Morbid curiosity got the best of me.

Echo: Benefits is a Carl X Flynn porn fanfic that the people at EchoProject liked enough to make canon. This was written by someone completely uninvolved in Echo's development and you can tell--the characterization of Carl and Flynn are both a little off, and a lot of the internal monologue here doesn't make sense for this point in the timeline (this happens vaguely somewhere in the year before Echo, so I feel like "the old friend group" wouldn't be something Flynn would be thinking about nearly as much). Lots of little weird things that crop up in the writing like that, which makes this not a very good entry to the really tightly written Horror Mystery Psych Drama energy of Echo. But that is not the point of Benefits, the point of Benefits is to be a porn fanfic.

I will give them this, though: Flynn definitely would be the type of dude to suck ass at Dark Souls, and Carl definitely would be the type of dude to say "I'm not gay" 5 minutes before sucking dick

Reviewed on Feb 02, 2023


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