[Re-Intro] A bit high up there, for a kitchen rat....
He was just trying to find some air - the kitchens were too hot, Swelter was even more disgusting than usual, and he felt like... he was so very above them all.
The rooftops were his playground - his space of liberty - he skipped from one to the other, until he found himself as high as he could be, atop Gormenghast. Watching over the earldom was... odd. It was the fortress, the walls, the Stones, and then nothing more - just... forest and swamps galore. He didn't really care, though - all that Steerpike wanted was to be the Earl of Gormenghast - or as close as he could be to that position.
It wasn't asking that much. Really.
The bells clung, and the clamor started to rise. "Titus Groan! Titus Groan!" And he knew that an heir was born to the fat and inept Countess Gertrude and her husband, the very decrepit Earl Sepulchrave. He smirked. Better to find a way, then, hmm? And better yet to get a chance to subdue Flay before he cut short all ambitions.
Another jump, then, but this one doesn't land quite as he intended. The Castle has disappeared - and now there is only forest, and a strange roof on which he scrambles to stay stable.
A moment later, there is a seventeen year old kitchen boy wandering the Mansion's corridors, and looking very... confused and quite nervous.
Name: Steerpike
Fandom: Mervin Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy
Media: Television series. I'm going with this version because a) I don't have time to re-read the bricks and b) Steerpike is a much more sympathetic character than in the book. In Titus Groan he has only been in the kitchen for a few weeks, before making his escape, while on TV it was stated he had been there since he was six, suffering various abuses at the hands of Swelter, which is meant to make the viewer feel sorry for him. He is also less physically attractive in the book, with close-set red eyes and greasy hair.
Other relevant info: He's completely re-set and will not remember any of his previous interactions at the Mansion. He's also 20 years younger than the last Steerpike people met, and will be therefore much less damaged and considerably more charming. So in short, he's both re-set and had a cut alteration, hence the re-intro. (Also, he died a good while ago in Carpe canon, er.)
Hopefully, I'll have time to get him some decent screencaps from the first few episodes of the series eventually - until then, sorry if the icons are a bit too aged at times.
Last but not least - I'm technically still on hiatus, so I won't be tagging very fast. Ye hath been warned.
The rooftops were his playground - his space of liberty - he skipped from one to the other, until he found himself as high as he could be, atop Gormenghast. Watching over the earldom was... odd. It was the fortress, the walls, the Stones, and then nothing more - just... forest and swamps galore. He didn't really care, though - all that Steerpike wanted was to be the Earl of Gormenghast - or as close as he could be to that position.
It wasn't asking that much. Really.
The bells clung, and the clamor started to rise. "Titus Groan! Titus Groan!" And he knew that an heir was born to the fat and inept Countess Gertrude and her husband, the very decrepit Earl Sepulchrave. He smirked. Better to find a way, then, hmm? And better yet to get a chance to subdue Flay before he cut short all ambitions.
Another jump, then, but this one doesn't land quite as he intended. The Castle has disappeared - and now there is only forest, and a strange roof on which he scrambles to stay stable.
A moment later, there is a seventeen year old kitchen boy wandering the Mansion's corridors, and looking very... confused and quite nervous.
Name: Steerpike
Fandom: Mervin Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy
Media: Television series. I'm going with this version because a) I don't have time to re-read the bricks and b) Steerpike is a much more sympathetic character than in the book. In Titus Groan he has only been in the kitchen for a few weeks, before making his escape, while on TV it was stated he had been there since he was six, suffering various abuses at the hands of Swelter, which is meant to make the viewer feel sorry for him. He is also less physically attractive in the book, with close-set red eyes and greasy hair.
Other relevant info: He's completely re-set and will not remember any of his previous interactions at the Mansion. He's also 20 years younger than the last Steerpike people met, and will be therefore much less damaged and considerably more charming. So in short, he's both re-set and had a cut alteration, hence the re-intro. (Also, he died a good while ago in Carpe canon, er.)
Hopefully, I'll have time to get him some decent screencaps from the first few episodes of the series eventually - until then, sorry if the icons are a bit too aged at times.
Last but not least - I'm technically still on hiatus, so I won't be tagging very fast. Ye hath been warned.