A floating tree

Ozoneocean on Jan. 21, 2006

On Pinky:
Ccs1989 left an interesting comment on the last page about Pinky’s motivation and her background. I’ve sort of expanded on her motivation a little throughout all the commentaries here, but I don’t expect people to read all of those. Suffice it to say, Pinky is an idealist, she doesn’t like war, but she prefers to help end it if she can, whereas Cc only cares about winning at any cost. This might be a foreign concept in the 20thC when most officers seem to be inveterate morons… But in times past officer ranks were filled by a mixture of educated, intelligent people AND morons. How did she rise to her high rank? Well there are many ways other than killing, she’s an officer after all. I’d like to keep it for her back story, but for the nonce I’ll leave you with some options: Family influence, brown nosing and politicking, money, blackmail, merit, favours, sex, or battlefield promotion.
You make up your own minds.

Page description:
Quite a time after the sea burial, the aft turret is fully repaired and Pinky is back to sunbathing. An alarm rings and she’s looking out at a camouflaged cruiser that has suddenly come upon the Buccaneer… She knows that means they’re going to start lobbing shells at it so she had better leave before she gets pulverised. So she nips down the passage that fellow showed her before. She’s a bit pissed off.

Commentary:
Ah, this page marked the start of a short interlude where I added a lot of silliness and humour. ^_^
I don’t know if people really liked that, but I find it hard to stay serious for too long sometimes. I enjoyed just putting in stupid jokes and making Pinky look dumb for a while. I was thinking of Tankgirl when doing this part, not that I’d really read much of it at that stage. But Marine noticed the vibe and hooked me up with some TG which I appreciated. ^^

A note:
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