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Oct. 15th, 2012 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratron[Poll #1872578]Apparently, I have a type. And that type is "depressed emperors".
Specifically: intelligent, introspective emperors who have just suffered an incredibly traumatic event that's left them with PTSD & having to rapidly come to terms with a massive change in worldview; who have only a handful of friends in the world who see them as a man rather than a figurehead; who are desperately lonely and scared.
Gregor Vorbarra, you have a lot to answer for. But at least you're in a book. A whole series of books, in fact, and you gradually become less emo as you grow older.
Martin Septim is in a 6 year old video game, with crappy textures, a scary lack of facial animations, & what we in the Sims community call "broken-ass wooden hair" (i.e. his long hair isn't meshed to move). And he's voiced by Sean Bean. If I admit to fancying him, people might think I have a thing about Sean Bean. I totally don't! I might fancy his Martin voice, but that's really not the same as fancying him. It's the emo emperor and his scripted tragedy that does it for me.
Specifically: intelligent, introspective emperors who have just suffered an incredibly traumatic event that's left them with PTSD & having to rapidly come to terms with a massive change in worldview; who have only a handful of friends in the world who see them as a man rather than a figurehead; who are desperately lonely and scared.
Gregor Vorbarra, you have a lot to answer for. But at least you're in a book. A whole series of books, in fact, and you gradually become less emo as you grow older.
Martin Septim is in a 6 year old video game, with crappy textures, a scary lack of facial animations, & what we in the Sims community call "broken-ass wooden hair" (i.e. his long hair isn't meshed to move). And he's voiced by Sean Bean. If I admit to fancying him, people might think I have a thing about Sean Bean. I totally don't! I might fancy his Martin voice, but that's really not the same as fancying him. It's the emo emperor and his scripted tragedy that does it for me.
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Date: 2012-10-15 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-15 06:46 pm (UTC)According to Tumblr, every character played by Sean Bean has to die. To the point where this should actually be considered a spoiler for the game.
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Date: 2012-10-15 06:52 pm (UTC)And yes, he does have a tendency to die horribly in everything he's in. :)
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Date: 2012-10-15 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-15 07:03 pm (UTC)But I don't think I have that strong a response to anyone in fictional worlds in recent times.
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Date: 2012-10-15 09:51 pm (UTC)Or is that someone else who just looks like you?
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Date: 2012-10-15 10:06 pm (UTC)If it's tuning in mostly to admire the pretty rather than for "following the plot" reasons I will have to rewrite my answer quite substantially...
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Date: 2012-10-16 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-16 05:05 pm (UTC)I guess my type is highly competent kick-ass brunettes.
Also, Bones is that incredibly rare thing, a universe where I prefer the TV series based on the books to the books themselves.
If I had to pick from the Vorkosiverse, I'd pretty much go for Miles' love interests: Taura, Elena, Elli, Bel