*blushes* I knew I was heading to that ending because it felt right, but didn't realize it would have that kind of effect on a reader--that it would go from "yeah, I can see that" to making it zing. That is so, so great to hear!
I wanted Loki's mind to be such a playground for the reader: so many ups and downs to the point where he's exhausted and maybe anyone following him is too. His affected voice worked for me (you know I love affected villains ^_~ ), but trying to rein it in where he could actually interact with people and elements of Midgard took me so darned long.
And if Clint didn't come off as supremely competent then I was cheating that boy. He engineers almost everything Loki accomplishes, christ. (There's a bit in the comic universe lead-in to the film, I discovered, that shows that Loki actually observed Clint and implies he chose him even before he manifested. Still trying to remember what tumblr posted that!)
I have to tell you that killing the kid was the thing that most startled me, when it happened--he just grew into the fic when I got to that point: "Hey, Clint would not only get Loki food, he'd get him someone to wait on him, too, wouldn't he." And then came the awful: "...and he wouldn't just let him go, would he." And then I went from dismay to writerly glee: "Bwah ha ha, I killed the hipster caterer! NOT RESPONSIBLE DRUNK WITH POWER."
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Date: 2012-06-16 09:28 am (UTC)I wanted Loki's mind to be such a playground for the reader: so many ups and downs to the point where he's exhausted and maybe anyone following him is too. His affected voice worked for me (you know I love affected villains ^_~ ), but trying to rein it in where he could actually interact with people and elements of Midgard took me so darned long.
And if Clint didn't come off as supremely competent then I was cheating that boy. He engineers almost everything Loki accomplishes, christ. (There's a bit in the comic universe lead-in to the film, I discovered, that shows that Loki actually observed Clint and implies he chose him even before he manifested. Still trying to remember what tumblr posted that!)
I have to tell you that killing the kid was the thing that most startled me, when it happened--he just grew into the fic when I got to that point: "Hey, Clint would not only get Loki food, he'd get him someone to wait on him, too, wouldn't he." And then came the awful: "...and he wouldn't just let him go, would he." And then I went from dismay to writerly glee: "Bwah ha ha, I killed the hipster caterer! NOT RESPONSIBLE DRUNK WITH POWER."
&hearts Thank you so much, dearheart!