On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mark Doherty wrote:

At 02:29 PM 25/09/97 -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

A very good story.  The man is scum, but you do a very good job of showing
his point of view and he has some justification for what he does.  

Likeable scum. ^_-

It's a great deal of fun to write from a bad guys side for once,
trying to give him enough justification for what he's doing so
that people don't just dismiss him as a one-dimensional bad guy
has been a bit of a balancing act.

I think you did a good job.  I've been thinking about the perspectives of
those who oppossed Serenity in the days after the Great Ice, and he fits
one of the types of people I visualized in my head :)

 > >I'm

surprised Pluto hasn't come after his time-travelling self, but then I
missed the first chapter of this, so there may be a reason for that I
don't know about.

The reasons haven't been given, but there was a Pluto scene in the
first chapter, to indicate that she knows he's there. It really
depends on how far I develop the story. I've split it up into
3 parts, and I can end the story at any of those three parts. In
each of the parts, I expand on the reasons for Pluto doing what
she's doing, so it depends on when I end it on how much justification
she'll get.

Noddle.

Also gives me some things to think about for my 'Black Moon Rising' story,
if I ever get around to writing it :)

Yes, the Dark Kingdom's background has been done to death, both
Crystal Tokyo and the Silver Millenium have had fairly extensive efforts
given to it, it's time the Black Moon clan had more background created by 
people.

After all, even if you take the view that the Black Moon clan is evil,
they've obviously been at least slightly corrupted by Wiseman. I could
accept that 90% of the clan left the Earth because they were 'evil'
and didn't want to be purified, but there would have had to have been
some who left because their family was(and not because of what they
thought of 'purifying'), and others who left because they couldn't accept
Serenity as a ruler(the path I went down), and so on. I like to view
the Nemesians as being relatively normal(as in, the normal mix of good and
nasty characteristics) at the start, until they were corrupted. Wishful 
thinking perhaps.

Nod.  From the fact that the Black Moon Sisters could be redeemed, we can
see that they weren't all horrible scum from square one.

A question for those who might know...anyone know where Wiseman's orb came
from?


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
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      It sought to scour him to ash, but he would not burn.  It tried to 
crush him, but he would not be broken.  It tried to blow him away, but he 
would not move.  He locked his mind around it and struck back with his 
anger, binding it with the power within himself.  He had gone beyond 
rage, into the calm at the heart of the hurricane of his anger.  By 
turning his anger outward, he mastered it, and now he did the same for 
the power.

                                   --from 'Power', the first third of my
unfinished story, 'Parallel Lives'.