Archibald Nixon
anti-life coach
So I got this idea from a colleague who once tried to describe the different characters in our department in terms of what clichéd character they'd play in your average war movie. We were brainstorming this with two or three other guys; one of them, a real still-waters-run-deep sort, was just sort of half-listening... Anyway, the name of one of the most loathed persons in our department came up, and the creator of the whole game gave him kind of an inaccurate characterization as a wishy-washy Henry Blake type --at which point Stillwaters sits bolt-upright in a rage and snarls "Are you fuckin SHITTIN ME?!? That ain't J___! J___'s the fuckin incompetent green lieutenant who gets shot by his own troops in the FIRST FUCKIN TWENTY MINUTES OF THE FILM!!!" We were stricken; that we had unintentionally managed to get this withdrawn, spacy guy to go from 0 to white-hot rage in about 2 seconds flat, but also that his description was dead on...we must've laughed for about half an hour.
Think this could be applied to TK? Come up with some of your own characterizations, of yourself or others --if you don't, I or someone else will.
For my part, I like to think of myself as the spacy, distracted soldier who ponders the significance of it all under a veneer of pacifism, collecting trinkets & memorabilia here and there...capable of fighting when called upon but more at home mingling with the natives...doesn't have a prayer of promotion or command, but hopes to live long enough to one day become the James Jones of war novelists. Unfortunately, in the movies this sort of character is usually killed in the last five minutes; the last, pointless casualty of a battle already decided.
Think this could be applied to TK? Come up with some of your own characterizations, of yourself or others --if you don't, I or someone else will.
For my part, I like to think of myself as the spacy, distracted soldier who ponders the significance of it all under a veneer of pacifism, collecting trinkets & memorabilia here and there...capable of fighting when called upon but more at home mingling with the natives...doesn't have a prayer of promotion or command, but hopes to live long enough to one day become the James Jones of war novelists. Unfortunately, in the movies this sort of character is usually killed in the last five minutes; the last, pointless casualty of a battle already decided.
