- Joined
- May 18, 2011
- Location
- Carlisle, PA
And we can have "Lt. Dan," a young member of Sickles' staff, who is used for comic relief and tries to talk him out of doing crazy things...but is actually only a figment of his imagination and manifestation of Dan Sickles' conscience. He looks like a young version of General Sickles and doesn't interact with any of the other characters.
Basically what Buster Killrain was originally supposed to be to Colonel Chamberlain in Gettysburg. Only perhaps more comical, and crazy, since this IS Sickles after all...
It's funny that you think that Dan Sickles had a conscience.
In all seriousness, he was an only child, spoiled and indulged by a relatively wealthy couple whose emotions lay very close to the surface (calling him emotional is not inaccurate). All of that can definitely be played for drama, especially since his life was full of drama anyways.
Ryan