Annotated 5-1
Script: “Byron puffs, making near-exhaustion look sexy.”
Having set up the need for some kind of boys-only adventure with the last flash-forward, I had the leisure to develop Gravedust and Byron’s dynamic more than in their last team-up, which didn’t give them much time together before Taro stole the spotlight from them both.
Before we’d committed much full script to Google Docs, Phil wrote up a document called “Relationships,” wherein each of the five original Peacemakers described each of the others. In it, Byron and Gravedust both come across as a bit wary of each other but willing to extend a fragile trust, as each was the first member of their race the other had met who seemed worthy of trust. A bit Legolas-Gimli. Which was nice, but it was time to move past that.
Well shit, now I wanna play Minecraft again.
Which reminds me…
One of my favorite things about the LoTR books was how grim Gimli was, even when he was being funny. Very much an Old World dwarf. And, while I loved most of the visuals of the movie, Peter Jackson lost me by making Gimli a court jester dwarf, even when he was killing. (Specifically, he lost me at the “dwarf throwing” joke, and I’m still pissed off about it.)
Thank you — all of you — for not doing that to Gravedust and the other dwarfs of Arkerra. Gravedust is often dryly humorous, but he’s never himself a joke.
:-)
My initial reaction to Gravedust is that he seems… eerily accurate to the kind of D&D character a friend of mine would play. The beard, the spirituality, the dwarfy… he’s a very Kouri character. Not that that means anything to anyone except me.