[Report This]Date: 07 Sep 2009 02:19 Title: Collateral Costs
Damn, Gibraltar .... just damn. Pava is one compelling character. I don't know whether I want to hug him or run away screaming. And I suspect that's exactly how you mean to write him, so ... well done.
Author's Response:
Yeah, he's definitely a bit of Column A and a bit of Column B. Thanks for the review.
[Report This]Date: 06 Aug 2009 23:45 Title: The First Day
War is hell, and it makes for hellish bedfellows. Excellent long-term study of the evolution of a warrior to something beyond prey or predator. I found myself liking this character, sometimes despite myself.
Author's Response:
Thanks! Pava's a work-in-progress, changing as he strives to make up for the sins of his past without creating too many sins of the present. He's a man at odds with himself, hating what he's become even as he revels in his accomplishments as a soldier.
I appreciate the feedback.
Date: 02 Aug 2009 01:41 Title: The First Day
Thank you for giving us a look in Pava's past. We finally get to see how many skeletons are in his closet and the demons he carries within...Hopefully he can one day rid himself of them and find peace.
Author's Response:
One would hope, but we'll see. Old habits die hard. Thanks for the comments!
[Report This]Date: 24 Jul 2009 22:21 Title: Best Served Cold
Poor Pave, kicked out of Heaven, he scrambles back to Hell's Kitchen to hide in its familiarity.
Author's Response:
That is indeed the case. Thanks for commenting.
[Report This]Date: 24 Jul 2009 22:17 Title: House Call
I never quite got who that was. The Doctor? Either way, an interesting interlude.
Author's Response:
Good guess. ;-) Sometimes even Pava can be reasoned with, especially if the advice is given by someone older, wiser, and just a bit crazier than he.
[Report This]Date: 24 Jul 2009 22:13 Title: Death Valley
Darkush scored big time with this one. Hard hitting combat scenes and a poignancy at the end that really reaches the reader.
Author's Response:
I agree wholeheartedly. : )
Date: 24 Jul 2009 22:04 Title: The Last Man
Liked this when I first read it.
Date: 24 Jul 2009 22:04 Title: Collateral Costs
Stark and bitter. Something must have happened to resign him to his fate, something more than just being hunted. A "moment of clarity" perhaps, a situation where he realized the evils he'd committed. That would make an interesting chapter, IMO.
Author's Response:
I think with Lar'ragos it was a long road (pun intended) to get to that realization. Sometimes it takes a significant event (or a series of them) over time to make a person realize the rationalizations they're clinging to in order to excuse their behavior just don't hold up any longer.
Thanks for commenting!
Date: 24 Jul 2009 21:38 Title: Conscience of the King
Well, well, so that's why he left the Empire! Really cool idea and the first glimmers of a conscience, too.
[Report This]Date: 24 Jul 2009 20:18 Title: Stains of Conscience
A horrible solution to a major problem. I wouldn't want to have to make this choice. Its the kind of thing that scars a soul for a very long time to come. Brief, but well done.
Author's Response:
Thanks. Yes, this is one of many episodes from his past Pava wishes he could correct.
[Report This]Date: 24 Jul 2009 20:15 Title: Sand Scoured Souls
Interesting view of what Pava was doing at this time. I notice a certain cynicism has crept into his "poet" personality.
Author's Response:
Indeed it has. War has a way of growing calluses on people's souls. Thanks for the feedback.
[Report This]Date: 13 May 2009 17:27 Title: Death Valley
Once again I learn more about Pava and this time through someone else's eyes. Great work...thank the author for me!
Author's Response:
I will do so. Thanks for leaving a review. : )
[Report This]Date: 13 May 2009 17:17 Title: Collateral Costs
Continually stunning work....
[Report This]Date: 14 Apr 2009 20:19 Title: The First Day
I love these kind of complex, tormented characters who've done evil, but *aren't* evil -- people who want to do the right thing, but sometimes there's no right thing to do, and sometimes they're seduced by circumstances into doing the wrong thing.
I already mentioned in my review of "Geometries" that I really liked Lar'ragos. Reading more of his story just cemented that. I'm hoping to find him in the rest of your Gibraltar stuff as well... it'll just take some time to get to. :-)
Author's Response:
Thanks! Pava's a great deal of fun to write. He's complex and volatile and occasionally it's even difficult for me to get a handle on what he's thinking. ;-)
[Report This]Date: 13 Apr 2009 22:33 Title: The Last Man
I think I'm in love with Pava. ;)
Author's Response:
Well, he's pretty darn loveable! ;-)
[Report This]Date: 02 Apr 2009 08:52 Title: Sand Scoured Souls
And here his brutality, exposed and blatant. You would think that something happened later on to make him more of a "caring fellow" and regretful of his(relatively) youthful anger and callousness. But Andorians are tasty and remind one of chicken.
Author's Response:
Heh. They are tasty indeed.
Date: 02 Apr 2009 08:48 Title: The First Day
Pava
And in this forge was made steel,
And from this steel came the blade,
And this blade did smote,
These enemies before him.
Here you can see the hint of his future philosophy.
Author's Response:
Wow, nice poem. Is that yours or are you quoting someone else's work? Either way, it's a very good insight into Pava's psyche.
[Report This]Date: 28 Feb 2009 01:50 Title: Collateral Costs
LMAO! And I do remember this one. I remember that it was pretty damn intense, and it still is, even just looking back on it. Intense, disturbing and enlightening all.
Date: 28 Feb 2009 01:49 Title: Conscience of the King
I don't remember if I commented on this before; I remember reading it, though. I was glad that Pava did side to the good in this case, even if it wasn't even remotely an easy decision to do so. And even if it ended his first career.
Date: 28 Feb 2009 01:47 Title: Stains of Conscience
There are times when I read his story that I honestly have to wonder if Pava can ever truly redeem himself. Then again, I wrote something of a monster myself in the Mirror!Scott; these types to whom there are no easy answers about, and who you can't really just classify as heroes, villains or otherwise with any simple terms.
Good work walking the line.