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Subj: If so, he may want to hire someone who isn't from hell to serve as an interpreter for him...
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 08:03:43 pm EDT
Reply Subj: Perhaps he's just misunderstood?
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 07:35:30 pm EDT


> > ...well, aside from the fact that he's an insufferable jerk. Still, it works for the circles he seems to be traveling in.
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> Yes, I can see why Tom wouldn't be your favourite character. Vinnie's much closer to the Visionary end of the scale. One day those two will have to meet.

I don't know that two such characters have all that much ability to play off each other, but then I wouldn't want to discourage you from trying.

Jerks make for interesting leads, but they're tricky to write, certainly, if you want your audience to sympathize with them and not the people to which they're being jerks. Jerks who are also winners are really tough sells. I notice that most fictional jerks who are almost always right are portrayed as having miserable lives outside of their area of expertise... No ability to maintain meaningful relationships, no friends, drinking problems, etc.

Tom's currently in an inbetween stage... He's had a run of bad luck, no doubt, but it's not something that really makes me feel sorry for him yet. (At worst, he got a smoking hot demon temptress in his bed and massive powers... hard to pity him at this point.) The fact that he might still be capable of being manipulated gives him a vulnerability that makes him a bit more relatable... I'll be watching to see where he goes from here.


> I've been waiting for a long time for AG to address the situation he set up in Egypt. When it became evident that wasn't likely in the near future I decided it was time to have a go myself. Scott's seen this and the next chapter, which is as much as I've got written so far of a story I except to take four chapters to complete.
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> However, caveat lector, since I'm becoming reluctant to write Parodyverse material for diminishing audiences, and I reserve the right no abandon this storyline if people aren't reading it.

Fair enough, although it seems like responses are coming along now, at least.


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> > I look forward to seeing more, especially of Regret and Vinnie, two characters of which I'm quite fond. Bring on the next chapter!
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> I'm fond of Vinnie too. In my original pre-vanishing-posters gameplan I expected him to also guest appear in Deadeyes before we pick up his story again as he seeks a date for his family reunion weekend. I hope we can still get that far.
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> The date? So many possibilities, but candidates might include Liu Xi, Ruby Waver, Regret of the Damned, Champagne, Marie Murcheson, or Urthula Underess. Votes?

Hmmmm... Lots of interesting choices there. I somehow doubt Vinnie is the one to make Urthula settle down, but I always enjoy her appearances and she does like a good party, I hear. Marie gives some fun options for Flapjack connections... and now I'd much rather see a story about him taking her to one of *his* family reunions. (Although that might be much too cruel to Marie.) I'd like to see Ruby again... not sure how that would work into her relationship with Tanner, but any developments there would be welcome. I have trouble imagining how Champagne would work as a date... she's such a loner character so far. And advancing things with Liu Xi would be fun to watch to...

Did that narrow it down any? No... I guess not.
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