Crossovers that Should Be: Super Double Bonus Round

[Bob Schroeck]

The Wanderer wrote:

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"Avatar" might be overstating it, Rob, depending on how you define the term. I could probably analyze that question in some considerable detail, but it would be at best tangentially on-topic for the thread, much less for the (sub)forum.

If you want to discuss it in detail, feel free to open up a thread in DW/General -- but in brief, while Doug makes claims to being an avatar of Chaos -- and that only because Kami-sama mentioned Madigan calling him "chaos incarnate" at one point -- it is not a literal description but rather a metaphor for the force of change that he is and he brings with him.  He disrupts patterns, reroutes destinies and changes fates, not because of any mystical incarnate status, but because he's an outside force acting on events that are not expecting him.
Understand that I see "chaos", particularly of the kind that Doug carries along in his wake, as not necessarily destructive or "evil" -- I see chaos as a superset of order, a matrix out of which possibilities and opportunities form.  A lot of chaos does nothing, some is destructive -- and some is creative; and some of the creative chaos becomes order simply because it becomes self-perpetuating.  Doug comes into a world and injects new options and possibilities where none existed -- adding chaos to a static system.  Some may have bad results, but Doug is self-selecting for positive results (or at least not-negative ones).
Does that help a bit?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.