Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20180514233325

1. Good thinking for both :-). Killing Bathory with an arrow to the heart is epic as always. Shidou seems like the lovechild of Sofia Lamb, Dolores Umbridge the Nazi scientists who fueled race theories with false studies. You just know you've found a good hate sink when the inspiration for that character is someone people hate before they even know about his/her existence. Does Shidou reminds you of Maureen Berkley? If so, I think I can build Bathory/Mira with shades of that monstrosity of a woman and be at ease about my choice of inspiration. Your idea to make her an alchemist sound somewhat like Flagg from Steven King's expanded universe. Just like the the satan from your story with Xylus, Flagg's "magic" is actually alchemy and all sort of poisons. King would like that :-).

2. In the option where Mira will have powers (Bathory will be a mundane person like the vast majority of the fairytale creatures), i'm considering making her a fire mage. She started as a little village girl who played with fire in order to be respected at her hometown. In a faithful day, Mira got into a heated argument with a condescending rich farmer and burned his fields in revenge. The other villagers started to be afraid of her. And she liked it. Slow and steady, she took over other villages by presenting herself as a force of nature who protect the villagers both from outside threats and from herself (as the under-legal protection people would put it: "you have a nice business here. I would be happy to keep it safe for you. We wouldn't like to see your place get burned at night. People are nuts. Keeping your place is worth they money. Doesn't it?"). When she became 16, she want in Joan of Ark's way and aimed her mind to take over the whole kingdom. Constantly depressing people under her reign of fire and breathing all the smoke did nothing good to her mental state. Her plan was ferociously brilliant. She convinced the ignorant villagers that the human king's marriage to an elf means her care about elves more than he cares about his own people. And that's where the protagonists get into the story: The king was killed, but the poor widow elf successfully escaped and became friend with some rebels in the making. Some of the other major rebels are a mage and his rouge assistant (she disguise herself as a musician in order to work below the radar), a white dragonborn paladin, a male elf archer who survived the slaughter of his family, probably a human knight (maybe two) and maybe someone who defected from Mira's elite force.

3. I'm seeing it in parts. Step by step. So far so intelligent. During Belle's opening number, there was a short part where some military academy students looked at Belle without understanding her very much. It showed the contrast between the smart Belle and the close-minded folks around her. It's also historically accurate, because when a dictator (whether fascist, communist or any other) rise to power, the first targets are the scholars. When you take in mind trying to destroy education as part of hostile takeover, which was presented in Harry Potter as part of the holocaust themes, turn out the director wanted to give Gaston shades of Voldemort. If TV Tropes were real about Belle's badass incarnation, I hope the good people will leave the movie where it is and won't try to force a sequel.

4. Why does Leo listed as true affably evil. He was clearly willing to ditch you in the middle of the everglades. Affable people wont do it. You're right. Cinder is truly more entertaining than Weiss' father. Just like with Katz and that mad Doberman, in a sense the Doberman was scarier and more unlikeable because he was less entertaining. Know what I mean? Also, does the fact Leo is allegedly based on Richard Lionheart ment to be a lol or a cruel irony?