Why did the animousity between Scratch and Caesar start?
Scratch “talked the hacker talk”, but Caesar was able to walk the walk. Scratch was jealous, not only of C’s l33t skillz, but also of the charismatic hold he had over the rest of the urchins. Go back and brush up on your Shakespeare if you need more of an answer than that! I wanted to do something sort of different for Scratch in the first roll-call, and I thought, “Well, hm, why would he go to all this trouble unless he were showing off?” I had it in my head that he liked to produce music videos on the side, perhaps for local indie bands, and that he was too cool for school, so it came quite naturally that he would feel a certain sense of competition with Caesar. As we developed the Julius Caesar arc to encompass this, it became more defined, and more fun.
