Talk:Tornado Tango/@comment-31533956-20180924193257/@comment-26326346-20180929045639

Ah, that wasn't mean at all, no worries. I might be able to cast the story in a bit of a new light; thank you for reading and commenting!

This was one of my earlier works and back then I wrote shorter and quicker so that might be why the conflict seemed too sudden (not to excuse it, just giving a reason why it might have turned out that way).

The thought that brought about the story for me was me asking myself, "How could you make a tornado worse?" and a psycho trying to break in and kill you is what I came up with. Should one stay and confront the psycho or leave and chance the tornado?

There was a bit that I nearly included in the story that may have helped justify why the psycho acted the way he did, but it seemed really out of the way/broke the flow and was quite cliche. Originally, I was going to have the news mention that a nearby mental institution had a breakout and that's where he was going to have come from. It seemed rather convenient that Oliver would be watching to give readers that piece of exposition and weird that the news would be focusing on that over an incoming tornado so that got nixed.

I'd say that the stranger didn't go out of his way out all because he needed a place to wait out the tornado (although in that case maybe he should have stayed in the institution, lol). There was a bit of symbolism to be had between the psycho and the tornado; both were destructive and both were random and unprovoked in nature.

Thanks again for reading and commenting!