Avatars

Like Julie Anne, I couldn’t find the discussion page for our avatars either, so I’m just going to post it here. I apologize, my ideas about the avatars are still very fluid. I spent most of my time these past couple days trying to get caught up on the discussions I missed from last week. I do think that whatever resemblance we choose for our avatars, it should be fictional. Choosing an Erasmus or Shakespeare as an avatar seems a little bit too complicated for what I consider to be a supporting character in our ebook, elesson (or whatever it’s morphed into now). The focus is still on either the themes or the texts, and adding a historical avatar adds another focus that may distract from the avatar simply being a guide through the ebook. A fictional avatar accomplishes the purpose just as well as a historical avatar would. That being said, my ideas are:

Peter the Plough Boy – a plough boy who’s just purchased his first copy of the Bible and is only now discovering the analogies to the Bible in Shakespeare’s works. (Think Pinocchio, it’s a real Bible!)

Aldo – (Italian name, possibly derived from old and noble) A lost translator of ancient texts who debates the merits of ancient texts in modern works. (not going to lie, I learned it’s difficult to create a fun fictional character for Ad Fontes. Hopefully some of you had more luck than I did.)