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That Boy
(#) youcanstakemyheart 2012-04-03
This was tear-inducing, and sad, and thought provoking and just wonderful! It was so sad that Mikey killed himself and Frank never got to even learn his name until he read his obituary. Really good story though!
OXOAuthor's response
Thank you very much! I'm extremely pleased you found this thought-provoking as that's what I was aiming for with this. Thanks for taking the time to review! :)That Boy
(#) KobraBlaze 2012-04-03
This had me crying at the end. It was so brilliant! It seemed to me that through out the story that things were slowly getting better as Frank was willing to stand up for him and then to try and help him in the restroom. Yet, at the end it all came crashing down when it became too much for mikey. I can imagine the guilt Frank had on himself after he saw that notice because he really wanted to stand up for him but was too cowardly. The ending was really good and it was unexpected. I think you made an excellent job out of this sad yet insightful one shot. I really enjoyed it! :)Author's response
I'm soooo sorry that it made you cry!
Thank you very much. Things were starting to slowly get better, at least from Frank's point of view but there is only so much a person can take before it becomes too much. I'm glad that you thought the ending was alright; I was worried that it was a crap way to end it.
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave such a nice review! :DThat Boy
(#) tortillachip 2012-04-03
This is so sad!!! You can obviously tell that Frank loves Mikey and regrets that he hid his love. Maybe love would've been the only thing that could've saved Mikey, or maybe even just someone showing that they cared, and Frank deprived him of that. Of the thing that Frank thought he really, really deserved. His reasoning for it was understandable, though. Frank already knew he loved Mikey, and he was afraid that he would help Mikey. Helping Mikey meant that he would lose everything that protected him from having the same treatment as Mikey, and he wouldn't make sense for them to both be in pain. He was still in pain, anyway. In more (emotional) pain than he would've been if he just helped him in the first place. He let Bert, someone he hated, stop him from showing what he really felt about Mikey because he was afraid of that he'd be treated in the same way. He was afraid. He keeps calling himself cowardly at one point, but he's not. Not really, anyway. He's just knows how things are supposed to be and how he's supposed to deal with them. Not that they're done in the right way, but that doesn't make him a coward. Anyway, I love that Mikey was "That Boy." Mikey hasn't really made any kind of wave in the school. He was nameless. He was just someone that got beaten up a lot, just a nobody. To everybody but Frank, at least. I think Frank wanted to believe that he didn't like him at first, but knew it would be pointless to deny it. He did have to continue hiding it because that's just the way things were supposed to be. I also really liked the ending a lot. It gave us a really interesting view into exactly how much Mikey was unnoticed by everybody but Frank. Well, Gerard too. Frank knows sixty six words is definitely not enough to explain how wonderful of a person Mikey is, but he's got more to remember him by than a few words. He's got an insight into what he's like. He's watched Mikey for a long time and he'll never be able to forget him. Even if he wanted to. Everything you write is full of emotion. This is really no different. Its so full of heart and I really loved this. It was absolutely marvelous!!! Brilliant job!!!Author's response
Frank definitely does regret hiding his feelings for Mikey because I think that it probably would have been his best shot at saving Mikey. I'm glad you think Frank's reason for denying Mikey what he needed was understandable, I was worried that I just made him sound like a jerk when that really wasn't meant to be the case at all. Frank was just scared of ending up in the same position as Mikey, especially as he knew what being in that position can do to a person. I don't think that he's really cowardly in it either, it's just how he felt about himself for not helping the person he loved even though it would have ended badly for both of them anyway.
I called Mikey "That Boy" because that way it could have been anyone, just a nameless blot on society just like Frank could have just as easily been Mikey's "That Boy". Frank didn't like the idea of being in love with him at first because to do so would be going against everything that he worked to get at school.
Thank you so very, very much for taking the time to leave such a detailed and lovely review! :DThat Boy
(#) drfeelgood 2012-04-03
... I didn't cry. Nope. Not at all. blows nose, wipes tears
So beautifully written...Author's response
Of course you didn't. ;)
Thanks! :DThat Boy
(#) snake56tongue 2012-04-05
Oh. My. God.
How are you so.... asdfghjkl. Words cannot describe how I am feeling right now...
That was so beautiful, and amazing, and heart-wrenching, and I want to slap you for making me cry so much. But I won't, because you are truly incredible to be able to make a story so fantastic that it made me cry.
I loved this so much.
I was so upset with Frank, how he was bullying Mikey, but at the same time he wanted to help, to stop Bert.
I thought everything was going well, that Frank was gonna find out Mikey's name, and could love him, and then.. and then... I like got punched in the gut with that last bit, it was such a surprise, and...
I am going to go cry now, over how much I envy you, and how wonderful this is.
Sorry if I sound like a suck-up, but I hope you liked my complimenting review :PAuthor's response
Thank you very much! I'm really very sorry that it made you cry, I hope you recover.
I'm glad you liked it! :D
Frank was being a bit of a bully by not doing anything, but he wanted to help. He just didn't do it in time, it was too late to help Mikey by the time he spoke to him in the bathroom; he was already dead inside.
Please don't cry!
Thank you sooo, soooooooo much for taking the time to leave such a lovely review! :DThat Boy
(#) Kaleidoscope-Eyes34 2012-12-05
So I was re-reading some old fics on here and discovered that this can still make me cry... Amazing. c:
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