I love this story. I discovered this and the rest of your fic when the Reverse Big Bang came out, and I've enjoyed all your work. In general I'm a fan of the way you write Linkara/Spoony, which drew me to this one in the first place.
It's fun how meta this gets without being too obvious or getting in our faces about it. The Critic discussing Donnie from Demo Reel, the Other Guy being the shadowy puppetmaster, "I betrayed him..." Unless that's not a Spoony reference and it's just my wishful thinking.
The tentative flirting and pre-romance-fighting-and-making-awkward-friends is great. I like all the dialogue, but Dr. Insano as the villain in the mirror going, "But OF COURSE you won't do the rational thing and step aside so I can teach that fat, smug greenhorn a lesson" was particularly funny and awful.
Also, I just plain like the line, It wasn't that he wished his situation on anyone, but it would be nice if someone knew what he was going through. I guess I've often thought similar things.
The setting/overall concept intrigued me. Is the whole Persona and Midnighter AU a reference to something I'm not getting? It seems like one of those Marvel/DCU concepts that come up in AT4W, and I have an odd feeling I should know it from somewhere.
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It's fun how meta this gets without being too obvious or getting in our faces about it. The Critic discussing Donnie from Demo Reel, the Other Guy being the shadowy puppetmaster, "I betrayed him..." Unless that's not a Spoony reference and it's just my wishful thinking.
The tentative flirting and pre-romance-fighting-and-making-awkward-friends is great. I like all the dialogue, but Dr. Insano as the villain in the mirror going, "But OF COURSE you won't do the rational thing and step aside so I can teach that fat, smug greenhorn a lesson" was particularly funny and awful.
Also, I just plain like the line, It wasn't that he wished his situation on anyone, but it would be nice if someone knew what he was going through. I guess I've often thought similar things.
The setting/overall concept intrigued me. Is the whole Persona and Midnighter AU a reference to something I'm not getting? It seems like one of those Marvel/DCU concepts that come up in AT4W, and I have an odd feeling I should know it from somewhere.