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Reply Subj: All the time, usually. Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 at 02:58:05 am EST (Viewed 866 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: Liu Xi is always prone to survivor's guilt. That's why next issue she goes to take on the Hooded Hood about this.Quote: Deep down though she should probably know that the Hooded Hood can't really help her, because he's right at the top of the list of people who would do something for her own good but hurt her even worse than she's been hurt before.There's an unresolved subplot (which obviously gets a mention next time) that Liu Xi only finally consented to join the LL because the Hood demanded it, in exchange for saving the life of the daughter of the woman whom Liu Xi murdered to save the Doomherald in Comic-Book Limbo. The Legion obviously don't know that the Hood has that leverage and wanted Liu Xi in there for some reason. Quote: Quote: Spoken about or not, that's the kind of development that's got to wrankle inside Liu Xi and help inform an eventual seperation.Quote: It does sound like something she would do to punish him after he's stopped listening to her entirely. She's been studying Xander's old books in the hopes of helping Vinnie someday. What would hurt her badly is if he refuses to accept that help, especially if it's to preserve his own pride.Cleone Swanmay served as Xander's familiar as well as his lover and that seemed to work for them. Liu Xi really got on with gentle Cleone, a stranger like herself to Western culture. However, Liu Xi is unlikely to be willing or able to subsume herself for Vinnie in the way that Cleone did for Xander, and nor is Vinnie likely to allow it. Quote: But it's also got to be eating at her now that he put her in such danger for his own purposes.The sorcerer supreme has to think in grand terms about cosmic issues. Vinnie has wlays up to now been concerned about individuals. it's not a comfortable transition for him, nor one he might handle well. Given that Liu Xi's arguably most significant romantic relationship was with an ancient god of murder who was destoryed by that kind of conflict, it's possible Liu Xi may be bringing some baggage into her present relationship. Vinnie has baggage too, though. His former financee/destined betrothed was all about directing him in certain ways of doing things and was eager to be hos closer parter in using whatever power he had. So was his mother and prettyu much his whole family. So Vinnie is more likely to keep his lover at arms length from his professional work than accept help or guidance. Quote: By the way, if Yuki finds out (later on) what Vinnie has become, she'll probably give him a good beating just on principle.And Vinnie might never understand why. Quote: The Psychic Samurai, on the other hand, would be more prone to warning Vinnie *right now* of where he's headed, and the danger of it. Oddly enough, though she's actually psychic, nobody listens to her. Which is why she never admits to being psychic.Vinnie might variously respond that he doesn't know and can't know where he's headed or that his responsibilities to the paroyverse have to take priority over his personal needs. One of Vinnie's problems is that, although he is "acting sorcerer supreme", the actual, absent sorcerer supreme is a lot better at this stuff and is really good at manipulating people, including Vinnie. Xander is really being a bastard to vinnie, although probably for reasons of the greater good. Quote: Quote: Really, the best person for G-Eyed to talk to would be Beth. So of course they don't do that.Quote: I guess I can kind of see why she'd want to get as far from that place, and the Lair Legion, as possible. G-Eyed is just collateral damage.Well, from Beth's persective, last time she was conascious was the day she was tortured by Wexford the Dissected Man with three different psychic experiences of death - burning, cockroaches and Gestapo - then tricked into setting the explosive charges that killed around 2,700 sentient robots and birned her face off. For her that was yesterday. And then her best friend, who has suffered hundreds of years of misery already, condemns herself to an eternity more to save her. Beth has a giant portion of survivor's guilt. | |||||||
