Winner of the Architect Challenge!

I only got done with two missions before the server went down for maintenance, but yeah. It's hard to remember when the low level gang members are played for laughs so often, but the Hellions aren't just gang members, but demon-obsessed gang members.

Yah, I think this is important to remember. Not every Hellion you run across is going to be the same, although I think because of the nature of seeing them as labels all the time, ie slammer, buckshot, gunner, etc, like we do, we tend to sort of lump them all together into one big amalgamation called Hellion. The same phenomenon takes place for every faction in the game just because so few of our foes even have names that we know.

That makes it pretty easy to depersonalize them.

But everyone in a gang is a different person. Even in the same city, one group of Hellions is going to have a different sort of 'character' than another group of Hellions. And that character will probably reflect the personality of whoever the leader is.

So I think it's entirely reasonable that you might have a group of doofus Hellions in one arc, then a group of semi-professional car thief Hellions in another arc, and then the group that populates my arc, who are ruthless and nasty and probably some of the better 'heavies' that I've ever written.

I'm not sure how much comic book reading you guys do on the whole, but I think I'm probably more influenced by the style of Busiek in Astro City and Miller during his run on Daredevil than most of the contemporary comic book writers like Bendis. That's typically why I tend to try to personalize everyone in the story by giving them a name.

I think the story resonates a little bit more because you know that it's Eric Ridge who killed Donna Wright than some nameless Damned who killed an old-time heroine called The Weaver.