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I've been reading both the Honor Harrington series by David Weber and the Girl Genius webcomic by the Foglios of late, and it's become increasingly apparent that there are certain character types that inherantly appeal to me.
I've mostly caught up with Girl Genius (and read an awesome canon-divergent AU where Barry works with Klaus instead of against him back in the early days of the Empire), but I'm missing large chunks of the middle of the HH series. I've read most of the early books, several of the latest ones, and most of the Torch and Talbott subseries, but the middle books of the main series I've still got a catch up on. I've found most of them online, though, Baen free books, so it shouldn't be too much trouble :)
Apparently, summer is for reading, if not necessarily what you thought you would be.
Tricksters and geniuses who win by changing the game (Shannon Foraker & Sonja Hemphill, Tarvek Sturmvoraus & Agatha Heterodyne), battered survivors who scrape through by the skin of their teeth (Yuri Radamancher, Moloch von Zinzer), stern, regal leaders who do the dishonourable/necessary thing to effect an honourable/necessary change and suffer for it (Eloise Pritchard & Tom Theisman, Klaus Wulfenbach), and combat pragmatists who despite being reasonably nice/good/fair-ish people are perfectly willing to utterly flatten people the moment the gloves come off (Honor Harrington & Aivars Terekhov, both Gil & Klaus Wulfenbach).
If I'm picking overall favourite characters, it's Eloise and Aivars for Honor Harrington and Klaus and Moloch for Girl Genius. Apparently, in these universes in particular, it's combat pragmatists and stern leaders that really, really do it for me, with a side order of survivors mostly because Moloch is just so fucking deadpan about everything around him and manages to do things that professional assassins and mad scientists only just keep up with, purely out of a fervent desire not to die. Like Rincewind in Discworld and Butters in Dresden Files, apparently this is a trait I really, really like in a character. Heh.
If I'm picking overall favourite characters, it's Eloise and Aivars for Honor Harrington and Klaus and Moloch for Girl Genius. Apparently, in these universes in particular, it's combat pragmatists and stern leaders that really, really do it for me, with a side order of survivors mostly because Moloch is just so fucking deadpan about everything around him and manages to do things that professional assassins and mad scientists only just keep up with, purely out of a fervent desire not to die. Like Rincewind in Discworld and Butters in Dresden Files, apparently this is a trait I really, really like in a character. Heh.
I've mostly caught up with Girl Genius (and read an awesome canon-divergent AU where Barry works with Klaus instead of against him back in the early days of the Empire), but I'm missing large chunks of the middle of the HH series. I've read most of the early books, several of the latest ones, and most of the Torch and Talbott subseries, but the middle books of the main series I've still got a catch up on. I've found most of them online, though, Baen free books, so it shouldn't be too much trouble :)
Apparently, summer is for reading, if not necessarily what you thought you would be.
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