McAnally's (The Community Pub) > Author Craft
Teen witch character help
Uncle Draggi:
Being an older guy who's been doing 'all this' for quite a while, your scenario sounds far, far too damn familiar! Have the kid bring up an ancient God/dess of Love, or a Love/Lust 'Elemental'(?!) would be fine, especially if you made the being true to =ITS= 'time and place'! "Love" as we know it =today= is =not= the same as it was in the past, especially the 'far past'. What kids think of today, with all the crap on TV and romance novels, is just as foreign to entities of ancient times as some of the stuff on the SciFi channel is to us. Not necessarily "better" or "worse" - just different.
For example, wasn't one of the Near Eastern goddesses, Inanna?, the Goddess of both Love =and= War? How would that square with little Miss Fluff-Bunny's 'world-view'? ::) Even if you didn't make the 'magical entity' "authentic" (whatever the hell that is), it could still trigger one hell of a 'reality check'! ;D
Uncle Draggi
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: Uncle Draggi on January 09, 2009, 10:16:09 AM ---For example, wasn't one of the Near Eastern goddesses, Inanna?, the Goddess of both Love =and= War? How would that square with little Miss Fluff-Bunny's 'world-view'? ::) Even if you didn't make the 'magical entity' "authentic" (whatever the hell that is), it could still trigger one hell of a 'reality check'! ;D
Uncle Draggi
--- End quote ---
Ooh yeah, that would also include Astarte/Ashtaroth/Ishtar (or however it's spelled), whom the fluffy-bunnies have horribly warped into the "Goddyss uv LURVE N WYMYN'S YMPOAHMYNT!!1111" (Women's empowerment, for those not familiar with fluffeese, since they seem to like to spell things wierdly. Somehow spelling "women" with a "Y" in place of the vowels is more feminine and "less offensive". I find it an offense to the rules of good spelling). :: Rubs hands gleefully, the eeevil thoughts getting more eeeeeeevil::
ballplayer72:
Or she could someone like eros/cupid who forces people to fall in love. I always found that a bit twisted
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Morraeon on January 09, 2009, 03:22:10 PM ---Ooh yeah, that would also include Astarte/Ashtaroth/Ishtar (or however it's spelled), whom the fluffy-bunnies have horribly warped into the "Goddyss uv LURVE N WYMYN'S YMPOAHMYNT!!1111" (Women's empowerment, for those not familiar with fluffeese, since they seem to like to spell things wierdly. Somehow spelling "women" with a "Y" in place of the vowels is more feminine and "less offensive". I find it an offense to the rules of good spelling). :: Rubs hands gleefully, the eeevil thoughts getting more eeeeeeevil::
--- End quote ---
Even better, instead of a 'love elemental' she summons a succubus!!! :)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Uncle Draggi on January 09, 2009, 10:16:09 AM ---For example, wasn't one of the Near Eastern goddesses, Inanna?, the Goddess of both Love =and= War? How would that square with little Miss Fluff-Bunny's 'world-view'? ::)
Uncle Draggi
--- End quote ---
re-read Midsummer's Night Dream as another option, although I like the Goddess of Love and War. What a juicy, lovely, thought provoking ideal and not far from reality...... :-)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version