I just love this chapter..perfect mix of Scottish language and good ol’ English

Awe that was cute!

This was wonderful! I really liked how you wrote Andra (and I love that name for him, good choice, all the names were good choices, even before I learned their meanings). You did a wonderful job fleshing out his character from the little details we get in the movie, and I enjoyed this a lot!

Being scottish, I clicked on this story waiting to cringe through the floor at a mangled scottish accent. I was pleasantly surprised. This was incredibly well done, and the story itself was perfect - i absolutely love shy wee MacGuffin and that it takes place during Brave instead of a futurefic is the cherry on top. The Scots itself was blended really well with the rest of the story so it didnt seem like an overused novelty or a focal point - it just supported the characterisation really well! I'm so glad to have come across this, it was really well written :) my only pet peeve was the use of "dinnae" (present tense for don't) in some places where it would have been "didnae" (past tense, didn't), but like I say that's just a speck of dust compared to how wonderful the piece as a whole was :D

I absolutely loved reading this! I always felt Young MacGuffin was the best of the three of them...

Fantastic! This is the first Macguffin/Merida fic I've read where, one, it doesn't take place "one year later" with a new contest, and two, it actually feels like it's from the universe of the movie, Merida's independence and Young Macguffin's shyness and all. The Scottish dialect was a real treat too, especially since you cited your sources! Great work!

I Just read your "Comming of age" and you swept me of my feet, so I just HAD to find more and find THIS, and awwwww... really? You leave it a teaser?

shame on you...
although i understand if life just couldnt let u go...

Ill be waiting...

Oooh, nice story! Very cute one-shot, if it is an one-shot. If it isn't, please continue! I would love to see where this is going :) Thanks for writing! !

Augh! I go wandering through your stories list in order to reread some Synlet favorite and I run across this! argblalkavlyvalifuoatefrvapiufhxamxagvda it's adorable. :O

this was cute. :)

I loved this story on Deviant art! I'm so glad I found it here so I can add it to my favorite stories! I love how you described what was going on in Young MacGuffin's head during the whole Archery competition.

I'd wish you'd continue

Ah, I love it! Is there gonna be more? I sure hope so; what you've written this far is brilliant. I love the Scottish twist you'be applied to the narrative whilst keeping it understandable.

It works alright as a one-shot, but I'm gonna alert this story. Just in case.

Keep Writing!

I'd bet that Young MacGuffin is so much better at doing activities that require his strength, and that includes tossing cabers and throwing stones. He doesn't seem to have good skill when it comes to something outside of it, which could explain why he missed the target during the archery competition. But I really think that he'd be the best choice for Merida, like his father believes, because he is just what Wee Dingwall and Young Macintosh aren't, which I find that give him good qualities, or at least better ones.

Of course, he is feeling what Merida is feeling about being forced into the betrothal and having no say over it, which is why he might be happy about losing the competition, much to the dismay of his father. And that dismay finally comes when he misses the target.

And yet the way you describe how he looks at Merida makes it seem like he is genuinely interested in her, particularly with her hair color and how it looks without the wimple. And maybe he'd feel a little better since she seems to feel the same way he does about being here at the Games. But still, he wants to try his best to please his father and clan, and Merida does not care about going through with this to please her mother, nooooooo!

He probably felt a little inferior when Young Macintosh made the better shot, but didn't expect or like the temper tantrum he threw after that. (Nice use of "handsome is as handsome does," by the way. ;)) I'm sure he was shocked when Wee Dingwall hit the bulls-eye as well, but then was wondering where Merida went when he didn't see her at her throne with her parents.

Then like everyone else, he is probably more shocked when the hooded figure on the field is revealed to be Merida and she announces what she plans to do. I'm sure her wild and fiery red hair and her blue eyes are the first things about her that he notices.

By the time Merida has shot all three targets, and especially split Wee Dingwall's arrow right down the center, everyone reacts differently to it: Young Macintosh is in shock that he has been beaten by a lass while Wee Dingwall doesn't really seem to notice or care either way. I've been wondering how Fergus would feel about Merida's actions, because the lords and Elinor place a lot of value on this tradition. The lords would be shocked and humiliated that their sons have been beaten by a lass, and Elinor is humiliated that they were, and also very angry because she knows the consequences of Merida's actions if they are not set right. But through all of that, I can imagine Young MacGuffin being maybe a little embarrassed to be beaten by a lass, but also in awe at how skilled and bold she is at what did. And maybe in seeing what she is like in terms of her looks and behavior, he'd probably think that she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen.

Really nice story on his thoughts at the Games. I've actually been thinking the same thing about him in terms of what he was thinking about her during her actions at the Games. As I said on your other story, I know that Kevin McKidd said that MacGuffin was originally going to be her chosen suitor and in his interview he said that Young MacGuffin actually liked Merida. So I've been thinking that this moment in the film is what made him show interest in her. Thanks for writing. :)

I love this story! It's so amazingly written especially since you introduced scottish speaking into it, it made it all the more believable that it was Andra speaking throughout the whole thing, OwO This is just plain awesome and I can't wait for more! Thank you so much for this! w