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So much for mandatory Friday updates! So I didn't do much, over the holidays. I got moved into my new digs and settled in, but I'll confess with so many boxes to unpack and friends to visit over the break I found it hard to sit down and really commit to work. I got a couple of characters down; I've had some problems really commiting to a vision, if that doesn't sound pretensious? A large part of this I want to be a pastiche to the espionage/spy genre, but I couldn't settle on Metal Gear Solid style ridiculousness or Avengers, if you get my gist. I've got a focus, now, anyhow.


I've sort-of-almost got my project specification written up. So I guess that is something!


I feel bad about updating this with nothing but empty words and promises, so this is the roughest of outlines for the protagonist's boss, the General. I am the worst at naming things so everything, everything is named for what it is. These will probably change later.

The General

DESCRIPTION

The General looks born to command. Short and sort of triangular, he is heavily decorated, mainly with medals that he has created himself, but a good load of these are from being a conscript in his country before breaking away and making his own militia. He is completely bald (mostly covered by the fine General’s hat he wears) but has a mighty, red moustache.

Oh, and his tongue has been eaten away and replaced by his best friend and confidant, Tongue Louse.  

BACKSTORY

The General harks from a small, brawling sort of country where he was conscripted at an early age. He was a fierce patriot and a great soldier until an incident in the Tropics turned his life around.

The way the General tells it is back when he was a young Private fighting in yet another ‘noble war’, deep in the jungle, when he met Tongue Louse. Tongue Louse was fighting for his country, too, on the opposing side. Through the long campaign they grew to know each other as their comrades fell and were replaced and those fell, too, until one day the General received orders to pull out, the war was over.

Looking around at the dead, Tongue Louse and the General were overcome by a sense of disenchantment. They took up arms together and swore never to fight another pointless war unless they got something out of it and have been friends ever since.

Tongue Louse is the General’s tongue and although nobody has heard him speak, the General appears to be able to understand his lousey friend almost perfectly. While the General manages the men and the running of the compound, the tactics, Tongue Louse is in charge of the over-all evil schemes. Since only the most elite members of the guard are allowed around the General and in his inner sanctum, only a few have actually seen how the whole Tongue Louse-General thing works and it is subject to a lot of conjecture amongst the standard men. The picture that the men have to salute to every morning is the General with his mouth cracked real wide.

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I mean, even though it's getting ahead of myself, it shows the extent of what I need to do for each aspect of the games bible. One character, and I have a to-do list, man.


- Military costume research
- Name research
- There was a sex education website that pastiched totalitarian states wonderfully, I remember the fake country was called Borogravia or Slobavia or something. Research that.
- Do drawings! They will help to visualise the character.