Comment on Blut ist Dicker als Wasser

  1. Anon (Guest) Sat 26 Aug 2017 03:15PM UTC

    I... love everything you write, in general. Your writing style is a joy to behold and I've been reading your fics since the long-ago early days of the Apocaverse fics. I'm too shy to comment in person, I'm very sorry -- especially to do so on an older fic!

    But nonetheless, you do a lot of things well, but I personally feel that you especially shine when it comes to interpersonal character relationships -- you're just so, so incredibly talented at giving people depth and giving their actions and their emotions weight -- and this fic, in particular, showcases that wonderfully. Roger is Heinz's foil in many ways in the series proper, we don't really get to see that much of his character beyond being perfect -- but here, you've taken that and given it all a reason, built off the childhood he had to have grown up in and in doing so, you've given so much more to the troubled, tangled relationship he shares with his family. You've allowed his flaws to show and it's humanized him. You've made him more than the sum of his parts and allowed him to be human, and I was completely unable to look away from what I was reading.

    (My omelette is cold now but I'm not even mad.)

    And Heinz, too -- I think this story might have resonated with me enough to comment because in a way, I relate to Heinz a lot; I won't get into that nonsense here of course, but -- I just really, really understand why he feels the way he does, how he grew up. I... fully understand why he's not in a mind to forgive and forget. Sometimes it's too big to just let it go and too heavy to put in the back of your mind, even when it drags you under the surface with its crushing weight, the heavy weight of your own bitterness and regrets... I understand why Heinz can't move past it, even if I wish he would stop looking for validation in all the wrong places... perhaps he can at least begin to build something new from the ruins of it all, now. I hope so.

    I also want to bring up the wonderful counterpart of the rain metaphor in this fic. It was so well-handled, it was the perfect backdrop for their argument, for all the things they said and the things that went unsaid, and it really gave the fic a sense of urgency. Like rain running down the glass onwards to a final terminal point I could not tear my eyes away as I read -- it was spellbinding.

    Really, it's a common side-effect of your wonderful wordplay.

    But I'm starting to run out of characters here so -- this was really something special and so are you, I'm sorry for this long message out of the blue on an old fic and I hope you don't mind! Do take care friend, and have a nice day or night!

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    1. DesdemonaKaylose Sat 26 Aug 2017 08:44PM UTC

      This comment was a DELIGHT and a pleasure and I'm so glad you took the time to leave it

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