Thank you very much. I feel a little overwhelmed. But I am very very glad that you feel that I've kept them recognisably the characters as you see them. I love these characters so much. I don't really write much else. Certainly not in other fandoms, because no other characters move me and inspire me in the way that these two do. Also, I guess, because, for me, the writing in canon took these characters further and further away from my understanding of them. Especially Justin. And that in turn made Brian almost unrecognisable. Because he wasn't interacting with the "real" Justin, his reactions seemed forced and unnatural. If that makes sense.

So, like I've said from the beginning, I write what I would have liked to see in canon.

If that's worked out in a way that matches with, as you say, the gut-feeling about what they're "really" like, then I am delighted and flattered.

So thank you very much. Another chapter of Homecoming is likely to be up this week, and more Reverb on the way soon. I'm on a roll now, and have worked out a couple of things that were putting the brakes on a bit, but it's all steam ahead now, I hope.

PS Why oh why don't they have an edit button for comments? I had to delete and repost to fix up the typos.