Jake, on 31 March 2011 - 02:51 AM, said:
@Craft
Well, I like that idea of him making another personality to comfort him.
But I want him to look vulnerable, not mentally cracking...
I want to show that he's been through alot and that he's experienced more than any boy his age should ever have to deal with in their life, but I also want to show how strong he is by being able to deal with that stress.
You could almost say he's a hero not because he flies around saving lives, but because of the fact that he would so willingly put such an enormous strain on himself for the sake of the people around him... Weither or not they know it.
I want the reader to look at the superheros they see on their cartoons, their comic books, and from all of his or her stories in a new light. I want to take away the image of an unbreakable hero and add on the things that they learn in my story. I want them to see how hard it is for Peter Parker to be in love with Mary Jane and still save the citizens of New York. I want to show the battle wear in Supermans eyes as he once again jumps in the telephone booth to change into his costume. I want to break the image of a hero in my story, and show the realities that come with being one.
Jake, you painted the picture of a young boy with no one to help him, more stress then most people feal in a lifetime, and a powerful thirst for love that the poeple he suffers for simply can't fill.
He is meant to be just bairly compensating because the role of super hero that you are trying to be honest about IS mentaly debilitating.
As he is right now he is OK but if one thin happens to chainge his situation even slightly for the worce he will snap. You made him specificaly to be on the edge.
How he snapps or if something helps him hold on will be up to you. If something helps him beleive that the people like him even less, he will need a new sorce of comfort. If his glasses are stepped on by a kid he saves from a buring building, that childs kidnies will be at north and south sides of town. If someone finaly convinced him they love him, he will break down crying and compleatly control their live any way he can.