LOL thanks my man. I can't capture poiu's flair for the whimsical and I really don't have his skill for making the stories "vocal", but I tried to go with it.

I think what I like the most about the universe (I rarely comment, but I always read!) is that these kind of events AREN'T treated as traumatic life-enders. These guys go through ridiculous amounts of abuse and at the end of the day they can just be grumpy instead of needing therapy. I think that's why I was kinda bummed by thinking Raj was ruined permanently, I love the idea of them having almost no limits to what goes down that they can bounce back from and act more like someone just stole their phone instead of destroyed them.

Hell, I liked the idea of Raj and Poiu almost being able to grouse about their situations together, sitting at a tavern and arguing about who was the worst off.

"Dude, your balls don't break! How can you say that's worse?"

"Because you've never sat through a girl spending six hours TRYING! Let me tell you, a girl gets CREATIVE when she's frustrated."

"Okay, but I feel the need to repeat: your BALLS, don't BREAK. They don't break!"

"And I feel the need to repeat, you can get busted and then just not fix 'em for the rest of the day! Ten minutes, oops there they go, you just keep your mouth shut. That'd be like a vacation!"

I know a lot of people really like the darkness and things getting really ugly, but for this I really love the idea of no one being really psychologically wrecked by the events. Genuine consequences are a massive turn-off (to wit: whenever someone posts a news story of this kind of thing happening in the real world, I become genuinely FURIOUS). But a rat and a dragon all sulky about getting their balls busted to the extent that we have here, then sighing and saying "welp, back to my wife!" makes the whole thing SO much more appealing.

Okay, it's weird I just appeared to dump all this text and analysis, but it's all been burbling under the surface for a while, I just hadn't had the onus on me to say it out loud. So thanks again poiu for the enjoyable reads, I can't wait to see what you come up with next and I hope you don't mind me making the occasional 50 Shades to your Twilight when a character shows up that I like. XD