*face-palms* Apparently, I didn't check the box that makes LJ tell me that I got a reply when I created this journal.
I was reading through his entry in Adventure! and noticed that canon states that folks are a bit mystified by his abilities. Considering that Michael and Max both came out of the Hammersmith Incident as people who didn't quite fit the typical Inspired mold, might Harley have undergone something similar? To my knowledge, he's the only named mesmerist that was present during the Incident...
Speaking of the Incident, canon hints that Harley might have been behind it. Do you have strong feelings about this one way or another?
I also had a few questions about his abilities. Do most of his abilities actually require eye contact, or does eye contact merely make things easier? Also, would Michael 'look' different to someone using the Telluric Resonance knack as compared to what he 'looked' like in the 20s?
Considering that Michael and Max both came out of the Hammersmith Incident as people who didn't quite fit the typical Inspired mold, might Harley have undergone something similar?
It's possible. I always figured somebody must've done, for trilateral symmetry if nothing else. (My money was on Doctor Zorbo, until I noticed that his aetheric vision is the result of a gadget.)
Speaking of the Incident, canon hints that Harley might have been behind it. Do you have strong feelings about this one way or another?
I planned to use it as part of a hook for the Hugh Boone stuff, which would've ended up revealing that the Incident was a Technocracy plot to sabotage the Etherite Hammersmith. (Basically, like ezrael's now-deleted Pyramid article "To Tear the Scales from Their Eyes", only in the Inspiration Age instead of the Nova Age.)
[The questions about his abilities will get followed up after I've had lunch.]
Symmetry was my reason for thinking that he ought to come out a bit different from the 'norm' too. It's just too tempting with two of the three positions already filled.
The cross-product conspiracy involving the Hammersmith Incident sounds interesting, but I don't think it would work for Milliways. I'd been imagining Harley taking advantage of Hammersmith's nature in pursuit of power and deciding to arrange an 'accident'. It's an interesting idea thematically, at least. Jackson causes the event that kick-starts the Adventure era and is killed by Michael, who uses his work to end the Adventure era.
Is my bringing him in still alive going to be a problem for you? I thought it would make him a bit more frightening as a villain. The three-day limit on the dead of Milliways limits the kind of trouble they can get up to. Also, it could be an interesting commentary on the Landlord's sense of humor. Michael did tell Bar that he wished the Landlord would bring in someone from home that was alive. ;-)
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Date: 2009-07-03 04:13 pm (UTC)It's me again, Margaret.If you don't mind, I've got some canon issues that I'd like to run by you with regard to this particular pup.
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Date: 2009-07-03 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 02:27 am (UTC)I was reading through his entry in Adventure! and noticed that canon states that folks are a bit mystified by his abilities. Considering that Michael and Max both came out of the Hammersmith Incident as people who didn't quite fit the typical Inspired mold, might Harley have undergone something similar? To my knowledge, he's the only named mesmerist that was present during the Incident...
Speaking of the Incident, canon hints that Harley might have been behind it. Do you have strong feelings about this one way or another?
I also had a few questions about his abilities. Do most of his abilities actually require eye contact, or does eye contact merely make things easier? Also, would Michael 'look' different to someone using the Telluric Resonance knack as compared to what he 'looked' like in the 20s?
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:18 pm (UTC)It's possible. I always figured somebody must've done, for trilateral symmetry if nothing else. (My money was on Doctor Zorbo, until I noticed that his aetheric vision is the result of a gadget.)
Speaking of the Incident, canon hints that Harley might have been behind it. Do you have strong feelings about this one way or another?
I planned to use it as part of a hook for the Hugh Boone stuff, which would've ended up revealing that the Incident was a Technocracy plot to sabotage the Etherite Hammersmith. (Basically, like
[The questions about his abilities will get followed up after I've had lunch.]
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:29 am (UTC)The cross-product conspiracy involving the Hammersmith Incident sounds interesting, but I don't think it would work for Milliways. I'd been imagining Harley taking advantage of Hammersmith's nature in pursuit of power and deciding to arrange an 'accident'. It's an interesting idea thematically, at least. Jackson causes the event that kick-starts the Adventure era and is killed by Michael, who uses his work to end the Adventure era.
Is my bringing him in still alive going to be a problem for you? I thought it would make him a bit more frightening as a villain. The three-day limit on the dead of Milliways limits the kind of trouble they can get up to. Also, it could be an interesting commentary on the Landlord's sense of humor. Michael did tell Bar that he wished the Landlord would bring in someone from home that was alive. ;-)