[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "In Which Akio Is Called Out"     Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose Topic #448
Reading Topic #448, reply 10
Offsides
Charter Member
1264 posts
Aug-11-14, 12:46 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Offsides Click to send private message to Offsides Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
10. "RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out"
In response to message #1
 
   >I consider Akio Ohtori, as presented in these stories to date, to be a
>joke as a villain. I can't think of anything that he's done or been
>responsible for that the "good guys" haven't been able to deal with,
>usually making him look foolish in the process. He goes to weddings to
>cause trouble, and to his frustration he gets ignored. He spies on the
>lives of the Trinity, and that one of them has made it so he can't spy
>any longer is mentioned almost as an afterthought. If he had a
>moustache, he'd likely be twirling it as he boasted of his plots and
>plans to his minions, even though they (the plans and the minions)
>haven't gotten him anywhere much. He's not done much of anything that
>I can recall that has had a lasting impact on anything. He's an
>irritant, yes, but he's not a Big Bad. At least not in my opinion.

I'll grant you one half-point: To those of us completely on the outside who can see all the different pieces that have been shown to us, and thus have some knowledge of the moves and counter-moves that are going on, he doesn't seem that big of a threat. But I'll also counter with this: Akio's greatest weapon, both now and in the past, has been royally fscking with peoples' heads. Not just to manipulate them, but to annoy them, to scare the bejeesus out of them, and even to break them. Yes, he's building an army, but his #1 focus is still PsyOps, trying to keep his enemies off-balance at best and really screw them up at worst.

Unfortunately for him, most of his chief underlings either aren't very good at what he really wants done, are just plain incompetent, or are more interested than their own agendas to get the job done right. Combine that with the fact that he is a bit overconfident in his own schemes and abilities, and he has Corwin's blood curse on him (which I think he still doesn't fully understand the power behind - it may have been initially given before he was invested as the Pillar of Cephiro, and Akio may have been reborn as a Demon of Muspelheim, but Akio was born of Cephiro, and Corwin is it's Pillar, and that's bound to have some sort of cosmic resonance when all is said any done...).

So yes, from certain angles Akio is a bit of a joke, but only when looked at through a very narrow lens. Plus, I'm sure there are things we haven't seen anywhere that will change the big picture even more when they're revealed.

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 In Which Akio Is Called Out [View All] Gryphonadmin Aug-10-14 TOP
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out JeanneHedge Aug-10-14 1
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out BZArchermoderator Aug-10-14 2
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Nova Floresca Aug-10-14 4
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out laudre Aug-10-14 5
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out trboturtle2 Aug-10-14 6
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out JeanneHedge Aug-10-14 7
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Matrix Dragon Aug-10-14 8
              RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Droken Aug-11-14 9
     RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Offsides Aug-11-14 10
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Gryphonadmin Aug-11-14 11
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out BeardedFerret Aug-10-14 3
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Mercutio Aug-13-14 12
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Vorticity Aug-13-14 13
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Matrix Dragon Aug-14-14 17
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Mercutio Aug-14-14 18
              RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Matrix Dragon Aug-14-14 20
                  RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Mercutio Aug-15-14 21
                      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Matrix Dragon Aug-15-14 22
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Terminus Est Aug-13-14 14
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Mercutio Aug-13-14 15
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Terminus Est Aug-13-14 16
              RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Peter Eng Aug-14-14 19
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out BeardedFerret Jun-29-15 23
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out JeanneHedge Jun-29-15 24
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Peter Eng Jun-29-15 25
              RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Verbena Jun-29-15 26
                  RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out mdg1 Jun-30-15 27
              RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Star Ranger4 Jul-04-15 28
   RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Berrik Jul-07-15 29
      RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Gryphonadmin Jul-08-15 30
          RE: In Which Akio Is Called Out Matrix Dragon Jul-08-15 31


Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)