HHC: HHC19 Voting!

[William Strickland]

On May 15, 5:29Â pm, Wil Alambre <wilalam... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello RACC-ateers!
>
> Voting on the 19th high concept challenge has come to a close and the
> winner, by way of a landslide vote, is Robin Strickland for Spellbinder
> #3! Congratulations to Robin, and thanks to everyone for contributing!
>
> I pass the ball over to Robin, and look forward to everyone
> participating in the next high concept challenge. Including myself. Woo! :)
>
> .........................................
> Wil Alambre, follow me on Twitter athttp://twitter.com/wilalambre

Uhm, wow! I don't know what to say. I mean besides 'thank you very
much!', of course.

I guess I would like my challenge to be - and feel free to tell me if
this is something that won't work as a HCC - an examination of the
super-motive. In keeping with the bad habit I've gotten into of naming
everything I do here after a song title, I'm calling it "Behind Blue
Eyes".

The idea is to examine the motives of a character - hero, villain, or
even a nobody - either in one of the stories here, or heck, a new one
(why not?). Nothing public domain, please, unless you're working with
such a character in one of your tales and you've put your own spin on
them.

The look into their mind can be silly or serious, deep or dippy. Their
motives don't have to be anything profound, although double kudos if
they are. Do they just like seeing people smile after being rescued?
Do they need some quick cash so they can keep paying child support to
their usurious ex? Does the knowledge that they've made the world
better fill them with a quiet pride? Do they like hearing people weep
as their dreams are shattered? Do they simply love the great taste of
ecospheres? Are they just in it for the lulz? And in any or all of
these cases, do things turn out the way they want them to?

So, uhm, yeah. Hop to it!