Talk:The Ersatz Cat/@comment-10789912-20160915215728

That was absolutely stellar. Upon giving you the cliche I did, I wanted to really challenge you. It was a headstrong dare not to make a Reanimator ripoff. It was a challenge made with a smirk that I assumed right of the bat you would fail at doing. I'm very happy to say I was wrong.

The dialogue was spectacular. Lines such as "That’s not a price, that’s tearing off the wrapping paper" and Mephistopheles's little speech on bad and good events happening for no reason at all are going to stick with me for a while.

The writing style as a whole was simply lovely. It really gave me that Lovecraft vibe I expected, without feeling like fanfiction of Herbert West: Reanimator or anything else of the sort. Sorrow and fatherly care were portrayed very well, and the character of Mephistopheles had such a macabre personality to fuel it in his short amount of time in the story.

The progression felt good enough, though I do wish certain scenes were longer.

The main gripe comes at the end. I love ambiguity when done right, along with psychological horror. The ending just confused me, however. If you meant it to be interpreted based on person, well done- the interpretation I took dances between the idea that his mind has completely broke and after accepting the failure and destroying the body of the feline he just began to imagine her, or that he now shares a body with her now and that her soul is sort of twisted with his. Please tell me your intended meaning- unless that is the story's secret.

8.5/10

Grand work. My favorite of the writing style. You surprised me very well.