Memeing for nefarious purposes.

[laeria]

Indeed, surprise nefarious purposes. Exam-related surprise nefarious purposes for the Greater Good.

[Also because I'd like to redirect my brain from some stuff.]

Pick any several! characters from a fandom of mine and I'll answer the following questions

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[egelantier]

wesley! and aragorn. and galadriel.

hi there too :)

[laeria]

Hi, you. I always love seeing you here too!

Awesome choices, of course.

Wesley1) I don't actually like him much. He's like... spinach? Tasty, but too bland on its own and tiresome in huge quantities

[egelantier]

i jumped shit somewhere before anything of much important started happening in angel (because i trust whedon as far as i can throw him, and spoilers more or less prove me right), so yes, fanon!wesley for me, and he's a delightful, delightful hero. om nom nom ♥

[egelantier]

*jumped ship. oops :D

[laeria]

Aragorn
1) I like Aragorn a lot. Especially in Two Towers, inbetween the Strider persona and the High King one.
2) He's somewhat instrumental to stuff happening, yes.
3) His Plight grips me emotionally. He's just so exhausted throughout the book - kind, wise, but exhausted - that I never felt... close to him (which, Sam says as much, doesn't he, when they past the Middle-Earth Mount Rushmore place), but his story's very important to me anyway.
4) I keep it well away; sometimes there's attack dogs.
5) Aragorn/Arwen. Always and not-forever-that's-the-whole-point.
6) I'd change nothing.
7) Heh, I'd bow awkwardly and move out of his way to get drunk with Gimli and Legolas.
8) He's an all time SOMETHING (hero? Gibraltar?) but not favourite, exactly.
9) I have no idea. It'd depend on if they saw the film, I reckon.
10) Presumably so.

Galadriel1) She's been my hero since I was five

[egelantier]

exhaustion, exactly; it's still the thing i remember most vividly from my first read in english, how tired he is, all the time. and still moving forward, because he has to. oh, oh.

and yes - noldor maiden who choose to leave eden not out of anger and not for feanor's curse or his words, but simply because she wanted - air, i think? something fast and furious and burning, and a kingdom of her own. a kingdom that she got and held, i might add. was lyrical as long as you need about her, to me. oh, yes.

(and also: she helps aragorn and arwen, she does, she basically pushes them together - after witnessing beren and luthien, after mourning finrod. her personal in-your-face to the universe).

[laeria]

leave eden not out of anger and not for feanor's curse or his words, but simply because she wanted - air, i think? something fast and furious and burning, and a kingdom of her own.

Yes yes, yes, she sought - space, and darkness so that her own light could shine more brightly (which it did) - this is hubris, oui, but it's also an artist's desire to create, to bring light where there isn't any rather than to just reflect and be dimmed by other lights around you. And air, time to - time that flows rather than stays in euphoric stasis.

There. THAT was lyrical.