So, after discussing things with Alex and Chris (and visiting an interesting site called tvtropes.org, which analyzes every kind of character type and plot trope imaginable), I decided that the female lead in Deathlock is turning out to be a Scrappy or, worse, a Wesley:

A Wesley is created when the writers (or sometimes only one of them) have become attached to a specific character, so they begin writing him/her into more and more of the scripts, giving them more to do, and sometimes making them the proxy voice of the author, all while blithely ignoring the simple truth that they’re the only ones that love their character, because the fans absolutely … hate this character.

Technically, you can’t have a Wesley or Scrappy without fans, but I think I’ve studied enough of what my favorite writers did wrong to realize when I’m treading dangerous waters with a mismatched couple.

You can’t give a powerful guy a useless girlfriend.

*sigh*

So… Deathlock take five, anyone?

I’m going to take my own advice and start working on the overarching plot of the series. It needs to go somewhere, everyone needs a spot, I definitely need to work out who’s going to do what, and it’ll be clearer if I have a good outline.

>_> Now where are those blank notecards?