naff!!!! i just read all of sleuth jesters in one go like a mad lad and i just????? the dynamic between the boys and the vigilante are just WOW WOW WOW!! the tension?? the subtle (and not so subtle) flirting?? the frustration yet the trust despite everything??? THE REVEAL THAT THEY KNEW......it's gotta be one of my favorite sun/moon/reader dynamics i've read!!! the way you weave it all together is genuinely so engrossing and gripping and not to mention ECLIPSE........wah what a bastard but SUCH a fascinating one!!! the way he's manic, terrifyingly competent and obsessive MAN...it's so good. i love him ur honor, even though he is the worst. the way he meets his end was just so visceral in the BEST way 👏🏼 i'm still thinking about it tbh, rotating that whole scene in my brain as we speak!!!
i do have a couple of questions though!!! or rather, a bunch about a specific moment! (feel free to ignore if you've already answered them before!) in fire on fire during the flashback opening, we see how things happened from the vigilante's perspective of events, but how did the boys feel about how that night went down? the afton home burning, the bodies accounted (and unaccounted for), presumably all of their hard work gathering evidence on afton gone up in smoke and not mattering anymore with him dead, the fact that they had managed to follow/track the vigilante down the alley way but made the choice to let them go? WHY did they let them go in the moment? when did they realize that the person they let go that night became their favorite troublemaker a few years later (and when did the boys realize they had fallen for them?)
sorry for the absolute wall of text asdfghjkl i'm just genuinely SO CURIOUS to know about how that night went from our favorite detectives' point of view! i'm so glad i read through sleuth jesters, i've always been a huge sucker for detective/noir stuff and it was the perfect intermission to read while waiting for the next cryptid sightings chapter 💚 (cryptid boys and hunter y/n my BELOVED!!!!!!!! i'm at the edge of my seat after that last chapter, and i can't wait to see where it goes from here!!!)
Ahhahah, this is making me tear up, thank you so much! ❤️ I'm so happy you enjoyed it, and it's always a treat to hear that you enjoyed Eclipse as a villain!
I think I answered it once before?? But if not, the detectives followed Y/N through their rampage of taking down the Afton Family and weren't certain what Y/N's end goal was, but clearly, they wanted the empire to collapse. They had thoughts that maybe Y/N wanted to take the gang for themselves, but when they tracked Y/N down that night only to see the fire and hear the gunshots, they knew Y/N had done something they and a lot of others had been trying to do for a long time.
They left Y/N go because Y/N wasn't just a thug gangster nor Afton's loyal dog anymore. Though seeing them pop up again as a vigilante was certainly a surprise hehe ❤️ It was from the first moment the detectives confronted the vigilante that they knew that was the one and the same! Thankfully, they've truly turned themselves around (not legally but ya know)
Ahhhh thank you! I'm so excited for the next chapter and what it will bring!
