I
have to give major props to two creative people:
·
Mia
Zachary, who found the awesome picture below and sent it to me on
Pinterest
·
Gillian
Bronte Adams, who posted the awesome picture in the first place
I’m
friends with Mia and know her creative tenacity, so it doesn’t surprise me she
was able to find such a creativity-inducing image. But after following that
image back to its
original source at GillianBronteAdams.com, I also have to give props to Ms.
Adams.
Anyone
who’s struggling to trap their hero for climatic effect – or just because it’s
fun to be a jerk – should check this blog post out. In fact, you should read it
regardless. It’s that good!
The
memo stands out in all the right ways. “From the Academy of Ultimate Villainy:
Today’s Lesson: How To Trap A Hero.” Never mind that the colons are a little
repetitive and the “to” should be lowercased considering the previous
preposition. Who cares about grammar when there’s apparently a school for scoundrels.
Mind
blown!
This
revelation begs to be explored further. Do these educational institutes of evil
learning have university-sized classrooms where trolls take notes and bullies search
for victims to snatch them from? Does the insufferable blond girl lick her
glossy lips in anticipation of how to ensnare her own nemesis, while the
brunette vampire beside her tries to pay attention to the lecture instead of
turning her teeth on her classmate?
Those
thirteen words beg a story, if not an entire series. And Adams rises to that
challenge with a breakdown of “Dr. Sinestra’s lecture” as recorded by some spy
at the dastardly school.
Thanks
to that correspondence, we learn that there are three main kinds of heroes:
·
The
Romantic
·
The
Idealistic
·
The
Clever
And
trapping them is as easy as one-two-three once it’s established which group
they fall into.
As
Dr. Sinestra says, “The number one rule of hero trapping is to offer the hero
something he cannot resist. Every hero has a weak spot” to exploit. “Offer the
thing he most desires, and then snatch it from his grasp at the last moment” to
“leave him in utter despair.”
This
Dr. Sinestra is one wise villain. No wonder he got the position at the Academy!
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