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1. Comment to this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
Erin gave me V. Possibly in retribution for the fact I was late. Or my cute face was insufficiently cute ;)
Merfilly gave me N, and I think it's under the cut, but the formatting on this entry has gone severly screwy on me.
1) V, from V for Vendetta - lets see. Vindictive, vengeful, vicious and vivacious (as in full of life). Hah. I need to stop trying to be funny. But V is fabulous. Driven and morally ambiguous, extreme and with a damned funny way of showing he cares. But you gotta cheer for him, in spite of it all. And that Viking funeral ... I do love a good showman, and V was certainly that, right to the end.
2) Vimes, from Discworld - cynical and downtrodden. Snarly and sarcastic and an optimist despite it all. I loved Vimes from the moment I heard his voice. I love how he stubbornly holds on to his distrust of the upper class, despite being one of them now, and married to about the best of them. But you don't want to mess with Vimes. The beast remembers ...
3) Vetinari, also from Discworld - How does that song go? Because you can't have one without the other? And really, Vimes and Vetinari complete each other. Deliciously urbane, calmly pessimistic, ex(we think)-assassin, mastered the art of standing still in a way only Vimes has managed to match, SO not a man you want to push ... Vetinari rocks like nobody's business. And the humour, beneath it all, the hope ... lovely man. Just not one you'd want to annoy.
4) The Viper, from the webcomic Return to Sender - because "I am ze Viper!" "Who?" "Ze Viper! I vant to vash and vipe your vindows!" It had me in stitches, and I don't care how pathetic that may be. Rotund little man who turns into ravening monster. With a cute accent. So sue me!
5) Vegeta, from Dragonball Z - Saiyan no Ouji. Scrappy little fighter, desperately proud, loyal and vicious and more than a little bit broken. Pride was all he had to start with, all he had to live for, and when he began to learn more, to find more ... it was a thing of beauty. Vegeta is not a nice man. He's not even a nice Saiyan. But he's a strong man, a proud man, and a good man, beneath it all. He earned his redemption the hard way. The really hard way. And deserved it, every bit.
1) Nynaeve, from Wheel of Time - Tough-as-nails, no-nonsense bitch with anger issues. I always loved how her anger was what gave her the strength, the power to heal. A true healer, to whom death and injury and the terrible things people do to each other are a bone-deep insult. And her snark, and passion, and the way she tugs her braid, and the way the agelessness granted by her power actually grates on her because she comes from a culture that respects age, and she won't wear her age on her face. And her and Lan ... matched made in Heaven. Stubborn people that they are.
2) Nobby Nobbs, from Discworld - Small, stinky little man. Ugly as sin, needs a cert to prove that he's human, hasn't changed his underwear in ... don't ask how long, has skin in shades found only in specialised medical texts ... and yet I find him adorable. Because he's simple, and sly, and he was hurt but he doesn't let it affect him. I love Nobby. I just wouldn't want to date him, or sit downwind of him.
3) Nicodemus, from Secret of Nimh - sage rat. I mean, a sage *rat*. Possibly this stems from my love of Splinter from TMNT, but I love that idea. And Nicodemus ... he was creepy, old, decrepit, dignified, and always seemed to know what to do. And his voice in the film was a beautiful thing, aged and dignified.
4) Nemo, from 20000 Leagues, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, numerous adaptions - I love the mythology of this man. Of the scientist betrayed by the world, who retreated to the world beneath the waves. Of the man, flawed and fanatic and stern and proud, standing alone against the world. And his world, the majesty beneath the sea. And his ship, his proud ship, his love, his Nautilus. I just fell in love with the myth that was a man, flaws and all.
5) Nathaniel, from the Bartimaeus trilogy - he was an asshole, to begin with. He really was. Obsessed power and position, blind to the sufferings of the lower classes, self-righteous. But behind it, he was a scared little boy who'd had his cultural perceptions drummed into him, and it wasn't his fault that he kept meeting people who defied them utterly. And he learned, and his final sacrifice ... Nathaniel was a good man, in the end. He made the right choices, given the circumstances and his inherant personality.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
Erin gave me V. Possibly in retribution for the fact I was late. Or my cute face was insufficiently cute ;)
Merfilly gave me N, and I think it's under the cut, but the formatting on this entry has gone severly screwy on me.
