Tales of the Parodyverse

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Adversarius
Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 04:26:44 am EST
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The Interview: The clever, yet ironically appropriate, secondary title.
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Oh my goodness, it's been ages...

Well, Let's see, I guess I can set this up liken to the way Jason comprised his interview...

*Gale lightly wraps a pen to a pad of paper as if waiting to write responses while conducting a 'real' interview.*

*I sit nervously and ocassionally scratch my wannabe-beard of patchy stubble. I find myself often reaching down to turn my porcelain coffee mug on the table between myself and my interviewer.*

Gale: So... Let's begin with the very basics, tell me a little about yourself.

Me: Well, I'm not one that could say I've lived the most adventurous or glamorous life, but then again, I'm not what I'd like to consider, mundane. I've lived the average-American Youth's life, done the trials and tribulations of cruel elementary schoolers, made my transition period in Jr. High where I met my good (if not, best) friend, Nitz T. Bloody. I ran the gauntlet known as highschool and came away relatively unscathed, but then again, I suppose even bad memories are still memories had, and chances taken. That will be the one thing I resent about highschool, not branching out enough. I spend so much time trying to simply shut it all out until it was over so I could 'live it up' in college, that I passed up so many wonderful or disasterous experiences to be had. And here I am now, a highschool student in a college setting...

Gale: ... Err, ok then, anywho, onto the next subject. Interests and likes or dislikes.

Me: Hmm, let's see, I guess I'll go over the fundamentals: TV, I watch an assorted lot of shows on the boob-tube, ranging from Mega Man NT Warrior: Axess on KidsWB, After Toons , to their goofy staurday morning line-ups, competing with One Piece and Shaman King on The Fox Box, or whatever it's called now. I generally tend to stay with the more comedic side of television and not stray to more serious, or 'reality' based TV. This often means watching primarily animated programming.

Next would be The Neterinteverseweb. The link to, and isolating gateway of all my afternoons. There are few places I actually access on the web, but I frequent them all day, whether metaphorically 'window shopping' about in online bazzars, or exchanging slanderous remarks in superfluous arguments on chat-boards.

Finally, reading and other such obscurities. Well, I've been a pretty avid sci-fi and horror reader all my life, although, more recently (since about 98/99), I've been distainfully riding the 'fantasy lore train' sweeping the rails of US pop-culture. This may sound a little mean, but I enjoyed the days when things like the Tolkien stories (or Rowling for the relatively newer crowds) were for the nerds. I may not be able to curtail the LoTR success now, but I hope the HP stories suffer the same train-wreck The Matrix did with it's sequels, and fade from the lime-light. Although, speaking of those innitials, I've heard many good things about HP Lovecraft stories, and the monstrous, squid-beast, Cthulhu. So, I may look into those.

Gale: *yawn, followed by a stretch and checking of the wrist watch* Alrighty then... Let's see, now that we know far toooooo much about you... Let's talk about your reasons for being here .

Me: Ah, okidoki then, that's easy. My friend Nitz and I were conversing one day, I think in mid April or something, and the topic of message boards came up. He mentioned a site called Parodyverse that he was writing a story arc for, and I thought it was kind of a neat idea, if not a bit lacking in orininality. I mean, who'd want to read about parodied heros, when I could just read about the heros themselves? I was however, very, very, very *rinse and repeat a couple hundred times for emphasis* pleasantly suprised by the content. This site contained some of the best writing and collection of original characters I'd ever seen. I rebuked my earlier statement, and literally slapped myself for doubting the writers here. From there on, for several months I merely lurked and responded only to Nitz's stories for reasons of having known him personally, and not knowing how others may have reacted to any criticisms I may have offered as a total nobody out of the blue. But, I was later commissioned to try my hand at a story by my friend, and drafted up my first piece, then posted it. I was now a member of the forum.

Gale: *reminiscent sigh* Ah yes, I vaguely remember that ... but only BECAUSE YOU HAVEN"T WRITTEN ANYTHING IN MONTHS YOU LAZY SOB!! But since this has basically be a questionless interview so far, what say you? Why is this? *cough*lazybastard*cough*

Me: *ehem* Yes, well, it's a matter of poor timing and lack of discipline. I got myself more bogged down in school than I should have, and am paying for it with a lack of time. The discipline thing is just me, I have a nasty habit of starting projects and not finishing them, but this is one I'm determined to see through to the end, just you wait, I've almost got a flashback chapter finished...

Gale: Really?

Me: Oh yes.

Gale: Grood ... I mean great, and good... Whatever, speaking of your writing, tell me a little about it, I couldn't have possibly been sprung from the loins of your imagination without a little help, right?

Me: It's true, I must confess, my writing style, although long-winded and novelistic (I wish), is actually spurred by my fondness for Anime. Hence your lecherous perversions towards your students, and the slap-stick 'humor' that ensues. The bad part though, is that it never plays out right without decent visuals, and I just can't get that in text, I'm just not a prolific enough writer. Your very character even is just the culmination of all 'Doctor' based characters in anime. You wear a lab-coat, despite being a classroom oriented teacher, you use scalpels instead of throwing knives, and have the perma-reflective glasses, keeping your eyes always hidden unless you're showing anger towards an opponent. If it was within the grasp of my writing skills, I'd keep you in sillouette almost constantly, but I've decided that with things as they are, I'm going to leave you as you are. But I might try to make a character as such if one doesn't exist already on PV, the typical detective noir, maybe with a side story that'd link to yours.

Gale: Good luck with that, I guess there's now no need to ask for your future plans on the site.

Me: Thanks, and I have other ideas waiting in the wings. But that's another reason I have problems finishing projects, I keep starting new ones, so I'll write a chapter of those so I don't forget them, and put them on hold till I finish this.

Gale: Ok, I've been wondering for a bit, what is an Adversarius?

Me: Well, It was moniker I created to create as a shield to the cruel internet world as do all people with 'screen names.' No one wants information too personal at others disposal until they trust that community.

Gale: Why that name though?

Me: Well, the name I originally wanted was, The Adversary. It was simple, not very subtle, but I could live with that, and it was most of all, ambiguous. What was it the adversary of? Who knows? It was the perfect anti-hero name, he could be good or bad, he was just something's adversary... But, it was taken. So, I threw some latin sounding suffix to it, made Adversarius, and it's stuck with me for about a year and a half.

Gale: Interesting, but since we've rambled on enough as it is, I say we wrap this up and give the fans what they really wanted to hear, more infomation about me and my story.

Me: *cough*narcissist*cough* ... Well, I can assure lots of plot twists, some historical re-writing for the worse, a tie-in or two to more mythology based power origins, and an unforgettable (well, maybe after a couple days it'll fade) ending.

Gale: Can you give us a bit of a trailer?

Me: No.

Gale: You lazy chicken shi-

Me: Woah now! We'll have none of that 'fowl' language. *cue drum solo for an exit*


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