Greatest Fears

[eskemp]

So, new brainstorming exercise I'm playing with. It's actually kind of a bog-standard question: "What is this character's greatest fear?" If it's "new" to me, then I'm probably behind the times, right? Probably. But here's the context:

It starts with a villain. Let's say he's a Scarecrow analogue, which is largely true; Jonathan Crane is one of my

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[innocent_man]

My greatest fear is missing a deadline.

Answer your email. :)

[eskemp]

I would, if it were working. Office server's down. I'm using the time to put together an outline, though.

[innocent_man]

Oh, that explains a lot. Get a gmail, then! :)

[eskemp]

Though in all fairness, the latest lesson to spin out of this game is "Sometimes you just have to coerce a giant carnosaur mummy to cliffdive onto a minotaur's pirate ship in order to make a quick getaway," so I make no guarantees about how my insights may be universally applicable.

[mattboggan]

In order to vindicate your idea: I am deadly afraid of losing my vision and going blind. This is something happening to my grandmother who is a painter and I find this very, very difficult to support. I personnaly fear the incapacity to read. Books are my life. They define me. Blindness would make very, very desparate indeed.