[UA] Your Alex Abel.

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: [UA] Your Alex Abel.
> Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 6:06 PM
> 
> 	I'm curious about how the character of Alex Abel appears to all y'all on
> the list.  Naturally, given the medium, there are going to be different
> "versions" of Alex out there, and no one is more right than another
(until
> it hits, print, of course.)  So.  How would YOUR Abel respond to the
> following situation?
[snip]

	My Alex Abel is ruthless, but he's still a human.  He might trade in
drugs, guns, and prostitutes, but I don't think he'd deal in
slavery--especially not that directly.  I have the feeling that Abel went
through life with a fairly large stick up a fairly sensitive area, and he's
probably capable of some real self-righteousness at times.  Were the girl
younger, he might "buy" her just to get her away from her mother and give
her a chance at a better life.  What that better life might be is anyone's
guess--she might be raised to take over the family fortune when Abel
ascends.
	But with a nineteen year old, I don't see that happening.  By this point,
the girl's already mostly grown.  Not a candidate for molding in his own
image.
	What I'd see Abel doing is paying the mother to get out of the way, then
introducing himself as the girl's father who just found out about her,
putting her through school (and making sure she got through school--how's
that for an assignment for a pack of TNI thugs?  "Make sure my "daughter"
stays in school.  Don't hurt her, don't scare her.").
	Of course, the mother wouldn't be happy with just one payment, and when
she saw that Abel was a better father than she was a mother, she'd want
more or she'd tell her daughter that Abel wasn't really her father.  I
think it was a character in "Zero Effect" who said, "You don't buy silence,
you only rent it."  So, ultimately, Abel would have the mother killed, but
he'd probably have it done magickally, so as to eliminate the possibility
that he would be implicated and lose his "daughter".

Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
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