Quote: Eurostar said: FANTASTiC posts, Grimm, I likey a lot.
Thanks. Was that working hard enough?
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I am curious to know if the surviving Vanguardians are your all time Vanguard line up or have they been specifically chosen to battle 12.
All time? It's hard to say. I imagine it would probably be pretty close to this. There would probably be some small changes to an "all time" lineup. I'd likely throw in Drake Marshall, for instance. I do have a special fondness for a lot of the group as it was during my first few stories. A lot of the characters left, I think they work really well together, and it's interesting to see some of them that weren't around at the same time. Sam and Banshee, or Turkish and Blackwulf. But yeah, it's pretty close to that.
The only thing I was actually consciously thinking about for deciding who would be left standing is the character relationships. Certain things I wanted to touch on a bit, that I felt never got really settled (Sam/Danny or Dirk/Chance) or even explored at all (like Blackwulf's protectiveness of Sam and Danny, all of them being morphs. A plot that never got used.)
A lot of the classic friendships: Sam/Danny. Grimm/Wulf. Grimm/Turkish. Euro/Chance. Griss/Phil. Dirk/Mick (Who knew? just kidding. We all know Dirk hates everyone.) Basically thinking if these guys were facing what might be the end, who would they want standing there with them in their last moments?
So yeah. . .a lot more to that answer than I expected.
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In any case, I want to express great admiration for those battle posts. Co-ordinating the dozens of characters involved in such a smooth and cool way is an extraordinary tasks. I had nightmares, for my solo, with just eight MBLeaguer and eight Vanguardians, while you perfectly managed to use ALL the known (and some unknown) Vanguardians.
Great, GREAT work.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now let me reassemble my brain.
