Actually, I can.
"The Broker" is a sort of late addition to a piece I've been revising continuously over the last few days in preparation of starting to draft this weekend. The basic idea being that he is a "man on the inside" - the original description of him, before I realized he might be a cool person to actually see, was. "I have a man - he's a clerk in Moscow - he gets me new papers, a new name, a new life - every ten years." But when I actually started messing around with the idea of this character, he started to sound too much like Izaya-kun from the anime I linked in my last post - kind of smug bastard, playing all the sides - which he very well may be, but I need a better idea of him besides being an expy of an anime character before I'll feel good about him.
I think I probably need to, first of all, decide if he himself is a mythical creature, or if he simply likes to help them. I'm thinking a look into russian mythology is in order, because I get the feeling that he is - He also needs a new name, because "The Broker" doesn't even describe what he does - I just kind of slapped it on him for the sake of having something to call him. And knowing my track record with placeholder names (Gary, Joe, Garrett...), if I don't change it soon, it's going to stick. :|
This post took a while to write because I'm multi-tasking watching BBC live coverage of the Chilean mine rescue.
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