Changed my day...

There are a LOT of MT characters you haven't met yet. i dont believe in minor or major characters - every character is a major player in his/her own life - how much they effect the story is the only issue.

Besides, this particular character goes back a long way, he's hardly a new introduction.

Piro of Megatokyo

Now, everyone and their brother links Megatokyo if they read webcomics. And if their brother doesn't link Megatokyo, it's because they either laugh at their sibling because of their webcomic choice, or because they prefer death metal bands. Possibly both.

So I feel a bit funny posting a forum link and quote when I'm a silent reader.

But even so, I think that Piro has a major point, one that a lot of people like me... people that treat their characters as humans and not as "X-person" with "Y-traits", should know by heart. If you think about it, everyone you've met briefly has a history that you don't know. They could be personal shoppers, aspiring writers that are forced to take jobs as waitresses, or even graphic design majors that settle for positions as Merchandise Co-ordinators. The person down the street from you could be a firefighter that just lost a brother that you've never heard about.

God, who are these people?

And who am/was I to everyone else that I've met?

Last sememster that I was at Webster, I took a course on cemetaries, and the only book for the three-day class put me in an interesting situation. Everyone had connections to everyone else. Each one of the famous people in that book were legends, tied in part to other legends. Susan Blow, for example. Henry Shaw. They were tied to Presidents, Senators, Pierre Laclede, Augustus Busch (good old Auggie), the list went on.

What would I have to do to be in a book like that? Change history? Write a pulitzer-prize winning novel? Win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Or am I just content to sit at the bottom of the totem pole at some company... scurrying home each night to write a novel- or series- that I may never complete?

Good question.

Time for me to be a major player in my own life...