Ah, dreams. And rebellious plunnies.
Jun. 13th, 2013 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveSo I had a very interesting dream that may become the plot for my next WWW big fic, if I write another for FF.net. I discuss it on Tumblr, where I've posted some more fandom musings as of late. http://lucky-ladybugs-lovelies.tumblr.com/
I wish it was easier to give Snakes a unique speech pattern. He can be difficult to write for. I'd like to give his voice a Southern flair, as Christopher Cary tried to make him sound Southern, but a lot of what I might give him to say is also Western and I already gave it to Pinto, so I don't want them to talk the same. Canonically, both had few lines, but Pinto really does give an indication of speaking like that, while Snakes does not. Save for the accent itself, he didn't use any words or phrases in his speech that seemed to have originated in Southern vernacular.
Both Pinto and Coley are very easy to write for. Coley is my favorite; he's so fun, such a wild card, sometimes a bit grouchy, but honorable.
And I saw H.M.'s episode of Bearcats!, a fun steampunk Western-mystery-type show. He was one of the bad guys, but I was idly wondering if I could tinker with things so they're not entirely as they seem.
He was part of a plot to swindle people, setting fire to oil derricks and blaming it on the Native Americans (although one rebel Native American was working with him). One of them quite randomly killed the girl he was dating, but it's never actually said who. One of the main characters thinks H.M.'s character did it, but honestly, we don't know.
And I started pondering. What if H.M.'s character was orchestrating the swindle, alright, so he would still be a crook, but he hadn't ever actually wanted the girl to be killed? Maybe he wasn't the one who did that and then he was upset and wanted out ... and a lookalike who had been watching everything stepped in and decided to take over himself. The purpose of the whole thing, I think, was for H.M.'s character to buy up the burned oil dig sites and then be able to use them himself, since he had enough money to get them going again. Not a nice fellow even without framing and killing people.
But so everything would be supposedly settled, the culprits would be in custody, and the good guys would be leaving, but then something or another would make someone question the identity of H.M.'s character in custody. Maybe the real one would stagger down from the mountains, wounded after being left for dead by the lookalike. That would certainly throw a monkey wrench into everything.
I doubt I'd write this, but it's fun for me just to make up other possibilities in my mind. One of H.M.'s characters would still be guilty, and both would be criminals to some extent, but at least one would not be a murderer.
I wish it was easier to give Snakes a unique speech pattern. He can be difficult to write for. I'd like to give his voice a Southern flair, as Christopher Cary tried to make him sound Southern, but a lot of what I might give him to say is also Western and I already gave it to Pinto, so I don't want them to talk the same. Canonically, both had few lines, but Pinto really does give an indication of speaking like that, while Snakes does not. Save for the accent itself, he didn't use any words or phrases in his speech that seemed to have originated in Southern vernacular.
Both Pinto and Coley are very easy to write for. Coley is my favorite; he's so fun, such a wild card, sometimes a bit grouchy, but honorable.
And I saw H.M.'s episode of Bearcats!, a fun steampunk Western-mystery-type show. He was one of the bad guys, but I was idly wondering if I could tinker with things so they're not entirely as they seem.
He was part of a plot to swindle people, setting fire to oil derricks and blaming it on the Native Americans (although one rebel Native American was working with him). One of them quite randomly killed the girl he was dating, but it's never actually said who. One of the main characters thinks H.M.'s character did it, but honestly, we don't know.
And I started pondering. What if H.M.'s character was orchestrating the swindle, alright, so he would still be a crook, but he hadn't ever actually wanted the girl to be killed? Maybe he wasn't the one who did that and then he was upset and wanted out ... and a lookalike who had been watching everything stepped in and decided to take over himself. The purpose of the whole thing, I think, was for H.M.'s character to buy up the burned oil dig sites and then be able to use them himself, since he had enough money to get them going again. Not a nice fellow even without framing and killing people.
But so everything would be supposedly settled, the culprits would be in custody, and the good guys would be leaving, but then something or another would make someone question the identity of H.M.'s character in custody. Maybe the real one would stagger down from the mountains, wounded after being left for dead by the lookalike. That would certainly throw a monkey wrench into everything.
I doubt I'd write this, but it's fun for me just to make up other possibilities in my mind. One of H.M.'s characters would still be guilty, and both would be criminals to some extent, but at least one would not be a murderer.
