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dungeonwriter who ganked it from another:
To participate:
1. Leave a comment to this post, specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
I got R.
1. Rebecca from the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier - This is one of the only books my mom and I actually both like. It amazes me how many different ways there are to interpret the titular dead character. Was she, as her husband says, a glossy, abusive tyrant, the victim of a clever liar who wanted a wife who was more easy to manipulate, the perfection obsessed plaything of Mrs. Danvers? I believe the first, knowing how well abusers of all genders fly under the rainbow, but all the novel gives us is Maxim’s word (much like most abuse cases, fittingly).
2. Roku from Avatar: the Last Airbender (and possibly Legend of Korra) - Roku is like Dumbledore if Dumbledore were completely incompetent at his job (great job preventing your best friend from becoming an evil overlord!) and gave really bad advice. Speaking of which, what’s Aang doing listening to the guy in The Promise? Bad Aang!
3. R2-D2 from Star Wars - You know, I probably watched the original trilogy for the first tie while I was still in the womb, and for the longest time growing up, I thought our favorite snarky droid was a rolling trash can.
4. Richard III as written by Shakespeare - we watched it in my tiny class full of sick people in high school, and all of the boys were absolutely in awe of him for winning over Lady Anne, while us girls were like “Oh please.”
5. Robin Hood from Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood - It fascinated me when I was younger the way that McKinley portrays the Robin of legend as a composite character with the outstanding skills of two people, the clever, angsty Robin who can lead everybody and keep roofs over their heads (mostly), and Marian, the one who can actually shoot a bow and has charisma.
dungeonwriter who ganked it from another:To participate:
1. Leave a comment to this post, specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
I got R.
1. Rebecca from the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier - This is one of the only books my mom and I actually both like. It amazes me how many different ways there are to interpret the titular dead character. Was she, as her husband says, a glossy, abusive tyrant, the victim of a clever liar who wanted a wife who was more easy to manipulate, the perfection obsessed plaything of Mrs. Danvers? I believe the first, knowing how well abusers of all genders fly under the rainbow, but all the novel gives us is Maxim’s word (much like most abuse cases, fittingly).
2. Roku from Avatar: the Last Airbender (and possibly Legend of Korra) - Roku is like Dumbledore if Dumbledore were completely incompetent at his job (great job preventing your best friend from becoming an evil overlord!) and gave really bad advice. Speaking of which, what’s Aang doing listening to the guy in The Promise? Bad Aang!
3. R2-D2 from Star Wars - You know, I probably watched the original trilogy for the first tie while I was still in the womb, and for the longest time growing up, I thought our favorite snarky droid was a rolling trash can.
4. Richard III as written by Shakespeare - we watched it in my tiny class full of sick people in high school, and all of the boys were absolutely in awe of him for winning over Lady Anne, while us girls were like “Oh please.”
5. Robin Hood from Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood - It fascinated me when I was younger the way that McKinley portrays the Robin of legend as a composite character with the outstanding skills of two people, the clever, angsty Robin who can lead everybody and keep roofs over their heads (mostly), and Marian, the one who can actually shoot a bow and has charisma.
