The sad thing is that he's actually pretty attractive if you mentally remove all that absurd facial hair...
I suppose the trick to writing the Department people would be to make most of them vaguely sympathetic, especially since many of them might well have got into their jobs all young and idealistic hoping to Make A Difference and got ground down by bureaucracy. It does tend to have that effect--well, politics in general does, seems like. So what you've probably got are a small handful who originally joined the Department to further their own ends and gain power and whatever, another slightly larger handful who started out well, became jaded, and are now only there to get out of it what they personally can, and a large number who still mean well but are also jaded and cynical and just generally tired of the whole thing--who in their own way could be just as dangerous as the others, either because they're too ineffectual to protect against bad elements inside and outside the Department, or because while they mean well, their aims don't mesh with Evy & co.'s.
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Date: 2009-08-09 05:09 am (UTC)I suppose the trick to writing the Department people would be to make most of them vaguely sympathetic, especially since many of them might well have got into their jobs all young and idealistic hoping to Make A Difference and got ground down by bureaucracy. It does tend to have that effect--well, politics in general does, seems like. So what you've probably got are a small handful who originally joined the Department to further their own ends and gain power and whatever, another slightly larger handful who started out well, became jaded, and are now only there to get out of it what they personally can, and a large number who still mean well but are also jaded and cynical and just generally tired of the whole thing--who in their own way could be just as dangerous as the others, either because they're too ineffectual to protect against bad elements inside and outside the Department, or because while they mean well, their aims don't mesh with Evy & co.'s.