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[bjornwilde]

 Last week I was listening to an old album of a favorite band of mine and realized how much the album defined the band's style for me. 

Taking inspiration from this, give us a scene(s) that really define your character to you. 

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[just_cant_lose]

I've linked it several times before, but Jim stealing the Crown Jewels is really him.

...although, his entrance in S4 is also a scene that defines at least one side of his character really well too. Ultimate show off. :D

Bonus: this 90 second video is, like, the perfect Jim primer. Anyone who wants to get an idea of what he's like can really just watch that, and have a good idea of his personality.

[likeroaringlions]

For William there's a scene we get twice, thanks to the magic of dreams/flashbacks: he and Jamie are 11 and 9 respectively, their glamorous cousin the young Earl of Douglas has just been bloodily murdered with his kid brother at dinner, Jamie is hiding in a chest and William comes to find him and comfort him as best he can. Which paraphrases as "we have to learn how to watch so we can be men, it's like when you take a beating and you think you can't stand it but when you get used to it it makes you stronger. so when we grow up we can learn to kill people and be great fighters ourselves :D" And he's really trying to comfort Jamie, he's being very sweet and protective, this is the best he's got. The straightforwardness and clumsiness take it out of the realm of Too Much Pathos for me--at one point he's like "They never kill the wee bairns. Well, they might kill you because you're King but you're fine here with me" THANK YOU WILLIAM DOUGLAS THAT IS A BIG HELP.

(So that's kind of what poor Emcee has stumbled onto, sorry!)

(spoilers: they do in fact grow up and start killing people)


EDIT: also scottish twitter is a great inspiration

[have_no_mercy]

For Tess it's not so much a scene as it is a sequence:

Zod shows up at one of Tess' parties unannounced and tries to make nice with her as he wins over the crowd. Then he threatens her in private and tells one of her security guards to either get her to admit who the Blur is (Clark) or to kill her. Next scene Tess is drunk, in her pyjamas and bitching to herself about Zod when the security guard approaches her. She looks horrified to realize he's one of Zod's men, noticing his military dog tags. Lastly, we see Zod at a cafe enjoying an espresso when an envelope is dropped on his table by an unknown person. Inside, he find's the guard's dog tags covered in blood. He looks around and sees Tess across the street, very much alive, as she lifts her coffee cup to him in salute.

In other words, don't fuck with Tess.

[bjornwilde]

Eliot: His wit and acidic tongue are all well and good, and would be enough on their own, but there are two scenes which, to me, show the person beneath.

The first scene is when Quentin stumbles onto Brakebills at the height of summer from a wintery Brooklyn. Quentin asks Eliot, "Am I hallucinating?" To which Eliot replies, "If you were, how would asking me help?"

Second scene is a few episodes in when the first years have made their way into the Physical Kids cottage (think frat house). There is a party going on, alcohol is flowing and someone gives Alice--who is new to drinking and a Nice Girl (tm)--a long island ice tea. Eliot catches her, takes the drink, saying, "Friends don't let friends drink long island ice teas" and then sets out to teach her how to drink as well as making her an enjoyable cocktail. Which to me shows that a) he watches out for new kids, since you know that long island ice tea was meant to knock her out, and b) he wants to make sure everyone has fun but stays safe.

More later after I settle into work.

[bjornwilde]

Selina had me at the first minute and a half of first episode. I just love how she moves, the look of glee she has before leaping form the roof, and then stealing to feed a stray cat.

My Rollo is the one from season 3a, when he gives Bjorn better advice about how to treat Porunn than Ragnar does. I also loved when he and Lagertha grumpily poured out the wine cups when it was revealed the wine was likely poisoned. I'm failing at finding a clip.

[bjornwilde]

Sam: Lots of greatness to the man but what sold me was when he let Steve and Natasha hide out at his place, he checked the decks for hostiles and the looked up for more of the same...he actually looked up! No one ever looks up when looking for danger in movies.

[sdelmonte]

Not that I play Knox much now, but there is a moment at the end of Batman '89 when, during the Joker's attack on the parade, Knox grabs a baseball bat from his trunk and comes out swinging against the goons. It doesn't do a lot of good, but it's the moment when I felt Knox's place as one of the good guys was established.

Swamp Thing is literally defined in the classic issue "The Anatomy Lesson," when he learns for the first time that he is not a man who thinks he's a plant but is a plant who thinks he's a man. Everything that follows - including the current retcon of this retcon to establish that the current Swamp Thing is now a man who thinks he's a plant - grows from this issue.

http://sequart.org/magazine/11990/%E2%80%9Cthe-anatomy-lesson%E2%80%9D-alan-moores-swamp-thing-issue-21/

[angry_friendship_wolf]

For 01, Yamato's establishing moment is probably in episode two, when Seadramon attacks and most of the kids are trapped on an island with no way to fight back. After rescuing Takeru, he proceeds to catch Seadramon's attention and swim away from the island.

This is the night of the first day, so apart from Takeru, all these people are just friendly acquaintances (in Taichi and Sora's case) or people he's maybe only seen in passing, and it takes him approximately one (1) day to go from 'who cares about any of you, I've got to look after my bro' to 'well, I guess I'm getting eaten by a sea serpent to save everyone. That's Just How It Has To Be Now.'

For Tri, it's probably this scene, the first half of the battle against Alphamon in episode 4.

