From ANON - PhineasandFerbfan on August 30, 2016
I'm glad to see you writing more of this story (and I'm just as glad to hear you're considering reading mine as well). Like the last times, I'll start this review by responding to your review reply by saying that you're right about Phineas and Ferb being about eleven - in the episode Phineas and Ferb Quantum Boogaloo I think Linda says at some point that future PnF are thirty years old and they're twenty years into the future, and that episode takes place before Phineas' birthday, so ten or eleven is about right. Of course Act Your Age puts the date of the boys heading off for college about ten years in the future, but that's only the tip of the iceberg of things that are wrong about that particular episode.
There's another episode (I forget which one) in which Baljeet says something about applying to college early decision, and Phineas responds with something like, “Baljeet, college is, like, nine years away.”
But the creators of the show said that they were being deliberately vague about the characters’ ages, although I'm not sure they gave a reason. I suppose it could expand the show's viewership if more kids thought of Phineas and Ferb as being their own age.
Your review replies consistently show a good grasp of characterization, and I certainly hope we'll be seeing more of Phineas' and Candace's thoughts on this later on.
Thanks! And yes, the next chapter is going to be very psychological.
It's very interesting to explore how characters can want things on some level they don't even know they want, and especially with a young, oblivious character like Phineas who hardly ever expresses views on romance in the show and certainly shows no interest in it, it's a challenge to write him convincingly. And of course Candace is a different story of her own. All in all, I think you're doing well with them.
Thank you! Here in the world of dreams, the subconscious mind can have much more influence on the characters’ feelings and actions than it does in waking life. So I’m exploiting the hell out of that.
With regards to the actual chapter, it's interesting that Ferb is both more sensual and more invested in the scientific aspects of the ordeal than Phineas. I think that captures both aspects of his character really well, how he's more introverted and analytical but at the same time he displays a greater interest in and knowledge about girls and society as a whole.
Thanks!
The multiple Ferb/Linda scene was strange, even though of course Ferb would take full advantage of the scenario to multiply himself if that was what Linda wanted, while I liked your emphasis that Ferb was deliberately going out of his comfort zone to talk more in order to make the fantasy work. It's an unusual (although I suppose not uncommon) fantasy and enacting it in a dream-environment with someone(s) she trusts was probably the best circumstances under which it could be realized for her.
Exactly! The dream world is the perfect environment for sexual role-play.
Baljeet's interim scene was surprising because I don't think we've ever seen him interact with Stacy's mother before.
From what we've seen of Dr. Hirano on the show, it appears that she is either a pediatrician or a pediatric surgeon. So it seems likely that she would know a lot of the kids in Danville.
Isabella's Fireside Girl scene was great in terms of humor because since Isabella isn't able to live out her fantasies about her crush in this scenario it's natural that she'd be with the Fireside Girls, considering her scouting activities are her other main interest, and thus within the context of the story an orgy almost seems logical, and then you pull the scenario back 'down to earth' as it were by acknowledging that even in dreams, earning a Lesbian Orgy Patch is a step too far into the bizarre for the Fireside Girls. Nicely done.
Thank you. Having an actual Fireside Girl orgy seemed predictable, so I thought it would be funny to do something opposite to what the reader might expect.
I'm interested to see what Candace's fantasy will be. It probably won't be as extreme as Linda's, although it probably would be something Phineas would never conceive of and which might make him uncomfortable under normal circumstances
In a way, it's even more extreme. But the reasons behind it are very different. Stay tuned!
- but given that it is a dream and how much he loves his sister, he would most likely go along with it anyway. Phineas is devoted to Candace, which is one of the reasons why I ship them so much.
Yes he is. No matter how much she yells at him and tries to bust him, he still loves her unconditionally.