For this weekend's #WIPJOY challenge, I'm to come up with a list of characters from other books, TV, or films who would be best friends with my main characters.
Well, as I said, I have a pile of main characters, but for this challenge, let's select as my main characters my evil Daoist sorcerer, Abe no Tadayuki.
I am a dedicated fan of the works of Sax Rohmer, a pulp writer who from 1913 to 1959, graced us with a witches coven of pulp novels that introduced an eager public to one of the most fascinating and controversial villains of all time: Dr. Fu Manchu:
"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man."-- Nayland Smith to Dr. Petrie, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
It is unlikely Dr. Fu Manchu would have little love for his Japanese counterpart, but after defeating Abe no Tadayuki, would force him to be a worthwhile servant.
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