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  1. WitchFlame (RachelMcN) Sun 05 Jul 2020 07:48PM UTC

    Such horrible beginnings, with friends and family driven to despair and survival, puppy mills are terrible already but abandoning the dogs would be vile. You wrote the horror of it well though, the real-life implications of such an act. So glad the puppies managed to weather the trial together in safety, I don't want to think about what happened to Bolt's poor mum!

    Blaze's parts read so scandalous and cheeky - put me in mind of 'Oliver and Company' with his chancing nature; although his fleeing "hastily in case anyone decided to blame him for his owner’s death" both sent me from sadness to giggles and made me worry for his cause-and-effect sense.

    Rounding back to hope and safety for the start of the film let me leave the fic on a happier note, so thanks for that; and I like the explanation for why Bolt's the only of his kind in the pen, even if the poor soul had such a sorry start to life <3

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    1. Bolt_DMC Mon 06 Jul 2020 12:16AM UTC

      Thanks for the positive feedback -- appreciate it!

      Yup, this is one of my darker stories in the series. (This applies to a few others such as "The Survivor," "The Blood Brother," and "The Wind" as well, plus "The Gift" and "The Spaceship" have their sad sections.) The puppies were lucky to survive, but they did, as did Corabell, Dorabell, and Mae. Bolt and the others lost their moms, which is sad -- but I tried not to dwell on it. I've got my limits on this kind of stuff, too. Bolt has a tough time of it in this story (plus his life while he's tricked into being a TV actor is hard on him), but he has a lot of great adventures to come and lots of them are happy. I write in lots of styles, and sometimes mix styles as well. As it turns out, I have a lot of humorous fics in the series.

      Blaze was a fun character to write for: brash, overconfident, a bit of a hustler, a tad shady, not as smart as he thinks he is. Heck, Bolt was able to free Mittens from the shelter cage in the movie, which is more than his dad could manage. I actually brought the character back in the story "The Cameo," where I fleshed him out more and delineated the difference between him and his son more obviously.

      So glad you stopped by -- really glad you enjoyed this!

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