Subject: Thank you for your feedback!
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Posted on: 2019-01-03 14:22:00 UTC

I'm glad a lot of my strengths showed through with this mission, and while I was worried that the discussions of whether Lilac is the real Violet or not would overtake the story itself, I'm glad you feel they fit in well enough! You can thank 1visible for the idea of the paper masks; the previous draft involved the agents basically cosplaying as some of the mercs, but their suggestion was even funnier and made SO much more sense. xD

That sentence you bought up as an issue was actually an artifact from a previous version of the story I had planned, where Lilac acknowledged herself to be different from Violet and, as such, was more upset at the way Violet was being treated on principle rather than projecting herself onto the canon character like in this version. When I go back over this mission to fix the typos you discussed (thanks btw!), I'm probably going to change it to:

"'I know it sounds weird, coming from me, but I at least have the decency to take my character seriously, even if I'm no longer wearing my old suit,' said the newbie."

Or something like that. And I'll probably look over the rest of it and adjust her dialogue accordingly so Lilac believes herself to be the real Violet, which actually WAS a part of her creative history. Let's just say that V-Wrex wasn't my only attempt at writing Vi over the years, which isn't surprising considering that I crushed on her when I was like ELEVEN or so, to the point where I had a version of her as an imaginary friend.

...Hmm. Now I'm seriously tempted to send poor Lilac into a Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends badfic someday...

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