Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-37028137-20200208155041

Mm-Hmm, ‘primal forms’ are so dull and the fact is what goes on in folks minds their hopes, fears, hatred, and loss can twist us into horrendous beings. That is what I was going for; Vellantha’s and Nick’s unresolved issues have torn them up and shaped them into something unnatural.

The references were as follows:

1 Star Wars

“Ugh, always on the move.”

Something Obi-Wan says offhandedly about Anakin constantly dashing off to parts unknown.

2 Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

''‘She conjured her rapier which shone wickedly with dark energy; my own blade free from the scabbard was her weapon’s antithesis blazing in deep light. Both were peculiar armaments yet both perfectly harmonious in their stance side by side.’''

During the battle of Revelwood Elena and Covenant have to repel an attack by Lord Foul’s Ur-Viles. They take up a similar defense and their weapons are dichotomous of each other.

3 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

''‘I was weakening I could feel my body rebelling, trying to revert back to the broken, deformed pattern I had so far held at bay. I had been unable to take more of the serum to fortify my failing form.’''

The serum does not turn him into an evil variation of himself, but it does hold something he fears at bay, much like Jekyll feared his darker side.

4 Romeo and Juliet

‘You should be dead right now except for two things!” “Wh-what things?” “'As much as I hate you for what you did I’m a Mamono, and we don’t kill unlike you Humans who claim to be better than us! And the man you hurt would never forgive me if I did!”'

And here is the quote from Shakespeare’s play:

Oh, what better favor can I do for you than to kill the man who killed you with the same hand that made you die young.

My novel is ‘Split’ into three parts (they will all be published under the same entry on the site if they ever get back to me on how to do that but for authorial purposes I divided them up just to summate what happens in each section, so I can keep track.) The except actually rounds out the final chapter in the first third of the novel, leaving it on a cliff hanger as to what transpires until part two.

Truth be told the ‘Regeneration’ is a fake, it works as a narrative device to add suspense, and as a means to add another character into the mix who will heal Nick before he Regenerates. His actual Regeneration comes in at about the mid-point of the novel where he dies heroically to save his friends.

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.