"It's like loving an idea, a paper cut-out. He's not sure if his boss is any more than that, either."
YES!!!
It seems almost unfair to single that line out for special praise because the whole thing was wonderful- but I love that, because Jack fascinates me, and the whole hero/cipher dichotomy that makes him so hard to write is captured perfectly there. And your Ianto is very well written, there is a great mix of the juvenile, with playschool style cutting and sticking, and the almost-PTSD of the gunfire metaphors, and the flashes of hardened cynicism every now and again. Very different to anything else I've read recently.
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He's not sure if his boss is any more than that, either."
YES!!!
It seems almost unfair to single that line out for special praise because the whole thing was wonderful- but I love that, because Jack fascinates me, and the whole hero/cipher dichotomy that makes him so hard to write is captured perfectly there. And your Ianto is very well written, there is a great mix of the juvenile, with playschool style cutting and sticking, and the almost-PTSD of the gunfire metaphors, and the flashes of hardened cynicism every now and again. Very different to anything else I've read recently.