Thursday, January 29, 2009

Traitors

What do you do with traitors in a story? Well, apparently they betray whoever's side they're on in some way shape or form. How they do it can get quite interesting and tricky. For instance, you could have the typical traitor -one who acts as a friend of a group but instead is relaying messages to the enemy, who in turn come along and either beat up the good guys or the good guys escape by the width of a gnat's eyebrow. Or there are the types who have infiltrated the other camp long ago and uses subtler means to communicate with the enemy. Or there are those who start out on one side, but as the story progresses their minds change but they stay on the same side and just help out the ones on the opposite side. It can work for either side. And usually the traitors don't do the dirty work when the team they're actually on comes around. So what good are they to tormictionitize? I don't know. (However, I know they're great for torreadtion.) Since I have one coming up, I'll see that I can do with this...person... *tormictionist grin*

As before and always be,
Nestami.