I'd be happy to help if you need a beta. You already know I love your writing. I was actually thinking about asking you!
I think I'd mind the 'killing spree if you die' thing less if it actually made SENSE for Edward, which it doesn't at all, and was not taking place in a context where EVERYONE is obsessed with Anita to this point. Seriously, from the point I started this spork blog, that's been a theme--Vittorio in Skin Trade was nuts for her, and while originally this was framed as being nothing person and just interest in using her power, he pretty quickly was clearly into HER above all else. Flirt started, again, as only being about her abilities as an animator, but then Jacob and Nicky were *made* to be literally crazy about her. Bullet...Haven, 'nuff said. Now we have this shit, on top of the crap with Olaf. And at least with Olaf there's sort of a precedent, seeing as how he's already ax-crazy and into women who look like her, but it is so out of left fucking field for Edward that I can't even.
You are actually not the first person I've seen suggest exactly that is what's really going on!
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Date: 2013-10-20 07:15 pm (UTC)I was actually thinking about asking you!
I think I'd mind the 'killing spree if you die' thing less if it actually made SENSE for Edward, which it doesn't at all, and was not taking place in a context where EVERYONE is obsessed with Anita to this point. Seriously, from the point I started this spork blog, that's been a theme--Vittorio in Skin Trade was nuts for her, and while originally this was framed as being nothing person and just interest in using her power, he pretty quickly was clearly into HER above all else. Flirt started, again, as only being about her abilities as an animator, but then Jacob and Nicky were *made* to be literally crazy about her. Bullet...Haven, 'nuff said. Now we have this shit, on top of the crap with Olaf. And at least with Olaf there's sort of a precedent, seeing as how he's already ax-crazy and into women who look like her, but it is so out of left fucking field for Edward that I can't even.
You are actually not the first person I've seen suggest exactly that is what's really going on!