Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-26018514-20200104074639

Decided to just make this response it's own thing to make tings easier: I think you're selling the old man short Sentry;

First off, he was an SEW that lived long enough to raise Maria and train her in its use, this means that we could actually see that training, secondly, it means we could see his death to what were presumably Salem's forces, likely Tock or her predecessor.

Secondly I'm not saying you follow his whole life, just how he discovered his powers at the earliest, maybe cover how he learned people were Hunting SEW's, Maria's birth/training, then his death... but cover it from his perspective.

Effectively it would be like the first level of Deadspace on the Wii, And the fact we know he's going to die eventually would bring the horror Aspect of Remnant to the Fore... they could actually go dark and kill him any number of ways, making his perspective have something Maria's would lack, mortal peril. And it would still have Maria as a relatively constant presence so you'd still have your Sass… just from a similar perspective... however her role would be subverted because she'd no longer be the wise woman but the belligerent child, and you can see her gain that confidence and celebrate it from the perspective of someone who is interested/invested in her growth as you are... her father. Then you see him in the literal fight for his life.

Then you have the perspective shift to Maria shortly after or before her Father's death, you See how she applies what she learned from him to become TGR, maybe just limited to a mission or 2 to keep page count low, then swap to Tock's Story JUST so you can really get into Maria's glory days in book 2.