I would like to be given permission (Not Permission, just permission) to give the Marquis a personal assistant. I'm not thinking of him/her/it becoming a major character or anything, but if I could fit them in, it would make the Permission piece I'm thinking of a lot easier...

Now, I was thinking of making a cyborg. I'm not talking Terminator here, more along the lines of Lobot. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lobot for those of you who've never heard of him.) My reasoning is that, though the Marquis really does need a computer to play matchmaker for the hundreds-strong throng of Agents subject to his every whim, he's still a little too haughty and old-fashioned to learn how to use one. Since he uses telepathy instead of talking, system that uses voice-commands is logically out of the question. Enter our Lobotic look-alike. It's enough robot to run computer functions and keep the agent database in its head, but still enough human to be communicated with telepathically.

Additionally, he might be sort of a confidant. The Marquis is the sort of man...plant, rather, whose idea of asking for advice is getting someone to listen to him talk...think, rather, about himself (Apologies to Mr. Pratchett, holy horns, etc, etc). That sort of cyborg would be perfect. It's enough human to look interested and answer his rhetorical questions, but still sufficiently cybernetic to keep the whole vexed question of 'Is he doing this to me on purpose' from the Agents.

I'm also thinking of adding some glitches, to keep up the fight on the humor front. You know, the classics - skipping and getting stuck like a broken record, the ol' neck-snapping nervous twitch, stuff like that.

I appreciate all feedback; approval, disapproval, additional or alternate ideas (a name would be nice, my mind's blank at the moment), the (slightly unwelcome, at this point) news that the Marquis already has an assistant, and that I've been wasting my time...All that good stuff.

Well, that makes it six paragraphs, including this one, and I think that covers everything, so...Au revoir, y'all.