Author: Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes (---.16.109)
Date: 04-04-2000 01:30
There ain't nothin' funnier than a disembodied head. |+)
Okay, but there's a problem here - when and where is this set? What's the world like? Are we revivals from the 20th century, not only facing future shock at being confronted with a post-Singularity world (see Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan graphic novels, for instance, where taking a single glance outside will shock a revived corpsicle into catatonia), but also facing the sudden and surprising loss of our bodies?
Or are we supposed to be citizens of a future where medical science can keep your head alive in a jar after old age or accidents?
And why are they capable of doing this, but not of regrowing bodies or hooking you up to full-body prosthetics yet?
My point? You can't create a fully-developed character unless you know what their world is like, and what their possible origins are.
-- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/">Mark Hughes</a>
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