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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

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HH

Subj: With Chaos, cheating IS following the rules. :)
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 08:23:02 pm EDT (Viewed 472 times)
Reply Subj: Re: What happens to Chaos:
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 06:49:35 pm EDT (Viewed 4 times)

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    Part of the problem here, for both the characters and the writers, is that there's really no clear road map for what happens next.



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    To a certain extent, Dream was kind of doing what he was supposed to do, by breaking the rules of the game, at least as far as Chaos is concerned, so I don't see Chaos censuring him as such, but by the same token, the line of Agents of Chaos will continue to move on, with Glitch and her successors, because each Age is different, and each Age needs its own Spirit.


I recall you discussing how you felt that CSFB! had cheated his way to another level but that there would be consequences for his tricks. I'm pleased to try and work some of that into the present storyline.

Marvel's currently doing some stuff in their Guardians of the Galaxy-related books about a surfeit of Life leading to the return of Thanos. I think we of the PV get a sufeit of Chaos.


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    The bigger problem is that Dream not dying opens the door for Order to escalate a proportional response to the increased amount of Chaos in existence, some of it in ways we've already discussed via e-mail. It basically becomes an arms race of dickbaggery, with Order playing the part of the passive-aggressive asshole who responds to his roommate's loud music by turning up his own stereo. Order kinda has to be reactive in all this, but by creating a multiplicity of Agents of Chaos, between himself and Glitch AND Wendy, Dream has basically given Order license to respond in kind.


Indeed. We'll be seeing one such response in the last line of the present issue.



It's kind of like Frank Herbert's stories about the Bureau of Sabotage - screwing over your fellow Saboteurs was not only ALLOWED, but ENCOURAGED.

Which is, I suppose, one of the reasons why Dream transcended in the first place, since he cheated even according to the standards of Chaos, but since Chaos pretty much makes rule-breaking a rule unto itself, the fact that Dream has broken the mold of previous Agents of Chaos is precisely what's made him the Champion of Chaos.

Not that this doesn't have its own consequences.



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