All Comments on 'Eveline's Strangest Journey Ch. 25'

In the passages where Comandante Foxtrot appears, readers who are familiar with my previous novels, especially "The Girl with No Name", will recognize several themes that I develop when my main characters are forced to interact with national leaders. One of those themes is creating charismatic rulers who are political geniuses, but at the same time are very problematic as human beings. Those leaders accomplish great things for their countries and are considered national heroes in the societies they control, but are also flawed and abusive at the personal level. Any examination of popular historical figures clearly shows the contradiction of great leader / terrible person has been common throughout civilization.

When I posted my previous novel, several readers complained about the behavior of my character the Grand Duke of Danubia, due to scenes in which he plagiarizes scientific discoveries, commits numerous human-rights violations, and forces young women to become his concubines. Well, my fictional Danubian ruler is based on real-life European monarchs who lived during the time period the novel was set (the mid 1700s) who were known as the "Enlightened Despots". If you examine the biography of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, for example, the behavior of Danubia's Grand Duke would seem benign in comparison.

Through my character Comandante Foxtrot, I re-examine the themes around power, charisma, and national leadership that I touched on when I wrote about the Grand Duke of Danubia. The only real difference between the two leaders is the scale at which they operate. The Grand Duke was consolidating power within a single country. Comandante Foxtrot is trying to take over an entire continent.

In my narrative I don't want to pass judgment on whether Comandante Foxtrot's ambitions for Africa are "good" or "bad". I want my readers to make that judgment for themselves. That is why, towards the end of the novel, I included a brief scene in which the ruler has a chance to speak for himself, to explain some of his motivations.

As I describe Comandante Foxtrot and the fictional empire that he is creating, readers who are familiar with my previous novels, especially "The Girl with No Name", will recognize several themes that I develop when my main characters are forced to interact with national leaders.

One of those themes is creating charismatic rulers who are political geniuses, but at the same time are very problematic as human beings. Those leaders accomplish great things for their countries and are considered national heroes in the societies they control, but are also flawed and abusive at the personal level. Any examination of popular historical figures clearly shows the contradiction of great leader / terrible person has been common throughout civilization.

When I posted my previous novel, several readers complained about the behavior of my character the Grand Duke of Danubia, due to scenes in which he plagiarizes scientific discoveries, commits numerous human-rights violations, and forces young women to become his concubines. Well, my fictional Danubian ruler is based on real-life European monarchs who lived during the time period the novel was set (the mid 1700s) who were known as the "Enlightened Despots". If you examine the biography of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, for example, the behavior of Danubia's Grand Duke would seem benign in comparison.

Through my character Comandante Foxtrot, I re-examine those themes around power, charisma, and national leadership that I touched on when I wrote about the Grand Duke of Danubia. The only real difference between the two leaders is the scale at which they operate. The Grand Duke was consolidating power within a single country. Comandante Foxtrot is trying to take over an entire continent.

In my narrative I don't want to pass judgment on whether Comandante Foxtrot's ambitions for Africa are "good" or "bad". I want my readers to make that judgment for themselves. That is why, a few chapters ahead, I included a brief scene in which the ruler has a chance to speak for himself and explain some of his motivations.

So what are the Author's thoughts on characters not leaving their abusers even though they can do so and are obviously being abused, child services not existing when a teacher is abusing her student, not actually doing anything to suggest that your female protagonist isn't underage and quite consistently writing her as if she was, the protagonist sociopathically admitting that she doesn't care about her kind and supportive boyfriend's happiness so long as she can use him for her own ends, the bizarre idea you have that humans can survive on nothing but food, sleep, and constant work without any downtime or relaxation to recharge their mental batteries, lying in the descriptions and tags for this story regarding what it's actually about so that no one realizes you're going in glorifying abusive relationships and effectively tricking your own readers (porn that fetishizes abuse is fine since it's just fiction and sexual fantasies, it's just you're clearly not writing this as pornography with a sexual fantasy intention and you're not being honest about the abusive relationship focus you love to write about in this story which strikes me as intellectually dishonest on your part), not understanding that you're writing erotica on an erotica website and so not portraying any of the things that happens as remotely sexual or fetishistic but rather as some kind of philosophy claims about society while not actually understanding or being upfront about what you're soapboxing (seriously, where do you come from where you don't get that mental health exists and humans need to destress to stay healthy, I can't get how you don't know that despite portraying yourself as a thinker), and naming yourself after a historical figure famous for being an insant tyrant?