Before I go on with another challenge, I'd like to say that this is by no means a diss of your work. You have crafted a *universe* that not only tweaks canon but builds on it, making what should have been a warped reality a very scaringly logical one. In another pair of hands, this scenario would have fallen like a house of cards.
Soo not taking your involvement with this world of mine as a diss! I mean, that you've thought about this this hard makes me overjoyed. About the house of cards thing, I have a great cowriter helping to keep me on track.
More than the consistency and the characterization, the powerful way by which you tug at our heartstrings, exquisitely painfully, sets a high standards that only few can match. I mean that.
Thank you, so very much. It's good to know we're affecting you so deeply.
What I ask or write now are questions and scenarios that do require some answering precisely because you have set the bar. ... those same high standards that Jackson had first of all imposed on himself.
You just... honestly compared this to one of the best film adaptations of an epic ever released? Oh, my gods... You have no idea how hard I'm blushing. That's... wow. Flattered doesn't even come close to how I feel.
I'm not sucking up. I'm just saying my truth.
That's one hell of a truth, but thank you sooo much.
What can I say, guys? You make me think - and think hard.
I like making people think.
I get it that Slade manipulated Dick's guilt over the death of Blockbuster and now Canary's guilt over the mind-wiping to go "over to his side." I do. These heroes may not see any way out and Slade is offering them a path to some kind of redemption.
*nods* Glad you see it. Though he's manipulating Canary a hell of a lot harder than he had to with Dick. *eyes the canon in her boy's own book*
I posted this before. … How will these two react if they learn that Slade is eyeing Lian for apprenticeship under Shiva, to be molded as the next greatest assassin-cum-marksman of the next generation.
Hm. *points Filly at that question, as Canary is her girl* Roy, however... Roy already knows. He already realized it, when Slade made that comment about Lian's potential, and he's... he's a mess over it. He's making himself insane, trying to figure out a way to get Slade to back off/change his mind/not do this--and he's relying on Dick's own love for his little girl to help him.
These heroes value life, yes... Is Lian a living assassin much better than a dead but innocent little girl?
That depends on your own moral code, doesn't it, and where you see the lines falling?
True, Rose is sweet, charming, smart - but she's lethal. She kills. This teenager kills. How long before Canary realizes that she's molding her grandchild into a teenager that kills?
There are a few years before that is a serious consideration.
Second question: Dick will now have every reason to hate the JLA …what about the other heroes who haven't compromised? Especially the Titans.
*blinks at you* You're an all-or-nothing kind of girl, aren't you? That's not an insult, it's an honest question.
Can he honestly live with himself, knowing that he has become the living Nightmare of his former proteges?
Godddamn it, I can't answer this one, not without giving too much away…
In the Technis imperative, ... Garth and Wally... another victim.
You're right, they are entirely likely to see Dick like that.
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Date: 2006-09-23 05:26 pm (UTC)Soo not taking your involvement with this world of mine as a diss! I mean, that you've thought about this this hard makes me overjoyed. About the house of cards thing, I have a great cowriter helping to keep me on track.
More than the consistency and the characterization, the powerful way by which you tug at our heartstrings, exquisitely painfully, sets a high standards that only few can match. I mean that.
Thank you, so very much. It's good to know we're affecting you so deeply.
What I ask or write now are questions and scenarios that do require some answering precisely because you have set the bar. ... those same high standards that Jackson had first of all imposed on himself.
You just... honestly compared this to one of the best film adaptations of an epic ever released? Oh, my gods... You have no idea how hard I'm blushing. That's... wow. Flattered doesn't even come close to how I feel.
I'm not sucking up. I'm just saying my truth.
That's one hell of a truth, but thank you sooo much.
What can I say, guys? You make me think - and think hard.
I like making people think.
I get it that Slade manipulated Dick's guilt over the death of Blockbuster and now Canary's guilt over the mind-wiping to go "over to his side." I do. These heroes may not see any way out and Slade is offering them a path to some kind of redemption.
*nods* Glad you see it. Though he's manipulating Canary a hell of a lot harder than he had to with Dick. *eyes the canon in her boy's own book*
I posted this before. … How will these two react if they learn that Slade is eyeing Lian for apprenticeship under Shiva, to be molded as the next greatest assassin-cum-marksman of the next generation.
Hm. *points Filly at that question, as Canary is her girl* Roy, however... Roy already knows. He already realized it, when Slade made that comment about Lian's potential, and he's... he's a mess over it. He's making himself insane, trying to figure out a way to get Slade to back off/change his mind/not do this--and he's relying on Dick's own love for his little girl to help him.
These heroes value life, yes... Is Lian a living assassin much better than a dead but innocent little girl?
That depends on your own moral code, doesn't it, and where you see the lines falling?
True, Rose is sweet, charming, smart - but she's lethal. She kills. This teenager kills. How long before Canary realizes that she's molding her grandchild into a teenager that kills?
There are a few years before that is a serious consideration.
Second question: Dick will now have every reason to hate the JLA …what about the other heroes who haven't compromised? Especially the Titans.
*blinks at you* You're an all-or-nothing kind of girl, aren't you? That's not an insult, it's an honest question.
Can he honestly live with himself, knowing that he has become the living Nightmare of his former proteges?
Godddamn it, I can't answer this one, not without giving too much away…
In the Technis imperative, ... Garth and Wally... another victim.
You're right, they are entirely likely to see Dick like that.