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Subj: Re: Sounds like my publishers summarising sales. Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 at 05:41:32 pm EST (Viewed 781 times) | Reply Subj: Re: Sounds like my publishers summarising sales. Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 at 08:53:13 am EST (Viewed 3 times) | ||||||
Quote: That reflects well on Faite. However, the Hood is a genuine, if sometimes charming, evil man, and his sympathetic qualities and life traumas do not excuse his behaviour. As with all fictional archvillains in traditional comic-book universes he must one day face justice for what he has done - and his downfall must be epic.I know it sounds strange, but Faite really doesn't want to see his downfall. She knows what it will do to him, and that it will make him even more unmanageable in the future. Unless he's dead, in which case there will be a lot of cleanup work to do. Quote: Remarkably, the Hooded Hood has only really gone all out against the LL twice, and each time he was only stopped by someone close to him (and behind him). The first time it was Lisa and the second time his then-daughter Troia. A third confrontation might be decisive.Sounds like Amnesia will be his weakness this time. Quote: the Hood has gathered intelligence from all kind of weird places now, including the database of the Celestian Space Robots, the combined observations of the Observers (the PV's Watchers), the entire database of the Intergalactic Order of Librarians, Wilbur Parody (the only man to hold all three Triumverate offices and the only one to set them aside and still keep the forbidden information that was supposed to be erased from him), the Resolution Prophecy personified, the Faerie Queene, the Allied Pantheons, and of course his Portal of Pretentiousness.He might still feel like it's all lacking, though, because the one piece that would be missing is someone with experience with not being in the Parodyverse. Quote: There are still some bits of knowledge he's missing, though. For example, only a few people have been exposed to the Storyheart, and he hasn;t yet gleaned what they got from that. Since Trickshot is now gone from the PV, top of the list would be Yuki Shiro, Knifey, and Visionary. Plans are afoot.Poor Visionary. Quote: The Hood does tend to adapt based upon information gathered, so he's always ready to add more variations and contingencies to his planning. After all, he can literally be trying a thousand different ways all at once and then select which one really happened.What happens when they all meet the same inevitable conclusion? Or when Lara mocks him in every single one of them? Quote: If that doesn't translate into Bible stories about God sending floods and casting down an impertinent tower I don't know what will. If it doesn't have something to say to us about our choices for science and technology today than I don't know what does.It's also because humans don't have the capability to see every possible scenario on equal ground. We can't, because quite a lot of the time, that would lead to the conclusion that every kind of technology will lead to disaster, simply because it *could*. Quote: You are quite correct, as verified by my son who is now preparing for his law exam but paused to give me a lecture.It's always funny to watch those videos where someone is picking a fight with cops, and when the cops try to arrest them, they start screaming "this is assault!" It's not, it's battery. They already passed assault when the cop yelled "Get out of the car, now!" Quote: Wouldn't she also be signing that staff member's death warrant?Yuki wouldn't be around them any longer than necessary. Quote: It's a time of upheavals in the criminal underworld that the Baroness might hope to exploit. That said, she is very distracted right now by what she's learned that the Hood is doing. He's much nearer to the finishing line than she is - and that can't happen!That would more likely be the Zoot Suit Gang that would take advantage of someone who's distracted. Quote: It would likely be someone outside Paradopolis or GMY that she has pissed off. Maybe ZOXXON or HERPES or BALD using dummy shells, or somebody like Thighmaster in Borovia - or spiffy in Badripoor!Yuki now has a lot of motivation. She needs a lot of dirt to blackmail Zemo's lawyer next time he starts threatening to have her brain removed. Quote: The challenge comes because a Beth von Zemo kill order (probably contracted out via a pro middle-man like Screwdriver) would specify some assassin she assessed had a good chance of beating Yuki. It might make for an interesting fight.She would also know that if the assassin is anything like her, she's going to need backup. And probably someone the assassin doesn't know to stay away from, like Nena. Quote: The Hood has generally had a positive business relationship with those who will reasonably keep their end of the bargain. Quote: I'm not sure whether the system is still in place that requires other Earth villains seek his permission on a rota basis for their world conquest plots, but this is a villain who once told the entire Safe population to remain in their cells and not escape while the doors were open and intimidated them into doing it. On the other hand, he enjoys equitable visits from peers like Dr Moo and Gideon Book, and even Baroness von Zemo, so positive interaction and dealing with him is possible.I once had a story planned where Mac Fleetwood was killed by the Hooded Hood, and a distraught Hatman asked Lara Night to seize control of the Parodyverse and put a stop to the Hooded Hood once and for all. Never wrote up the story, but it had some interesting moments. The short version is she actually won, but gave it up once she realized the horrible thing she'd done to the Hooded Hood by putting him at the mercy of very powerful enemies who wanted nothing better than to capture and torture him forever. Quote: Quote: It does take a while to reach that point, though. If some faction attacks one or two Trader ships, generally the company that owns them will try to solve the problem themselves first - because it's worth a lot of money to show potential customers that they won't take that kind of crap on their trading routes. They'll send a dozen heavily armed civilian ships to crush the interference decisively. If *that* fails, then they'd give in and ask the government for assistance.Quote: We really need more of that to surface in a story somewhere.I had a few partial plots in storage, but never wrote them up because they're too far from the PV-regulars, and people therefore don't read them. | |||||||
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