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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

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HH is pacing his upheavals

Subj: I still need to reply to that chapter ...
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 07:00:07 pm EDT (Viewed 435 times)
Reply Subj: There's a good reason why we haven't put the newbies and the older team in many scenes together yet.
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 07:17:59 am EDT (Viewed 5 times)

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    ... Between borrowing someone's body, without being able to prove she has their consent, and constantly starting shit with Sally, of whom Dream is actually relatively fond (if only because she was willing to play along with him against the vampires in The Land That Common Sense Forgot, even after the shit he put her through in the process).


In CZ's defence, Sally did participate in Beth von Zemo's plot to kidnap Laurie, rip her mind to shreds, and steal her psychic aura. Sally then stood by while Otto von Zemo sold Laurie off to the lower planes for eternal torment, which started the chain of horrors that led to CZ being where she is today. You can perhaps understand why she's not happy with Sally.


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    And that's without even factoring in his slowly building annoyance with her '90s-style extreme-ness. Not that I imagine CZ being especially fond of CSFB! either, since I'm sure half the team assumes that he and Sally had sex when she poured herself into his hammock in The Land That Common Sense Forgot ...


It's a good line of interaction to pick up sometime soon.

Did you have any thoughts on the Ass-Raping Ninja visit last time?



... 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.

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.

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).

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."

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.