I should add one more little thing. Using this reviewer's own eloquence, the only insensitive jerk I've spotted lately is you. You must be very young, only someone young would have such a dismissive attitude towards someone else's actions, only someone young would not look into someone else's actions deep enough to see the true motivation behind them.
Anyway, with all of this business done with, I want to apologize to my dear readers who had to put up with my rant. All of this was really bothering me and I had to get it out of my chest and since this people are either too lazy or too cowardly to create an account and review stories with that account, this was the only possible way to give them a proper answer.
I hope everyone's well and I'm gonna try to update next weekend.
Again, I'm sorry for this. See you next chapter!