Wishing I had a more significant name for this post.

Chapter 8

So, I think a few of you got the wrong impressions from Chapter 8 and I debated whether to clear them up or not. Reader interpretation is so important to reading  but, I ulitmately realized those impressions could ruin the perception of the next chapter.

Dr. Channing


Dr. Channing is supposed to be a foil to the other military personnel Alan has met. Mostly, he is a foil to Dr. Frank. Dr. Frank wears a uniform and doctor's coat as a status symbol even though the wearing them impedes his full range of motion and makes his job more difficult.

Dr. Channing does the exact opposite and never acknowledges his military rank even though his is actually quite high. He does not wear the uniform unless he has to. Channing is Alan's superior but never acknowledges it, he sleeps the same place as Alan and treats him as an equal.

Also, Channing is the surname of Juliana and her dad's psychiatrist in UL2. I like the last name, I thought it sounded like a 'nice' name.

Shai & Griffith

So, Shai and Griffith's death were a part of that story structure I was talking about in my last posts. I added their storylines in chapter 8 to help better organize the chapter. I wanted to narrate Alan's experiences at Ft. Life through his interactions with the 2 men.

A story within a story . . .  kind of.  I wanted them to have the "first meeting",  "a moment between family ( Shai visiting Arcadia/ Griffith and his dad) " , "penultimate moments (Shai reorganizing Arcadia/ Griffith moving to Sector A" and finally "death/life".

I wanted their deaths to be ironic in that the one who was supposed to live died and the one who was supposed to die lived. 

Picspirations !

Persephone (Summer Glau, I know not the best image of her)

Shai (Robert Roldan from SYTYCD. He always inspired the character of Shai, I just forgot to mention it back in Veritas and couldn't bring it up without making it obvious he comes back in this.)
Persephone














Dr. Channing  (Based on RSL. This was a last minute inspiration but, I can't unsee)

Chapter 9

Okay, so on to Chapter 9. Once again a short playlist. Which is odd because I have a lot of music I love but, can't find a place for. One song is only on last.fm and I fought with it but, I can't embed it here so, I found a copy of it and  youtube mini-embed.

Chapter 9

-1- Better Day by Goo Goo Dolls
- 2- Same Things by Twintapes (Mini-embeded)