King of Spades - go kick some Ass!

Okay, so this is a bad thing to admit. Back when I was coming up with my system of power in Mystic Wings, I didn't research an actual tarot deck properly. I tried, but for some reason my searches were totally fruitless, but now that I'm working on Mark of a Goddess, I decided to get into it, just enough to figure out the names for a few new characters. I wouldn't take no for an answer and I found out what I was looking for.

Before I say anything else, I have to say quite noisily that I don't believe in astrology, tarot readings, palm readings, numerology, or anything like that.

With that said, I think it's quite clear why my idea to turn the characters from a tarot deck into people with magical powers never occurred to anyone else, because I had no friggin idea what a tarot deck really was. I had no idea that it was so much like ordinary face cards. And who would think to give characters the names of face cards and send them out into the world armed with mystical powers? "Hey you! King of Spades - go kick some ass!" *sigh* I know exactly who - the same people who turn Sir Isaac Newton into a bad guy, and Joan of Arc into a phantom thief who seals the demons in paintings ... and me ...

I'm not feeling terribly stupid about the idiocy of my power system. I wrote a really good disclaimer before the chapter where I reveal all this that said that I knew nothing whatever and that I was just making it up as I went. I feel like I tried my best to come up with something no one else had done before. Alas, I'm catching myself turning into a post-modernist, and I don't even have the sense to be ashamed.

So, that's the story behind my story. Hope I didn't disillusion any of you about my greatness. No, I am not actually that great. I'm just willing to B.S. with the best of them *wink*.