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Subj: It may even date back to Shep.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 at 04:00:21 am EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Did she put it there, or Mr. P?
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 09:27:48 am EST (Viewed 1047 times)


Sorry for the intermittent delays in response. This is the first time I've crawled out of bed for three days. I'm supposedly "off work" for two weeks, which is just as well as I keep falling alseep.


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      In the Marvel Universe, Galactus is considered to be the balancing force between Life and Death. I'm not sure that really works there; I'm even less convinced for the Parodyverse, where life and death tend not to be the dominant poles anyhow.



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    He might be balancing something else.


After introducing a fair number of characters early on who were really just silly versions of comic book characters (we were all doing it), during my "middle years" writing in the Parodyverse I consciously downplayed and avoided those direct derivatives as much as possible. For that reason I never bothered to establish much backstory or rationale for them. It's only now in my "last gasp" phase that I feel comfortable dragging them out again and using them unashamedly.


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      I didn't actually plan to bring him back. His appearance and his persistence were both somewhat of suprises to me. That happens sometimes with my PVB stories.



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    Maybe he feels the same way, and wishes for a nice peaceful death already.


He's the God of Murder, not Suicide.


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      Well, Aella is 13, so she's not really in H9's "hot girl" category yet. And he thinks he knows a lot more things than her.



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    Doesn't he think he knows more than everyone?


Well, he is a smart teenager, so yes.


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      I'd have pegged Lara as the young TA



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    That's around the same range I meant, but she's not the type to be a TA at all. She's way too unpredictable. What makes her look like someone who's younger is the fact that she's not very tall, and very slim, so people estimate her to be as much as 5 years younger.



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    Put those together, and you can see why she mocks Hatman for thinking of her as a kid. She's not that much younger than he is.


It's odd looking back at my earliest stuff, because back then Hatman and CSFB! were the newest rookies in the LL.


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      But she's not trying to get the band back together.



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    No, they've moved on, and some of them were jerks.


Like that stops most band reunions.


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      I wasn't really planning on covering any ramifications of [Liu Xi's] Exu-matter. I assume that her powers eventually metabolise it to be entirely her as they would any other material she ingests or repurposes; it just might take longer because it is rather distinctive.



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    It would be kind of funny if she had a power she must never, ever use. The temptation would be horrible.


I agree. That's the kind of plot that can only be exploited so often, though, without becoming repetetive.


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      Almost inevitably. His old Condo was half-buried after beaver attacks (I think) and his Lighthouse is infested with Doom Hamsters, so the worms will have to take a number.



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    Worms usually don't take a number.


Which tells you even more about the queue of things waiting to annoy Visionary.






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