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Bay of Pigs (video game)

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ARCHETYPE TIPS FOR FICTION

Reason

Just as his title suggests, the Reason character is present in the story to provide a voice of logic. He is:

• Someone who is fundamentally logical.
• Someone who makes decisions based on logic, not emotions.
• Someone who acts in logical ways.

EXAMPLES

C-3PO in Star Wars, Hamm in Toy Story, Inspector Gordon in Batman Begins, Herod (!) in Claudius the God... the Tin Man, Alice Liddell, Stannis Baratheon, Lloyd Asplund, Kristian in "The Ringstetten Saga", the Clever Princess and her intellectual equal in "The Snow Queen", Juan Carlos Ruiz in real life,  Elinor Woods in my Hogwarts fics,

Emotion

If you’ve guessed that the Emotion character is pretty much the opposite of the Reason character, then it’s a gold star for you. The Emotion character is:

• Someone who is fundamentally emotional.
• Someone who makes decisions based on emotions, not logic.
• Someone who may be negatively emotional (e.g., angry) or positively emotional (e.g., compassionate)—or both.
• Someone who acts in emotional ways.

EXAMPLES

Mr. Ping in Kung Fu Panda, Cathy in Wuthering Heights, Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair, Melanie in Gone With the Wind... Many a character in the Game of Thrones series: Jaime Lannister, Brienne Tarth, Renly Baratheon (foil to Stannis), Loras and Margaery Tyrell, Theon Greyjoy... Luna Lovegood, the Cowardly Lion (foil to the Tin Man), most leads in "The Ringstetten Saga" (all three arcs, and except Kristian), Sandra Dermark (overlaps with Reason), María Calzada, Marian Woods in my Hogwarts fics, Kyle Glenriver (overlaps with Reason) in the selfsame fics (both foils to Elinor Woods)

A recent bible for creating fictional characters happened to fall recently into my hands.
I identify myself mostly with this character type/archetype: 

The FREE SPIRIT: eternal optimist, she dances to unheard tunes. Playful and fun-loving, she travels through life with a hop, skip and a jump, always stopping to smell the flowers and admire the pretty colours. She acts on a whim and follows her heart, not her head. 
Motivated by following her heart.
Virtues:
-sincere
-upbeat
-imaginative
Flaws:
-impulsive
-meddling
-undisciplined 

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

4. Free Spirit—motivated by following her heart 
· Virtues
· sincere
· upbeat
· imaginative 
· Flaws
o impulsive
o meddling
o undisciplined - See more at: http://amberargyle.blogspot.com.es/2008/10/8-master-archetypes.html#sthash.yUr5l5P0.dpuf

The free spirit archetype is a quirky, talkative, charming, and unpredictable individual.

The free spirit character archetype will lighten a serious story, add comedy to a light tale, and just the right amount of unpredictability to any plot. Some well-known free spirits include Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe in Friends, Meg Ryan as Kathleen in You’ve Got Mail, and Emma in Emma by Jane Austen.

The Free Spirit is Eccentric

Following normal conventions is boring to a free spirit. Life should be lived with a splash, is her motto. Her eccentricity shows in her quirky habits, her unusual clothing, her hobbies, and her interests.

She may be an astrologer or an artist. She might be an actor or entertainer. Whatever she chooses as her career, it will be something where her creativity can shine and where the lines of convention and norms are blurry.

The Free Spirit is Talkative

The free spirit character archetype loves to talk. She is one of those characters that will chat about anything and everything, charming some people and irritating others, but everyone still thinks she is adorable.

Her charm lies in the fact that she can tune in to others’ feelings and be empathetic. Her empathy sometimes makes her think she knows more about how people are feeling than they themselves know, and she often sets herself up as a matchmaker.

At the same time, her ideas sometimes appear so far-fetched that others don’t understand her. This comes across humorously. She finds enjoyment in the littlest things, and shares them by telling endless tales.

The free spirit goes with the flow like a leaf floating on the surface of the water.

