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strangetomato) wrote2010-01-13 07:38 pm
strangetomato) wrote2010-01-13 07:38 pm
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Strangetown, HWC: Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Who's the most glamourous? The most dangerous?
Who has the power?
Dina smiled back at her reflection.
It had been disappointing that Don hadn't been there to see her, she thought as she fussed with her hair. He'd probably already left town. Nina hadn't been there either. The damn fool probably went after him.
She could have him, as far as Dina was concerned. Nina deserved him. Dina had no time for the Dons of the world. They were too messy. Too easy. Too obvious.
She liked her men mysterious. Wise. She like them with more subtlety.
The funeral had been much what she'd expected. They'd all looked, gasped. How dare she wear that dress? So glamourous. So familiar. They'd stared and whispered. Alexander, remote as always, had barely said a word to her.
They'd all watched, gawking, to see if she'd shed a tear. She didn't. She never did. Not at that funeral, nor Michael's, nor her father's. She never cried. It wasn't that she wasn't devastated, but she'd never give anyone the satisfaction of knowing it.
She remembered her father, lying in the casket, just like that. Eyelids shut, never again to betray his secret, for all the good it did him after death.
She remembered those eyes. Those dark secrets he hid behind his sunglasses, only rarely glimpsed. People thought he wore them for character. For the mystery. In that respect, the glasses had served him well. They gave him an unknowable, dangerous edge. Combined with his unnatural strength and his fearlessness, he'd risen quickly in the ranks of the family business.
The mystery had also been his downfall.
But Dina's memory was long, and her grudges long-held. Those who crossed her lived to never know what hit them. She'd had the last laugh. For her father, and for herself. She always did.
She thumbed the necklace at her neck. A family heirloom. Didn't want me in your family, did you? Well look at me now.
She always got what she wanted.
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I love how your version is a decidely more European approach, woth Riverblossom Hills being more of a Scotland equivalent, which makes so much sense if you're going to view Pleasantview as England (and it makes complete sense that you would use that as your own point of reference). Does than mean you're viewing Strangetown as if it were in the Middle East, in a sense? :P
I've tended to go along with the U.S.-ish vibe for Strangetown (like Roswell) and Pleasantview (seems California-ish, maybe?), even though I think I'd give them a different geography than a straight immitation of the real world analogies I have for them. As I said, I see them as their own thing, even though I sort of connect them to real world places in overall theme.
I was working on a simple map for it all at one point. I should look into it again, especially now that I've been thinking about Twikkii Island and how it would relate to Wanmami Island and Felicity Island from Castaway stories.
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I kinda see Strangetown as the Middle East, but I think it makes much more sense if its actually IN America because of the whole Roswell reference it gives. Veronaville is more Italy for me, I guess.
Pleasentview, for me, COULD be in England.. but I couldn't imagine some of the things which happen in there actually being over here. It gives an American vibe to it, for sure, but I feel it has throwbacks to almost every culture in itself. So I think it as being a more Universal Town with different nationalities in it than actually one of its own. The Pleasents, and the Brokes, are 'Native' and more American, wheras the Goths I see as being Long-Term English Settlers.
Like you, I see them as their own, but with hints and aspects of real world stuff. Maybe thats what TS3 has is actual cultural references to real world places, but TS2 lets you be imaginative.. mmm
Oh? I'd love to see it - I did a little searching for an old thread I had once which discussed the whole geography thing and had little dots and such for where places felt like they went.. but I have lost it, and its nowhere to be found. Oh well... those images needed to be burninated anyway xD
I think Twikki Island is west of PV, North east of ST, and Wanmami/Felicity/"MysteryRomanceIsland" are kinda north of that.. mm...
SUPER FAST SKETCHY MADE WITH THE PENCIL TOOL REPRESENTATION:
http://i47.tinypic.com/29z5rbs.jpg
I'll let you guess which places are which!!
^_^