So it begins...

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, we're about to delve into a magical place - a truly whimsical place called Jon Land. In Jon Land, the wild misogynistic thoughts run free, unchecked by those pesky misandrists. There are no trees in Jon Land, or grass or greenery (because please, who wants those stupid environmentalists poking their noses in?) and you get all the muscle bound women you want. Basically it's like a screwed up version of Valhalla where Jon gets all the body-building, extra tough Valkyrie's he could ever hope to find. Can someone say 'fetishisation'?

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Jon starts us off with an interesting perspective on Morgalla, calling her 'a tongue-in-cheek black comedy reply to anime'.  Tongue-in-cheek I can believe, since the only way to swallow this horrendously ridiculous character is to believe that the author couldn't honestly of thought he was ever going to be taken seriously. Morgalla is Jon's fetish personified. She doesn't have a particular personality or even hold up much of a conversation in her own book. Without doubt, she's nothing but a 2D cut out of what Jon thinks all women should be like. In regards to being a black comedy, no where in the un-revised version of Jon's released work did I find Morgalla to be particularly dark or witty. In fact, she's nothing more than a throw away soap box of see through, out-dated republican values that don't even try to be subtle. Morgalla is literally a walking conservative doll, a woman with a man's voice behind her and little else to connect her with her own gender.

Now, I never watched 'DragonSlayer' as a child, or even as an early teen, and I'm not about to go on the recommendations of a certain pending author. However, what I can get from Jon's first description of his inspirations for Morgalla is that he thinks he's managed to create a relatable character who struggles with her identity whilst still remaining strong. Morgalla is made strong in one sense and one sense only. She has muscles and she can fight. Though Jon's terrible writing has a knack for making epic battle scenes absolutely suck so most of the time you don't even care that Morgalla can apparently kick butt.

Jon likes to pretend that Morgalla has strength beyond the rippingly pecks that he gave her, and unfortunately, she just doesn't. Morgalla has no strength in character or personality because she's barely a character. She doesn't express any emotions that are remotely human and when she does, Jon writes it in a way that makes it sound robotic and un-natural. Morgalla comes across as an empty shell, a character who was supposed to be as lonely as Harry Potter in his cupboard and have deep emotional issues with her hellish surroundings.

It's kind of like Jon forgot altogether that he made his character a demon. When you make a hybrid character, especially if the character is half-human, you have to understand how the dynamics of the two separate races work. It's always nice to think of our human side as being the triumphantly good aspect of someone's personality. Who didn't cheer in Lord of the Rings when Aragorn took up the throne of Gondor and the age of man prevailed? Who didn't feel slightly proud when Faramir realised the ring was too powerful for man and fought his corruption? Everyone wants to believe that man = good. That's not hard to recognise with Jon since he has an aversion to films that present humanity negatively. However, making a half human, half demon high breed calls for caution.

Considering Morgalla has been raised in hell and apparently doesn't have much experience with humans, it would only be right to assume that she should be bloody thirsty. No, I don't care that her mother was human. No, I don't care that she's always had more of an inclination towards good than all the other demons in hell. She was raised with other demons, other demons who were merciless and hungry for war. Morgalla should have at least taken on some of their views in her youth. Jon makes the mistake of making Morgalla a special snowflake who for some reason is immune to the rough ideology of her whole society just because she has a few strands of human in her somewhere. He forsakes character development in order to preach about Morgalla feeling more human, even though logic tells us she should be just as bloodthirsty as any other demon.

Morgalla's transition into human emotions should have been a slow and vigorous process that required multiple contact with different humans and probably even life changing experiences. Instead, the story cops out and Morgalla already feels 'different' and 'special' at the start of the book. She'd be a much more interesting character if only the author knew how to write her...