Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20180515222712

1. If you take Xylus' story further to King's inspiration realm, you can give Richard a savage monster dog, like Cujo. If you want Richard's dog henchman to be less tragic, you can model that dog after the hound of the Baskervilles. That was IMO the second best Sherlock Holmes' story, right after Elementary. As for Maureen Berkley: She's the main antagonist in Courteney and Berthold's story. I modeled her after the real life Maureen Berkley I once met. The fictional Maureen grew up in a farm and used her knowledge about farm animals to create pigmen as a cheap labor. Maureen and her pigmen caused an epidemic unemployment (more than 80% of mankind lost their jobs). Aside from taking most of the jobs, the pigmen also spread a livestock disease that turn some people into feral, force some animals (examples are Courteney the fox and Berthold the panda) into anthropomorphism and create some sort of monsters (like wendigoes). In this apocalyptic world, Courteney and Berthold must face the perpetual challenges of surviving Maureen and her pigmen, surviving General Tiger, keep monsters and feral humans as far from them as possible, getting along with sentient humans and animals alike and keeping their adopted human girl safe.

2. Here are some of the pictures that inspired me to think about this possible story (the current name is "escaping the burning stake"):

https://wlop.deviantart.com/art/Dream-735540245

https://wlop.deviantart.com/art/The-Lonely-Parade-564156822

https://wlop.deviantart.com/art/Ruler-619899554

https://wlop.deviantart.com/art/Saber-Lancelot-608705670

https://takeda11.deviantart.com/art/Daily-345-365-719635615

3. Another good twist in the live action version is that they made Gaston more plausible. In contrast to his cartoonish hunter incarnation, this time he's a former soldier. He mentioned the last war he took part in, which probably means the war messed up his head. Since he know what army is and how to rally troops, he had a natural talent to sweep the villagers into doing his bidding. Unless Gaston's animated version was the mayor, no way a cartoonish buffoon like him could make an army out of ignorant villagers. Not to mention he was successful at fooling Lea-Fu to complete loyalty, like with Jill and Charlie. It takes a ferociously smart person to fool someone completely and choosing the right person to be fooled. And unlike Jill, Gaston may actually survive a superior accomplice. He better live up to his first scene for the rest of the movie. It would be a shame to see such potential thrown to the slaughterhouse. A pen-mate of mine offered Gaston as a third killer in Police Legend (or maybe a killer in part 5, in case i'll find the justification for a plot), which comes to make sense after starting to see the true military Gaston.

4. I still haven't got to Salem's part in RWBY, but if she's as scary as i'm coming to think she is, maybe her menace level is midway between Adam and Cinder. I think pure evil characters like Cinder and Katz are obligated to be entertaining in a scary way. For example, if Cinder was as entertaining as Weiss' father, the latter would be erased from the series completely and Weiss will lose her tragic background.

5. Richard Lionheart was a British king from the medieval who went to crusades. For a religious man who spent more time in conquering Jerusalem than being in Britain, he was actually a decent king (at least compare to some other medieval rules). His brother, Prince John Lionheart, was the incompetent ill-tempered overgrown child we saw in Disney's version of Robin Hood. He's one of the historical characters that can be exaggerated into a fairytale version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England