Rebel Instantiations

[narrativedilettante]

I'm not going to ask much about these guys because I imagine you want to keep the answers for later use. What I do want to ask is:

When did you decide to put a Hawaiian shirt over the suit? I remember a Twitter conversation ages ago (I'm sorry, but I'm not going to dig it up) when, after it had been revealed that Mr. Administrator's suit is his skin, somebody asked if he ever wore Hawaiian shirts, and his response was something like "OUR SUIT IS OUR SKIN" and then it was suggested that he could just put the Hawaiian shirt over the suit, and he said he hadn't thought of that.

Was it an idea you just ran with? And had it been decided earlier that Mr. Administrator's suit is his skin, or was that a spur-of-the-moment joke that turned into something bigger?

[Dana]

I think we just went "What is the opposite of a suit?" and realized that Twitter had already answered us. And you'd have to ask Tom to be 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure it was just a spur of the moment thing.

[Rick Healey]

While it's perfectly understandable why it didn't happen (again, being a few hundred miles away from the filming made it impractical), but I was sad that none of my Hawaiian shirts were used.

Maybe next time.

Or, maybe I'm a rogue instantation myself! Dun dun DUN!!

[Tom]

I remember a Twitter conversation ages ago when, after it had been revealed that Mr. Administrator's suit is his skin, somebody asked if he ever wore Hawaiian shirts, and his response was something like "OUR SUIT IS OUR SKIN" and then it was suggested that he could just put the Hawaiian shirt over the suit, and he said he hadn't thought of that.

Was it an idea you just ran with? And had it been decided earlier that Mr. Administrator's suit is his skin, or was that a spur-of-the-moment joke that turned into something bigger?

Yes and yes.

I believe it was Val who suggested we run with the Hawaiian shirt gag, and I remembered it when I wrote the rebel script. (Val also drew Gurt in the comic.)

My rule in the AMA was "when the canon they are asking about is utterly irrelevant, go with Rule of Funny". His suit will never affect anything in the ARG's or Echo Chamber's continuity, and I'd been doing it for like an hour at that point. Exhausted and in the mood to gross you guys out, I went with the most messed-up explanation I could think of. I'm really glad I did.

A shorter way of saying this is that I did improv for 6 years, and quite thoroughly absorbed Yes, And.