Tales of the Parodyverse - And I got back to it after a novel-writing break

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Subj: And I got back to it after a novel-writing break
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 at 02:15:21 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)

Reply Subj: And more silence, because I edited this a day after posting it.
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 at 08:43:06 pm EST (Viewed 604 times)

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"Maybe you are merely a buffoon? Little heroes tend to prattle to distract from their inadequacies. Proceed."

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Lara would respond that she's disappointed he'd resort to such a base insult.

Less base insults are for those deserving more regard.

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LATER EDIT: Additionally, Lara kind of feels sad for the Hood because she feels that though he gained all of that power, he still clings to Herringcarp like a security blanket, and he'll never really be free until he lets go of it.

She probably doesn't recognise the symbiotic/parasitic relationship between the two. it is unhealthy, but the Hood would not have his power or likely survive without the Asylum now.

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I try and avoid pitting poster-characters vs poster-characters in decisive tests of competence or power, so it's not a corner I'd write myself into.

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We did leave it rather vague, though. If Yuki happened to be in the Zemo house, she could have only visited publicly accessible areas, and noticed the heavy surveillance and left. She wouldn't be stupid enough to start breaking in while being watched...or more importantly to her, giving away her breaking in methods.

It's usually the sort of thing I'd check out with a poster beforehand, if I had the time. At least it was back when I was in e-mail contact with most posters.

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I'm probably extrapolating beyond my range to suggest how that might work out. JJJ is the Baroness' writer, so "write-back" for what happens if one of your characters scores points off her is down to him.

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There was some suggestion that Al B. Harper knew Yuki before the surgery, but no definite reason why yet. The funding, the access to parts, and money wasn't explained yet, but I did drop a hint that Dr. Lia had some part in it. Last time we "met" her, Al B. Harper was beside himself with the prospect of speaking to her, but he never got the chance.

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It's a fertile narrative area to cultivate.

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I might revisit that story someday, but first I have to finish the one I'm working on.

There's actually a deeper mystery to this if you choose to explore it. Back in or after PV WWII there was a sudden development of robotic and cybernetic systems WAY ahead of real history. Given that robotics implies microcircuits and advanced computers it was very anachronistic (same in Marvel and DC universes too). And yet these innovations did not become public or publically accessible; in fact to some degree they are still restricted in the modern Parodyverse.

Various mad scientists are credited with discoveries. Various rare elements or processes are deemed to be required which restrict mass access to the technology. And yet somewhere, between 1938 and now, different people have come up with way-out-of-time and unique-to-them advances allowing cyborgs, robots, and most recently life-like humanoid androids. How? Who or what was behind it?

Most critical for Yuki was Al B's organic brain/cyborg brain interface, which then allowed robot parts to be driven by a genuine human sentience. That solution was the one that allowed Yuki's current machine/organic balance, a balance that has worked better than pretty much any other cyborg. Was it all tech or was personality a factor?

And then, in that same generation, we have the development of sentient computer AIs that can drive robot bodies; some with extreme efficiency.

It deels like there's a possible big storyline behind all of this somewhere, and a cyborg PI i the perfect investigator.

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In some cases, such as Lara, I hold back giving them a powerful enemy because doing so would create a really disastrous problem for the Lair Legion. rather than just Lara herself.

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LATER EDIT: After some thought, I figured out that Lara's strongest type of enemy would be anything that can imitate or absorb her own powers. She knows just how dangerous that can be, so she would *have* to fight them on different terms than simply overpowering them.

Lara would need a very personal enemy; not neccessarily one with goals of conquest or mass destruction, but goals of domination over her and personal destruction: Kilgrave to Jessica Jones rather than Ultron to the Avengers. Lara's at her best when her stories have personal stakes and are character driven, so any villain would need to target that kind of zone.