Detroit By Night
Control.
What does that mean to you?
Control, like anything else in life, can be used for many different purposes.
We have speed limits to save peoples lives. We do not murder other people for moral reasons, not because of laws. A good child is expected to behave them self. Society expects people to maintain control of themselves. All are examples of control.
Control is neither good or evil. It can be used for either purpose. Some measure of control intended for good purposes can in the end be used instead for evil.
So, what does Control mean to your character in ETB? Fighting for control over the Beast? Making sure that others behave them selves? Influencing others to do what you want? Are your characters efforts for control an act of good, evil, or simply not to be defined?
Chess is perhaps the ultimate game of control. All of the pieces have a certain set of moves that the players use. You can move your pieces in order to provoke a response from the other player. Or, you can just react to what the other player does. There are positives to both basic strategies, and weaknesses. Which is why chess is a very tough game to master.
But, what if the pieces start to make there own moves? What if they have minds of there own? True, you can manipulate, or control, a free willed being into doing your biding. You might even be able to determine a certain desired outcome, based on how the "piece" is to be "played".
So, to truly make the game interesting, you would need to do something, different. Change the rules, agreeable to both sides, of course. Introduce a new element to the game outside chesses normal rules.
Like, make one piece playable by both sides. Hence, the Grey Queen. What better than to make the most powerful piece, the most valuable piece, a potential enemy and ally to both players?
Even better, give that piece free will.
But, of course, that could always lead to one player or another trying to co-opt the Queen for their own purposes, always aware that his opponent will be trying to do the same thing, perhaps ignoring the positions of the other pieces in the process.
Even a lowly pawn can checkmate a king, after all.
Or a pawn can become yet another piece in the hands of a skilled player.
We know Jenny is the Grey Queen. We do not know for certain yet just who the players are, nor even what color our characters are playing for. Regardless, in chess, usually one side wins. But, since the current chess game in ETB has introduced a new element, who is to say that the gray pieces can't "win", regardless of rank? But, to do so will require more than just one Gray Queen...
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