| We used to be friends - The best enemies are the ones who
start off as friends. She & I were in the same comic creating clubs,
and we used to talk quite a bit. She was really hungry for knowledge on
creating comics, which fed into my ego pretty well. She's a huge anime freak,
and as far as comic artists, her favourite is Ryoichi Ikegami (Crying Freeman,
Sanctuary, etc.) one of my favs too.
The falling out - Somewhere along the line, it has to happen, friends
become bitter violent enemies. I'm not sure what it was that happened,
I can't remember. I think it was when I pointed out that her "company"
doesn't actually pay it's "staff".
She's quite smart - From what I can gather, her day job is a trade that's
requires a lot of training & skill. Though she does seem to have a
LOT of time to goof off on the net. And she sucked me dry of my know-how
re: comics, and like The Borg, moved on to others to assimilate more.
All good nemesis have to be really smart, right?
She doesn't like me - Even though we're on the World Wide Web, for awhile
there it seemed like it was a case of this town ain't big enough for the
2 of us as she started joining a ton of comic creating clubs, and if I
was a member/joined, and I posted a message, she'd immediately quit. I
started to take it a bit personally, then I realised, "Hey, that's
cool!" I'd be a member of a club and all I have to do is post and
SHE'D go! I don't have to go nowhere!
Personality clashes - WARNING: Biased comments that are the sole opinions
of me are coming up.... She's got a company that she is constantly tooting
it's horn for EVERY chance she gets, which while I can certainly understand
the need for promotion, it got a bit tiresome to read it everywhere I
went. She's a writer, but she seems to aspire to be more of an overseer
who's more interested in titles and having people "work for her"
rather than actually getting in and creating comics... for example: she
has someone adapt her prose stories into comics format, then "hires"
someone else to script it.... maybe it's ok for Marvel, but do we really
need this kind of middle management attitude in comics at THIS level?
The character is a representation of her in a ways, because she seemed
to want to project that type of image, as in if she had to answer the
question what kind of character would I be? she'd probably pick assassin.
For awhile, she was posting slogans that went along the line of the only
good man... is the one hanging from my sword, dripping blood that sort
of thing. I suspect she would be quite happy with this picture as a representation
of her, because she always seems to use slinky anime assassin types as
her user pics.... I've never seen a picture of her in real life.
Avoidance - A good nemesis is one that you don't see too often, thus
hightening the impact of when we do cross paths. Imagine if Spider-Man
and Doc Ock lived in apts. right across the hall from each other? They'd
be getting into fights every time they went out to get the newspaper.
I think that she & I have made an agreement to just try to stay out
of each others' way.
Plays into my weaknesses - Another sign of a good nemesis is one that
can exploit your weaknesses. She's either using any excuse to talk about
her comic/company, or she's playing the false modesty card. But the truth
is, she hooked up with an artist who is, oh, about ten times better than
me on my best day. And as stated, there's her smarts, and how quickly
she learned things in the comics biz, and her ability to constantly network
& be seemingly everywhere... I guess it all leads back into my massive
bundle of insecurities.
Plays into her weaknesses - Another sign of a good nemesis is one that
you know THEIR weaknesses. She is REALLY defensive. You can tell that
she could end up brooding big time over small things. She had or has a
case of the too much time on the net, like how you can tell those people
that spend WAAAAAAY too much time online, and get obsessed over every
little message that comes their way, you know what I'm saying. I know
it happens to me sometimes. but with her, it was like that on crack.
Could be.... love? - All the best enemies situation, esp. if they're
boy/girl, have a attraction/repulsion aspect to them. So all this adversarial
feeling I have for her, could it really be..... love??? Hmmmmmmmmm. Could
be!*
*I'm just kidding. It is NOT. But I honestly can say that I do admire
her, in a way. There are many things I admire about her.
But like I said, I'm trying to put things in the past, and I feel like
I don't have real "enemies" anymore. From what I can tell, it
seems like she's mellowed too, posting buddhist sayings on her LJ &
all. I think she might have pushed past her rage & gone somewhere
deeper, better. But I don't know, we don't talk or anything.
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