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I finally finished chapter 2 of Prisms of No Color! I found the My Blue Heaven episode of Twice in a Lifetime and watched it again to get a feel for how rings of dirty cops operate, and I think I can make it work. In writing this fic, I'm opting for the idea that Tony is a honest cop who is dragged into a big mess. He is not part of the ring, even though he gets involved with his own rackets elsewhere down the line. I know that one way of interpreting the captain's statement that Tony was involved in extortion would be that he was making criminals pay him money so that he would keep them out of jail, but I'm opting for a more dark, grey, and sympathetic reason. This is a very dark story, something on the same order as the story I'm writing about Runihura which reveals the worst of humanity and shows how one's environment and circumstances heavily influence what they become, and what some people do when the entire world comes down against them. And also, I love Tony too much. XD; I want to portray him in a human and understandable way, and to make his downfall obviously tragic without depicting him as becoming overly greedy/selfish through the majority of it. Most of what goes wrong comes about due to his good intentions, and/or his panic and desperation to protect the people he cares about. (I promise that it isn't Anakin Skywalker-ish, though. **laughs.**) Even at the end, when he finally joins Baby Face's mob, his reasons are very complicated.
One of the other main purposes of Prisms is to show how Tony and Baby Face are both alike and different. I edited and finished writing the scene where Baby Face and Ruby first meet, and I stuck it in chapter 2. Originally it was going to be later on in the fic, but I realize now that the way I've done it is the best. It gives us our first good look at the antagonist, showing his warped and sometimes hypocritical views, as well as his certain sense of honor. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. This is my most difficult fic right now, and when I get it done, it will be one of the most rewarding.
I had an urge to draw a picture of Baby Face and Ruby together, so while I was watching TV, I sketched a pic of them where Ruby is kneeling down and Baby Face is kinda reclining against her. He looks serene/passive without being OOC, and Ruby is happy. She really came off good in anime-style. ^^ I have to redo Baby Face's hands, though. His fingers are laced, and that's always a pain to draw.
And now I bring you a strange and demented Monkees blurb out of my twisted mind. XD This is a scene that will go into a "haunted house"-themed story that I will write later. Buwahahaha.
( The Couch of DOOOM! )
The people in The Bowery don't mind me putting the Boys into modern times, which I'm relieved about. ^^ They're being laid back about the whole thing and making amusing suggestions that could happen later on in the story, such as Sach bringing in real mice instead of a computer mice. XD
I loved the two Bowery Boys movies I was sent! Both were hilarious. I liked the plot of Hot Shots the best, but Myron had more screentime in Hold That Hypnotist. I think Hot Shots was Duke's first film, and he and Sach are the main ones in that. It involved them making friends with this child TV star, and when the TV people see that Sach and Duke are able to get the kid to do things that they can't get him to do (like accept a script he didn't like), they hire them to work at the network. XD But the people start getting frustrated when the kid starts imitating Sach and Duke, so they fire them (or they quit, however you look at it), claiming that they're bad influences. (They actually just don't want them around because they're crooks and they don't want the kid to get encouraged to keep asking questions, such as what his guardian does with all the money the kid's making.)
I can't believe I didn't get this part when I watched it the first time. It was so clear to me when I saw it again this morning. After the kid runs away and goes to the boarding house where the Boys live, Duke tells him that they used the kid to help them get the job because they needed the money. Sach was obviously unhappy about Duke saying that, though he grudgingly agreed, but the first time I didn't get that the reason why Duke said it was because he was trying to convince the kid to go home and to not keep thinking of them as friends and using them as role models. I dunno, I guess Duke is so crabby most of the time that I figured he just flat out meant what he was saying. And there may have been some truth to it, especially on Duke's part, but I really think that there was that deeper reason why he said it.
One thing I got a big kick out of was that Sach and Duke got locked in a closet this time and Chuck and Myron had to help them get untied. XD
Myron really amused me in Hold That Hypnotist. He showed that he isn't always aloof and distant. When everyone was cleaning the house, Myron started goofing off and then he and Chuck were playing that the vacuum cleaner was a bull and Myron waved a cloth in front of it. XD I think he gets along best with Chuck, and he seems to be friends with Blinky, too. He doesn't seem to be very close to Sach or Duke.
One of the other main purposes of Prisms is to show how Tony and Baby Face are both alike and different. I edited and finished writing the scene where Baby Face and Ruby first meet, and I stuck it in chapter 2. Originally it was going to be later on in the fic, but I realize now that the way I've done it is the best. It gives us our first good look at the antagonist, showing his warped and sometimes hypocritical views, as well as his certain sense of honor. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. This is my most difficult fic right now, and when I get it done, it will be one of the most rewarding.
I had an urge to draw a picture of Baby Face and Ruby together, so while I was watching TV, I sketched a pic of them where Ruby is kneeling down and Baby Face is kinda reclining against her. He looks serene/passive without being OOC, and Ruby is happy. She really came off good in anime-style. ^^ I have to redo Baby Face's hands, though. His fingers are laced, and that's always a pain to draw.
And now I bring you a strange and demented Monkees blurb out of my twisted mind. XD This is a scene that will go into a "haunted house"-themed story that I will write later. Buwahahaha.
( The Couch of DOOOM! )
The people in The Bowery don't mind me putting the Boys into modern times, which I'm relieved about. ^^ They're being laid back about the whole thing and making amusing suggestions that could happen later on in the story, such as Sach bringing in real mice instead of a computer mice. XD
I loved the two Bowery Boys movies I was sent! Both were hilarious. I liked the plot of Hot Shots the best, but Myron had more screentime in Hold That Hypnotist. I think Hot Shots was Duke's first film, and he and Sach are the main ones in that. It involved them making friends with this child TV star, and when the TV people see that Sach and Duke are able to get the kid to do things that they can't get him to do (like accept a script he didn't like), they hire them to work at the network. XD But the people start getting frustrated when the kid starts imitating Sach and Duke, so they fire them (or they quit, however you look at it), claiming that they're bad influences. (They actually just don't want them around because they're crooks and they don't want the kid to get encouraged to keep asking questions, such as what his guardian does with all the money the kid's making.)
I can't believe I didn't get this part when I watched it the first time. It was so clear to me when I saw it again this morning. After the kid runs away and goes to the boarding house where the Boys live, Duke tells him that they used the kid to help them get the job because they needed the money. Sach was obviously unhappy about Duke saying that, though he grudgingly agreed, but the first time I didn't get that the reason why Duke said it was because he was trying to convince the kid to go home and to not keep thinking of them as friends and using them as role models. I dunno, I guess Duke is so crabby most of the time that I figured he just flat out meant what he was saying. And there may have been some truth to it, especially on Duke's part, but I really think that there was that deeper reason why he said it.
One thing I got a big kick out of was that Sach and Duke got locked in a closet this time and Chuck and Myron had to help them get untied. XD
Myron really amused me in Hold That Hypnotist. He showed that he isn't always aloof and distant. When everyone was cleaning the house, Myron started goofing off and then he and Chuck were playing that the vacuum cleaner was a bull and Myron waved a cloth in front of it. XD I think he gets along best with Chuck, and he seems to be friends with Blinky, too. He doesn't seem to be very close to Sach or Duke.
