Who can fathom the mind of the super-genius? I left Al's bar-mate unknown in my first bit of the round robin in case Al wanted to specify who his character was there with... but when he skipped it entirely in his chapter, I decided to put in Muffy since that's who I wanted him to be there with.





Yeah... it was a nice idea though.





While a great writer's tool, it's probably a nightmare to organize so I consider the current one a huge enough blessing. Anything more is well above and beyond the call of duty.

The "one story that best illustrates" each character idea is an intriguing one, though. I'd like to see what people come up with for those choices regardless of whether it's saved in the Who's Who for posterity or not. Maybe I should slip it in there as a question of the week sometime.





I'm certainly not going to compare him to Fleabot to his face. Although I pretty much try to avoid anything involving him or his face altogether. I still hold a grudge from him trying to conquer the planet back when I was leading the Legion. That's the kind of threat that's supposed to wait for a Mumphrey, Finny or Hatman instead.





Truth be told, Kerry gets in the more biting comments than Danny. He's practically the good one in that relationship.

Of course, even poor Kerry was disliked by some readers because of it. I'm hoping to someday have a character in there that we're supposed to dislike. The good guys can't lay into each other with such venom, even when it's on-the-money... they just come across as hypocrites. This has been very obvious in all of the Marvel comics I've glanced at over the last few years, especially with anything involving Iron Man.





I think it's a very interesting pairing... Marie's a harder character for me to write because I'm not overly comfortable writing a proper voice for the time period from which she hails.

After Hallie's first adventure as a guardian of the mansion I think she felt a deep bond with Marie. I think when Marie came back as a human but without specific memories of her time as a banshee, it was a bit awkward for Hallie... going for feeling a kind of sisterly comraderie to realizing that she doesn't really know (or even know how to relate to) this other woman at all.

I suspect it would be like bonding with a fellow soldier in a foxhole during intense battle, and then running across the same guy in civilian life and realizing that you never bothered to ask what the guy did for a living before the war, let alone about his family and so on... It would probably be even worse if he didn't remember that battle at all because of a headwound he received. Is that feeling of brotherhood still real, or were you always deluding yourself?

I would think Hallie would be pretty mystifying to someone time-displaced from another century as well. So I think there's something there to explore, definitely.

Wait... Herringcarp Asylum counterparts?





Apparently, neither does the guy using Exu as a battery.

Looking forward to the Hood making his move. Which is to say, I'm dreadfully fearing it.





By many Japanese legends, Masamune blades were holy (while Muramasa blades were evil and corrupted their users.) I've always enjoyed legends about weapons, especially if the weapons actually existed.

As for the more powerful tool, I'm guessing Knifey.