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Plausibility check: Lawyer of the Occult

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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Rechan on August 01, 2010, 04:40:55 AM ---Can't I just go back and delete it in a few days?

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If you trust all the internet archiving services on the entire planet, and are willing to lie to any publisher who takes an interest in it, yes.

Rechan:
Well there, it's removed.

Although I think the issue is silly. I've been published before and the publisher knew that I had posted the stories online and still ran the stories.

Apocrypha:
That really depends on what kind of stories they were.  And who published you.

MoSeS:

--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on July 31, 2010, 04:19:41 PM ---i think your main hang up is that fact that your comparing everything to DF. no i love DF but its not the end all be all of urban fantasy. if you want a lawyer character to work with supernatural entities then you need to create a world in which such an idea is possible.
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I know you already said your using DF as an example so that others here can relate, but it really isn't a good basis for comparison because most the angles you are exploring are already coverd by multiple characters in DF. i.e. Bob gives "legal" advice, McCoy reprensented Harry when he first used black magic, Lea protects Harry from other certain magical deals because he belongs(did) to her, etc.

Same goes for comparing any supernatural series. They usually cover the politics and lawyering in different ways.

I agree with Nickeris, I think you would need to create a new world where the lawyer character could function.

My question is, earlier you said the lawyer character would be a side-kick type character, but whose perspectiven will the story be told from? Omniscient narrator, first person (main character badass) or first person side-kick, or Second-person.  :P j/k I know you can't tell a story from second person perspective. And third person is pretty much the same as a narrator.

Gruud:
Have you considered maybe using a bookseller, or similar?

That would give you plausible reasons for the character to know so much about such an obscure subject, and could give you various scenes where the main characters have to go off to see "old what's his name".

Who knows maybe even drag him/her out for the occasional field consultation.

Just a thought, as it seems this path would be less rigorous that the whole "legal" way of dealing with it.

Or, showing my age, do you recall a character from the old series "Bewitched" named Dr. Bombay?

Ostensibly a medical/witch doctor, he was the guy they trotted out whenever they needed to explain some obscure magical rule or what have you.

Patterned after the absent minded older chap who'd taveled the length and breadth of the British Empire, he'd picked up a load of knowledge along the way.

Unless you're just marrried to the lawyer angle, of coursew.

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