Thanks, happy to hear this hit the right buttons with you. :)
I agree wholeheartedly on Lucy's voice! It does have one huge positive point, though - it makes her really easy to write. Seriously, I didn't even have to make an effort to hear her voice in my head; it came through crystal clear. *g* Albert and Truman were a bit harder to get right, but still doable; it was Cooper who gave me the most trouble. Which is weird, because he has this very distinctive speech pattern, but for some reason I can't remember it long enough to be able to write him comfortably. I had to constantly rewatch scenes (which was hardly a punishment, I admit :) ) and even now I'm still not quite sure if I got him pinned down right. I might need some more practice.
The hug... was difficult. :) Very much so. It's one of the parts I found hardest to write, especially Cooper's part in it. To be honest, my initial plan was to have a kiss there, but then I figured it didn't really fit the mood and the point the story was supposed to make. So I turned it into a hug, which was, strangely, harder to get right than I think a kiss would have been. :) When you say it caught you by surprise, do you mean you weren't expecting it but it fit in okay, or was it actually jarring / over the top / OOC to you? If the latter, I'd really want to go in an fix that part, because I have little patience with fics that sacrifice characterization in order to have some gratuitous cuddling, and I'd hate to be guilty of it myself. *g* I did want some kind of emotional payoff, and this felt like a way of doing it that was neither too sappy nor an unrealistically happy end... but it might be treading the line.
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I agree wholeheartedly on Lucy's voice! It does have one huge positive point, though - it makes her really easy to write. Seriously, I didn't even have to make an effort to hear her voice in my head; it came through crystal clear. *g* Albert and Truman were a bit harder to get right, but still doable; it was Cooper who gave me the most trouble. Which is weird, because he has this very distinctive speech pattern, but for some reason I can't remember it long enough to be able to write him comfortably. I had to constantly rewatch scenes (which was hardly a punishment, I admit :) ) and even now I'm still not quite sure if I got him pinned down right. I might need some more practice.
The hug... was difficult. :) Very much so. It's one of the parts I found hardest to write, especially Cooper's part in it. To be honest, my initial plan was to have a kiss there, but then I figured it didn't really fit the mood and the point the story was supposed to make. So I turned it into a hug, which was, strangely, harder to get right than I think a kiss would have been. :) When you say it caught you by surprise, do you mean you weren't expecting it but it fit in okay, or was it actually jarring / over the top / OOC to you? If the latter, I'd really want to go in an fix that part, because I have little patience with fics that sacrifice characterization in order to have some gratuitous cuddling, and I'd hate to be guilty of it myself. *g* I did want some kind of emotional payoff, and this felt like a way of doing it that was neither too sappy nor an unrealistically happy end... but it might be treading the line.