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Subj: I guess that's better than it could be. Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 at 06:20:07 pm EST (Viewed 686 times) | Reply Subj: I'm sure he'd be pleased to hear you say so. Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 at 04:42:37 pm EST (Viewed 1 times) | ||||||
Quote: Thugos offered Lara the opportunity - temptation - to abandon her current role and her relationship with Faite and to try such a transformation. He knew that a changed Lara might see things his way. if she didn't, then she'd be unfamiliar enough with her new power levels to be dogpiled by other New Pantheon recruits and culled for parts. Lara elected not to play the game.That's a true conflict with characters like Lara, because she doesn't crave power - she feels like she has enough already. Thugos wouldn't be someone who would understand that, because he always wants more. So he went the wrong route with her entirely. She's strong in curiosity, but doesn't want power. Quote: I suspect behind the scenes that must have been where Faite and Thugos' powers interacted, preventing any scenario where Lara was eliminated (Faite's change) or where Lara could warn or aid the Legion (New Pantheon's change), effectively benching the problem until one side or the other had an improved position.That is also a good way to drive nu-Hood up a wall. Quote: Of course, with all that focus on Lara/Faite, it might be suspected that nobody was looking what was happening at the other end of the Parodyverse. It's almost as if Lara was a diversion .Or at least it could have been someone waiting for the right amount of distraction, not needing to create one. Quote: Except that the original Hooded Hood never does that. He thinks it's sloppy and wasteful of resources. If Lara, or Hatty, or Vizh or whoever, is dead, they can no longer be used. If his enemies are dead then they can't hear him gloat over their utter downfall and defeat. I also get the impression that the Winkleweld is kind of amused by Lara because she's not afraid of him. I get the feeling he's amused by anyone who doesn't fear him. Which would make Lara able to tell at first look that nu-Hood isn't the real thing. She would look in his eyes and see anger instead of amusement. Quote: Of course the other narrative convention protects the Hood likewise. Lara doesn't arrange for an inescapable meteor strike on him in the same way that Superman doesn't fly past Luthor at high speed and just rip his head off. There are in-story moral reasons to justify out-of-story storytelling reasons.In her time protecting her own universe, she learned a lot about things that are part of balance, and better off not tampering with. The original Hood would be one of those. So rather than off him, she would rather simply give him a good reason to do what she wants. Quote: That's how pretty much all can-do-nearly-anything powers have to be played. Its an especial problem in a shared fictional universe where different writers have different characters with can-do-anything powers.Faite has this conundrum going where she could make sweeping changes to the universe, but she doesn't want to, because then she can't *enjoy* it. If everything is predicable, then it's boring. Quote: I recall you wrote some stories mapping out her early years but I don't think you concluded them.I still have that in-progress, because I started writing a longer one that's more of a novel format. Not sure which one I'll keep yet. Quote: What is she drawing in, exactly? Electromagnetic potential? If so are there side effects on her nearby environment?She draws it very slowly from the entire universe. It's also a two-way street, so she can sense when something is wrong with the energy she's drawing from, and also that's the reason she can go between universes. It's sort of the equivalent of drinking from a stream, then becoming the water and going with its flow. | |||||||
