ObsidianFire
Since: May, 2014
10/21/2014 10:28:12
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FanficRecs Anonymous review from the Comments section
I was reluctant to read this story for a long time–I thought the Pyro character would be a Mary Sue OC and a dumb romance would be thrown in. But, that never happened. What I got instead was a well-written and very gloomy drama that explains Engineer's friendship with Pyro, who is not a Mary Sue, is female, but is really a mysterious and multi-layered character. Pyro's transition from somewhat "off", to the insanity we know from 'Meet the Pyro' is captured perfectly, and involves a clever and dramatic Chekhov's Gun.
FanficRecs Filling in the gaps of "the Pyro"
Pyro is basically a blank slate of a character in what Valve has given us, and this fic aims to flesh out their character into something understandable but uniquely horrifying. Or, should I say, her character. Pyro starts out in Sparkler as deeply unlikable but still someone you empathize with, and over the other three parts in this quartet, undergoes some of the greatest character development I've ever seen in fiction.