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entangleme2011-01-03 03:01 pm
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greetings
And salutations. Some call me gazebo (violentgazebo in/on AIM). I bring you Miel Ducas, of K.J. Parker's Engineer trilogy.
I got lured in here via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dear_mun. I like obscure canons. I tend to play from book canons but have played anime characters, TV characters, movie characters before -- I have no prejudice against any medium. I'm open to interaction with anyone. Miel is a good-natured guy, generally speaking, and will take an informal approach to most people; the less he likes someone, the more polite he gets.
Miel is an aristocrat who, for much of the trilogy, has fallen on hard times. He's got some survival skills, therefore, on top of a command of quasimedieval hunting manuals and courtly etiquette. His country has undergone some recent industrialization, so he's not completely unfamiliar with machines, but. The cannon has still not been invented yet. Guns? Are going to be quite a surprise. Miel's used to the sword, the bow, and the occasional poleaxe.
The Engineer novels are lovely books and I don't want to spoil them for anyone who may read them, but I am taking Miel from the end of the trilogy. (In his tags/narration, I'll be as vague as I can on immediate-past backstory, hopefully without creating an impression of not knowing who the hell the character is. *g* Miel's formative years were well over by the time the novels begin anyhow.) They're not very flowery or romantic novels. They're very interested in material culture, and they're fairly grim in tone. Diction tends to be informal rather than pseudo-archaic. Even the most romantic of characters tends to speak and think pragmatically, and Miel is a case in point.
Hm, what else? He's blond, he's in his thirties, he has a scar on his face that I would make a mess of photoshopping if I tried. Before the scar he was supposed to be pretty handsome, but after -- well, it's definitely not something you'd overlook. So I feel the need to tell everyone about it, since the icon is misleading. Eventually I'll shut up about it, I'm sure.
So. Yes. Hello!
I got lured in here via
dear_mun. I like obscure canons. I tend to play from book canons but have played anime characters, TV characters, movie characters before -- I have no prejudice against any medium. I'm open to interaction with anyone. Miel is a good-natured guy, generally speaking, and will take an informal approach to most people; the less he likes someone, the more polite he gets. Miel is an aristocrat who, for much of the trilogy, has fallen on hard times. He's got some survival skills, therefore, on top of a command of quasimedieval hunting manuals and courtly etiquette. His country has undergone some recent industrialization, so he's not completely unfamiliar with machines, but. The cannon has still not been invented yet. Guns? Are going to be quite a surprise. Miel's used to the sword, the bow, and the occasional poleaxe.
The Engineer novels are lovely books and I don't want to spoil them for anyone who may read them, but I am taking Miel from the end of the trilogy. (In his tags/narration, I'll be as vague as I can on immediate-past backstory, hopefully without creating an impression of not knowing who the hell the character is. *g* Miel's formative years were well over by the time the novels begin anyhow.) They're not very flowery or romantic novels. They're very interested in material culture, and they're fairly grim in tone. Diction tends to be informal rather than pseudo-archaic. Even the most romantic of characters tends to speak and think pragmatically, and Miel is a case in point.
Hm, what else? He's blond, he's in his thirties, he has a scar on his face that I would make a mess of photoshopping if I tried. Before the scar he was supposed to be pretty handsome, but after -- well, it's definitely not something you'd overlook. So I feel the need to tell everyone about it, since the icon is misleading. Eventually I'll shut up about it, I'm sure.
So. Yes. Hello!