Munday Flaws And Virtues
What do you consider your hero's/protagonist's greatest flaw? What do you consider your villain's/antagonist's greatest virtue?
For Victor, I'd say his greatest flaw is not thinking before he acts sometimes -- going with gut feelings that might actually hurt him or those around him. You can actually see this in the movie: during the rehearsal scene, he drops the ring. When it rolls under Maudeline's skirt, he automatically dives for it -- without thinking about the fact he's holding a lit candle. Result -- Maudeline's skirt is set on fire. In "Secundus," the most major example is during the climax, where he realizes the tentacles are coming from Wonderland Park and automatically runs toward it. He's following his first instinct to try and help his friends without making any plans on how exactly he's going to do that. Alice chews him out a bit for that when he meets up with her in the park.
For Barkis, I'm not sure -- he can be genuinely charming and cordial, but is that really a virtue? For the Queen, I'd say it would be the fact that she genuinely can love. I imagine her happily cooing over a lot of her monsters, and she was quite upset by the death of the Executioner. Honestly, the Queen's main problem is that she never got past the "I'm going to take whatever I want" stage of mental development. Learning that she was created as a copy of someone else didn't help matters at all (neither did having what is probably a nasty case of megalomania). If things had gone a bit different -- like if Lewis had been able to neutralize her -- "Susie" might have ended up a decent person.
For Victor, I'd say his greatest flaw is not thinking before he acts sometimes -- going with gut feelings that might actually hurt him or those around him. You can actually see this in the movie: during the rehearsal scene, he drops the ring. When it rolls under Maudeline's skirt, he automatically dives for it -- without thinking about the fact he's holding a lit candle. Result -- Maudeline's skirt is set on fire. In "Secundus," the most major example is during the climax, where he realizes the tentacles are coming from Wonderland Park and automatically runs toward it. He's following his first instinct to try and help his friends without making any plans on how exactly he's going to do that. Alice chews him out a bit for that when he meets up with her in the park.
For Barkis, I'm not sure -- he can be genuinely charming and cordial, but is that really a virtue? For the Queen, I'd say it would be the fact that she genuinely can love. I imagine her happily cooing over a lot of her monsters, and she was quite upset by the death of the Executioner. Honestly, the Queen's main problem is that she never got past the "I'm going to take whatever I want" stage of mental development. Learning that she was created as a copy of someone else didn't help matters at all (neither did having what is probably a nasty case of megalomania). If things had gone a bit different -- like if Lewis had been able to neutralize her -- "Susie" might have ended up a decent person.