[K5pbem] Help with some character ideas!

[Jamie David Jeans]

>
>>
>>  done for.  I'll need to kludge up a new carborator."  Could be the
>>  powerhouse but just as likely to be the wirey guy who can get into
>> tight
>>  places, especially for those in flight repairs.  Typically grease
>>  smudged.  Could even be a bit of a rogue on the side.
>>
>> The wirey guy is perfect. I think having him ex-Royal Navy works, thus
>> his engine experience. Gives him some experience with the world and
>> hecna hail from Hong Kong.
>
>
> I don't have much to add for the others - but for this guy - one last
> thing to add that seems perfect. Make him the "scrounger". The guy who
> has "connections" that the others might not have or think of. He's
> ex-Royal Navy? The thought immediately sprung to my mind of a Cockney
> version of "Klinger" from M.A.S.H.  Actually, the version of Klinger
> from the later seasons of the show, when he had stopped wearing the
> dresses and taken over for Radar as company clerk.
>
> Our Cockney engineer has all sorts of ways to get parts and things for
> the "loverly bird" that are under the books and skirt the edges of
> legality. He always has either some form of blackmail hold over some
> supply clerk in the Royal Navy somewhere, or knows something that said
> clerk desperately wants/needs and that the Airracuda crew either has or
> can easily get for trade for what he wants.
>
> I can easily see him getting into arguments with the Vietnamese/French
> Business Manager, because she wants to keep better track of costs and
> such and he just doesn't much give a damn as long as it gets done and
> the "bird" can keep flying.

I support this idea wholeheartedly. Those kinds of characters are always
fascinating, to me at least, because you have to wonder about the stories
behind them and how they got the favours they're able to pull off.

Jamie

Also, the rest of the crew looks good, and fun as well.


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