![]() ![]() But that’s okay, as in private Parris is only comfortable playing the bottom. ![]() He can put on an external show, but his own fears and desires are all he really knows.Īnd he’s a deeply lonely individual who connects with but one other - and that other happens to be a domineering succubus moonlighting from hell. So severe was this upbringing that his adult pathology is devoid of all empathy. He was raised by his crazy religious, repressed, and abusive grandmother. As a local pastor he is a member of the community, but his role is aloof enough that people just write him off as a bit touched. ![]() To do what he does, Parris had to be a deeply warped individual. What makes real people evil? Self interest certainly goes a long way, but I looked further into the twisted nature of the psychopathic serial killer. While he clearly dabbles in the supernatural - hey, warlock! - he isn’t like al-Nasir in being wholly a creature of darkness. For me, Parris represented the human villainy in the story. I knew early on that I wanted one of these to be a warlock and a minister. One of my primary goals with The Darkening Dream was to develop a strong sense of merely seeing “the tip of the evil iceberg.” So the book has a lot of villains, some working together, but each with their own quirks and agendas. ![]()
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