Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20150112035532

Kenny is Lincoln's buddy/stooge and the expy of Kenzou. I really don't need to explain any more than that.

The thing with Sylvia is she's kind of the arechtypical alpha bitch; she's the token female for Lincoln's group and he manipulates her just as much as she manipulates others. Part of her character is based on Mitsuko Souma from Battle Royale, since she uses her sexuality to manipulate others. While she's not as popular as Isabel, Sylvia is still attractive, and she uses that to coax Tripp into helping her. Up until this point she's not done much more than mildly irritate Kirk and pal around with Lincoln.

The class has already heard the tape by the time Sylvia runs into them, and since someone died in her arms, she's covered in blood, and is therefore able to make a compelling argument Kirk and Holly attacked her and her group. Part of her character is also based upon Lieutenant Ito from Letters from Iwo Jima (the guy who straps landmines to himself so he can dive under a tank midway through the movie); basically she does something pretty selfish and horrific (Ito got most of his men killed ignoring Kuribayashi's orders not to launch suicide charges), survives (when every other person she was leading is killed), and has just about zero remorse for it (she blames it all on Alex instead, which is meant to be somewhat justified), and doesn't really face any consequences for her actions (because everyone else does as well). Ito survives the battle while several much better men are killed in action doing their jobs.

There's meant to be a severe contrast between her and Alex; what Alex said was false, but she believed she was telling the truth, while Sylvia deliberately misled her class into attacking Holly. It seems like semantics, but motivation is everything, both for anyone reading this and the characters themselves. Still, Sylvia isn't meant to be a character I want people to sympathize as much with.

It does interest me on some level the way I've handled things, the Countermeasures people themselves were handling things until they decided to bring in outside help. Pretty much all the class's really major problems at the end stem from Lincoln volunteering to join them after Elaine's death.