EEEEEEEEEE!!!! 30,000+ words of wonderfully written and creepy case-fic, with new Operators, and a very series-like feel? I cannot TELL you how thrilled I am with my gift!!! I'm only one chapter in, and I'm already in love with this. Diamond and Radium are intriguing (and I'm curious to know if you had any specific actors in mind for them) and Sapphire, Silver and Steel are so very much themselves that I can 'hear' Lumley, Collins and McCallum delivering the lines. Also, creepy night watchman that might not exist! And I love how the 1999 and 1979 sections with Daisy are exact echoes of each other but with different technlology.
My only problem is that I'm dead tired and may need to call a halt to my reading before I'm finished. In that case, I will be savoring this over coffee tomorrow. Again, thank you SO MUCH!!!
I had a great time writing it! Sapphire and Steel is a really intimidating fandom for me, because almost all the characters are so strange and alien that it's hard to hook into their personalities and really come up with writing that captures them. I ended up bingeing the entire show from start to finish to really try and nail down how people conversed with one another on the show, and then extrapolate how new characters might talk. I'm so glad the existing characters came across so well! And I'm glad the repetition worked for you, and didn't come across as boring rather than intriguing. It's a little scary to repeat an entire chunk of a story with only minor modifications. I'm always worried I'll lose my reader's attention.
As for Diamond and Radium ... yeah, I totally had actors in mind. Diamond is Helen Mirren (because she's so good at being icy as hell), and Radium could only ever be Ian Richardson (who plays oily yet charming so very well).
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