Subject: That's exactly the point, though.
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Posted on: 2015-08-11 23:41:00 UTC

A dragon on the one hand and an alien bioweapon on the other? They're very different mindsets that work in different ways, both from each other and from the reader.

If these were my agents - and I know they're not - I'd write Carnage as a kind of Noble Demon figure, a victorious general who, to (mis)quote Plutarch, "saw the breadth of his domains and wept, for there were no lands left to conquer". Evil, certainly, but with a strict personal code; unable to so much as countenance deviating from it. Honourable in all his dealings, just evil and with the muscle to back it up.

Sesrik, on the other hand, is rather different. Thin Men were clearly designed to be infiltrators; sneaks and assassins, carving up government figures, liaising with fifth-columnists like EXALT, and trying to break human resistance from the inside. They're tools. They don't feel emotion, because emotion clouds your perspective; they know no honour, because honour limits your options. They are an acid-vomiting, plasma-blasting, incomparably evil clone race; not because of any specific malice, but rather the will to dominate matched with a total indifference to the so-called "rules of war".

That'd be an interesting matchup to read about; the agent of aliens and the king of hell, thrust into the last war, the war that will claim them by degrees, the war where there are always more lands left to save. It'd be... possibly a little dark for the setting, but I think if Sesrik's arc was being introduced to a joke and shaking its hand, they could be a lot of fun.

But meh, I'm just spitballing. =]

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