Worlds Apart 48 - Johar's thoughts

[kaelaaw]

I had a few people comment that they were sorry that I wasn't planning to write from Johar's POV again. Johar took this to mean he had fans felt he should make his fans happy and it does explain a few things about him. You also get a glimpse of what Arnell was like. Please keep in mind for the flashback Arnell is only 14 and thinks, in pure

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[sa_tsl]

*hugs* AN UPDATE!

and yay. Gorlyn is still getting beaten! *squee*

It's weird to see johar thinking that gorlyn is talented. It's weird to see how arnell was so arrogant and confident before, and is now just utterly broken.

ALSO A HEAD MASSAGE! I WANT ONE BY GORLYN!
~The above is to be ignored.
*hugs and cookies*

[kaelaaw]

I've been seriously slacking on updates but my goal is to have each story updated by Christmas.

He will be beaten for a while more yet and then there will be an interesting pain situation after Johar leaves.

Arnell's arrogance started in his teens with your typical 'I know everything' teen attitude and he has always had enough confidence to fill a giant parade balloon. Now he has like you said no arrogance and he will occasionaly have some confidence but it doesn't take much to deflate it.

I love have a head massage. I sometimes go to salons and just have them wash my hair for the part where they massage it into my scalp.

And yes Gorlyn gives fablous ones if only he were real flesh and blood.....*sigh*

[berthablue]

"Interesting pain situation."

I like the sounds of this :)

[kaelaaw]

I do think it will be a fantastic suprise.

[berthablue]

Johar... he's really quite a bastard. Sad, in his own way, though - I'm guessing he never gets a chance to have nice things or be taken care of, which is why he's so fucking insistent on others having them.

Someone posed a moral "what-if" question today, basically asking if you could go back in time and make Adolf Hitler miserable for a day, would you do it? I said I'd rather spend the day trying to be friends with him in hopes that it would change things. Idealistic, sure, but I wonder if Johar would be any less harsh if his world was a bit more accommodating.

“Is it so wrong to tie your own shoes? And button your own shirt?” The boy threw the words back at Johar.

“Yes!”
Loved this :)

I want Johar and Arnell to meet when Arnell gets his memories back. I am so interested in how it is dealt with. Something tells me Arnell would be a thousand times more gracious and forgiving than Johar would ever think of being - to himself or others!

[kaelaaw]

That is very true he has never had nice things of his own that didn't come with his position in the household and has never had anyone take care of him ever. Believe it or not as much as he dislikes Neisk he is very profession and tries his damnedst to make sure Neisk is well groomed and well fed (even if it's food Neisk doesn't like) and has a perfet home with fine furishings and always clean he presonally picked out Neisk's bed which is beyond comfortable.

That was my favorite part too ;)

They will meet and it will be very interesting...well at least I think it's interesting.

[kaelaaw]

Ooooh and your moral 'what if' question. I would go back and put my back into promoting Hitler's artwork. I'd make him a highly praised painter.

[berthablue]

I like this approach! Make art, not genocide!!!

[fran_fic]

I am finally!!!! on a catching up mission! :-) I've been so behind on my flist and on reading that I have done almost nothing else for four whole nights now than catching up on stuff! So much goodies that I've missed

[kaelaaw]

I am still on a catching up mission and keeping up with posts mission. I seems mostly when I have time I have just enough mental energy to read other people's stories. I don't even have it in me to post comments on them which drives me nuts. Work is hiring more people so my hours should go down and give me more writing time.

I had a feeling most people would like Johar's treatment of Gorlyn. I'm glad about the mixed feelings. I always saw Johar as a grey character not quite to level of evil Leisa is but definatly not the white knight Neisk either.

He isn't really taking revenge on Arnell because he really doesn't believe Gorlyn is Arnell he just thinks it would be justice if he was because the Arnell would have the job he critized Johar for having. I guess maybe I didn't write that well. Anyway there will be more to see of Johar's motives and what not when he leaves which I'm thinking is going to be two or three posts away.

I enjoy total black and white characters sometimes but I always enjoy a grey one.

[fran_fic]

I understand! I often feel the same, being constantly behind on everything... I hope they let up on you a bit at work!! That you'll soon get some time and energy over for your hobbies too!

Yeah, he's a grey character, he's a bastard, but some of his thoughts are possible to understand, which does not excuse his behavior in any way...

Ah, yeah, that's what I meant, he has said that he doesn't believe Gorlyn is Arnell. I just meant that which ever situation it would be, it would be unfair. If he believes it's Arnell, it would be a petty revenge, if he doesn't believe that, it's even crueller, even if he has motives for it. I guess I meant that, even if I could understand - and even sympathise - with some of his feeling about Arnell from before... he's still a bastard to Gorlyn today, whatever his reasons.

Yes, usually the grey ones are the most interesting, though the black or white ones can be very funny to write - as in going all out in writing a real classic evil villain :-)

[kaelaaw]

They will and then I'll have to go back and find all the stories I read and post comments.

really classic evil villain is good but I find a pure as the driven snow hero to be the hardest to write.