That wasn't really what
It's too easy to jump to Taylor's defense and do just another fixfic. It' not really an existing plotline that grabs your interest. X comes along from Y settings It's low hanging fruit that's been picked to death. Sure, do yous not think it'd be far more fun to have her and Doug fighting for a bit, before he finds out her background? It's part what made DWII so good - fighting the Knight Sabers over an ideological misunderstanding. He's in conflict with the main characters for a legitimate reason, and it's a fair enough fight.
He sees Warlord Taylor as the enemy, the big villain. She's very likely to distrust anyone with any semblance of authority unless they meet outside the cape scenario.
They're far more fun fighting each other. And it's far more likely.
The big reason Taylor's so popular and sympathetic is that we ride along with her for all her internal justifications and decisions and see her convincing herself every step of the way. She's the hero in her own story. You never really see her from an outsider's perspective.... not entirely anyway. We get Miss Militia making few points about her and her friends completely ignoring all the social mores of the cape world. And Doug is the perfect outsider to show the darker side of her, without her reasoning.
He drops in and has to learn about the world very quickly. Okay, PRT do the organised hero thing. Those are villains. Hey, it's not *that* different. Then, throw in the Endbringers and the switch between Holy Fuck what is That to, enh, it's only a 6-dimensional being meeting with Scion. What marks do Shards make on people in magesight? Stuff like that. Doug's freaking gonzo in settings, but in a lot of way's he's a victim of his own power as the others, just not as overtly. His real killer Power might be able to spot people with Powers in civil life - which pops him right up against the unwritten rules. Whether he's too pragmatic to follow them, or too pragmatic to ignore them depends.... he doesn't have family to protect, for a start.
The only reason people bey the Geneva Convention is because they have an interest in the enemy obeying the Geneva Convention.
There're so many more potential beans of entertaining conflict there that can captivate readers with possibility.
Doug + Taylor -v- the universe is..... well, it's stations of the fanfic canon that.
Anyway, a useful thread: http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/t ... read.3783/
Edit: I don't want to seem neagtive - I didn't mean to be like that.
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It's too easy to jump to Taylor's defense and do just another fixfic. It' not really an existing plotline that grabs your interest. X comes along from Y settings It's low hanging fruit that's been picked to death. Sure, do yous not think it'd be far more fun to have her and Doug fighting for a bit, before he finds out her background? It's part what made DWII so good - fighting the Knight Sabers over an ideological misunderstanding. He's in conflict with the main characters for a legitimate reason, and it's a fair enough fight.
He sees Warlord Taylor as the enemy, the big villain. She's very likely to distrust anyone with any semblance of authority unless they meet outside the cape scenario.
They're far more fun fighting each other. And it's far more likely.
The big reason Taylor's so popular and sympathetic is that we ride along with her for all her internal justifications and decisions and see her convincing herself every step of the way. She's the hero in her own story. You never really see her from an outsider's perspective.... not entirely anyway. We get Miss Militia making few points about her and her friends completely ignoring all the social mores of the cape world. And Doug is the perfect outsider to show the darker side of her, without her reasoning.
He drops in and has to learn about the world very quickly. Okay, PRT do the organised hero thing. Those are villains. Hey, it's not *that* different. Then, throw in the Endbringers and the switch between Holy Fuck what is That to, enh, it's only a 6-dimensional being meeting with Scion. What marks do Shards make on people in magesight? Stuff like that. Doug's freaking gonzo in settings, but in a lot of way's he's a victim of his own power as the others, just not as overtly. His real killer Power might be able to spot people with Powers in civil life - which pops him right up against the unwritten rules. Whether he's too pragmatic to follow them, or too pragmatic to ignore them depends.... he doesn't have family to protect, for a start.
The only reason people bey the Geneva Convention is because they have an interest in the enemy obeying the Geneva Convention.
There're so many more potential beans of entertaining conflict there that can captivate readers with possibility.
Doug + Taylor -v- the universe is..... well, it's stations of the fanfic canon that.
Anyway, a useful thread: http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/t ... read.3783/
Edit: I don't want to seem neagtive - I didn't mean to be like that.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?