This is fantastic, hon! I think you've got a great sense of Fraser and what he's all about. Especially his little speech quirks and things, like the run-on sentences, and for me when I'm reading a fic it's more important than almost anything else that I be able to hear the characters.
The one thing I'd somewhat disagree with you on is that really, Fraser does get pretty damn nervous around women. I don't think it's a matter of self-confidence, as I absolutely agree with you that confidence is one of the things he really doesn't lack at all even in relationships. But post-Victoria he gets pretty obviously skittish with them, it seems to me, and even when he does sort of get things going (with Janet, with Thatcher) he pretty easily lets those go under the flimsiest of excuses (he let his father push him away from Janet so easily!). I don't think it's a lack of self confidence, but I do think he lacks confidence in relationships.
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Date: 2007-08-09 06:36 pm (UTC)The one thing I'd somewhat disagree with you on is that really, Fraser does get pretty damn nervous around women. I don't think it's a matter of self-confidence, as I absolutely agree with you that confidence is one of the things he really doesn't lack at all even in relationships. But post-Victoria he gets pretty obviously skittish with them, it seems to me, and even when he does sort of get things going (with Janet, with Thatcher) he pretty easily lets those go under the flimsiest of excuses (he let his father push him away from Janet so easily!). I don't think it's a lack of self confidence, but I do think he lacks confidence in relationships.