Today is the greatest day I have ever really known

So this is a bit late, but z0mG! Smashing Pumpkins were teh awesome live! Went and saw them at the Town Hall last Tuesday, and they were mind blowing... The whole thing was a fun time, bounced along and yelled out the lyrics to all the songs I knew... Today, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Eye, Stumbline, Ava Adore.... everything, so so good... set list here

The whole thing made me wish I had been able to see them live when the original band was together...

I’ve been working on another project, mostly inspired by my oracle and her reminiscing, as well as NumberNine reminding me about TVTropes.... One of the greatest wastes of time ever! Anyway I was putting people from Uni into our appropriate 5 man band slot... I think NumberNine was talking about this a few months back, though he was talking about one of his current 5 man band as opposed at an old historic one... but I am more about the past.. well more our last year at uni...

Anyway, discussion if you want, but my original thoughts are:

• Hero – Me (I mean I am the hero of my own story, I did consider to cast me as something else but still...)
• Lancer – Nick (though maybe my Oracle instead?)
• The Smart Guy – Mark (though I have considered him as an atypical ‘Big Guy’ which would make Nick as the Smart guy...)
• The Big Guy – Em (though maybe Mark instead, or of course Ben, which adds
• The Chick –Emran (so totally Emran...)
• Others:
• Mentor – Brian

I haven’t thought of tropes for others yet...

Of course the real issue is that a few of us can fit into multiple slots, I am Hero, maybe Lancer, and maybe The smart guy, and a little bit of the chick (though not as much as Emran.) That said if I substitute Ben for Mark then that takes up the blatant The Big Guy slot, which means of the people left Nick is a better The Smart Guy and Em is my Lancer.

Of course this changes a bit if I drop off the hero slot and take up either The Smart Guy or The Lancer (I will drop the big guy for the rest of this thought experiment I think). If We put Nick into the hero slot (and let’s be honest it is where he thinks he is,) then either Emran or I take up the Lancer slot, the other takes the Smart Guy and Em becomes The Chick (which possibly says a lot about my view on Nick’s view of the world.) With Emran as the hero things become a bit more weird, I think I become the Chick in that case, Emma is the Big guy, and Nick the Smart Guy, with all of us being the Lancer. Finally with Emma as the Hero, I become the Lancer, Nick is the Smart guy and Emran the chick.

I do wonder if we could fit into slots and leave the hero slot free?

It is an idea that possibly needs further work.... along with some other concepts....