The one for my grandfather was... weird, but there's something distressing about having somebody die and not a damn person around you ever knew them at all. No one else around you is greiving or giving a thought to it. It's lonely to mourn somebody all by yourself, with no one to commiserate with but the occasional voice on a phone.
I was looking at the book the other day, bigass trilogy bound in one volume, but I didn't buy it. I think Morri's interested in it... the movie preview looked interesting. Tyldak is... an ambiguous guy, actually, which is always my favorite. When he's introduced he's very loyal to someone who turns out to be a major villainess, but he's loyal to her for reasons that have nothing to do with the bad things she does. She shaped him into the whole freaky winged thing so he could fly, because he begged her to, and he feels indebted to her for that. Basically he's obsessed with flight, and I don't think he concerns himself much with the politics that go on around him. Eventually she betrays him and he kind of helps fight against her, but then when she's about to be killed he swoops in and saves the villainess, and dumps her on a remote island where he figures she can't hurt anyone, which is a nice peaceable situation. He's never a good guy exactly, but he's pretty pacifistic and his only real goal in life is to fly, so he's definitely not a bad guy. I think the creator genuinely just didn't think of these things, but I likes my fantasy to be very practical, because I'm strange like that. Probably he's so enchanted with flying he doesn't notice the cold, but there have to be limits.
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Date: Jun. 16th, 2007 01:22 pm (UTC)I was looking at the book the other day, bigass trilogy bound in one volume, but I didn't buy it. I think Morri's interested in it... the movie preview looked interesting.
Tyldak is... an ambiguous guy, actually, which is always my favorite. When he's introduced he's very loyal to someone who turns out to be a major villainess, but he's loyal to her for reasons that have nothing to do with the bad things she does. She shaped him into the whole freaky winged thing so he could fly, because he begged her to, and he feels indebted to her for that. Basically he's obsessed with flight, and I don't think he concerns himself much with the politics that go on around him. Eventually she betrays him and he kind of helps fight against her, but then when she's about to be killed he swoops in and saves the villainess, and dumps her on a remote island where he figures she can't hurt anyone, which is a nice peaceable situation. He's never a good guy exactly, but he's pretty pacifistic and his only real goal in life is to fly, so he's definitely not a bad guy.
I think the creator genuinely just didn't think of these things, but I likes my fantasy to be very practical, because I'm strange like that. Probably he's so enchanted with flying he doesn't notice the cold, but there have to be limits.