[andinfluencepeople]

SUCH a cool idea! On mobile, but I'll be thinking about it.

[bjornwilde]

Thanks! I realized that our baseline for characters may not be what is the popular baseline, and so was curious to see how folks see things.

[hasthehighground]

My easiest one is probably Legolas's scene in book II, chapter 3 "The Ring Goes South"
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Slowly they moved off, and were soon toiling heavily. In places the snow was breast-high, and often Boromir seemed to be swimming or burrowing with his great arms rather than walking.

Legolas watched them for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others.

`The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf or over snow-an Elf.'

With that he sprang forth nimbly, and then Frodo noticed as if for the first time, though he had long known it, that the Elf had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as he always did, and his feet made little imprint in the snow.

'Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. `I go to find the Sun!' Then swift as a runner over firm sand he shot away, and quickly overtaking the toiling men, with a wave of his hand he passed them, and sped into the distance, and vanished round the rocky turn.

--

I don't have my copy on me, but later he returns and not only sasses Gandalf again, but also both Aragorn and Boromir and is deeply convinced he is the reason The Day Has Been Saved.

He's just such a BRAT. *fond*

(My other two are movie scenes that very much solidified how Legolas "feels" in my head despite him otherwise not being much like movie Legolas at all -- literally, just the look in Orlando Bloom's eyes #1 on seeing the Balrog, and #2 on seeing Boromir die. They're just a very strong reminder that despite being an extremely good warrior, Legolas is very young for his people.)

[hasthehighground]

My next easiest is from Avengers. The whole scene that introduces Clint, from him watching what's happening below to his utter comfort around Fury (even when Fury is piiissed), to how this guy we've come to respect and fear treats Clint like a respected expert, to Clint's whole "um, because doors??? open both ways???"

It is the basis for 90% of my Clint characterization.

[athelstanthescribe]

Oh man, his face in that scene with the Balrog. Orlando Bloom may not be the world's best actor, but he nailed sheer frozen terror then.

[harryhotspur]

I can't find a good youtube clip of it, but Harry's iconic scene is definitely this one where he 1) explains that he probably told a courtier to go fuck himself but he can't really remember because the guy was just making him so mad, 2) he rants just barely out of earshot of the entire court about how much he hates the king and 3) keeps interrupting his uncle's attempts to tell him about an actual plot they're setting up against the king because he's just so mad, then 4) finally listens but immediately gets distracted imagining HOW AWESOME THIS WILL BE HE'S NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING 5) no really really i'm seriously listening sorry

[idareyou]

(AND WHAT WAS THAT PLACE CALLED AGAIN)

[harryhotspur]

AND HOW ABOUT THAT RIVER TRENT

[likeroaringlions]

SMUG

[harryhotspur]

Right, I have other characters.

I also, unfortunately, can't find a good clip of my favorite Viola scene, but it's the latter part of Act 2, Scene 4, when she almost blows her disguise about six times in a row because she can't deal with Orsino insulting women anymore, which turns into her spinning a story about a fake sister who died of love, which then turns into her thinking about her brother.

This is really the most important Tulio (and Miguel) scene.

[cottoncandypink]

I think it's the scene where Wilford interviews Markiplier. He spends the entire interview wishing he were anywhere else, and even walks away at one point, until he gets so bored with the whole thing that the only way to make things interesting for anybody is to stab him to death in front of the audience.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

[ceitfianna]

Oh this is fascinating and tricky as some of them might be spoilers

For Will, its a scene in the Paul Creswick version where as he's to be hanged and he asks for a sword to die like a man and then the surprise and joy he shows in being saved. Here's the scene, my Will is Stuteley here.

With Charles, this is hard as but I think actually the moment with the two Charles in Days of Future Past gets who Charles is. Here, the focus on hope and compassion which to me is Charles. He cares and wants the best as his own mutation shows him all the pain around him.

Quentin's defining moment for me keeps changing as new books come out but it all comes down to him adapting and being at Toby's side and bantering.

“He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around."

"Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?"

Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.”
― Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor

Sameth's another where I need to search out the right quote, but the one on his journal is a favorite as he sums up all he does as 'making things'. Also this moment where he realizes who he's meant to be.

“...I've been thinking that it's as if my ancestors are saying it's all right to make things. That's what I'm meant to do. Make things, and help the Abhorsen and the King. So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

This quote sums up Moist's attitude to everything.
“Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

Ivan is best shown in Brothers in Arms for what will be his next OOM. He's being used as bait for Miles in a terrifying spot, once he's rescued, he goes back in there even though he hates it because he needs to.

For William, the last scene at the train, where he faces off against Ben and lets out the horses or actually any point after he leaves the hotel. He won't let his father face what's out there without him.

Tumnus' honesty to Lucy and for Jane, in Becoming Jane, her choice to say goodbye as its the right thing to do.

Demeter's is how even in her grief, she for a time tries to help the family she's staying with.

[souffle_girlek]

Late to the party, but I was just looking this up, so...

This is Clara, not Oswin, but since Clara is (sorta kinda timey-whimey) Oswin, it... it fits so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxSy68_n5E

This one is where I decided that Oswin needed a second chance, because HOLY WTF Doctor, that is 100% not okay, she was well within her rights to shoot you in the face and I WOULD HAVE APPLAUDED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epc-Z974eiQ

Here, have some happy Oswin, internets. Before the Doctor went and became and ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohkt1oFc6YM