Kid Curry... again

[igenlode]

I've just been contacted by someone complimenting me on the level of the research I did for my page on Kid Curry and the Pro-Fun Hoedown -- which is nice.

I'd forgotten that the Pro-Fun Trolls actually saved Curry's life, in a sort of story-external way -- by making it impossible to do what I'd intended to do with the character, i.e. stick to the historical fact of his demise! -- which is weirdly appropriate, really.

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, what's the good of having a timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly house party, if you can't redeem your friends from their historical fates, now and then? :-)

I'm back to a basic account for LJ, so I don't have my Eloise Icon, here. So have a portrait I drew of her, last summer:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/capriuni/5879529204/)

One thing I keep meaning to do is find some way of establishing Eloise's identity outside the pro-fun hoedown universe. She, and the other pro-fun trolls in her clan, are really the only ones without an independent identity -- all the other characters have their own stories to return to, at the end of the "day."

I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet. But I think it's probably possible. It would also mean getting Florestandrereptrozan (sp? -- it's been so long) and Sweetheart free from Doctor Who / Gallifrey* as well. Though luckily, mysteriously sentient ships, and scholar-adventurers who get trapped in a half-sleep/half-death are both established tropes in folklore and literature. It's the whole Internet aspect of her persona that I'm unsure of -- what sort of universe is her "home"?

*those identities can be slipped back into, if ever we're up for the Hoedowns, again...

[igenlode.livejournal.com]

I don't see why Eloise's home can't be the pro-fun hoedown universe: the other characters have to go back to their own stories, but she's the privileged one -- she gets to stay there... in the meta-fiction, as it were...

I'm not sure we're quite sure what the Hoedown universe is, anyway. Although one[?] thing I suspect it isn't is serious, internally consistent, and well-thought-out...!

I'm certainly not one to preach -- I usually end up inventing characters based on stereotypes and doing the research to work out what type of background could plausibly fit in only afterwards -- but I feel that one can over-intellectualise and take the fun out of things by trying to codify them too much away from their slapdash origins. What little we know about Eloise, her trollish relatives, and Florestan and the Sweetheart has emerged more or less organically in the margins of other stories; we may find out more about her in the future (maybe in a flashback?) But I feel that sitting down cudgelling your brains in a conscious attempt to produce a cut-and-dried alternative origins story runs the risk of producing rather forced results...