DWPFF: Don Quixote (Confederate Soldier)

[Mookie Blaylock]

Fortify your coastlines, Oh ye sovereign states still stomping along in the year of our Lord, 2062! Dean Qin is 55, bored, and hungry. After twenty wistful years of designing the set for Eastern Canada’s favorite gameshow, WormWord!, Dean begins to see himself as a volunteer Confederate soldier in the American Civil War. Oh those noblest of virtues! Oh what glory to the C.S.A.! Dean obviously must recruit the finest soldiers from the womb of Ol’ Dixie to lead into the most meritorious of conflicts. This worthy and glorious mission leads Dean to the Mi’cmac Indian Reservation in Nova Scotia, where he rounds up at least one of the finest, certainly non-alcoholic, physically fit, and all around super-sweet best friend sidekick Sean Parmo. Dean leads you, oh noble reader, on a swift tour of peaceful coastal Canada, as seen through the eyes of a vengeful Confederate soldier piecing his way across the Mason Dixon of his mind. While conclusory melancholy is assured, salt your grits and find joy in the journey!

[RonaldMontgomery]

So why do I like this guy again?

Where's the conflict and the resolution?

Why a Confederate soldier? Why Canada? Are you from Nova Scotia? I've been to Halifax, and they were enchanted with my southern accent (I live in...St. Louis). I thought their accent was pretty cool too.

I like the idea of Old Dixie as a fable. I think a lot of fun could be had with that. But this story needs to be grounded in that. Right now none of it fits together.

Now, a GOOD science fiction story would be this: in the future, America elects a BLACK MAN PRESIDENT. Southern Republicans go apeshit because he's fucking articulate and beats them at their own short bus antics, so they form a third political party, the Teabaggers, and they have big meetings where they....

Oops....ahhh...sorry. I don't want to write your story for you....

..'scuse me...

[Mookie Blaylock]

Originally Posted by RonaldMontgomery

So why do I like this guy again?

Where's the conflict and the resolution?

Why a Confederate soldier? Why Canada? Are you from Nova Scotia? I've been to Halifax, and they were enchanted with my southern accent (I live in...St. Louis). I thought their accent was pretty cool too.

I like the idea of Old Dixie as a fable. I think a lot of fun could be had with that. But this story needs to be grounded in that. Right now none of it fits together.

Now, a GOOD science fiction story would be this: in the future, America elects a BLACK MAN PRESIDENT. Southern Republicans go apeshit because he's fucking articulate and beats them at their own short bus antics, so they form a third political party, the Teabaggers, and they have big meetings where they....

Oops....ahhh...sorry. I don't want to write your story for you....

..'scuse me...

Got too cutesy with the pitch I suppose. Like the original Don Quixote story, the conflict is almost entirely internal: Virtuous Man v. Imagined Threat! Dean views that he is espousing the morals of the Confederate South - obviously out of place in a future NE Canadian region. Don Quixote similarly followed an increasingly out-dated chivalrous code in a world that had since moved on. The underlying tension becomes more ridiculous (and interesting IMO) when you bump it up to coastal Canada; where Dean attempts to drum up support of his Confederate mission in an Indian reservation almost 200 years after the actual civil war. The specific incorporations with the future will mostly show up in Dean Qin's pointless and hallucinationatory quests, where he fights modern technology while mistaking it for Yankee soldiers.

[chris stevens]

this was interesting, mookie. got anything else?