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Mr. Money, coming soon to a Site near you.

TyGently 20 Jul 2016 03:21

Special thanks to TwistedGears for ordering me encouraging me to write this, and helping me develop it.

Thanks to everyone who read a draft, including Aiden Eldritch, Devereaux, GreenWolf, kol aumer, and A Random Day.

Also thanks to Rumetzen, who read and reviewed a really old draft of this that has almost nothing in common with this iteration except the name and a few details.

TwistedGears 20 Jul 2016 03:33

Yes. YES.

Took you long enough! Been looking forward to you writing this for a while, and I enjoyed the little talks we had during its development. This is a good ass article. Good job, Mr. Gently. Great work.

ProcyonLotor 20 Jul 2016 03:45

Honestly, I've never been a fan of most of the Little Misters, but this one had a certain humanity to it I very much enjoyed.
+1

RJB_R 20 Jul 2016 03:58

It's alright. It didn't quite hit the whimsical sort of aura that great Wondertainment articles have, and I didn't find the effect to be terribly exciting. Some of the addenda bits were interesting but the end of the last interview fell flat for me. No vote. on further reflection, tentative downvote.

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Dr Blackbox 20 Jul 2016 04:33

One thing I don't like,
It seems a little dangerous to transfer him to somebody as important as an o5.

NovaeDeArx 20 Jul 2016 16:45

Fair point, but considering that he is potentially the most powerful anomaly that could ever be, who else could they trust with his ownership? This guy could rewrite all of reality; there's nobody you can trust with that kind of power, but an O5 is pretty much the closest you can get, since a corrupt O5 is already a beyond-Keter danger to reality.

TBlackburn 21 Jul 2016 08:11

He already rewrote reality…

MissSashira 01 Oct 2020 06:28

I'm stunned by the implications of how powerful this guy is. He could potentially do anything, as long as you convince his next owner that's the ability he has.

I've always been fond of all-powerful beings who are functionally unable to control their own powers or use them for their own benefit, particularly those who are limited by the belief people have in them. If someone tries to sell him as "a tool for neutralizing any SCP in existence" and the buyer is understandably skeptical, they wouldn't sign the contract and he actually couldn't do it.

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Flappybobb 20 Jul 2016 04:41

Another Litter Mister? It's been a while if I'm not wrong, and I can say this is a stellar reappearance. Just the right amount of characterization and strangeness to make me upvote.

Kalinin 20 Jul 2016 18:29

Checking in to register a neutral vote. I don't like Wondertainment as traditionally portrayed, and I don't really care for this more mystical, universal-implications incarnation of Wondertainment either. Willy Wonka with a deeper and more meaningful agenda is still Willy Wonka to me. That said, those are matters largely of personal preference, and while I won't hesitate to downvote on that basis, this was constructed with enough care and skill that I'm okay with its existence.

One nitpick. When you mention that Mr. Money is of Hispanic descent, it might be more scientific to narrow down the ethnicity. "Hispanic" is more a political/cultural designation referring to Spanish-speaking peoples, and you're going to have a lot of genetic differences between a person born in Peru and one born in Andalusia.

TL333s 20 Jul 2016 23:02

I'm still not a fan of trying to fill the Misters List. Along with losing some of the mystery of the Misters, it goes against "there is no canon".

With that said, this is way better than a lot of the more recent Misters that have popped up. I thought at first that it was just okay, an interesting anomaly with not a lot going on (and I was bemused by the MCD claim that an anomaly was acting anomalously), but that final interview clinched it. "Wow," I said, aloud. Good stuff, I don't mind having Mr. Money around. :)

+50

Taffeta 04 Feb 2017 10:14

woo

Kykywox 12 Jul 2017 00:31

I liked the reference to his "previous iteration" when he mentions Or maybe I started vomiting gemstones, somewhat linking the two Little Mister series together.

Also love the fact that given ultimate power by a kid he then gives himself his abilities, looping it all together, akin to a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts or a time-travel story where one becomes the cause of their very existence.

+1

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