I managed to miss this when you first posted it, and it makes me melt into a little puddle of warm domesticity kink goo (for some reason, I have the hugest domesticity!kink for this pairing, way more than a lot of other, possibly tiny gestures that would be par for the course in other pairings are hugely significant with Dan/Ror, and because domesticity for them involves crime-investigation maps on the wall and washing blood out of the laundry -- and in Z!verse, tons of raw meat in the freezer).

while he at first can’t reconcile the gothic wet dream modern youth culture has turned the author into with his grounded-in-reality partner, it only takes a little memory tugging to remember that most of Poe’s murderers and criminals got what was coming to them, driven mad by their own guilt, confessions complete and incontrovertible. Justice served.

I think this is my favorite part of the whole thing, even more than the adorable "sugar" and "justice" on the shopping list, or the gorgeously atmospheric House of Usher line and Rorschach's black and white photoes of dead things from a "simpler" time. Because Rorschach *would* love Poe, with all it's overwrought prose and decadent/depraved criminals getting what was coming to them.