I hold by my Wimsey.
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siriaeve), I will now indulge by whim by describing all the different characters of whom Severus Snape reminds me, and how, in a disjointed fashion probably comprehensible only to me.
Morrolan e'Drien--"hiding his wit beneath arrogance"; star shining dark; one must be a certain kind of man to affect deliberately a swirling black cloak--
Pel--ambition, ambition above all things; ferocity ever-present, blazing forth in a tangle of steel; so many, many lies, and do you even remember which are lies?--
Grita--death is not vengeance, the moment before death is vengeance; the open wound of half-blood; no one could hold a grudge quite so viciously--
Norathar e'Lanya--dashed hopes, grim resignation, pain--
Vladimir Taltos--bitterness more or less hidden; "even when I work with them I have to pretend I don't want to see every one of them torn apart"; blood cold as ice on lips still laughing, not humour but defiance; do always and precisely what you must do--
Lex Luthor--because no one will ever believe, no matter how you try, and sooner or later you get tired of trying; the hand holding the gun, the hand on the pillow, true or false, like a lamb to the slaughter; can someone be made completely of grey?; how many ways can you break someone before the pieces are too small to be put back together?--
Samuel Vimes--stick by the shield, but sometimes the shield isn't enough; there are levers to everyone, and sometimes the spring is wound so tight it could break; paranoia can be survival, and in certain specialised areas, better to have no rules at all--
Susan Sto Helit--incompetence is not tolerated, not under any circumstances; Logic and Mathematics, not Literature and History; quite often angry, at the sheer stupidity of the world--
Esmerelda Weatherwax--"born to be good and don't like it"; "you do take winning hard"; all the things you could do with your mind, if you were bad, but it wouldn't be Right; forgive, but never said anything about forgetting; like a diamond, in a way; always using the hard way, which is hard, but not so hard as the easy way--
Ramses Emerson--the "stone pharaoh face", like statues of a king of kings, revealing nothing; the feeling of walking a knife edge; anything but a coward, whatever others think; it takes, in the end, a certain kind of man to risk everything for people who despise him (and still berate himself for cowardice)--
There are, after all, only so many personalities out there.
Any further suggestions?
siriaeve), I will now indulge by whim by describing all the different characters of whom Severus Snape reminds me, and how, in a disjointed fashion probably comprehensible only to me.Morrolan e'Drien--"hiding his wit beneath arrogance"; star shining dark; one must be a certain kind of man to affect deliberately a swirling black cloak--
Pel--ambition, ambition above all things; ferocity ever-present, blazing forth in a tangle of steel; so many, many lies, and do you even remember which are lies?--
Grita--death is not vengeance, the moment before death is vengeance; the open wound of half-blood; no one could hold a grudge quite so viciously--
Norathar e'Lanya--dashed hopes, grim resignation, pain--
Vladimir Taltos--bitterness more or less hidden; "even when I work with them I have to pretend I don't want to see every one of them torn apart"; blood cold as ice on lips still laughing, not humour but defiance; do always and precisely what you must do--
Lex Luthor--because no one will ever believe, no matter how you try, and sooner or later you get tired of trying; the hand holding the gun, the hand on the pillow, true or false, like a lamb to the slaughter; can someone be made completely of grey?; how many ways can you break someone before the pieces are too small to be put back together?--
Samuel Vimes--stick by the shield, but sometimes the shield isn't enough; there are levers to everyone, and sometimes the spring is wound so tight it could break; paranoia can be survival, and in certain specialised areas, better to have no rules at all--
Susan Sto Helit--incompetence is not tolerated, not under any circumstances; Logic and Mathematics, not Literature and History; quite often angry, at the sheer stupidity of the world--
Esmerelda Weatherwax--"born to be good and don't like it"; "you do take winning hard"; all the things you could do with your mind, if you were bad, but it wouldn't be Right; forgive, but never said anything about forgetting; like a diamond, in a way; always using the hard way, which is hard, but not so hard as the easy way--
Ramses Emerson--the "stone pharaoh face", like statues of a king of kings, revealing nothing; the feeling of walking a knife edge; anything but a coward, whatever others think; it takes, in the end, a certain kind of man to risk everything for people who despise him (and still berate himself for cowardice)--
There are, after all, only so many personalities out there.
Any further suggestions?
