You know, when I wondered about "how to get BOB out of Cooper?" scenarios, bluffing (or not) to kill the host never ocurred to me, and yet it's brilliant and obvious so I'm head-desking right now. And of course Albert is the only one who'd do it (and choose a method that ensures BOB doesn't smash Cooper's body around the way he did Leland's).
The encounter with Annie, and the way you bring her to life, is a particular highlight. Re: the slash, sex with possessed people is a huge squick of mine (and many genre movies and shows treat it either in a comedy fashion or skip the part where the lack of consent is a problem, to put it mildly), but by making Albert, after he figured out the truth, react as he did, and by making clear that Cooper as himself wanted something from Albert as well, you pulled it off.
All in all: excellent story! Award yourself with a cherry pie and really black coffee.
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Date: 2010-05-27 07:32 am (UTC)The encounter with Annie, and the way you bring her to life, is a particular highlight. Re: the slash, sex with possessed people is a huge squick of mine (and many genre movies and shows treat it either in a comedy fashion or skip the part where the lack of consent is a problem, to put it mildly), but by making Albert, after he figured out the truth, react as he did, and by making clear that Cooper as himself wanted something from Albert as well, you pulled it off.
All in all: excellent story! Award yourself with a cherry pie and really black coffee.