Amazing! Moody is one of my favourite characters for maleslash, and this is an absolute winner! The premise is clever, and the pacing in which you unfold it (or make that the whole pacing of the fic) is great. Your Moody is wonderfully raw, a real old hand, and the King of the Beasts indeed. Kingsley is perfect, too -- ever the Ministry man, with the hint of arrogance that comes with the job, but willing to recognise superior experience. Love his voice.
Then, what a stroke of genius to bring the third person in. Both the choice of said person and how you reveal their identity (even though I had a suspicion) -- mmmh! And those two as tops with a hint of good cop/bad cop ... erm ... yes ... yes, indeed. Thank you, Ma'am.
What an arrogant, cocky. . .Oops. Bad word choice. -- *snickers*
Old the man might be, and paranoid to an almost comical degree; his hair might be grizzled and his step lame and his body beyond battered. . .but he was still King. -- Indeed.
bringing his face within a blink of Kingsley's eyes. "You think you know about humiliation, Shacklebolt?" he hissed. "You think you know what the DEs will do to humiliate your arse?" -- YES! That's Moody to a T – I can see him, hear him, smell him.
His rational side snorted in disdain and would have said, "'other Minerva,' my arse," if arses hadn't been a rather touchy subject just then *snickers again*
Then, what a stroke of genius to bring the third person in. Both the choice of said person and how you reveal their identity (even though I had a suspicion) -- mmmh! And those two as tops with a hint of good cop/bad cop ... erm ... yes ... yes, indeed. Thank you, Ma'am.
What an arrogant, cocky. . .Oops. Bad word choice. -- *snickers*
Old the man might be, and paranoid to an almost comical degree; his hair might be grizzled and his step lame and his body beyond battered. . .but he was still King. -- Indeed.
bringing his face within a blink of Kingsley's eyes.
"You think you know about humiliation, Shacklebolt?" he hissed. "You think you know what the DEs will do to humiliate your arse?" -- YES! That's Moody to a T – I can see him, hear him, smell him.
His rational side snorted in disdain and would have said, "'other Minerva,' my arse," if arses hadn't been a rather touchy subject just then *snickers again*
And the last six lines just killed me.