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[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

It probably helped that I never looked up Haller's background, so that it was all new and shiny to me, but at any rate I enjoyed reading "Five against One" a lot.

To me, the scene in Moira's lab was the most intense, with Davey's attempts to get David to notice him.

Thanks.

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[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Thanks you. I admit I had no clue if The Madness was going to be compelling enough to keep people's attention for so, so many pages that one day I may even bring myself to count. I was also Brung Low by spring for about a week of my prelogging time. There was just a bit of stress associated with not being able to form a coherent thought for seven days. (Fortunately with some parts that actually helped. *G*)

Suffice it to say my loggers had incredible patience.

(And I was at an advantage for the element of surprise -- Legion's backstory was in about three issues total in The New Mutants about 20 years ago, and I think there are maybe four people who remembered anything about it. Which is great, since it means no one will ever know how much I rip off Chris Claremont. Obscure characters FTW.)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Definitely compelling enough.

I sometimes need to remind me that Cyndi and Davey are just parts of David's character, because they are very likable on their own merit. I don't have that problem with Jack, though :D

(I bet he's obscure and I never heard of David before you started playing him here. But I'm afraid one of the four people wrote an article about him on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(Marvel_Comics)) though. I know that because when I was wondering if Jem was canon, that's where I went to look before I posted here.)

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

The existence of Davey and Cyndi occasionally worries me (in the capacity of what it says about David's brain), but given all the trauma packed into the guy I doubt the injection of irreverance hurt. My only rule is that Cyndi and Davey are entitled to say whatever the readers must be thinking. Like "This is making me die in my brain."

This plot made me realize that from now on, if a life-or-death situation must be exposited, the telling of all drama will be relegated to whichever character cares about it the least.

Wikipedia's basically right, but the best resource is http://www.marveldatabase.com/Legion_(David_Haller) , which has a complete summary of the trilogy plus scans of the individual alters. That arc is what I based my entire app on, though Davey was an addition of my own. And yes. That is the source of all the jokes about Haller's hair having a life of its own.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

It works better when you link to the right page (http://www.marveldatabase.com/Legion_(David_Haller)).

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I found it already because I have lots of internet smarts!

I also found the table where the Marvel characters are listed by nationality (http://www.marveldatabase.com/Category:Nationality) and couldn't resist the temptation to look up the list of german characters. I should have known better.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

......................

What writer decided to clone HITLER?

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I hope it's the same who picked the super power for Himmler (http://www.marveldatabase.com/Zyklon).

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

Stan Lee. Makes more sense now, doesn't it? :)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I should add, of course I expected that Marvel offers lots of cheesy germans with a high percentage of Nazi villains, especially from older comics, and that's fine. It's just that seeing them all in one place kinda floored me.

[deathpixie]

*dies inside a little* I looked up the Australians. Oh dear.

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

...why isn't Angelo even on there?

*boycotts the page out of resentment*

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Now that's bad linking skills. On his own page they gave him a nationality.

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, then I can forgive them.

Angelo gets no love from Marvel, though. Ever.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's Pyro on there! I didn't know Pyro was Australian.

...I thought there would be more australian heroes. I expected that there would be a Boomerang, but I also expected to see a Captain Kangaroo. Why is there no Captain Kangaroo?

[deathpixie]

*pats* But plenty in XP, there there. ;)

Yes, but...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous George is an Aussie.

WIN!

Re: Yes, but...

[deathpixie]

Two words for you.

Gorgeous. George.

The man's name is Gorgeous George, for goodness' sake. The only place that works in Australia is Oxford Street at Gay Mardi Gras time.

Re: Yes, but...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Yes, but George is made out of awesome.

Or Grape Jelly, depending.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

You saw this guy (http://www.marveldatabase.com/Dreamguard) yeah? *shudders*

[diamond-dust06.livejournal.com]

Because he's entertaining small children (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo).

[deathpixie]

Yeah. *whimpers* Although Boomerbang - not Boomerang, although he was bad enough - also gave me a wiggins.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Yeah. *winces*

And yet, I've got this morbid fascination with Gorgeous George because the name is so very, very wrong. I'm almost tempted to see about applying for him.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Keep the mods informed -- as current plots stand there's really good odds he will make an appearance in XP in about, oh . . . a month. Not that that couldn't change.

Or, y'know. Be worked with.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*Really*? Which plot is that in? Because I'm just not sure I can do flamingly gay and evil.

Although it is very, very temoting. Just because the name is so wrong. :)

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

It's on the plot calendar for May, "Ahab." We needed some NPCs, and, um, let's just say whimsy won. I'm going home now. We can speak more of this in private. Or rather, you and someone can.

And no worries about the play difficulties. We were going a different way. *EG*

[azzinita.livejournal.com]

go ahead and ping me if you want more info. Becuase using him was technically my idea. Something along the lines of:

"Let's find the lamest-ass villian team we can find, and make them bad-ass! Sorta..."

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. I don't particularly mind not getting the credit for this particular idea.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Despite encouraging.