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[John Tynes]

>> Not misguided at all I'd say. Kids make a great dramatic tools. >Especially
>> if you can remember what it was really like to be a kid. >"Innocent and
>> naive" may describe some kids but so does "vicious, >amoral killers". Kid
>> characters can be whatever you need them to be.
> 
> Brrrr, and suddenly I'm back in "Praise of the Stepmother" territory.
> "Innocent" does not mean good.  It means unaware of the difference between
> good and evil...

A friend of mine told me a story yesterday about a friend of his. (Oh hell,
it's a FOAF. But I know this FOAF's name, so he's not some mythical phantom.
He lives around here and works for WotC.)

When FOAF was a kid of 10 or so, he and two buddies were fooling around in
the woods with bows & arrows. Quite by accident, he shot one of his buddies
in the chest with an arrow and the kid dropped like a sack of wet cement.
FOAF and his remaining friend panicked and covered the body with leaves,
then ran to their respective homes and hid under the covers. Hours later,
the victim turned up at the door with a bandage on his chest--no serious
injuries, he just passed out from shock--and his very angry father, asking
the obvious question: "Why did you shoot my son with an arrow, cover his
body with leaves, and run away?" FOAF had no answer save fear and guilt.

Ah, kids! The sweet bird of youth! The flower of innocence!

<- John Tynes - rev at tccorp.com - http://www.JohnTynes.com/ ->
"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user,
he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?" --Tom Clancy


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