Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20190324224721

1. I know i might be overracting here and you have every right to correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe i just found another kind of bullying: Forcing a retcon for the sake of the worst part on the best part's expense. Charlize is just the kind of person i would expect to do such a thing, but i would never except JK Rolling to do it. As writers, neither of us would ever dig out own graves by enslaving the good parts of our stories to the bad parts just to stitch a half-baked retcon. But JK, of all people, came up with some rather infuriating like "Hermione was black this whole time" and "The Curse Child should be canon". The sole reason she said that Hermione was never specifically white is to justify the fact that the good people of the cursed fanfic casted a black woman to Hermione's role. And which words did she used? "Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin never specified". She wanted to appear as a positive color blind (not caring about ethnicity. Like we do), but just came out as uncharacterically ignorant. Girls can have brown eyes, frizzy hair and supernatural intelligence, and also white. She could've done what every normal writer would do and say loud and clear that "The Cursed Child" is just a fanfic, or maybe that it was all an alternative reality. But she cancelled every symbolizm (Hermione is a scholar jew, not a scholar black) and everything Emma Watson ever did just to justify a bad story. If Hermione was black, then JK should've told the good people of the studios to cast a black girl instead of Emma Watson. Letting people walking around with one thing in mind, only to change it for justifying a bad decision, is like making you study for a cardiology exam, only to change it to chemistry exam at the last minute. And the part where Harry dated Ginny? That's one of the parts which JK '''is content with. '''She regret about Ron and Hermione's legit and natural relationship, but is cool about a second-hand incest. It's not "Games Of Throne" here. Having such screwed-up priorities is something that former bully of yours, or one of the Jills you had in highschool, would do. When a woman is so brilliant and talented, i expect her to be much less clueless. Here's the video which informed me about some of what i've just wrote in this paragraph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHEuXYQba4

"Twilights" and "50 Shades" are horrible as a whole. But giving a horrible epilogue (am i using the right words for describing a post-ending sequence?) and an incestous ending to an otherwise great franchise like Harry Potter is unthinkable. Do you find it infuriating, like i do, or do you see it as mostly sad?

2. Man :-(. I didnt remembered that part. That "balanced" god of light sounds like the love child of Cinder and The Angelus. What does he and the "god of darkness" wanted to achieve, other than wreaking havoc? I mean, these are things Adam would do. Did you planned "Dark Seraphs" before or after seeing RWBY? If before, Salem might've been inspired by Jester. Now you gave me another reason to finish volume 1 sometimes soon. It's weird to think Ozpin was the less murderous half. Tragic story and all, but Salem is IMO far more sympathetic, not to mention being a heart-broken dictator based on the original Red Queen make more sense than having an immortality machine like Ras Al Ghul have. Before you told me about their four daughters, i could put my money on the possibility that Ozpin killed them in a drunk rage, like Hercules did to his own family in the source material. I admit they do have a good reason to be like that, but as said before, Salem is IMO the more sympathetic one. Ozpin have a personality disorder. Maybe anti-social, depends if he's a better person than Jester or not.

3. A cult of personality is always a good villainous motif. Good to hear he'll be a Frollo. That Douglas is even a bigger Frollo than i remembered. I really look forward to see Corvus dragging him to the worse place in hell, and having Douglas' poor mother beating the daylight out of him is also something that makes me smile. I'm not a sadistic person. Just saying that Frollos like Douglas deserves the absolute worst. By "a potential few moments", you mean that his commentary will lead him to have moments of humanity? Existentialists are usually smart people. Interesting touch with getting start out as not the brightest, and later evolving him to a smart and heroic messiah. Abigail have a tragic background and an abusive grandfather from what i recall, so her arrogance, stubborness and greed are defense mechanism rather than her true self, right? TV Tropes call it "broken bird". Hope they'll like it as i do. For some reason i picture Abigail and Richard as Ariana Richards (correct me if you had another cast for her) and Denzel Washington. Xylus' portrayal of an evolving anime hero makes me think of Robert Pattinson. He have this lonely alchemist look in his eyes. And, after surviving his relationship with Kristen Stuart, he probably learned how to become a better person and a better actor. He doesnt have the Val Kilmer syndrome, so i belive he can actually do a decent job with the right script.