1) V, from V for Vendetta - lets see. Vindictive, vengeful, vicious and vivacious (as in full of life). Hah. I need to stop trying to be funny. But V is fabulous. Driven and morally ambiguous, extreme and with a damned funny way of showing he cares. But you gotta cheer for him, in spite of it all. And that Viking funeral ... I do love a good showman, and V was certainly that, right to the end.
2) Vimes, from Discworld - cynical and downtrodden. Snarly and sarcastic and an optimist despite it all. I loved Vimes from the moment I heard his voice. I love how he stubbornly holds on to his distrust of the upper class, despite being one of them now, and married to about the best of them. But you don't want to mess with Vimes. The beast remembers ...
3) Vetinari, also from Discworld - How does that song go? Because you can't have one without the other? And really, Vimes and Vetinari complete each other. Deliciously urbane, calmly pessimistic, ex(we think)-assassin, mastered the art of standing still in a way only Vimes has managed to match, SO not a man you want to push ... Vetinari rocks like nobody's business. And the humour, beneath it all, the hope ... lovely man. Just not one you'd want to annoy.
4) The Viper, from the webcomic Return to Sender - because "I am ze Viper!" "Who?" "Ze Viper! I vant to vash and vipe your vindows!" It had me in stitches, and I don't care how pathetic that may be. Rotund little man who turns into ravening monster. With a cute accent. So sue me!
5) Vegeta, from Dragonball Z - Saiyan no Ouji. Scrappy little fighter, desperately proud, loyal and vicious and more than a little bit broken. Pride was all he had to start with, all he had to live for, and when he began to learn more, to find more ... it was a thing of beauty. Vegeta is not a nice man. He's not even a nice Saiyan. But he's a strong man, a proud man, and a good man, beneath it all. He earned his redemption the hard way. The really hard way. And deserved it, every bit.
1) Nynaeve, from Wheel of Time - Tough-as-nails, no-nonsense bitch with anger issues. I always loved how her anger was what gave her the strength, the power to heal. A true healer, to whom death and injury and the terrible things people do to each other are a bone-deep insult. And her snark, and passion, and the way she tugs her braid, and the way the agelessness granted by her power actually grates on her because she comes from a culture that respects age, and she won't wear her age on her face. And her and Lan ... matched made in Heaven. Stubborn people that they are.
2) Nobby Nobbs, from Discworld - Small, stinky little man. Ugly as sin, needs a cert to prove that he's human, hasn't changed his underwear in ... don't ask how long, has skin in shades found only in specialised medical texts ... and yet I find him adorable. Because he's simple, and sly, and he was hurt but he doesn't let it affect him. I love Nobby. I just wouldn't want to date him, or sit downwind of him.
3) Nicodemus, from Secret of Nimh - sage rat. I mean, a sage *rat*. Possibly this stems from my love of Splinter from TMNT, but I love that idea. And Nicodemus ... he was creepy, old, decrepit, dignified, and always seemed to know what to do. And his voice in the film was a beautiful thing, aged and dignified.
4) Nemo, from 20000 Leagues, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, numerous adaptions - I love the mythology of this man. Of the scientist betrayed by the world, who retreated to the world beneath the waves. Of the man, flawed and fanatic and stern and proud, standing alone against the world. And his world, the majesty beneath the sea. And his ship, his proud ship, his love, his Nautilus. I just fell in love with the myth that was a man, flaws and all.
5) Nathaniel, from the Bartimaeus trilogy - he was an asshole, to begin with. He really was. Obsessed power and position, blind to the sufferings of the lower classes, self-righteous. But behind it, he was a scared little boy who'd had his cultural perceptions drummed into him, and it wasn't his fault that he kept meeting people who defied them utterly. And he learned, and his final sacrifice ... Nathaniel was a good man, in the end. He made the right choices, given the circumstances and his inherant personality.
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