Free Spirit Relationships

The free spirit is sincere, upbeat, and cheers everyone up. Because she is so much fun to be around, she always receives invitations to parties and events. People don’t take the librarian seriously because of her unusual ideas and habits. Yet she can be highly intelligent, which makes these relationships frustrating for her.

In romance, the free spirit is most likely to fall for a character that is indulgent and patient. Even though he may not understand her process, he sits back and enjoys the show. The free spirit paired with the warrior will lead to humorous escapades (Rapunzel and Eugene, Anna and Kristoff, Liselotte and Gerhard/Hedwig and Alois/Katinka and Gustav Adolf).

Free Spirit Role in Stories

The free spirit serves equally well as the antagonist or the protagonist in a novel. As a protagonist, she injects humor, good feelings, fun, and excitement to the plot. As the antagonist, she is the person who makes everything go wrong for the hero/heroine.

The free spirit is always lighthearted, no matter what role she plays. She brings a ray of sunshine to even the darkest of stories, but she shines with her brightest light in comedies.

Katinka and many other of my female OC:s (in fact, most of them! Think Réna/Ilona, Hedwig, Ulrika) are Free Spirits as well, while the lead male roster in my works tends to consist of dark and conflicted Romantic heroes (Gustavus, Katinka's POW beau turned spouse, for instance).

Fictional examples: Luna Lovegood, Pinkie Pie, Madeline Hatter, Pippi Långstrump, Phoebe Flower, Ty Lee, Sophie in The Misfortunes of Sophie (more details here: http://al261200.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/hyper-girls-in-fiction.html)...

The dark form of the Free Spirit character is the Lunatic. A good idea would be pitting these two characters against each other as enemies:

The LUNATIC: the unbalanced madwoman, she draws others into her crazy environment. The drum to which she marches misses many a beat, but to her, it is the rest of the world that is out of step. Don’t even try to understand her logic – she is unfathomable.

A more complete personality typology listed me as a Mercurial. Think of a person with mercury poisoning (AKA Mad Hatter Syndrome): http://www.ptypes.com/mercurial.html

THE VERNE CONNECTION, or TIMBER!!!

Remember the Marx Brothers' famous comedy scene where... after running out of coal, they disassemble the train's wooden carriages and use them as fuel, shouting the word "Timber!" ("¡Más madera!" in the Spanish dub)?



Turns out they took a clue from Jules Verne! (What? VERNE? SERIOUSLY?) From Verne himself!!
Though, in Chapter 33 of Around the World in Eighty Days, what Team Fogg disassembled for fuel was a steamship (it was made partially of wood, so don't stick to the stereotype that all Victorian steamers were ironclads with hulls of pure steel! Actually, the steamer being made of both wood and steel also recalls the trains of those days, like in the Marx Bros' film):

« Vous êtes certain de ce que vous avancez ?

— Certain, monsieur, répondit le mécanicien. N’oubliez pas que, depuis notre départ, nous chauffons avec tous nos fourneaux allumés!

— J’aviserai, » répondit Mr. Fogg.

Passepartout avait compris. Il fut pris d’une inquiétude mortelle.

Le charbon allait manquer !

Et maintenant quel parti allait prendre Phileas Fogg ? Cela était difficile à imaginer. Cependant, il paraît que le flegmatique gentleman en prit un, car le soir même il fit venir le mécanicien et lui dit :

« Poussez les feux et faites route jusqu’à complet épuisement du combustible. »

Quelques instants après, la cheminée de l’Henrietta vomissait des torrents de fumée.

Le navire continua donc de marcher à toute vapeur ; mais ainsi qu’il l’avait annoncé, deux jours plus tard, le 18, le mécanicien fit savoir que le charbon manquerait dans la journée.

« Que l’on ne laisse pas baisser les feux, répondit Mr. Fogg. Au contraire. Que l’on charge les soupapes. »

Ce jour-là, vers midi, après avoir pris hauteur et calculé la position du navire, Phileas Fogg fit venir Passepartout, et il lui donna l’ordre d’aller chercher le capitaine Speedy. C’était comme si on eût commandé à ce brave garçon d’aller déchaîner un tigre, et il descendit dans la dunette, se disant :

« Positivement il sera enragé ! »

En effet, quelques minutes plus tard, au milieu de cris et de jurons, une bombe arrivait sur la dunette. Cette bombe, c’était le capitaine Speedy. Il était évident qu’elle allait éclater.

