Sskiss wrote:As usual CF it is flawless work. Hmm.... one of the early scenes of your post seemed almost Sskiss-like.....
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Ahh, yes. There is symbolism there. Though, I'll be honest. I wasn't thinking about the Sskiss when I was storyboarding that scene. More towards the whole 'Halsey is being consumed by the memory of his wife' angle. Though in retrospect I can see what you mean. The idea behind the whole 'adapt or die' was basically Halsey's subconscious telling him that he's been living in the past and to get his ass in gear and start ratcheting down his evil quotient. Because all good villians doubt or regret their decisions at one point or another.
Unlike with most of my other villians (like Septimus, for instance), I really went all out in making Halsey a three dimensional villian who isn't necessarily pure evil. Come to think of it, Septimus isn't pure evil either, I just haven't gotten to show any of his few redeeming qualities. Then again, it
is difficult to paint someone who
boils children like lobsters as having any redeeming value.
Anyway, the idea is, by the end of the war, to have the reader question whether Halsey was actually evil, or if he was just human with all the emotional frailities that entails.
And thank you for the compliment.
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