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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004
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Subj: Proceed.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 02:58:32 pm EDT (Viewed 5 times)
Reply Subj: I still need to reply to that chapter ...
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 07:00:07 pm EDT (Viewed 434 times)



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    ... But I liked that you actually managed to find a way to put the "debt collection agency" aspect of their group front and center, which helps de-Meltzer-ize them a bit.


It occurred that with CSFB!'s enhanced profile in the LL it was time to provoke a few of his rogues gallery. We may be hearing from Lionel Loadstone later on depending on how subplots develop. He wants to find out what happened to his son. He wants payback.


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    And Dream is biased toward Sally for a few reasons. As an unrepentantly flirty, overtly sexual woman, she reminds him a lot of home. As a henchman (henchperson), she inspires sympathy rather than scorn from him, because his own working-class upbringing makes him see hired-help supervillains as akin to the blue-collar branches of his own family. And as someone whose persona is playful rather than grim like Citizen Z's, he can't help but see Sally as his kind of people.


Also, CSFB! doesn't have the CZ contextualising backstory that readers do.


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    Dream is a very clean-slate kind of guy with people who present the right kind of attitude to him - fun-loving, light-hearted, casual-banter sorts of folks - which is why it's harder for him to move past the past with people like CZ and Mr. Epitome, who come across as serious scowlers with the wrong types of ideologies. Past a certain point, I'm not even sure that he wants to know what sort of person Sally was in the past, as long as she's approaching the superhero thing in what he feels is the right way (which CZ is not, to his mind).


Wait till he finds out what CZ's home address is.


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    Plus, those moments he spent with Sally in The Land That Common Sense Forgot really do matter to him. Yes, Sally started out by testing how heroic a hero he actually was, in terms of how faithful he'd be to April, but ultimately, she wound up auditioning for Dream instead, who's never really had a junior sidekick before (it's telling that he regards both his mom and April as the senior partners in their relationships with him, even though they often defer to him out of sheer momentum alone). With the vampires, as far as he was concerned, he was all but telegraphing his intent to Sally when he made the Fourth Doctor/Romana II comparison - "Act like it's improv comedy, watch me for the changes and try to keep up."


I'm sure CSFB! at least will try to make Sally welcome and put her at her ease.


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    It was actually kind of like the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, when he deliberately tweaked her by telling her to go make him coffee - Dream sees what he does as simple, so as far as he's concerned, all that his designated partner needs is to be invited to play with him. He'd hoped for more participation from Sally, but he saw that she was rattled by the vampires, so he respected the fact that she was willing to play the game at all.


When do we get an update on the other ex-cons he's taking an interest in?






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