Otis Lou Bohr wrote:
"A tormented man filled with angst and passion, the LOST SOUL drifts through life with a heavy heart and a wounded spirit. He is dramatic, intriguing and secretive. This misfit has never adapted to society. A tremendous physical or emotional injury has produced a baffling puzzle of a man."
A.k.a. "the Mulder"? (;-p)
Exactly! In fact, Fox Mulder is given as one of the examples for The Lost Soul (Scully is a Librarian), another is Angel (the one from Buffy, not Rockford's ne'er do well friend.<g>)
I'm shocked that an Avon fan would not have snapped this one up for Avon...ah, I see Avon is pegged as a Bad Boy/Professor. Okay, I admit that is more appropriate, but he certainly seems to suffer intermittent fits of Lost Soulishness (*coughRumours Of Death*cough*)...
Hmmm. No, I don't think so. The Lost Soul has a grudge against the world because he was unfairly done against -- outraged innocence, as it were, "nobody loves me so I guess I'll go eat worms." Avon, I think, is fully willing to accept that by attempting his crime and *failing* at it, he asked for what he got, and isn't whining over it.
Even his pursuit of Shrinker -- he's punishing Shrinker for what he did (er, what Avon thinks he did) to Anna, but there's no moral outrage or indignation that this awful thing befell him/his loved one, no attempt to make Shrinker repent or apologize or acknowledge that he had hurt an innocent, no sense he's trying to right the balance of good/evil in the world. It's pure revenge, "you hurt someone who mattered to me" without any attempt to cloak it in anything nobler.
Susan Beth (susanbeth33@mindspring.com)