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Reply Subj: Re: Vinnie and Liu Xi Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 at 03:02:20 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: The Shoggoth is a good example; 90% of the time his views and responses align with humans, but just occasionally his different perspective or motives put him on the opposite side. The same has proved true of the Chronicler (who very nearly banned Lara from the Parodyverse once when she argued with him) and Lisa (whose job comes with some specialised knowledge that forces her to some hard-to-comprehend decisions occasionally). So even very benevolent, "good" characters with wide cosmic perspectives sometimes aren't on-team.I thought the near-banning of Lara was a good excersize to show just how persistent she is at resolving things like that. She didn't rest until she changed his opinion of her...slightly. Quote: Vinnie is rather like Yuki in that he never waits to be asked. If he sees a problem or someone in danger he jumps right in. Someone who was aware of trouble and chose to do nothing about it is really alien to him. Again, in his pain, he's probably be arguing, "What? You're saying you didn't help because I didn't stop to pray to you? Because your feelings were hurt that I didn't take time out from the cosmic bloodbath to personally invite you to save some lives?" Faite is generally really bad with upset people, so that would only make her distance herself further. Quote: I image if Chiaki approached him reasonably he'd want to ask her if Liu Xi and Faite were okay. That's because, while Vinnie is a rigid hardass when it comes to his job, he's a guilt-ridden softie when it comes to relationships.I've kind of accidentally cast Chiaki as a peacemaker and facilitator, and she does a really good job with it. Her personality is a natural fit. Quote: Beth and Laurie are very different people. Beth is a virgin temperancer schollteacher. Laurie was a promiscuous hard-drinking wannabe-lawyer. The just about managed to share a flat together, but their friendship was based upon being opposites. A merger of the two characters would create a new entity unlike either of the others, so different that it might as well have killed the others by death-of-personality.That's partly why Faite would do it. She believes they can work out their differences and become a new and happier person. It may mean leaving everyone else behind, but that's less important. Quote: There's a fundamental theological question common to our world and pretty much every fictional one: why do bad things happen to good people? If there's a God then why doesn't he intervene? In fictional universes where there are gods and god-like beings why don't they do something? Faite only wishes she was a god; she has all the power, but not nearly the vision. A god makes decisions based on everything that ever was, and every possible path through the future. Faite has a considerably narrower view, and therefore makes a lot of faulty decisions. Quote: One has to assume free will is so important that too much "divine intevention" that would limit it would be worse than letting the bad stuff happen. Simply put, if say Faite slammed a lethal lightning bolt into anyone who committed a crime, anywhere, anytime, then she'd prevent millions of deaths and untold misery. But now people wouldn't be making a choice to be good or moral, they'd only be acting that way to avoid immediate retribution. So no free will, only benevolent slavery. So Faire (or God, or whoever) has a wide enough perspective to see the dire consequences of seemingly benevolent large-scale interventions.That goes back to an earlier topic - she believes that absolute power is an illusion, because having to make all of those decisions for everyone is not power at all. It's, as you noted, slavery. And that's what she would try to get across to the Hooded Hood. He's trying to doom himself to slavery. She also believes that a side-effect of absolute power is people start to blame you for everything, and then turn on you. Quote: Whatever else he is, Vinnie's a young male. He's going to put on a brave face around others, especially young woman.Faite doesn't mind the bravery, she just doesn't like anger. Chiaki respects neither, but she learned that way because she had to deal with a lot of posturing gangsters in an earlier career. What Faite does respond to is kindness, because as a cosmic spirit she was starved of it for ages. It's still a novelty to her, and one she likes a lot. Quote: Dancer: "Sometimes you just have to stop helping people and take a hot bath. Maybe with bubbles." Real-Shep actually told me that once.That's good advice occasionally. Quote: Hence the reasons Chiaki and perhaps Liu Xi would be good people to take Vespiir to lunch one day.Chiaki would be the one who takes Vespiir on a short adventure to discover what her power can really do, and end it with making her remove her brand. Chiaki would tell her that she still wears her chains, and it's time she broke free of them. | |||||||
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