As I recall, he was trying to tempt her with the knowledge that contact with the Wonderwall offered; except that knowing some things change a person forever. Lara elected to gain knowledge and wisdom the long way round rather than falling for the short cut.




Iscanean Went is somewhat different in his vilnerabilities to Ioldobaoth Winkelweald, as we shall discover next time when his original identity is revealed.




More than that, the Hood is actually attracted to strong women who stand up to him, as evidenced by his relationships with Lisa, Dancer, the Shaper of Worlds, Shazana Pel, the Faerie Queen, Danny Lyle's as-yet-unidentified mother, etc.




There is a specific set of parameters by which a villainous character can continie to participate in a shared narrative, and the Hood sits in that sweet spot. He rarely ends up directly in conflict with the heroes. He's had exactly two all-out fights with the LL ever. He often manipulates behind the scenes, but for every villainous thing he does to the good guys there's something villainous he does to even worse bad guys. Many of his interactions are neutral, furthering plot or character without becoming the determinative pointof that story. He has a status quo that generally upholds the larger PV status quo, often against adversaries who seek to shatter that status quo (e.g. Dormaggadon, the Void Scholar, the Parody Master, the Carnifex).

Of course, in-story he is working towards his own goals. He needs the heroes to save the Parodyverse because he needs it for his own eventual ends. There is no gain in ruling over nothing but rubble. Much better to let the heroes live to fight off his enemies for him, until the time finally comes when his plans are all in place.




What do you see her role as being?







Just so long as those ideas and that work are not wasted.







What's the spectrum of that energy draw? Is it electromagentic, mystical, gravitic, conceptual? At the absurd end, is she drawing energy from all the wallfes in creation, or the broken promises?

I ask about the mechanism because I think it hekps to place Lara and her powers in some relative context. I know where Donar gets his abilities from, or how Dancer does what she does. I'm only 75% there with Lara.