So I thought about naming my weekly little comic/journal strip "Adventures of an Agoraphobic" but that feels like it would just be alot of me sitting in my house lol. which is kinda true. So I think that's what I'm going to go with, especially since I had a rather horrible experience tonight. I went to a Bowling for Soup concert which I do every year cause its awesome and tradition and all this year however the venue was rather small, I was good for the first band but they were slowly still letting more people in even though they should have stopped before we even got there cause it was already packed and standing room only, but none-the-less. So after the first band I had a fun little panic attack and had to leave, oh fun. It suuuuucked, bleh =_= I'm still not very happy about it.
Anywho that's not really what I wanted to talk about, I wanted to talk more about characters. I briefly mentioned some thing in a previous journal but there is still so much to expand on. Here particularly I wanted to talk about characters that are seemingly the same on the surface.
Fo me I tend to create villain-esque characters and this is due to personal preference was well as beliefs, "good" characters tend to piss me off and I can't stand them. Like I've said before I like to start my characters off with flaws, I believe that flaws make the person, flaws are the only thing that can and will ever make a person "perfect". Flaws don't always lead to negative character traits, in fact they very often lead to positive ones it just depends on how a person reacts and deals with these flaws.
For this particular topic I'm going to use examples. Mainly Dimitri Keynes and Grey Mason Holmes. These two are seemingly very similar on the surface (which also partially due to the fact that they have a similar physical appearance :P) they both have murderous tendencies and use their charm and way with words to trick people and achieve their goals. However these were achieved through different circumstances.
Grey was born with a natural charm and through observation and interest in his surrounding and others he learned how to say things to manipulate people accordingly. He has a high upstanding moral code that he never deviates from. Even though he always had the temptation to kill while he was a detective with all of the filth that came his way he never did until that same filth killed his family. This event was several altered his view of the world. Instead of seeing the good in every thing he more sees the bad and it has only increased with the years of his solitude. It also increased and extremised his moral code, however instead of simply removing criminals, thugs, and wrong doers from the streets he starts to eradicate them. After all one can not come back from the dead, where as the justice system can fail and they can go free again. Grey is essentially an angel of death, a grim reaper. Dealing out judgments and punishments against all he comes across. This is how he has dealt with his grief, this is how he has over come his pain. Though it has left his far more scared than he was in the beginning.
Dimitri was also born with a natural charm and learned how to read people to manipulate them to his needs. However there is a very defining quality that separates him from Grey at this point, Dimitri is a sociopath. While all of Grey's actions and reactions in his life were driven by his feelings and his pain Dimitri felt now of that. Dimitri is solely driven by his own boredom essentially and the fact that he perceives himself as a god among men. He slowly work his way up to murder in his work though it was first only perceived as accidents or a new treatment gone wrong (that's what happens when you work in an asylum when they are first trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with the crazy people) However he never saw it as murder, he was simply trying to rid people of their flaws, sharing his gifts of perfectness with others. Dimitri is a highly functional sociopath and highly intelligent.
Even though they have both ended up at a similar place they got their from very different situations and they handle them very differently.
OK I'm going to stop for now and maybe actually go to bed for now
~Monty
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