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Reply Subj: It could be! Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 at 09:33:55 am EST (Viewed 613 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: One reason Liu Xi isn't in this story is that she's far too sensible. Samantha plays that role to some degree but has a far more sceptical, non-mystical view of the world that helped contract with her best friends being a fairy princess and a data anomaly fabulous beast. These days I can't help writing Sam as if she's a 14-year old Bruce Wayne.Quote: Liu Xi is sensible yet accepting. She wouldn't be particularly disturbed by invisible friends and creatures, but it's not the first thing she'd think of, either.I suspect her upbringing might dispose her towards accepting animalistic and unseen household spirits anyhow. Quote: What I think is interesting though is that Samantha and Liu Xi have both endured trauma of having their childhood violently torn from them, but they've each dealt with it in entirely different ways. Sam took more a "justice" route - wanting to make right what happened to her by proactively preventing it from happening again to someone else. Liu Xi took a more passive approach instead, discarding her past and moving on (though she still gets particularly angry in cases that are too similar to hers).I see Liu Xi as having developed an empathy with victims, honed because of some of her subsequent encounters (with Princess Annar, for example). Samantha has developed a darker response by cultivating a revenge against the victimiser. And look at the influences and mentors each of them has had. Liu Xi's run with the Shoggoth, with Xander, with Lara, with Hatty, and with Vinnie. Samantha apprenticed herself to the Dark Knight, to Champagne, and watched Mumphrey through his darkest days running the Parody War defence. Apart from Magweed and Griffin she has relatively little contact with compassion. Quote: Then again, maybe it's a bad comparison because Liu Xi has the gift of elemental power - if Sam had the same thing, she might be more confident and feeling she didn't have to work at it so much.Sam's an over-achiever and she pins her self-worth on her accomplishments. Liu Xi has other measures of herself. Quote: They'd both be jealous of Lara Night though - she didn't have a completely normal childhood, but hers was far more tame than most super-heroes'. Her parents simply divorced instead, and she lived away from them by choice. Incidentally, she also loves fairy tale stuff so she probably would have really enjoyed seeing this mission in action, even though Vinnie didn't so much. I think now Sam would view having a "normal" childhood as a weakness that leaves one unprepared for its eventual bloody destruction. Quote: Quote: Quote: The real question is, why is Vinnie always carrying around things he needs for Liu Xi later on?Quote: Quote: I think that object probably was a condom.Quote: Probably, but why didn't he leave it wherever he'll be later with Liu Xi? Also mingling it with his spell packets, that can cause a nasty accident. He could go looking for a condom in the dark and accidentally release a demon or something.The other question is why was he carrying a turn-you-into-a-Caphan glamour. | |||||||
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