five things meme
Jan. 13th, 2011 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holliName a character, and I'll tell you five true things about them.
Fandoms: Buffy, Firefly, DCU, Sayers, Vorkosiverse, Discworld, Doctor Who, AtLA, assorted book fandoms, and anything I've written in before.
Fandoms: Buffy, Firefly, DCU, Sayers, Vorkosiverse, Discworld, Doctor Who, AtLA, assorted book fandoms, and anything I've written in before.
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 01:53 am (UTC)firesuccession, and because he thought fatherhood would be good for them both.2. The only person he doesn't like feeling like a disappointment to is his mother. Everyone else can go hang.
3. He had a heavily built-up daydream involving a dacha on Sergyar, a disgraced Cetagandan haut lady, the banning of comconsoles from his personal property, and never setting foot on a ship again, for times when the quiet life seems particularly far away.
4. If Miles hadn't snagged Ekaterin, he would have courted her without the slightest reservation.
5. He'll never admit it, but he sometimes enjoys the nonsense Miles drags him into.
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Date: 2011-01-14 02:13 am (UTC)I love the idea of Ivan courting Ekaterin (I know I've seen it written). And of course he enjoys the adventures, or he'd never leave his apartment!
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 01:47 am (UTC)2. He doesn't worry about his friends not needing him anymore. Instead he worries about his friends needing him, and him not having time to be there for them.
3. Now that he's got his own pack of teenagers to worry about, he feels pretty bad for all the crap they put Giles through. At the same time, he kind of think his own Slayers lack imagination, compared to him and Buffy and Willow at that age.
4. If he ever sees Angel again, he's gonna punch that guy right in the face for not telling him about Cordelia.
5. Sometimes he wishes Jonathan had been the one to shank Andrew, instead of the other way around. Mostly only when he's had to be in a enclosed space with Andrew for more than a couple hours, but-- well. Jonathan had been a friend.
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:48 am (UTC)he is my secret favourite from the books
Date: 2011-01-14 02:15 am (UTC)Re: he is my secret favourite from the books
Date: 2011-01-14 02:37 am (UTC)1. It took him a while, but eventually he figured out that plenty of Assassin's Guild students never actually killed anyone, nor particularly wanted to. Being a gentleman was the point, not the inhuming.
2. He keeps up a correspondence with Ptraci. She's getting on remarkably well; the Kingdom even seems to be getting the hang of plumbing.
3. He misses his father, and he's glad he got that one last chance to talk to him.
4. He kind of liked the sideways walk, once he got the hang of it again.
5. He is terribly, terribly relieved to not have the whole weight of a kingdom on his shoulders. He can't escape the conviction that he would have made a mess of it. Well, a bigger mess than the one he did make, and they were finding chunks of pyramid for *miles*.
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Date: 2011-01-14 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:29 am (UTC)2. He finds it a little embarrassing, actually, when his dad goes on about how proud he is of him. Especially when he does it in front of the Fire Nation peace delegation. *Especially* because it makes Zuko glare at him, for some reason.
3. He doesn't remember being an only child.
4. He's kind of glad he's not a bender. Sometimes magic powers seem like more trouble than they're worth.
5. Had circumstances been different, he would have been the world's worst overbearing big brother towards any and all potential boyfriends of Katara's. As things stand, he's cool with Aang.
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Date: 2011-01-14 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 04:35 pm (UTC)These are so perfect!
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Date: 2011-01-14 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:29 pm (UTC)2. For much of his life, the town clown act wasn't an act at all. His life is much more satisfying now that it's mostly fake.
3. His security clearance means he knows a lot more than he wants to about certain long-dead members of the family. The main result of this has been to make By much more choosy about his intimate partners.
4. He acts a lot more worldly than he actually is. Kareen Koudelka's probably seen more shocking things than By, who's spent very little time off-planet.
5. The things By would be willing to do to protect his Emperor would probably surprise anyone who doesn't know him very, very well. Which is practically no one.
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Date: 2011-01-14 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:42 pm (UTC)2. He loves adventure stories; Old Barrayar fascinates him. If he doesn't become a jump pilot (though he *will*) he thinks he wouldn't mind being a historian like Great-Aunt Vorthys. Or maybe write adventure stories of his own.
3. He got in a fight at school over his step-da once. Just once. The lecture he got at home didn't have a lot of force behind it, but the disappontment in Mama's eyes was enough to keep it from happening again.
4. He'd always wanted brothers and sisters, and if they're a bit younger than the ones he'd hoped for, well, they'll grow, and they're still an awful lot of fun.
5. He misses his Da, but not as often as he thinks he should.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:36 pm (UTC)2. She had a funny wort of wriggly feeling in her stomach at that Roman exhibit at the National Museum last month. Funny, because she was never the sort for museums before (before what?) but she loves them now. Anyway, it was only an old stone tablet, and half-broken at that.
3. She hardly ever stargazes with Granddad anymore, but she still gets a bit of a thrill from looking up at the night sky.
4. The temp agency keeps sending her for higher and higher security clearances. At this rate, she'll be subbing in for the Prime Minister's PA when he goes on vacations.
5. There is something she doesn't remember, and she knows it's important, but she is, despite it, happy. And she supposes that's enough.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:37 pm (UTC)