only way you can see the idea hopping… is to make it do so yourself
This is why I have become progressively unable to watch video productions - if I have a STOP button I will use it, because I'm already rewriting the dialogue in my head and essentially making the story I'd tell, which is usually better!
[I mean, gawd, come on - I can see why such-and-so movie wasn't a blockbuster success - what I don't see is why they thought it would be with this crappy screenplay! Idiots.]
As for your artifact, it's older than the character, right? By orders of magnitude, yah, which means it's had all the time it needs to telepathically shape the emerging consciousness of the child, 'dream-programming' her from Day One to have that weird, driving obsession to find it and free it…
- To bitter-sweeten the pot, it may have done what the Second Foundation did to Arkady Darrell - her EEG didn't show tampering from its original state because it already was, had been since birth, and in the process they 'overclocked' her mind, making her a bright, indeed brilliantly clever girl, so it was all okay, you know… Your artifact, logically deducing that a beautiful, brilliant woman is more likely to succeed at the goal than a lumpy dull prole, has done them one better, tweaked things, “As the twig is bent so grows the tree,” you know - producing a Hedy Lamarr. O my gawd. But she didn't come by this bounty naturally, and the price for it must be paid…
[Indeed, it might have been doing this for generations - suppose her entire family of de' Medicis owe their success to this. Now, what? Without the artifact - their children will be dull-normal, ordinary, and the family's empire will crumble and fade…]
Yup - I could have been a writer, once.
[Edit: I'd nix that last - it's too similar to what Galadriel told Frodo, that the destruction of the “One Ring to Rule Them All” will pull the bathplug, and all the Rings will fade out and all that they made possible (including Lothlorien itself) will drain away…]
[Then again, given the original point of this post, “Ripping off other people's stories,” hey, go for it!]
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only way you can see the idea hopping… is to make it do so yourself
This is why I have become progressively unable to watch video productions - if I have a STOP button I will use it, because I'm already rewriting the dialogue in my head and essentially making the story I'd tell, which is usually better!
[I mean, gawd, come on - I can see why such-and-so movie wasn't a blockbuster success - what I don't see is why they thought it would be with this crappy screenplay! Idiots.]
As for your artifact, it's older than the character, right? By orders of magnitude, yah, which means it's had all the time it needs to telepathically shape the emerging consciousness of the child, 'dream-programming' her from Day One to have that weird, driving obsession to find it and free it…
- To bitter-sweeten the pot, it may have done what the Second Foundation did to Arkady Darrell - her EEG didn't show tampering from its original state because it already was, had been since birth, and in the process they 'overclocked' her mind, making her a bright, indeed brilliantly clever girl, so it was all okay, you know… Your artifact, logically deducing that a beautiful, brilliant woman is more likely to succeed at the goal than a lumpy dull prole, has done them one better, tweaked things, “As the twig is bent so grows the tree,” you know - producing a Hedy Lamarr. O my gawd. But she didn't come by this bounty naturally, and the price for it must be paid…
[Indeed, it might have been doing this for generations - suppose her entire family of de' Medicis owe their success to this. Now, what? Without the artifact - their children will be dull-normal, ordinary, and the family's empire will crumble and fade…]
Yup - I could have been a writer, once.
[Edit: I'd nix that last - it's too similar to what Galadriel told Frodo, that the destruction of the “One Ring to Rule Them All” will pull the bathplug, and all the Rings will fade out and all that they made possible (including Lothlorien itself) will drain away…]
[Then again, given the original point of this post, “Ripping off other people's stories,” hey, go for it!]