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When I think about all the stories that have influenced me in the past, I tend to keep coming back to Alice in Wonderland. It's not really something that I plan to do, it's not really something that I actively do, it's just something that happens. Mostly it has to do with Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland, cartoon, but I do have a great love for the book, and it seems like whenever something comes up about Alice in Wonderland, people tend to ask me like I'm supposed to know something about it. So I may as well list it among the things that are bouncing around in my head that inspire me all the time.

The Cheshire cat for instance, always one of my favorite parts of either the book or the movie, the Cheshire cat sets the tone of surrealism that I've rarely seen achieved elsewhere and it's something that I would love to aspire to. I think about the Cheshire cat and I think here's a character totally designed to make you crazy, something that is in there just to test Alice's nerve. He can say one thing, and then say something totally different, and I believe he actually believes what he says each time. To him the two different realities that he describes are both absolutely valid to him in the moment he says them. In his mind the Cheshire cat can see all possible future and relate them to variant of pasts and it all makes sense to him, unless he's just stirring the pot again, trying to see how far he can push you.

Whenever the Cheshire cat shows up, Alice has to be on her guard even more than normal for such a mad world because when the Cheshire cats around he knows how to push all the buttons of all of the characters who surround him and he can do it all at the same time. We have to watch out for character like that into the protagonists because they can ruin your life very very fast, or they are too else in Wonderland can save the day at the last minute you just never know with them. It's an interesting thought when you start to consider supporting characters, because the best supporting characters seem to me to be a little bit antagonist and a little bit protagonists all of the same time a good supporting character should steal all the scenes there in and make you root for them when you know they're wrong.

When you're building a next story, heck maybe when I'm building my next story, make sure to think about the motivations of your supporting characters. If you  backstab your main character; see how far you can twist the knife. And if they're there for support what they die for the hero? Somebody's got to win the best supporting actor Oscar, may as well be a character you came up with right?