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  1. MirandaFave on Chapter 1 Wed 27 Mar 2024 01:18PM UTC

    Leo Verde's first day and he lands into a bustling scene that along with the gorgeous artwork, sets a scene of a large and complex, sprawling facility which no doubt will lend to the large and complex sprawl of story telling.

    I always appreciate introductions like this handled deftly that introduce characters, settings and indeed the slice of life that you will setting up for this tale. It really is handled delicately, with lots of new and interesting details and possible characters that might crop up later to keep us intrigued but also able to track and like Verde track what is being sussed out.

    As always Mike, you imbue your settings and stories with little trinkets of details and talk that is very your style and fits to the setting and enhances it. For example, talk of billets and quartermasters, the sheer practicalities of landing into a new job place for a Starfleet officer as well as the soft focus on rank and the pecking order of how things and people operate here, from the quartermaster, to the sheriff of the local constabulary, to where in all of this Leo fits in. Even then, baseball (another trademark) is the great equaliser bringing a touch of the human side of Leo out, lending some light on his character.

    Welcome to the Crazy Eight indeed.

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    1. LordMcCoveyCove on Chapter 1 Thu 28 Mar 2024 03:45PM UTC

      The County of McCovey Cove

      I'm definitely borrowing a lot from my own personal experiences in developing Leo's character. This is a fairly typical adjustment for anyone coming into a new environment where they're going to be expected to perform at a high level; a fact of which I recently experienced working at my current employer... I was hired on for my many years of experience in the industry and my boss had set the bar. The additional layer for Leo is coming from a "forced" leave of absence due to the incident that required him to depart his previous billet on his ship. That's a translation of having been laid off from my previous job and being out of work for a long period of time (11 months), left to worry and fret about how I was going to provide for my family and survive. I'm sure a lot of this was therapeutic to write.

      Of course, being a baseball fan, I had to find an opportunity to express that. Leo's also an association football fan. :)

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