The Full Value of Joy

[maraudermods]

Title: Full Value of Joy
Author: Di/dogsunderfoot
Artists: chalada and epithalamium
Pairing(s): James/Lily, eventual Sirius/Remus (also inc. Remus/OC and mentions of Sirius/OCs)
Rating and Warnings: PG-13 for language, off-screen deaths, sexual innuendo, and adult situations
Summary: After personal tragedy strikes, Remus disappears from the lives of his friends for five years

Comments

[acanismajoris]

oh my. This was amazing. I was hooked from the beginning (brought up some very emotional moments, actually) and Remus' letter for the funeral actually had me in tears. I can't believe Sirius held it together for that scene, because... I wouldn't, to put it plainly.

The characters rang so true, not just coming over from canon, but in the sense of I've known people who run off like that, out of nowhere, and tracking them down is... well, a nightmare, for everyone involved. Wonderful, and I was really happy it ended well after all (although you scared me with the plane crash. A mention of a storm and then... Well, he got better, that's what matters) I think my favorite bits, though were the correspondences. Either the emails (hahah, Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Business Propostion
From: Sirius Black
To: R. J. Lupin

I think you scare me.) or the phone conversations. Very entertaining.

Of course I loved the artwork. I have unending admiration and worship for anyone who can use watercolors, as they (the watercolors) hate me with unholy passion. And the scene with Lucius is wonderfully done. I also really liked the art for their hug. Such a sweet moment. *sigh*

I suppose I'm trying to say, I really rather liked it all. Quite a bit :-)

[dogsunderfoot]

It's so very self-aggrandizing, I suppose, but I couldn't help but snicker as I was writing those phone calls and emails. I found myself wondering if I couldn't have done the entire fic in nothing but emails, phone calls, and texts. It was just so much fun to do those.

I can get through an emotional moment if I have to, like for a reading at a funeral, but oh, if I'd been sitting in the audience, I know I would have been bawling my eyes out.

I'm so glad you thought the characters rang true. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I always try to make the characters 'right', because you can cover a multitude of sins as long as the characters are doing what they should be. ;)

And, oh, yes, the artwork IS wonderful, isn't it? I couldn't have asked for two better artists. *hugs them both*

And hugs to you, for reading this and saying such nice things! Thank you!

[epithalamium]

Thank you! I have an on-and-off again relationship with watercolours, so I partly know what you mean. :P Thank Merlin for Photoshop.