4. I recall your idea of decking him is to get Gloria snatching him and throwing him into the wall. Dying after a great battle and shooting himself so he could claim he chose his own death is quite symbolic, so well done for giving me this idea :-). Whether an extremist or pure evil, Martin will be a hate sink, without a doubt worse than Henry. Probably also worse than Julian, because Julian is honorable (giving Martin one hour to escape due to releasing him) and tragic (Henry killed his wife and tortured him along with the other dinosaurs), while Martin will (probably) be non of these things. At least not honorable. Martin's current death will be slower than what Gloria might deliver to Rodrick. Instead of being devoured by a carnivore, Martin will probably be ran over and tossed all over the place by an injured woolly rhino (you know rhinos. Being injured makes them pissed-off). Also, i'm considering the idea of getting the new ice age spreading to Canada, which will make the president of Canada as the highest-ranked among the good characters. The cold will of course effect everyone and everything in Canada, including the canadian geese, which will mutate into therizinosaurus-like creatures. I know it might not make sense, but it's awesome. This is one of these cased when the rule of cool work nicely:

https://www.deviantart.com/stygimolochspinifer/art/Canada-Therizinosaurus-327193908

5. Off topic: Care to change Quentin (Cube) name to Quentin McNeil? I believe using his full name will be more clear, because not everybody who watched "Cube" will know to search him. If you watched "Cube", do you also think that dropping Holloway was the most harsh and symbolic death of the first movie?

Back to topic: By "some leads just felt a little more boring then I'd expect", i assume you refer to Grant. Part 3 truly disolved this wonderful man to a raptor-obssessed shadow of himself. We still have his part 1 version, so Sam Neil can be proud of himself, even if his character went through decay. Now, your vision about the enforcer Tembo got my brain working. Your idea of an overcautious leader Sounds like the Charles Xavier type, as seen in this picture:

https://www.deviantart.com/datem/art/Skyscientist-488052926

Charles (temporary name) might be one of the few people who still kept their jobs after the outbreak. As an architect who planned the whole VIEW settlement with his bare hands, he's better with buildings than with sentient beings. Risks aversion works well with buildings, but it's far more complicated with people. Aside from "Charles", i currently have some other ideas for the possible leader in the Tembo scenario:

A. "Alan Grant" - A good and fatherly leader, but losing some of the children whom he was supposed to protect to the jaws of some of the more sophisticated monsters got him obssessed about the said creatures. Ever since the disaster, many sentient beings in VIEW have plans to overthrow "Grant". Tembo knows better than to let it happen. Given the tone of the setting, not every claimer to the throne have the best intents in mind...

B. "Sarah Harding" - Just like how the original Sarah Harding is my 3rd favorite JP character, the "Sarah" in this scenario will be well-liked among everybody, even by the rightfully-suspicious Courtney and people outside of VIEW. Her main reason to need an enforcer in chief like "Tembo" is that her determination to rebuilt the world occationally get her people in harms' way. Victory In Enhanced Work doesn't always goes hand in hand with self-orchesrated sustainment, because rebuilding the world and running a normal society can contradict each other due to lack of resources.

C. "Heroic Joffrey" - Similarly to the biblical King Solomon and to Joffrey, this child will become the leader at the young age of 12. His parents are as good as missing in action and left him to be the settlement leader. Being taught how to kill ever since he was 10 did nothing good to his mental state. However, unlike Joffrey, the young leader have the best intentions despite his taste for blood and highly valuate advices. Courtney will feel a weird bond to him, because he reminds her of Jane and her extremism, while Berthold and Alister will keep an eye on him. If he'll be the leader without "Tembo", his enforcer might be a bear. A deconstruction of how a guardian teddy bear would look like.