They're buddies. He pays attention to Connor, and Connor briefly allied with him and Vordrak after we lured him here like the impressionable young man he is.
@Ass Manager 3000 , do you still have that morphing Connor/Kengle GIF?
Surely nobody will notice that all the obvious details he chose come from the movies rather than the novels.
That's part of what's so infuriating about Connor. He writes like he's directing a movie. He watches ten movies for every one book he skims through. I think I've read more posts about him describing the ideal cast to play his characters in an RE/Alphaboy movie than posts of him actually developing these characters.
@Smutley & I have told him point-blank that he would be far better off writing screenplays but he won't budge from his "dream" of being a fiction novelist because :autism: .
I also particularly liked his "critique" of the other guys synopsis. It reeks of "yeah, yeah, fuck you, nobody cares. Now listen to the pointless little thing that I have to say"
That was my favorite part. & of course it reminds him of a Molly Ringwald movie. At first I thought that maybe the other person's story took place in a school or something, or contained an ensemble of characters (as opposed to one protagonist), & that's why Connor came up with The Breakfast Club. A stretch, but not entirely unreasonable. However, knowing Connor, the synopsis probably had nothing to do with anything & The Breakfast Club thing makes sense only to him.
Bond falls into the same trap as Indiana Jones, where without his iconic accessories (tux, Walther PPK, Aston Martin; jacket, hat, whip) he's just a generic actionman. In the case of Bond it works because they just throw a new guy in the suit and say run with it.
This also helps explains why Connor is suddenly so in love with Bond - his synopsis is filled with every bond cliche his autistic mind can think of. It's concrete and he gets that it's cool, so anything you write with those props is instantly cool by default.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I was wondering where Connor's sudden infatuation with Bond came from, & that would explain it. I was trying to articulate earlier how Connor's synopsis was nothing but rampant clichés, but apparently I don't word good at 3 AM. That's probably also why 007 appeals to him---it's the same static character over & over, just varying slightly in appearance.
Oh, do you remember when what's-his-face Daniel Craig or whatever started playing Bond & everyone freaked out because JAMES BOND'S
ARMS HAIR IS NOT FREAKING
BLUE BLONDE? & then the unholy shitstorm that followed when someone suggested Bond be played by a niggo? I imagine Connor would have a similar hissy fit if someone told him to actually write Bond as a proper character.
