Friendzone
November 5, 2020 1:29 am Leave your thoughts
Would I be Cleo’s friend?
When I first wrote her, I was a young person begrudging attitudes people around me had towards women. I’m not a 3rd wave feminist yelling for rights I already have, this was about fictional heroines. I have/had no issue with the hero of the story being attractive, but I remember there being a spate of female heroes in movies/TV at the time who were badly written, like the formula for a porno. EG; something happens somewhere, no one cares about the story because it’s so shit, but as long as the heroine gets her hooters out, it’s all good in the end…Okay, but if someone with no skill was in a high-risk position they wouldn’t last long, big hooters or not. I was frustrated people didn’t see it (or didn’t care,) and it ruined how cool I thought the characters were. I wanted to create someone who was kickass in all ways.
Cleo has helped me gain experiences. She told me to train, it would be good for me in a lot of ways, but also for the writing. She made me fire weapons, difficult to come by in this country, take the opportunity and learn how it feels. She has made it so I invented weapons based on quantum physics and disclosed CIA documents, all that knowledge should be used somewhere. Sometimes I think WWCD? (What would Cleo do?) in some situations, and it’s made those situations better for me.
She taught me that sometimes other people’s incorrect perceptions are their own downfall. She is attractive. I wanted to make a graphic novel at the time so I selected features and outfits I wanted to draw, hence the functional, but sexy to some people, weapons Bridle in King of Spades. Though that part was also written to give the dickheads who hold her captive more reasons to dislike them. Attractiveness is subjective, but including that element adds to the character. Just like it would if the main character was particularly UNattractive. The face everyone presents to the world is judged no matter who you are. Those perceptions usually dictate how you’re initially treated by people who don’t know you eg: A man is walking towards you, dishevelled, ripped clothing, a matted beard and no shoes…is he going to smell like a 6-day-old rotting corpse as he goes past you? Probably. But do you know for sure for sure, no. Is that pretty agent girl really going to give you her number when you ask? Or is she going to shoot your dick off? 😉
Cleo is difficult for other characters to figure out. I know her, I’ve known her over half my life, but we aren’t good friends. These are some of the reasons.
I understand jaded disdain for clueless civilians but her attitude was built by growing up behind the MDS walls and seeing what she has. She’s like a nature documentary, you’ve got your hands over your eyes because a lion is ripping a zebra to pieces but the film crew can’t/won’t/aren’t allowed to intervene. Agents let the world run a course while they observe the peasant sandbox. Her superiors have plans for the future and the dragnet will take care of the people living in it, they don’t matter. Her coldness isolates her from the other characters, even Agent Starr, who is ranked the same as her yet has a respect for civilians.
She completes orders without questions (aloud.) She relies on the judgement of someone/an agency she’s signed her life over to.
She rarely lets anyone know how she feels. It seems professional not to have emotion be a factor in her life, but I think real people who do this all the time aren’t healthy and aren’t as fearless as they portray. It takes balls to let people know how you actually feel. During King of Spades, we see a shift in how she handles emotions and the clumsy stumbles make her more human. We also see the consequences of that for someone in her position and whether her personal growth is a positive or negative thing in her life.
Cleo and I have to work on our friendship, but I would call her a companion I’ve had long enough to have made a significant change of my life’s course and I’m grateful we get to hang out.
TLDR:
* Cleo isn’t my best friend
*But I understand where she’s coming from, she isn’t a regular human being.
*WWCD is a cool motto.
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