russiantea87's avatar
Have you ever encountered a movie by the name of Akira: you're stuff reminds me of that, and INvader Zim. A little bit.
PaulSizer's avatar
Yup, I saw AKIRA when it hit American shores in 1985, and it changed my comic life!
Invader Zim was awesome too.
russiantea87's avatar
I got like five story concepts and plot devices__just from the first five minutes!

It was unreal: it's frustrating though...because my story has kruachen in it: krauchen are more ethereal beings, that actually use their emotions as literal weapons. One of them expresses hate with pyrokinesis, by inflicting internal pain on himself: another can push out sentiment so intense no one can see him. Both characters can corrode living and inanimate things with their hands using pure spite, which manifests in a viscious necrotic ink in their veins. They can't do it for long due to the hearts difficulty with pushing such a thick substance through it.

The ideas behind kruachen came from several ideas, and one notable fact: in German the word 'gift' is the same one for 'venom'.
These beings are humans with more venom, or, eitr inside them. They're the consummate monsters. Their original purpose was supposed to be ministers to all sentient creatures, mid-gods, basically.

Akira's plot, and mine, have that in common: we both cherished the contemplation of catholic progression: that gods were only a matter of time, knowledge, wisedom, and power. I believe personally in a lot of things that I write, at least to some extent. I think men can become like gods, because Plato once remarked "that the purpose of existence is perfection". What if God has reached a point of self discipline, having abandoned all conceit for self-sacrifice, that matter accords to his emotions, that his sentiment is so intense that it engenders itself into every aspect of "being": that it conforms to its will ultimately because it IS him, but a mere distant extension.
I believe, in a sense, in the philosophy behind the stone.
That it is the culmination of both male and female aspects of the universal being, and that it is a perfect Man.

Life can't have an end, because if it does then what was the point of it begining? It wouldn't be logically possible.


Mathematically I can prove this: see here's how it works: for every action there is an equal, and opposite reaction.
So if there is a more efficient and ultimately cost effective way to do things (which is the "right" way), virtue avoiding the pratfalls of bad juju__then there must be necessitated a negative response. As the two aspects differ more intensely, one must ultimately reach a perpetuated everlasting stasis, whereas the other one culminate in destruction.

Now does that mean initially that i believe there has to be some "ultimate" power? No, but I do believe in an ultimate sentiment: an emotion, an aspiration that won't stand for being extinguished by any force. I don't think there's someone who's intially indefatigably monstrous in universal might or whatever, but I think that perfection has been grossly misconstrued for meaning piddling things like speed, stamina, dexterity, cognitive reasoning__things that aren't possible to be "perfect" at because there's no 100% gauge and limit to our sentient potential as a race.
No. Perfect comes from a greek word: it means, 'whole'.
A balanced man, one both possesed with the best of all aspects, yin and yang, is, essentially, a perfect man. His present sentiment is correct entirely in its intent and its gravity, so far as his faculties allow him comprehension.

I don't believe has all the best answers, or the best stuff when they're perfect: i think they just acquire it with more ease because of their conditioned understanding/adaptivity.

See it's not that whole 'good will always triumph over evil' that's the thing, it's that 'good must triumph', because that's all that matters.


Sorry Paul if this all sound too Hubbard-esque for you man. It's just the only way I know how to explain something that's ultimately necessary to understand. I observed several religions when I conceived this mythology for my saga: one of the themes in the story is that the guy available is who's saving you, not the guy who's best.

I hate guys like Superman, if you think about it, Superman's more of a vigilante than Batman: seriously, he answers to no one, I don't even think in the entire animated series he talked to a chief of police, or a cop for that matter, even once.

But what i was saying before, krauchen are basically the closest things to gods, metaphysically speaking. They're original intent was to enjoin the dreams of people,together, and provide more intense insight and empathy between humans.
But they're like the kids from Children of the Damned, X-men, and several other stories that I relished growing up.
I like this story because it's not quite like any other I've ever seen.