Sounds like Charle. There is never enough story involving Charle. I think he makes stuff up. Actually, I know he makes stuff up. He was crazy for a long while and he improvises. I never know if I should tell those stories or not. They didn't really happen. And while I do tend to cultivate a victim sensibility around him, the fact remains that he is (was) a tiny little assassin; that he can and will snap, that he has committed horrific crimes and feels no remorse for them at all.
In the case of Charle, I think the reason the sympathetic presentation is important is because 1) the story and the character are both about redemption and 2) I like the shock value associated with sympathetic characters suddenly doing something that seems incomprehensible. A false sense of security where Charle is concerned is sometimes a very useful storytelling device, like forgetting the dog you've come to trust is actually trained to kill, and remembering when he takes your kid down.
Makes me want to write about the little bastage. You know, there's one scene in my head, I know it inside and out, like the back of my own hand, and I have never committed any portion of it to paper or internet. It goes with the song "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" by Dead Can Dance. It involves infanticide - makes me feel bad for even thinking about it. All the same, it's a great scene.
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Date: 2005-12-05 02:38 am (UTC)In the case of Charle, I think the reason the sympathetic presentation is important is because 1) the story and the character are both about redemption and 2) I like the shock value associated with sympathetic characters suddenly doing something that seems incomprehensible. A false sense of security where Charle is concerned is sometimes a very useful storytelling device, like forgetting the dog you've come to trust is actually trained to kill, and remembering when he takes your kid down.
Makes me want to write about the little bastage. You know, there's one scene in my head, I know it inside and out, like the back of my own hand, and I have never committed any portion of it to paper or internet. It goes with the song "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" by Dead Can Dance. It involves infanticide - makes me feel bad for even thinking about it. All the same, it's a great scene.