Pirate ! s’écria Andrew Speedy.

« Où sommes-nous ? » telles furent les premières paroles qu’il prononça au milieu des suffocations de la colère, et certes, pour peu que le digne homme eût été apoplectique, il n’en serait jamais revenu.

« Où sommes-nous ? répéta-t-il, la face congestionnée.

— À sept cent soixante-dix milles de Liverpool (300 lieues), répondit Mr. Fogg avec un calme imperturbable.

— Pirate ! s’écria Andrew Speedy.

— Je vous ai fait venir, monsieur…

— Écumeur de mer !

— …monsieur, reprit Phileas Fogg, pour vous prier de me vendre votre navire.

— Non ! de par tous les diables, non !

— C’est que je vais être obligé de le brûler.

— Brûler mon navire !

— Oui, du moins dans ses hauts, car nous manquons de combustible.

— Brûler mon navire ! s’écria le capitaine Speedy, qui ne pouvait même plus prononcer les syllabes. Un navire qui vaut cinquante mille dollars (250,000 fr.) !

— En voici soixante mille (300,000 fr.) ! » répondit Phileas Fogg, en offrant au capitaine une liasse de bank-notes.

Cela fit un effet prodigieux sur Andrew Speedy. On n’est pas Américain sans que la vue de soixante mille dollars vous cause une certaine émotion. Le capitaine oublia en un instant sa colère, son emprisonnement, tous ses griefs contre son passager. Son navire avait vingt ans. Cela pouvait devenir une affaire d’or !… La bombe ne pouvait déjà plus éclater. Mr. Fogg en avait arraché la mèche.

« Et la coque en fer me restera, dit-il d’un ton singulièrement radouci.

— La coque en fer et la machine, monsieur. Est-ce conclu ?

— Conclu. »

Et Andrew Speedy, saisissant la liasse de bank-notes, les compta et les fit disparaître dans sa poche.

Et après avoir fait à son passager ce qu’il croyait être un compliment, il s’en allait, quand Phileas Fogg lui dit :

« Maintenant ce navire m’appartient ?

— Certes, de la quille à la pomme des mâts, pour tout ce qui est « bois », s’entend !

— Bien. Faites démolir les aménagements intérieurs et chauffez avec ces débris. »

On juge ce qu’il fallut consommer de ce bois sec pour maintenir la vapeur en suffisante pression. Ce jour-là, la dunette, les rouffles, les cabines, les logements, le faux pont, tout y passa.

Le lendemain, 19 décembre, on brûla la mâture, les dromes, les esparres. On abattit les mâts, on les débita à coups de hache. L’équipage y mettait un zèle incroyable. Passepartout, taillant, coupant, sciant, faisait l’ouvrage de dix hommes. C’était une fureur de démolition.

Le lendemain, 20, les bastingages, les pavois, les œuvres-mortes, la plus grande partie du pont, furent dévorés. L’Henrietta n’était plus qu’un bâtiment rasé comme un ponton.

Mais, ce jour-là, on avait eu connaissance de la côte d’Irlande et du feu de Fastenet.

Here is an English translation of this passage:

On this day the engineer came on deck, went up to Mr. Fogg, and began to speak earnestly with him. Without knowing why it was a presentiment, perhaps Passepartout became vaguely uneasy. He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was saying. He finally managed to catch a few words, and was sure he heard his master say, "You are certain of what you tell me?"

"Certain, sir," replied the engineer. "You must remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires in all our furnaces.

Passepartout understood it all; he was seized with mortal anxiety. The coal was giving out! 

A few moments after, the funnel of the Henrietta vomited forth torrents of smoke. The vessel continued to proceed with all steam on; but on the 18th, the engineer, as he had predicted, announced that the coal would give out in the course of the day.

"Do not let the fires go down," replied Mr. Fogg. "Keep them up to the last. Let the valves be filled."

