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Subj: Inside here (click to see)
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 at 12:20:26 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 10:44:35 am EST (Viewed 842 times)



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    Back home, Lara wasn't just the muscle behind her super-team, she has a non-super talent for figuring out just what kind of person she's dealing with. It was grown out of her killing her first super-powered encounter, and not wanting her entire career to become a killing spree.


You really need to get these stories out there, you know.


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      VV seems to love being a supervillainess. She knows she's good at it.



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    Of course she does. That's why Lara wouldn't attempt to change that perception until VV becomes really dissatisfied with it. As long as she's happy, Lara won't bother her about it, but if she looks for a way out, now she might have a friend to help her.


VV is happy. The people she's commiting crimes against are not.


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    From Lara's point of view, she doesn't believe that she's *always* doing the right thing. Sometimes she has to do some pretty awful things to prevent bigger awful things. She doesn't believe herself to be better than VV, only following a different path. The attempt at friendship is because she sees that VV walks that path alone.


The conversation I've been having with Al. B might be relevant. I'd got it into my head that Bambi Bacall, the matter-transmuting Suicide Blonde (and G-Eyed's cousin, and now revealed to be Al B's time-travelled grandchild), was dead. Rhiannon talls me I may well be misaken. If Suicide Blonde is still out there then she was the Purveyor that had the friendliest association with VV. But certainly Bambi has been assumed dead. When time alows I must do some further research.


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      She'd do it if her contract required it, but it doesn't mean she'd like it. During the Saving the Future events she tried to kill former teammate Mary Prankstar, for example.



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    And that's where Chiaki's warning comes in. Chiaki knows what it's like being asked to do really distasteful things because the boss requests it.


And more story required.


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    If that did happen, Lara would be disappointed. She'd probably try to offer VV a way to turn the tables on whoever hired her. She might even convince Chiaki to get involved. VV probably knows what the Psychic Samurai is capable of. And it might work simply because Chiaki knows a bad contract when she sees one, and she *will* take it up with whoever made it.


VV isn't above being malicious to employers she takes a dislike to but her professional reputation is very important to her.

Interestingly, since the most recent UT implies that she delivered some warning to Screwdriver from the Hood re. the whole bombing-Parody-Island thing, that might lead to repercussions. Screwdriver is the middle-man arranging contracts for for-hire villains. If he's now down on VV then it could lead to "career difficulties".



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    This is related to the hidden story of how he and Chiaki broke up because they stopped communicating. They're both incredibly stubborn people.


That's a reasonable backstory rationale.

One of the problems of writing in a shared continuioty like the Parodyverse with "poster characters" is what happens when those posters' lives move on. I've had to curtail a few plotlines due to poster absences, many of a relationship nature.

For example, when poster-Whitney got married it seemed weird to go on writing Sorceress' torrid affair with Hatman. I don't know if Mr Whitney ever looked at or might look at the Parodyverse board, but long stories of his partner's online avatar having big romantic arcs with another poster-character can't enhance a marriage. I curtailed the Hatman - Rabid Wolf romance for similar reasons when poster-Jay got hitched.

A few other posters have given me "limits" instructions for their characters. For example, Shep once told me she wasn't bothered how many romances Dancer got into as long as there wasn't ever anything permanent. Champagne was fine with her character appearing but no romantic plotline; since I suspect the poster was at that time underaged I was happy to comply.

So nowadays I mostly shy away from pairing off poster-chaacters. It should be the poster's job anyhow. Where I want to do romance plotlines I tend to use either characters I've made up or those "secondary" creations of other posters whom I know I have carte blance with - Danny and Kerry, for example.

I sympathise with you and other posters who must now struggle in the somewhat sparser poster environment to tell compelling stories that follow narrative logic in good taste with regard to avatar characters.

It is possible that I way overthink this stuff.



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      The objections might not come from Lara's friends but from VV's colleagues.



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    Lara did think about that. She's not particularly worried about the Hooded Hood - not because she feels like she knows him, but because she feels like if he had a grievance he'd take it up with her directly instead of sending a squad of assassins after her.


The Hood is quite content for there to be a link between Lara and VV. He might characterise it as "intriguing" and "useful".


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    That programming [on Cathode] might be what Lara sees as "too eager to please her boss" and what makes Cath appear to her to be too fragile.


There are some issues there but I think JJJ will have to address them. I presume he has plot plans about it.





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