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I ranted about it at the previous incarnation of the 'foo, but I will repeat it, 'cause I'm obsessive that way.
If the story is going to have a twist, Kaktus has had a quarter of a million words to get there. The two main characters have been doing the will they/won't they dance for 50+ chapters at this point. It's not even so much a story at this point as a string of slice-of-life viginettes about a guy and a gal, the latter of whom happens to be a skinny Worgen, but very little about the story would change if she'd been this person all along. Pic related.
Kaktus is very good at characterization, at dialogue, at describing a scene, at creating the little emotional hooks that pull you in. His plotting and editing need some work.
Missy doesn't seem to be, mentally, emotionally, very far outside human norms at all. Her inner monologue and inner life are maybe a little eccentric, and sometimes leave the reader wondering if she's going crazy, but I never got the impression that she was an ayylmao pretending to be a human. She seems more like a college age girl, an emotionally damaged one, that is, in a fuzzy suit. And she makes that fuzzy suit look good. But I never once in the story saw her perspective and inner voice and said "she ain't a human bean."