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Leo
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Date Posted: 21:26:39 06/03/12 Sun
This isn't really a suggestion for an explicit tie-in to a particular existing character, but more of a "starting point" for a subject. I can see all sorts of different paths, depending on what existing character gets "picked," be it in the Canyon, or Bradford, or Spearfish Lake.
I work in a major tourist location, and we get zillions of people through all the time. (~5 million per year, plus or minus a million or so.) And every now and again, on a day that is otherwise no different from any other, something big and bad happens somewhere in the world.
It's not all worked out, and making the logic and logistics "work" might be tricky - particularly culturally, but to use an unfleshed out example:
Suppose you've got a Japanese student/tourist, on something of a holiday in North America on March 11, 2011. Who ends up completely orphaned, homeless, and otherwise more-or-less abandoned in a foreign country. How does s/he deal with it? The notion that floats with me is adopted/fostered by someone (a host family, perhaps?)
Culturally, I don't know how well that particular example would work. But how many husbands *and* wives got killed on 9/11? Or even that tornado in Joplin a year ago? (I "like" the foreign idea, because that makes it a whole lot more of a challenge, to me.)
And it always seems (to me) that after the initial rush of shock and horror, "what happens to the orphans?" Nobody ever really seems to talk about it after the initial rush.
(Come to think on it, it's rare to hear any more mention of Japan's quake except the whole fallout (excuse the pun) of the nuclear meltdowns, when realistically, that was practically non-existent when compared to the magnitude of the rest of the disaster.)
Leo
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