Creepy! It's a really interesting way of interpreting Jeeves... that quiet man, standing silently in the background - you just don't know what thoughts are going on in that head.
Once minor criticism: Gently, of course, for I must not hurt my doll. I must be as a newborn suckling at his mother’s breast.
Would I be right in guessing that you've not actually breast-fed a baby yourself? It KILLS. Talk about nourishing a viper in one's bosom. :D
I normally don't read fics like this. I tend to think that they're sort of invalid, because the style and the events that take place seem so many thousands of miles away from what we originally fell in love with. But with this one, I'm starting to understand that the characterization is actually just as authentic. You've taken a plausible element from the original characters and giving us a sort of exploded view of it. This fic might be a bit much to sit easily with the canon Jeeves, but if you think of it in the context of being an expansion on an element that is already present, you start to realise that, while extreme, perhaps it's not so many thousands of miles from the original characterization at all. I mean, I think we can all agree that the canon Jeeves is someone who very much needs to be in control of Bertie, and is perhaps even possessive of him... it's fun to see you take that pretty solid element of his character and run with it.
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Date: 2009-07-09 07:58 pm (UTC)Once minor criticism:
Gently, of course, for I must not hurt my doll. I must be as a newborn suckling at his mother’s breast.
Would I be right in guessing that you've not actually breast-fed a baby yourself? It KILLS. Talk about nourishing a viper in one's bosom. :D
I normally don't read fics like this. I tend to think that they're sort of invalid, because the style and the events that take place seem so many thousands of miles away from what we originally fell in love with. But with this one, I'm starting to understand that the characterization is actually just as authentic. You've taken a plausible element from the original characters and giving us a sort of exploded view of it. This fic might be a bit much to sit easily with the canon Jeeves, but if you think of it in the context of being an expansion on an element that is already present, you start to realise that, while extreme, perhaps it's not so many thousands of miles from the original characterization at all. I mean, I think we can all agree that the canon Jeeves is someone who very much needs to be in control of Bertie, and is perhaps even possessive of him... it's fun to see you take that pretty solid element of his character and run with it.
Sorry to babble.