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Nothing is more smashing then tea and patriotism!
The Gunner and the Florist is actively ongoing while also being edited. There is a lot of attention and love given to the story. I read about 8 chapters out of 15. Overall I think the story is good enough that I would have no problem reading everything available on my own time, but there are enough problems already to bring up that for the sake of a review I don't need to go any further.
TLDR; Command and Conquer: Woke Alert London
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Main Characters - Meh - The Main Characters (MC) are Ren and Lennox, the sniper and the florist respectively, or as I thought of them: Mr. Bean and Chuckie from Rugrats. The story starts with Lennox/Chuckie so lets start with him. He runs a flower shop with his 1-hour-workweek mother, has an estranged father, and a little brother. At first he isn't bad, concerned with finances and his brother a lot and is both logical and imaginative in the way his POVs are portrayed. He takes iniatives like making potions or something to make a little extra money and he has clear motivations, desires, and wants as he wants to get enough money to take his brother and flee the country. Not just because his parents blow all the income on stupid things, but because he is in the middle of a warzone. (more on this later.) The second guy, Ren/Sniper/Mr. Bean, is, well, a sniper for a not-gang of gang-like rat-tag terrorists/rebels/something fighting an urban war in the middle of london. He has a mysterious past that no one gives a shit about and is entirely motivated by proving himself to Daddy-Nod and tearing down the world because his emotional capacity doesn't extend past angry, being insulted by something that no longer exists, and shoot-first. Despite how shallow this sounds, and is, it is still interesting purely because the shoot-first thing is funny and it works well as a polar opposite of Lennox because Lennox starts off deep and needs to be made a touch shallower over time to keep from being obnoxious while Ren starts off shallow and needs to be made deeper over time to garner interest.
There is also some interesting chemistry. To put it simply, Sniper-dude is trans or almost-trans or transitioning-trans or whatever its called (I really dont know). Whether he wasn't satisfied as a woman and wanted to be a dude or if he thinks boobs is the way to go, I have no clue and there is very little information given as to which direction he is going so I'm going to continue calling Ren a man for the time being. He thinks of himself with those terms so I'm going with that. And this is brought together with Lennox because the side-hustle I mentioned includes making the drugs and being his supplier for his 'daily fix'. (This is how the story treats it, which is just weird.)
