The way you worked in the complexities of international law was brilliant, as well as ethnicity, immigration, and most of all, detective work. You did some really fantastic world-building here and backed it up with strong emotions and Looker's national pride. The way you worked in the pokemon, too, was fantastic. They were there, but they weren't as in the spotlight as they would be for Trainers, and the way Looker in particular used his pokemon for his investigations was ingenious (and reminiscent of PokeSpe -- but in a very different way).
You also used the characters so marvellously. Even if Looker was disparaging of Surge and Surge's insistence on being involved, Surge helped to more clearly illustrate how tough and dark detective work can be, but never at the cost of Surge's own strong characterisation as a passionate and caring man and always to the advantage of this characterisation.
If you didn't pick it up from my squeeing comments, I really loved this story. It was clever, it was thought-provoking, it was emotive in all the right ways, and it's going straight into my memories.
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Date: 2011-11-02 06:10 am (UTC)Okay.
Wow.
The way you worked in the complexities of international law was brilliant, as well as ethnicity, immigration, and most of all, detective work. You did some really fantastic world-building here and backed it up with strong emotions and Looker's national pride. The way you worked in the pokemon, too, was fantastic. They were there, but they weren't as in the spotlight as they would be for Trainers, and the way Looker in particular used his pokemon for his investigations was ingenious (and reminiscent of PokeSpe -- but in a very different way).
You also used the characters so marvellously. Even if Looker was disparaging of Surge and Surge's insistence on being involved, Surge helped to more clearly illustrate how tough and dark detective work can be, but never at the cost of Surge's own strong characterisation as a passionate and caring man and always to the advantage of this characterisation.
If you didn't pick it up from my squeeing comments, I really loved this story. It was clever, it was thought-provoking, it was emotive in all the right ways, and it's going straight into my memories.