[Dragaera] Vlad's passivity

[Howard Brazee]

On 10/16/2008 Jon Lincicum wrote:
>  In my opinion, this has more to do with storytelling than Vlad as a
>  character. Vlad SEEMS to be reactive, because every time we see him
>  in a story, for much of it, he's in over his head. He has no CHOICE
>  but to be reactive for most of the stories we see him in, because he
>  doesn't have the knowledge or resources to do anything else.

That makes sense.   Whenever we tell a story about why we are fighting, 
or killing, or whatever - we have reasons for our behavior.    We are 
*always* reacting - sometimes by being proactive, and sometimes by being 
pushed around.