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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

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Subj: CSFB! and Boss Deadeyes:
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 at 07:56:53 pm EDT (Viewed 700 times)
Reply Subj: Pokers somewhere anyhow.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 at 10:58:38 am EDT (Viewed 5 times)

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    The interesting thing about having so many characters who are willing to play Lawful Neutral with each other is that it opens up the doors to fun conversations as opposed to open confrontations.


I'm pretty sure some of them are playing Lawful Evil.


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    Deadeyes gives respect in almost direct proportion to how much he receives it, as his interactions with Tom and Vinnie both show.


I keep meaning to put him in a room with CSFB!


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    The mythological MacGuffin in the backstory here does not bode well for any of the players involved, nor does the Captor stalking Asil and Tandi.


I'd expected to get all of these - and such a lot more - plots developed and done with by now, or by a year ago, or even two. I'm so backed up on PVB writing. Sadly, I don't think the audience is there any more to justify any stricter schedule.



Getting the two of these guys together could be very interesting for a number of reasons.

What often gets overlooked, by me as much as anybody else, is that there should be a bit of a passive-aggressive obfuscating-stupidity streak with Dream when he's dealing with people in positions of authority whom he doesn't necessarily despise.

Deadeyes is a crime lord, yes, but he literally embodies all sorts of classically cinematic gangster tropes. Dream would have to respect that, as a kid who grew up watching The Godfather and Scarface, even though Deadeyes and his Prohibition-era gang would probably be mildly amused by the fact that Dream sees the Corleones and Tony Montana as interchangeable (it'd be funny if Deadeyes' modern-day driver, Carlos, started quoting Scarface lines with Dream, only to have Deadeyes smirk at them in confusion and say, "I'm guessing this is a generational thing").

Dream would be pleasant in an oh-so-Tom-Baker way with Deadeyes — feet up on his furniture, asking for soda and acting like he owned the place, but all the same, still smiling and cheerful and genuinely enjoying the company of these gangsters. Dream kind of plays up his white trash side when he's dealing with people who might be expecting more politeness from him, but it wouldn't be aggressively rude or mean so much as kind of good-naturedly fucking with them.

Plus, when Dream is dealing with criminals who follow genre tropes, but don't really have a philosophical agenda, he tends to see them more as working-class bad guys. Again, there's that bit of blue collar in Dream's sympathy that never quite rubbed off.