How do you view commitment?
Honestly? It makes me uneasy. Or rather, the idea of absolute commitment does, commitment that doesn't question anymore. It's what the Corps wants, and what Al thinks he's giving. (Except he doesn't; sometimes I think he would be happier if he could be the perfect 100% loyal example of a Corps member he wants to be. But then what is human in him
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eviiiil little schemer! (laughing as VMun imagines the look on Bester's face)
Hope you're having a good week. I'm job hunting. Did manage to update Scully and Varzil--and Hastur Domain, but that last entry...
*gulps* I just don't know. I can't see writing Darkover as all good
guys but I may be out of my league with this one.I knowI'm not going into any more detail with later posts.
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(Plus it would be interesting to play Bester and Carolyn - whom I would reunite with her body for that purpose - in a Darkover setting. He'd be seriously ticked off at first, and she'd find living in a feudal society far harder than she had imagined, but it would still be better than the situation for telepaths in the B5'verse which seriously sucks.)
I have a very busy week, but creative. And go you with the Darkovan writings. Bard di Asturien, hm? I know what you mean; I did write a rapist pov once, too. Very frightening. Seriously, though, Bard should be a challenge to the good guys, especially given what happens to him in the novel..
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Some of us are talking at t_fen about a general, come-one-come-all rp comm for the muses. Might be a fun way to "have your cake and eat it too."
Bard's character demonstrates the not-so-good side of a feudal society.
Necessary in a way, though I never much cared for the "solution" to his
attitude in Two To Conquer. I always had a nasty suspicion that once the trauma wore off, he'd have stood a good chance of backsliding.)
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