Towards noon Phileas Fogg, having ascertained their position, called Passepartout, and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy. It was as if the honest fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger. He went to the poop, saying to himself, "He will be like a madman!"

In a few moments, with cries and oaths, a bomb appeared on the poop-deck. The bomb was Captain Speedy. It was clear that he was on the point of bursting. "Where are we?" were the first words his anger permitted him to utter. Had the poor man be an apoplectic, he could never have recovered from his paroxysm of wrath.

"Where are we?" he repeated, with purple face.

"Seven hundred and seven miles from Liverpool," replied Mr. Fogg, with imperturbable calmness.

"Pirate!" cried Captain Speedy.

"I have sent for you, sir--"

"Pickaroon!"

"--sir," continued Mr. Fogg, "to ask you to sell me your vessel."

"No! By all the devils, no!"

"But I shall be obliged to burn her."

"Burn the Henrietta!"

"Yes; at least the upper part of her. The coal has given out."

"Burn my vessel!" cried Captain Speedy, who could scarcely pronounce the words. "A vessel worth fifty thousand dollars!"

"Here are sixty thousand," replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills. This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American can scarcely remain unmoved at the sight of sixty thousand dollars. The captain forgot in an instant his anger, his imprisonment, and all his grudges against his passenger. The Henrietta was twenty years old; it was a great bargain. The bomb would not go off after all. Mr. Fogg had taken away the match.

"And I shall still have the iron hull," said the captain in a softer tone.

"The iron hull and the engine. Is it agreed?"

"Agreed."

And Andrew Speedy, seizing the banknotes, counted them and consigned them to his pocket.

And, having paid his passenger what he considered a high compliment, he was going away, when Mr. Fogg said, "The vessel now belongs to me?"

"Certainly, from the keel to the truck of the masts--all the wood, that is."

"Very well. Have the interior seats, bunks, and frames pulled down, and burn them."

It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed. On the next day, the 19th of December, the masts, rafts, and spars were burned; the crew worked lustily, keeping up the fires. Passepartout hewed, cut, and sawed away with all his might. There was a perfect rage for demolition.

The railings, fittings, the greater part of the deck, and top sides disappeared on the 20th, and the Henrietta was now only a flat hull. But on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet Light. 

Verne himself had perhaps been inspired by real-life history: the reconstruction of the Lech bridge by Gustavus Adolphus in early April 1632 was carried out very much like the burning of the Henrietta or that of the Marx Brothers' train. Dismounting nearby farmhouses for the wood and lighting a straw bonfire to conceal the new bridge with a smokescreen culminated in a successful endeavour for the Swedish military in those days. With the advent of steam power, Verne came up with the related idea of using a wooden craft as fuel (also reminiscent of Cronus), which, in turn, inspired the Marx Brothers.

POST-WAR FRIESIAN PRAWNS (and more)

For once, I'll post a recipe for a change. This is a typical post-war North German dish with few calories:

-Schwarzbrot (special black bread, darker than brown, can be purchased at Lidl or Aldi)
- 100 g prawns per person
- 1 egg per person
- butter for the bread
- more butter to fry the eggs
- spices (usually salt and black pepper) after your own wish

Butter the bread without toasting it. Add the prawns on top, and then crown it all with a sunny-side-up (fried English style) egg. Add spices if you wish.

These prawns are traditionally served with hot tea, prepared Friesian style:
- tea leaves
- water
- cream
- sugar

Put the leaves into the teapot. Then, heat the water up to 100ºC and fill half the teapot. Wait for three or four minutes. Then, heat the rest of the water up to 100ºC and fill the teapot up. Put sugar at the bottom of the cups. Then, pour the tea into the cups through a strainer (an infusive basket may also be used for the same purpose). Finally, pour the cream slowly into the cups using a teaspoon and watch the cream flowers grow in the cups.


As a bonus and for the Spanish summer, I offer you the recipe for Coke and Ice:
- Coca-Cola
- Ice cream (of the kind that can be portioned in balls)

Simply put a ball of ice in a drink of Coke (Now don't fill the glass to the brim!).