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Whoo! Go Victor with your successful comforting of the distressed wife!

I swear, if it weren't for his meglomaniac and dictatorial tendencies, Victor VonDoom could very well be the perfect man. And once again, I want one.

*pouts at her smoochie-free life*

Then again, for all that I have started to gain male friends, none of them are the smooching-type of friends...Well, for me.

Anyway, great chapter, I love how the story is coming along, and this just reaffirms my desire to kick Joviana's entire maternal family, both hard and repeatedly. In the most sensitive and breakable areas I can reach. And I can kick pretty darn high and hard. GRR...!!!

-- Rosy

P.S.: Well, when next I review I'll be home in California. Which I am so looking forward to, considering that I go to school in Illinois.

I think your Doom might occasionally hover on the edge of being OOC, but neve quite goes over, mostly due to you putting in occasional bits of his ruthless/viscious side. I also think that he may be trying to show the woman he loves his good side as much as he can. He doesn't want to hurt or frighten her, or make her want to leave him. Incidentally, I would very much like to know at what point in their relationship that started... I get something of an impression that he tends towards an almost chivalric attitude towards women and children; people who cannot defend dthamselves. Perhaps the armor is shaping his personality again...

Jovi's mom was presumably shitzophranic (sp) for most of her daugter's life, but did she have her first actual break with reality when her husband left?

Doom is going to do something nasty to the step-father, isn't he? Ans he told Magneto that he doesn't consider insanity a viable excuse for bad behavior, so maybe somthing about the mother, although I sense it would be somethig along teh lines of sending her off to a good, secure nut house, because she is Jovi's mon, no matter how insane.

I absolutely think you should post your other stories here. And I'm still lobying for some additional citrus content. As always, breathlessly awaiting the nest chapter.

Ok, one more thing. I used to have a roomate (I live in Boston, so having to share an appartment with other people is part of life) who was bipolar, with a side helping of addictiver personality and maybe a couple of other problems. She also had very little sense of smell. Living with her was not fun, but fortunately we didnt see too much of each other. She wasn't the only crazy person I ever lived with , but she was the worst.
I think that people with psyciatric problems often have extra trougle with day-to day things simply because they are so distracted by what is going on in their own head that they are unable to fully process and interperate outside input. They lack insight, because they have no inner clarity. That, and because they cannot analyze their problems, they are unable to take any action to ameliorate them on their own. I also have several relatives with some, uh, problems. I kept trying to get that roomate to come to my Tai Chi school, since it helps to make a person healthier in mind and body (somthing that is beginning to be confirmed by science), and has kept me from losing my marbles during various bad patches in my life. She would never, ever, do anything to help herself. Nothing that took any commitment, anyway. She was willing to take pills. One of my crazier relatives is the same way.

A lot of really really good psychiatric counciling with a heaping helping of properly administered psychoactive drugs could do wonders for Jovi's mom. Maybe Doom can have her brain re-wired.

*grabs the story*
*puts it on the bed*
*rolls around in it giggling*

You know what? I think part of the reason the guys at Marvel gave Victor that whole "no intimacy" thing is because the guy who first came up with it had HorrorMovie!Phantom of the Opera hangups, and assumed that along with the rest of the hero/villian dichotomy that deformed = evil. We, all of us true Erik fans (I *heart* Erik!) know otherwise. Though I wonder if every once in a while some Fantastic Four writer notices what you have about Victor being a hero architype and stuff and writing him in a more heroic fashion, which would explain all of those wonderful redeeming canonical moments the man has. So, your Victor isn't OOC, he's simply being allowed and encouraged to be the man he was always meant to be.

...You know, maybe you could get a job as a writer for Marvel. I bet your stuff would look amazing in all it's true technicolor glory.

Your eternally faithful fan,

-- Rosy

As a mostly DC comics fan I am not as familiar with the Marvel Universe. But your writing makes me want to be. You are a very skilled writer and you have a great command of these charactres. The humor you add gives life to these stories. I discovered Minion about a week ago and have read them straight through. Please continue, and is there anywhere else to find some of you writing?

Okay, Joviana's mom isn't a pit viper, but she still is a psycho. Poor Pickles...

*hugs GhostCat!Pickles*

And I get that the woman had a difficult life, and that probably made things worse for her, and her parents probably spoiled her rotten or something to leave her with so many problems as far as day-to-day living goes, but that's no reason for treating any child like she did Joviana, much less one's own. Obviously someone should deck Joviana's maternal grandparents for being so uncompassionate. Nobody would abandon/kick out a pregnant daughter in my family, that's for darn sure!

You know, Victor's pretty darn good at the whole comforting and supportive husband thing. ...I want one!

*blushes!*

-- Rosy

Hooray for smut! (x3)
I'm eager to learn more of the details of Jovi's past - but I'm patient. Sort of.

You continue to impress. I look forward to these with the same anticipation that i do a favorite author at a bookstore.
Thank you!

Literate smut; my favorite. Doom is sneaky enough to find a way to make her responsible for some kid for a little while in some manufactured "dire circumstance" that would allow Jovi to rise to the occasion and help herself have a little confidence in her potential as a mother who doesn't scar her children for life, right? And did he and Strange hear what Mephisto offered her? If so, Dr. Strange knows she isn't who she says she is...