I originally started the Inconsistencies story on a whim to try and entertain Jeremy and do something goofy and lighthearted. I guess I succeeded. Comments tapered off, but that was expected and I have been verbally assured that it still entertains. I guess I'm just having trouble maintaining lighteheartedness in this little medley of Reich-5 and Dixie. I get it that a shark man working with a robot and a gangster is kind of s silly thing, but I don't do intentionally goofy humor very well. If you read my James the Pyrokinetic stuff, I can do sarcasm and elitist humor at the expense of others decently, but just being silly and delivering jokes via dialogue is not really my strong point, and to be honest, I just really like dark unhappy shit. Its why at one point in The Last Blade Keroen is holding his intestines in with one hand, his other arm in one piece with his magic, and cutting the tongue out a foe he finds too wordy. Its also why he runs around crazed and bleeding from his brow while trying to eat small children at another point. Those are both kind of dark. Stuff where the good guys win and still have all their limbs attached and everything goes back to sunshine and normalcy at the end of the day doesn't interest me too much, at least not in terms of what I want to write. I don't even know if the story is still light and goofy, but when the evil Robot decides to paint a smile across its face with the blood of one of its victims to show it thinks going north to Chicago to settle its score with its brother is a good thing, that's kind of dark and not lighthearted.
The characters aren't particularly light, they are goofy as a group, but individually they're kind of evil. I mean, the Gangster is paid to be there and to fight and has no issue with the Germans or the rebels, as long as he gets paid to fight one of them he will. The Driver is similar, but would prefer to be killing Germans. The Robot only fights the Germans because they are intolerant and won't treat everyone equal, defeating them is the first step in his plan for world domination. The end of the plan is him hooked up to a massive American made mainframe controlling the world electronically and ushering in an age if peaceful prosperity where everyone makes the same money, has the same car, the same house, the same health care plan, and the same (limited) access to goods and services as everyone else. He will possibly enforce this prosperity, lack of individuality, and equality with smaller versions of himself, with upgraded weaponry and armor. In the Sorcerer's world, he and his cohorts were the Germans and the dayvuhs were called to fight them, but they still had quotas to fill and a lot more folks died than expected. The Doctor is in fact a decent sort and fights the Germans for noble and pure reasons, he did however work for them in the past. The Vampire wants to eat his way through his "allies" and then swim home to Atlantis to tell his brethren that the dayvuhs are coming and that they're a worthy foe, so they should all get their shit together and commit genocide upon the landwellers so that they can have all the dayvuh battling to themselves. Before he knew about the dayvuhs he was only fighting the Germans because he said that Hitler smelled like a coward and no coward should be allowed to mock and torture a prince of Atlantis and live to tell of it.
Music: You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin
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