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My Recent Posts · (05/14/2009

Doesn't a lot of that just...pertain to real life? Teens/Tweens have done quite a bit in Moebius history...

My Recent Posts · (05/14/2009

Maybe the Station Square squares don't look at it that way. That's just my take on it, anyway; your mileage may vary.

My Recent Posts · (05/14/2009

Actually according to Ian the fact that she is Robotnik's niece was one of the reasons she was able to get her foot in the door of G.U.N. to begin with. Ian answered sme questions on his own forum through the voices of the characters he was writing, here is his response from G.U.N. Commander

Question #131 wrote:
To G.U.N. Commander what was it about Hope that made you chance employing a little girl, please use as much detail as possible?

I'm afraid the details are classified. Suffice to say a blood-relation of Dr. Robotnik who willing came into our ranks and works studiously towards his defeat is a commodity we are not going to let pass

So with G.U.N. at least being Robotnik kin was actually helpful to her employment it seems Commander Tower just wants the best of the best who are willing to work for him. Sort of reminds me of other comic book military leaders who will employ villains or anti-heroes if they can. Also Dan just so you have an esimate of how useful she is to G.U.N. this is a list Ian also gave on his forum of intelligence for the characters.

I'm not well-versed in what exactly the intelligence quotient means or how it's derived. Suffice to say that compared with Robotnik's genius:
Tails - potentially par
Chuck - slightly below
Hope - potentially par
Rotor - slightly below, possibly with a chance to beat-out Chuck

The link to the comment is here in case you want to check. it is question 20 on that page http://www.bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24891&highlight=hope+genius#24891

Also in the event it may help with your review here is some more comments from Ian on the matter

Question #74 wrote:

When did you first decide to have Hope work for G.U.N. as far back as "Ties that Bind" or sometime later?

From the very beginning. I had two scenarios: Snively was a heartless monster and he blew her to bits or she escaped and joined G.U.N. (details of which are pending). I hadn't settled on a scenario at the time since I didn't know when, or if, I'd get to investigate G.U.N. like I wanted to, nor was I sure precisely where I wanted to take Snively at the time. The ending was a cliffhanger and I had time to weigh my choices. When Sonic Universe opened up so did my chances to tell more Team Dark stories, so we went with the happier scenario.

Question #75 wrote:

What was your reasoning behind puting Hope in the roles you've chosen for her both as apart of G.U.N. and as a member of Shadow's supporting cast?

Funny thing about Hope - initially she wasn't intended to be a supporting character. She was meant to be a plot device to sow discontent among the Overlanders in Robotropolis. It was reader demand that got her to stay in Knothole and actually have a role beyond "little girl." Except nothing much had come of it since then. So I wanted to give her a role - something to do - instead of just being and oddity among the mobians.

The fact that she looks like Maria and was already loosely connected to Shadow begged to be addressed. It'd be almost criminal to ignore it. But at the same time, "Shadow pines over little blonde girl" is just about as predictable as you can get. So I wanted to take the obvious and put a spin on it. Hope is not Maria. She's sweet, she's kind-hearted, but she's also a grease-monkey. Maria was frail and idealistic. Hope is hearty and haunted by her family ties; she works for a better world with an entirely different mindset.

So you'll have Shadow with a few expectations, and you'll have Hope who's putting on a brave face in a pretty heavy situation, and we'll see how they play off each other. I think we'll see many more interesting stories with her as the kind of moral core to Team Dark than we would've gotten if she stuck around with the already well-rounded Sonic supporting cast.

My Recent Posts · (05/15/2009

Thanks for the inside dope.

My Recent Posts · (05/17/2009

So GUN is accepting interships now?

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