...the "real" world folks ought to have the advantage here, because they should be familiar with both Stephen and "Stephen", while the Reportoverse staff doesn't know anything about Stephen. But somehow I get the idea that Stephen and "Jon" will handle it better!

Oh, wow, I love the way you think.

The Report-world folks have an advantage of their own: they're used to crazy stuff happening in reality, not just in writing.

I'm glad someone is more worried for "Stephen". They're both going to have it rough.

I think, because Jon is mostly playing himself on TV, we tend to just use what we see on TV to write fic!Jon. Trying to write "Jon" without the underlying Jon, and Jon without the pretense of "Jon", was, as I've said, one of the most interesting parts of this fic.

This whole fic is up to the ears in meta. It's metalicious.