A Copper's Instinct: Chapter 12

[marshwiggledyke]

Title: A Copper's Instinct
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
Characters/Pairings: Nicholas/Danny, Nicholas/OC, Doris, Bob, Andes, Saxon, Turners, OC
Rating: PG-15

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[marshwiggledyke]

Wow. Sounds an awful lot like a less hopeful version of the Moorchild (Eloise McGraw, srsly check this one out, it's for older children but I appreciated it more as an adult. It's about a girl who is rejected by her medieval village for being half-Folk, and as someone who grew up feeling very vulnerable due to feeling like more of a guy than a girl, ho boy do I get the fear and loneliness and stubbornness to assert her true nature).

If you're after werewolves, I recommend checking out Men at Arms, which is when Angua Von Uberwald joins the City Watch and overthrows the pecking order of the city strays, and Fifth Elephant, which is when her family interferes with her human boyfriend and her boss (who is kind of the main character of the series). If you're after a good starting point in the series, I recommend checking out Guards Guards. Other fantastic books are Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Nightwatch, Wintersmith, and Thud.

Alex Kinnell thinks like that- though his tactics involve bothering so as to win over trust and twist the person to his advantage. But in the moral department? Absolutely. And Nicholas's uncle, who was weak, broke under the social strain, and regressed to more canine behaviors and understanding after being busted about the drug dealer charges. Internalized fear is even more dangerous than sprouting fur and fangs, but it doesn't help when you have both to deal with. It's quite lucky that Nicholas has stumbled his way out of those pitfalls, isn't it?