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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2887385" data-attributes="member: 12037">The problem is the great amount of granularity between the two.He defines "kewl" as so far out there that it leads me to believe that he considers to err on the side of Everyman even when pushing the envelope toward Kewl. His Kewl examples are all audaciously amazing. But, on the other side he also keeps bringing up things like holes in underwear, misbehaving children, and the like, indicating that Everymen are poor and/or flawed in some way and that that is an important aspect of the Everyman status.Perhaps he's looking at a more internal conflict, though. If you can have phenominal cosmic powers capable of destroying universes and still be an Everyman, there's gotta be something else defining your status as such. Perhaps a willingness to ignore your powers and just live life as a humble normal guy? So, if you go out during the day and fight Zeus, destroying continents, but come home to wife and the kids to complain about work, you're an Everyman?But, that conflicts with the initial setup. Drizzt wouldn't be an Everyman if he came home from slaughtering orc armies to his wife and kids and complained about work if Kewl is defined as uniqueness (the origional definition), becuase that doesn't take away from the whole angsty Good member of an Evil race thing.Particularly this stands out:Which makes me think that he considers Kewl characters as a bad thing. Indeed, the very world "kewl" is somewhat a loaded word. It's a word that l33t internet kiddies made up like pwned and w00t. A better word would be simply "Unique" as an opposite for Everyman, without the possible negative connotations.So I'm really left back where I started, not really knowing where the line is being drawn here, or which parallel to draw the line on, even.</blockquote>

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