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Totally relate to this! Thanks for the insight!
Posted By: MACK! In Response To: Characters in
happy times (Clay Speris) : The violence and the loss is such a downer in your Hi Clay,
Thanks for speaking up. I totally understand where you are coming from. I
pretty much designed Kabuki as a direct outlet for my own life situations and I
suppose the book changes drastically as it documents Kabuki's (and mine) growth
in the different eras of her life. I was in a diffent place when I wrote the
earlier stories. I was like 19 or 20 years old. And I suppose some of the
violence in the book reflects my own stuggles in life. THough I can't stand to
see it now. And i think Kabuki would feel the same way. Now, I am very much at
the stage that Kabuki is in her interaction with Akemi. The inner decisions and
peace, reflect in your outward environment. I've included below, my response to
your earlier post which goes into this further. In case you missed it below. Let
me know what you think.
I wish Kabuki was free from all the violence...just the I totally relate to this. Those friend ship scenes are my favorite scenes in
the book as well. I love the scenes when characters are relating When I was doing these issues with Akemi and Kabuki I really felt like I was
reaching a great change in the character that would mark the It was very rewarding to be in the part of the story that was inspiring and
uplifting so many people. In contrast, when I went back to read In Metamorphosis (1-9) she makes an inner change. And her environment changed
as well. She left that violence behind. She left that life Akemi showed Kabuki (as hopefully these books show thier readers) that every
choice should be creative and constructive rather that So while those early violent scenes disturbe me probably even more than they
do you, I hope that in context of the entire story, they will
Date: THU, 5/31/01, 6:09
p.m.
: stories.
: I
wish you could hide these from us and just make more
: gentle everyday
stories with wonderful beautiful
: characters creating wonderful beautiful
things and
: getting off on each other and each others loves and
:
lives.
: Do you have any personal motivation for showing the
: violence?
Do we need to know? Why can't they just talk
: about the bad times...play
down all the
: retribution/killings and destruction of human life by
:
human life.
: There's too much of this in the world...show them all how
: much better it can be..
: You have an audience...they can spread the
message...lets
: get creating and talking and spreading the word...
: stories in
scarab and skin deep where they're in the
: flat, sketching each other and
checking out each
: others comics...I like those bits best of all...
to each
other, teaching each other and helping each other evolve emotionally. THe
tigerlily/Scarab scenes. And especially the
Kabuki/Akemi scenes. Akemi is
the first character to accept Kabuki unconditionally. SHe is the catalyst that
helps Kabuki evolve and
grow and accept herself. She teaches Kabuki that the
change in her world, her identity, and her reality start from the inside. ANd
then her
outward envirenment will reflect that change.
direction of
future books. ANd I was getting a lot of mail from people who really were able
to be inspired from these issues and have it
help thier own life and
outlook. I really appreciated that. I felt like the Kabuki issues were helping
these many readers, in the same way
that Akemi's notes were helping Kabuki
to actualize her self and choose what kind of life and reality that she wanted,
in order to
transcend the one that she had found herself in.
some of the
earlier books (Circle of Blood, Masks of the Noh) I was quite disturbed by some
of the early violent scenes. I realized that the
Kabuki stories were
reflecting my own inner growth. Without too much self analysis, perhaps those
earlier tumutuous scenes in Circle of
Blood were my way of dealing with
situations in my life at that time in my life. Circle of blood reflects a
certain need to bring out an
internal order from an external chaos and
stress. Parts of it are difficult for me to look at now. The violent parts
especially. I'm just not in
that place anymore. And I think that Kabuki
would feel the same way.
behind to grow
the person that Akemi helped her relize that she is.
Hopefully in context,
these books show that it is not where you came from, not what you start with,
but where you decide to go, and what
you decide to do with it.
destructive. THese
books, from Circle of Blood to Metamorposis document Kabuki's transition from a
product of her immediate
environment to a self actualized adult. And I
suppose they document my maturation in that very same way.
point to the
contrast involved in this self actualized process of positive evolution.
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