I should write something with their -real- selves soon, not these wacky expies

[missmorrichan]

BEEP BEEP, mediocre writing train passin' through.

I'm going to sit on this story forever if I don't post it - part of it, anyway - at some point, because otherwise I'll slowly grow to loathe it and it'll never see the light of day. Like the two from before, this came about from an image prompt courtesy of osakabombFeaturing a Gadgeteer Genius Psychopathic

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[wilcoblackflame]

I daresay you need not worry about a lack of eldritch abominations. I think we both know that the minds of the brilliantly...I'm not sure defective is a word that is appropriate....Absurd? Eccentric? are much more fascinating. The eldrich is beyond comprehension, but the human is horrifyingly within it.

I very much look forward to seeing Part 2, yes indeed.

Greene gives me that sense of semi-disconnected brilliance of a the kind of mind that has such a marvellous tunnel vision view of the universe that is almost solely fixated on whatever one is currently pursuing, the rest of the world being of lesser importance for the most part. Such viewpoints of the universe often seem to be from an angle that most of us can't quite reconcile with our own. It's most interesting.

Despite my fascination with minds such as Greene, I find I am more interested in Carterman for the most part. I cannot pinpoint why, be it the mystery of her purpose, the subtle balancing act of tryign to keep Greene somewhat reined in. It's quite an interesting position, seeing her as both trying to pull the necessary strings to keep some semblance of control and riding the tiger that is his mad genius. It's like she is constantly trying to disarm a bomb that continually re-arms itself in a different way. That taken into consideration, it only furthers the mystery of her purpose and motives in accompanying him, as I figure she is more or less committed to her role as his assistant for the long haul. I'm not sure she would be able to walk away without killing him, as I shudder to think what he might do if he got it into his head that she was abandoning/betraying him. Deliciously curious indeed..

[missmorrichan]

Now I'm working extra-hard on part 2, just for you. Look at all those brilliant similes you've got going on: the mad genius, the bomb! That is so unspeakably perfect. Carterman is of the mind that their relationship is an extremely extremely delicate one, where she is delicately trying to exert some sort of control over Greene without dissuading him entirely.

It does make you wonder, doesn't it? A patently-oblivious sociopath is one thing, but what about the company he keeps? What does that say about Carterman, that, when you get right down to it, she's ultimately letting him get away with this stuff? Even more suspicious, if you ask me.

Tunnel vision is an excellent way to describe Greene. He is so unspeakably, unfathomably brilliant in some areas, but on the flipside, his perception of reality seems to be alarmingly skewed. It's like he plugged all his skill points into bizarre, esoteric fields without reserving any for things like basic social interaction. To him, other people are just things.

Oh-ho, what do you think he might do if Greene got it into his head that Carterman had turned against him? That might be worth exploring.

[wilcoblackflame]

That's a tricky question. If I had to hazard a guess though, I imagine it would begin with him trying to work out why, which would no doubt be a feat of mental acrobatics resulting in further puzzlement.

That's not the worrying part.

My concern for Miss Carterman is that whenever his deliberations reached their conclusion, the next step is, in the tried and true scientific process of logic and method, to take action.

What kind of action that would be is hard to judge, save that I would expect it to be pretty drastic in measure. When one as a rule views people as things, any exceptions to that rule which the subject has actually formed a bond with are not someone you want to take away should you hope to keep them happy.

It's like russian roulette with less bullet and more madcap mechanisms!