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I think your invisitext broke there.Have you read the Cenotaph/Wake/Legacy series? There's a scene where Taylor is up against Valefor. She knows he can control people via eye contact... so she unhesitatingly pops out her own eyes with her thumb. 'Rip off the bandage quickly' indeed...
Ack Wow. My alerts dropped the ball on three consecutive updates here. Great stuff. I swear eventually the repetition of the blood on her lips in the "kiss before you go?" bit will fail to make me cry. Maybe. Probably not. Probably will just get worse because of whammy. Still not as bad as the original run of that scene did. And nowhere near as bad as reading the end of the last full non-epilogue update to Worm did.
To be fair, I might have cried myself to sleep to a mantra of "Fuck you, Wildbow" that night.
Still havent been been able to bring myself to start Pact or Twig because of how hard that hit me. It's like Grave of the Fireflies that way, I suppose. I don't for an instant regret the experience that was reading Worm, but I don't know that I'd have it in me to survive that sort of brutally emotional moment in fiction I read so soon thereafter without at least getting back on my antidepressants for two weeks beforehand, "catharsis is good for the soul" be damned.
Anyway, the point of all this was to say that of all the collective of we Wildbow imitators and fans out here drawing more madness from that font the Great Northern Heart-Trampler Boar rooted open, you're among the three or four that manage to succeed the most at hitting that same emotional vein for me.
You still write some of the most canon-consistent stuff in or around them in terms of their voices (when you try to), and that helps.