Subject: Several years belated, but...
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Posted on: 2012-08-09 06:13:00 UTC
I finally got around to posting those missions.
So they're not exactly first missions and there's a distinctive lack of quality in the writing style (they were all written in 2008) but here they are.
And by the way, I call dibs on the Sherlock badfic in the Unclaimed Badfic section.
YES. A SHINY NEW MISSION.
I think you'll find a jarring change in writing style between this and the 2008/2009 ones.
Last Smoke Before the Snow Storm, in which the sister of Irene Adler realises that the world does not revolve around her.
Yay, missions! My brain has been in mission-reading withdrawal lately, so thank you!
*reads them on and off all day*
(I realize most of these missions were written a long time ago, but I read them all for the first time today, so I'm reacting to all of them at once. Hope you don't mind.)
Oh, I like your agents. They both have strong personalities, and play well off each other. I especially like the effects of chocolate on Eledhwen, and Christianne's random Poe-quoting when losing sanity.
You do a good job of explaining your assassination methods before they come up, so the reader knows exactly what's happening to the Sue and why it's an appropriate end. I especially like the Sherlock Sue's demise involving the related OFU. I tend to forget the OFUs exist; I'll have to work on remedying that.
I especially like the Narnia mission due to all the detail you supplied for the world, as well as getting across the agents' respect for the world and for Aslan. I get the same feeling whenever you're writing scenes in Middle-earth, but I didn't see it so much in the Battlestar Galactica or Sherlock missions. That's unfortunate, as I'm not familiar with the settings of either canon, and I would have liked to see some more of those details in those missions.
Also, I'm curious. Is the line, “I doubt that; there was that one Sue who got dropped into the Victorian-era Sherlock Holmes’s bed,” referring to the badfic I've claimed on the wiki? Or is that just a really common trope in Sherlock Holmes Sue fics that I haven't noticed?