Bête Noire - Chapter Three

[three_penny]

Title: Bête Noire (3/?)
Summary: The lives of two geniuses, overlapping and falling apart.
Rating/Warnings: The piano. Enough said.
Fandom: Dollhouse/Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Characters: Topher Brink and Billy
Spoilers: Not really. Well...kind of. But not really.
Author's Note: This chapter's kind of short. I apologize for it's shortness.

Comments

[three_penny]

lol, I think it did! I got it in message form though, so I did read it.

But, thank you! I'm glad you liked it, I needed another scene of the two of them between undergrad and when Topher started at the Dollhouse, so I wrote this. Plus, I knew I wanted to tie music into Billy's story somehow to hearken back to the blog. I think this is the slashiest chapter I've written so far...

[idioticonion]

This is so, so beautiful in so many ways. The dialogue is extraordinary, snarky an very in-voice for the characters. The idea, that Dr Horrible plays the piano and sings (and Topher calling him out as a tenor) is perfect. Of course a stereotypical Supervillian would play piano (or grand organ, like Dracula in horror movies!). I had him play in one of my fics once, so I totally support this theory!

I just really LOVE this fic. It's so intricate and nuanced and wonderful. Really great job.

[three_penny]

Wow, thank you so much. Like, for all your comments. I couldn't believe it when you commented the first time, and the fact that you continue to read, and that you continue to like it is just...wow. Thank you so much.

Dialogue is always my favorite part of writing. I have very snarky friends, so a lot of Billy and Topher's interactions are based on them as well as on the characters themselves. I'm glad I got it right! Also, I wanted Billy to be musical in some way, in homage to the blog, and NPH is a fantastic, legitimate tenor, so...I wrote this.

I'm so glad you like this. You have no idea how much your comments mean to me. Thank you so much.