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I will be continuing the trend of paying tribute to characters that have heavily inspired and influenced my writing.  The main event of this post is Magus from Chrono Trigger.

 

Hes a fan favorite among RPG Gamers for his neutral evil alignment.  He bad-ass one liners ensure he is never forgotten.  It also helps that he becomes a playable character for the final sections of the game and reaches game breaking levels of awesome with his access to the spell Dark Matter (sadly he lacks his elemental barrier and Geyser spell.)  He also uses a scythe as his weapon of choice if you didn’t figure that out from the picture.

 

Magus helped codify the token evil teammate concept in fiction if you wish to understand his lasting impact on books video games movies and all other mediums of storytelling.  He also never changes to a good aligned personality.  He stays evil.  it just happens that your goals as well as his own intersect all the way till the very end of Chrono Trigger. (and assuming that he is Guile, Chrono Cross as well)

 

Now just like with Flemeth, there is one specific character in my series The Search for Eden that Magus has inspired in more ways than one.  This is of course The Demon Lord, who since most of you reading this will have not finished the first book in the series at the time of this being published, I will leave unnamed to avoid spoilers.  Just know that characters I write are multi layered and draw inspirations from more than one source.

 

Still I would be lying if I did not admit just how much of Magus has seeped into a few of my characters, the Demon Lord chief among them (they even almost share titles)

 

“The black wind begins to blow.. Okay… give me your best shot… If you’re prepared for the void.”- Magus, Chrono Trigger