Your favorite bit is the same as my favorite bit!

I have to say, too, that it was fun writing a POV character who is not conflicted about what happened to Richard II -- I mean, of course, historically John is about eleven when it happened (I tried to make the narrative voice sound progressively older over the course of the fic; I don't know if it worked), so of course he's not going to have an extremely nuanced view of it, especially because of the whole hero-worship-of-his-dad thing he has going.