Saturday, March 2, 2013
Character bio: Sijil
Sijil, who rescues Michael Floyd Beverly in the prologue, is known for carrying a special briefcase and unique business-style "cards." He always sports a white-silk tie and business-like attire. He handles much affairs in the field as a special liaison on behalf of Jabril. Not much else is known about him personally besides the fact he comes from Morocco and speaks several languages. It is not known how he travels and seems to appear wherever called to, but there is no place he cannot get to or get inside of. He is nearly as dangerous as Ezra'el in fighting, and actually turned down the post/billet 'Angel of Death' decades before Ezra'el assumed the position. He has an uncanny sense of timing in fighting and is deceptively fast at the height of 5'11" with a slim, athletic build, hardly noticeable through the business attire he always wears.
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I am interested in knowing, why you chose a business card?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the question. Technically, it isn't a business card, it's 2 business card-sized, uniquely thin sheets of superior polished steel, infused with technologically advanced elements of which one allows Sijil to use for the purpose of by-passing security codes and the other uses a different technology which allows Sijil to "hypnotize" the bearer of the card after Sijil holds the card and then passes it on with an autosuggestion. This is why the first two agents he encounters are in a state of confusion when he holds the card in his hand and then passes it on to one who then passes it on to the other, allowing Sijil to pass them without further incident until they hear the gunshot soon after which kind of snaps them out of the hypnotic state. Same for Agent Willard when he held the card after Sijil, causing him to hesitate and delay in his reactions to Sijil's "intervention." I hope this answers your question.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the extra technical information about the business card. I think it added dept to the description of the scene, I previously read and the Sijil character who used it. But I wanted to know why a piece of steel that appears to be a business card opposed to anything else. I am trying to go into the mind of the author and what he was thinking when he chose this particular medium.
ReplyDeleteWell, initially, the opening scene with Sijil rescuing Michael Beverly was going to be a little different. He was going to be a kind of lawyer and enter the scenario as though Michael was his client. It grew to something else as I recalled an episode of X-Files where a character was a "pusher" who could push his thoughts onto other people. For example that character would wear a blank card on his lapel and other people would see it as an FBI badge or what have you. So I thought I would put a spin on that and have Sijil carry these kind of business cards to make it more interesting. Then I watched a documentary early last year about the world's most dangerous drug called "scopolamine", also known as "devil's breath" which comes from the barrachero tree in Columbia and renders people helpless and I figured it would be interesting to throw that in.
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