what's the most surprising audience reaction you've gotten?

I'm always impressed how quickly some of our more attentive readers can key in on a character's general "deal" from just a hand-full of conversations.

whats jesses favorite fallout new vegas ending ?

I'm not gonna say but I bet you could guess

Without giving too much away about future plot, do you have a particular process for choosing these sorts of intertextual elements?

It varies case-by-case but ultimately a lot of it is downstream from trying to find the most meaningful and interesting answer to "what should go on this character's wall."