>>21 Shh, maybe next time. >>22 Don't read this if pointing out my own flaws may ruin the story for you. I've always been a fan of trying to make no concessions for OOC. I thought because of how garbled and sort of "underdeveloped" TF2's cast is, it would be easy to keep them in the purview of their personal philosophies. But it's actually not. I'm worried I'm not putting them on as strong as I want to. In my old fics, one of my main quirks was keeping the reader constantly aware of who they were reading about and never let it be a generic story with the characters placed into generic roles. That's why instead of writing, say, a flimsy "notice-you-across-the-hall" romance, I looked at the qualities Sniper and Scout had in common and built off that. The plot itself, I am confident in. However, I'm feeling pretty weak about the writing itself right now because (1) I refer to them by name a LOT instead of using proper writingyness and (2) There is way more speech than I would normally hope for. Stories are awesome because they are able to convey without dialogue. That said... every bit of dialogue I've written had felt extremely necessary. I think both these things are failing because it's been a while since I've done some serious writing, and I've fallen out of the mindset. And now I'm done gushing my quiet angst and will proceed to write the next part. This wasn't actually just directed at you, I'm kind of a sucker for talking about process. BUT YEAH, I am totally enjoying the balls out of writing this. You are also awesome for reading and making me feel pumped up about writing, and I hope you can read more soon. (winking smiley placeholder).