With Orguz pretty well taken care of, I went on to tackle Ophis Python’s section and made some progress on his Chapter 2. We are, of course, talking about TTWC2. To be perfectly honest, Python is perhaps my least favorite lead character in TTWC2 and I believe I’ve confessed before that I’ve had issues in the past making this lot compelling. Perhaps part of it is because there’s not a whole lot of sympathy to be had for them, except for Orguz, that is. As I was pondering the problem recently, I realized that while the leads of TTWC1 and TTWC3 are dominated by humans, TTWC2 doesn’t have a single human lead. Yes, a few of them were once human, but they have long since been removed from their humanity. I wonder if that’s part of it. Personally, I enjoy the thought exercise of trying to put myself in the mindset of a non-human sapient, but being human, there is only a limited degree I can remove myself from my own consciousness and even if I could adopt a wholly alien mindset, it’d be problematic conveying that in such a fashion that the audience could connect to it. At any rate, I’m going to be stuck with this big stupid snake for a while. ^o^ Stay tuned.

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