Talk:The Quarantine/@comment-25567883-20141102193135/@comment-24101790-20141103030141

About Andrew Wakefield, he is an ass, but he has his moments of kindness. Andrew stops Edward Jenner from going into gruesome detail about how the students below them died. While he does instigate Patrick's death, he is actually the one who proposes exiling him in the first place before he is interrupted by Jennifer. I feel odd defending his caustic and choleric (puns!) character as he is more of a secondary antagonist in the later half of the story. I would say this about him. He is an asshole, but he's the group's asshole. He launches into a diatribe against Mr. Megaphone trying to get them to deliver on their promise of food. So I wouldn't necessarily say he's just an all-around-evil character, just someone who's been backed into a corner by their circumstances.

Yeah, I agree that Patrick's death was a bit contrived. I was looking for something along the lines of Simon's death in Lord of the Flies and had some difficulties trying to establish that mindset/mania. (Especially given their relatively rational thought processes up to that point.) They clearly weren't acting in the right state of mind, but the mouthpiece's words might help shed some light on it. "In this final stage, the person is highly infectious and can contaminate others through bodily fluids, close proximity, and physical contact." They assumed that killing him before he could reach the virulent final stage was their only option left. Believe it or not, I had to re-write that section multiple times and it was still problematic.

Thanks for the advice, I'd love to get more of your feedback on my other stories.