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Second on the recommendation for Rebecca Vaugn's stories.

They sound a little early for you, but they won't waste your time.  Look around, find writers you're comfortable with.  With luck, they'll be comfortable with you and you can reciprocate reviews.  That's part of the ettiquette here: recip when you can, and if you feel you really, really, cannot help another writer because of the style differences, apologize for not being able to recip.  Of course, the other writer may enjoy your story so much s/he continues to review!

Oh, try Amy_s's short stories.   They're so good I have almost nothing to say about them.

Per your review reply:  Do you mean I'm off the wall, or I'm on target?  Or you can't tell?

A trollin' we will go, a trollin'  we will go, Hie Ho the derry-oh!  A trollin' we will go.

Make you characters trolls.  Then he can kill them all.  (Yum.  Popcorn.)

A forum-per-work would, ideally, be connected to the review structure.

Much bigger wish item: for each author, and for each work, an authomatically created forum thread that appears in its own place AND ALSO can, at the author's discretion, appear in each or any of the groups in which the author is a member.  For the 'root' groups (premium and ?base?) the author/work threads should probably be shunted to a nested set of forums.

Those red eyes, and the legends associated with them, will mark Silas among those he meets.  And his performance as a berserker will not recommend him as a diplomat or statesman, but as a warrior.

To establish him otherwise among kin, nobility, and King will take time and the passing of events.

Then either your story follows this or defies it.  There is conflict in how he is regarded.  The most 'organic' thing, at this point and neglecting later story arc issues, would be to play out that conflict in a way that determines the next part of Silas's story.

And, of course, we must ask how all these things comport with what Silas wants for himself.

Do you want the event to drive him along, or do you want to run counter to it?

I'm going to sit this one out.  I've got enough going on right now.  And I inspired this?

Please don't be distracted from your real mission!

GKC opened The Napoleon of Notting Hill with "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong ..." and followed it with an observation worthy of the opening.