I love you forever for writing these. Ratatouille does not have enough fanfiction! I wish they'd make a sequel. Even critics wanted a sequel. xD Thanks for tying me over until then (hopefully..!)!

Love these little vignettes! You write the characters so well.

My favourite is Vocabulaire - it was so touching and sweet. I didn't know what bruxing was, either.

Thanks for writing such wonderfully realistic and entertaining stories.

Look out: LONG review coming up.

Of these four vignettes, I think this one ties with "Ma Cuisine A Moi" as my favorite (yes, I've read them all, and I'll be reviewing them all in a moment.)

You've obviously put a lot of thought into their characters. What I like about this, and about all your Ratatouille stories, is that you don't make the mistake that a lot of writers (myself included) tend to make, which is simply rewriting a character's traits. You take the traits that are already there - Remy's insane joie de vivre, Colette's methodical intelligence, Linguini's naivete, Ego's quiet dignity - and you expand them. Not only are Remy and Colette in character, but it's a new dimension of character, dimensions that simply cannot be explored in the medium of film. It's like you took the characters and multiplied them by 100. And it's really great to watch the movie with these new dimensions in mind; it makes you appreciate the characters in their original form anymore.

Anyway, on to my favorite parts.

"She knows she's not a genius...her skill comes of diligence, of study, of true love for her art. Le Chef's kind of genius, though, only a whisker away from madness...that's not her. Her feet are too firmly planted on the ground for that."

Are you by any chance familiar with NUMB3RS? There's a character in it who's a mathematics professor and certified genius, and he has a slightly insane love for math. This really brings that character to mind. And I can so see Remy talking to himself - which, I will admit, I have done on more than one occassion.

"Nothing can stop him when he's creating: he's like a creature possessed...weighing possible combinations in his mind, choosing not out of knowledge...but out of pure instinct at the highest level...She watches the intent look on his face as he frantically searches for the right element to satisfy that tiny voice giving orders in his mind."

Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Pure instinct, frantic searching, that tiny voice in his mind. Perfect.

"Perhaps she and Alfredo can save him from the madness that comes with the territory, can prevent him dying of a broken heart like Gusteau, Van Gogh, Schumann… so many artistes before him."

Okay, I'll admit...I tore up. Not only at the idea of Remy's love for cooking actually isolating and killing him, but at how much Colette respects him. Rat or not, she is comparing him to some of the greatest and most tortured minds on earth, and...

"...in return, they get love, and knowledge, and happiness. Worth much more than being a genius, any day."

WOW. Beautiful. One thing for sure, at this rate, however short Remy's life is, it will not end like Van Gogh's or Gusteau's. It's so wonderful that Colette has developed such an unconditional, genuine love for and understanding for Remy. He's finally getting the support that he just didn't get before.

I don't know what else I can say about this story. It is a work of genius, it really is. Thank you so much!

Oh! Oh! Oh! I love this! So very sweet and so very in character!

"...the last time he'd done this kind of roughhousing was as a baby rat with Emile, and Emile had quit roughhousing with him when he'd grown up to be slight of build, fearing to hurt him. He'd forgotten it was so much fun!"

Oh, I can just see that! "Dad, make him stop!"

"Man, if your wife wasn't human, Linguini, mon ami, he thought, intensely grateful for the interspecies difference, you would SO have competition."

*squeals* Adorable! I love to think that Remy and Colette became such good friends, and it's wonderful that they have, in your stories.

This brightened up my (tedious) day so much. Thank you and happy writing!

MC

Another splendid vignette. M...sorry, having a private moment with the memory of some pickled garlic.

I didn't know that about rats--how cool! I know a dog who growled--trying to purr--when he was that happy, but he'd been raised with cats, too.

Oh, how lovely! Sometimes writing is like that (when you're downloading straight from God and just doing the typing part). Sometimes it's chess (like the way I have it for Ron Weasley in "Midnight by the Weasley Watch").

Whatever it is, it's glorious. (Pity Little Chef doesn't ever work with Severus Snape, that could be _really_ interesting).

Oh, how cute! Colette is like that, she really is.

My other review on Chapter 3 got cut off, so I just emailed it to you.

All of Linguini's comforting words are too adorable. I love it.

"I would expect this from Alfredo, but not from you!"
"Gee, thanks, Col..."

^My favorite! Colette being perfectly candid, followed by Linguini being sarcastic. Amazing! I laughed at that.

Linguini reaches out a finger, but I bat it away, thinking furiously.
^I can just see that. Remy deep in thought.

I like that Remy forgets about his little crisis as soon as he gets busy cooking again.

Very heartfelt and cute story.

Sorry it's taken me such a while to review on these last two chapters. I had read them and loved them, but haven't had a chance to review them!

Well, your opening paragraph is crazy romantic! I just read it over and over. :)

Jerking up... getting a "Hey!" from Colette
^I liked that, very realistic.

"One of my sisters raised rats."
So you think she must have sisters, too? It makes sense. I think she would have been different if she had brothers, somehow. I don't know. Moving on.

It's always fun to read Remy's scharades (

I'm really interested to see where this is going... I know you called them a few vignettes, but it sort of seems like they could be leading up to something.

It's easy to see (so far) that these were very meditated upon. You get into a deeper level of the characters' relationships, especially Remy and Colette's. You seem to really like the fact that she was the one who taught him, without even knowing it (because you've written about it before). And I really like that too. "It is she who is privileged to witness his work first-hand, and to be Plato to his Socrates." That's true, it is a unique and special position to be in. By the way, I love all the classic *genius* references. Especially the ones that drive themselves mad from their art (It's really cool that you put Gusteau in there with them). :D

But the thing I relate with most: But Colette hates self-delusion even more than she hates false modesty.

So true! I'm the same, so it was interesting to read.
Thanks for these! I'm off to read the rest!

New fic! Wow, I had no clue!

Well, this first chapter was very sweet. Slightly... sensual at times! But in character and cute. I love the last line.

Wonderful shorts. My personal favorite is the first. BTW, I love the fact that you're obsessed. You should totally keep up the writing.