This was a fascinating character study.

Wow, this is amazing. I love Roger, and Delia, and Delia/Roger, and you just captured their relationship a million times better than I ever could have. Particularly that bit about how Delia doesn't actually want to put Roger through the works when she has him in her power (as he did her); she just wants the ability to do so.

I love the complexity and brilliance of these two villains (which is not how TP writes them, but which is sitting there if you bother in the least bit to properly consider them as real characters). They can't love each other without hurting each other because they are so caught up in playing games. And ultimate manipulators that they are, they are too scared of giving up control in loving a person--any person--to ever really love, since that would make them vulnerable to being manipulated themselves; horrors!

Yes, the bit you wrote about him keeping her close so that she is desperately in love, and his alone (since he has isolated her from all others), yet never close enough for her to actually be happy loving him, or to be loved in return. Roger, bastard that he is, doesn't trust anyone but himself. Perfect.

Imogen

Wow! I just found this and I'm glad I did! This was a very good characterization piece. I really enjoyed reading it, and I loved your writing style.

Perfect characterization. well done! I've never read a convincing Delia fanfic!

Terrific! This is more or less exactly how I see her. It's too bad that tp's 'competent' villains are all men. It's like you can't be smart, and corrupt, and female - go figure. Some sort of odd feminist twist there.

The world could use some strong, power-happy female role models.

-Sally

Ack, I absolutely /love/ this, particularly, "All her artifices and convoluted machinations", and the idea that she's more weapon than woman. This is gorgeous; mostly smooth but then fragmented in parts. I love getting the chance to appreciate Delia even more.

That was great! It was a really original way of showing Delia's point of veiw and belivable. That's how I imagine her acting.

Wow, this made me want to write a Delia fic... And that's about the highest compliment I give out. Good job.