Friday, October 27, 2017

Interesting People

People are the only thing that interests me.

Clothes are interesting on people. They tell me much about who wears them.

Weapons are interesting in the hands of people. A sword or gun is a material extension of an individual. If a particular weapon is chosen, the personality of the wielder is reflected.

Our humanity is not our dust and water but rather the soul that animates the dust and water. We are more or less than the sum of our material existence.

I am a storyteller. I write fiction. I imagine scenarios and give them personalities. The situations are what give the characters things to do but no one cares unless they care about the personalities involved.

Characters are figments imagined as people. Their archetypes classify their use. Personalities are what make them endearing.

The hero is courageous and excellent. The mastermind is sinister and intelligent. Of course these archetypes can be spoofed. The cowardly or inept “hero” and the silly or witless “mastermind” are quite common. The parodies are meaningless without their meaningful inspirations, however.

My creative specialty is the useless foot soldier of villainy archetype. This typically anonymous and individually insignificant character serves a profound purpose. It represents ordinary people as the actively hostile and ultimately expendable pawns of evil.

Everyone has a name and face but most of us are nameless and faceless in the grand scheme of things. We are this group or that. The group is our identity and its culture is our personality.

The expendable characters in our fiction are the most like most people in reality. They are plentiful, insignificant and their deaths are inconsequential.

People are the only thing I find interesting. I am inspired by the courage and excellence of heroes. I am amazed by the evil and genius of masterminds. I am contemptuous of the mediocrity of the common folk but amused and morally satisfied by their inglorious demise.

4 comments:

  1. Place a cool costume on a coat rack, it just doesn't really click right. Put it on a person, and that gives the person a +. Put the costume on an extremely interesting person, and wow! People make the world go round.

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    1. Interesting people DESERVE cool clothes and accessories! Anything uninteresting is unworthy of their awesomeness.

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  2. A person's style reflects the reality of who they truly are, a fictional character chooses their accessories or weapons based on their own personality and talents. A character lacking such flair is not interesting, and in reality a person who shows no talent or style is boring indeed.

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    1. Totally boring! The only walking corpses that inspire us are the fictional zombies. Yes, a personality is shown by its style. The character Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE is an example of personality style: He's muscular, wears furs and the mask he skinned from a predator and his jewelry is the fangs and claws of that predator. Darkwolf wields an axe. All these things visually represent his behavior.

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