Worth 50,000: Day Twenty One - Send Up A Flare

[momebie]

Smoking is a terrible, horrible, no good habit. I am aware of this. And while I've never smoked cigarettes I did spend the better part of one of my college years smoking other things, which mostly landed me with lungs in an even worse state than they were when I started. People get really worried for you when you sound like you have bronchitis, guys. But all that said, I am kind of drawn to characters who smoke. Spike Spiegel smokes. As do Jean Havoc and Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The way they smoke can say things about them. The flare of the embers in the tip can send a small note of light into an unbearable darkness. And then there's the camaraderie. As Simon says in this week's Misfits, it's not fair that the smokers get all the breaks.

What horrible traits do your characters have, and what do they say about them?



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