I love playing with details, and I love stories that grab you somewhere toward the end or middle and say "Hey, remember this random thing in the beginning you thought was totally inconsequential? You really should have been paying attention." So I try to do that a lot.
Sometimes it's foreshadowing, mostly it's just author wank.
You know, originally this story (with the working premise "write a Nazi character who doesn't eat babies") was going to be a crossover with Highlander rather than Heroes, but for some reason my brain latched onto a single panel in one of the comics with the thought "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if he was that guy who got his teeth kicked out?"
(which didn't work, because I misremembered a few details, like how the incident took place in Berlin, not at Auschwitz, but I managed to make it work anyway)
It pretty much wrote itself from there, though the driving force somehow became "Throw more canon in there and they won't notice that it's crack!" And Heroes just has such a rich history to work with, and that picking out those little details that people maybe don't often think about and trying to find a place for them to live was just fun.
And somehow it turned into a sort of Company history, completely on accident.
I probably will start including translations. I tried to be funny with this one, because Konrad obviously says a lot, but what Hiro translates it to is very short. A fuller translation would supply that Konrad more or less calls Bennet a soulless, manipulative bastard. XD
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I love playing with details, and I love stories that grab you somewhere toward the end or middle and say "Hey, remember this random thing in the beginning you thought was totally inconsequential? You really should have been paying attention." So I try to do that a lot.
Sometimes it's foreshadowing, mostly it's just author wank.
You know, originally this story (with the working premise "write a Nazi character who doesn't eat babies") was going to be a crossover with Highlander rather than Heroes, but for some reason my brain latched onto a single panel in one of the comics with the thought "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if he was that guy who got his teeth kicked out?"
(which didn't work, because I misremembered a few details, like how the incident took place in Berlin, not at Auschwitz, but I managed to make it work anyway)
It pretty much wrote itself from there, though the driving force somehow became "Throw more canon in there and they won't notice that it's crack!" And Heroes just has such a rich history to work with, and that picking out those little details that people maybe don't often think about and trying to find a place for them to live was just fun.
And somehow it turned into a sort of Company history, completely on accident.
I probably will start including translations. I tried to be funny with this one, because Konrad obviously says a lot, but what Hiro translates it to is very short. A fuller translation would supply that Konrad more or less calls Bennet a soulless, manipulative bastard. XD