Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Does your character read a lot? For work or for pleasure? Do they have some favorite books?

OH ALTERNATIVELY IN HONOR OF THE DATE:

when's the last time your character stabbed someone
was it for politics

Comments

[never_promised]

Characters of mine who have stabbed people for politics:
Lesgle, Feuilly, Henry 5, Loki, William Douglas

Characters of mine who have stabbed people for other reasons:
Loki, William Douglas

Characters of mine who have stabbed people just for funsies:
Loki

Characters of mine who don't stab people at all:
Djehuty (Set does all the stabbing on the nightly fight with Apep), Miguel (seriously look at that face and tell me you believe he's ever actually killed anyone), Gredya (she disapproves of knives), Amethyst (she's more of a smasher)

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Thurlow has stabbed people for all sorts of reasons. But in the Neath, they usually come back, so stabbing people for politics works very differently and stabbing people for funsies is a much more common practice. (There's an entire sport based on it, the Game of Knife-and-Candle. In which Thurlow has dabbled.) Generally if you want to assassinate a Fallen Londoner you use one of a few especially potent poisons if you want to be subtle about it/have any chance of passing it off as a natural death. (If you don't, you use explosives or decapitation or just stab them very thoroughly.) This may be what happened to a NPC who supposedly died from "a surfeit of prunes", although I guess it's also possible that she had some kind of horrible allergic reaction.

Aradia and Bastion don't really fight with knives. Aradia uses her psionics to fling stuff around, can use her time superpowers in a fight, and occasionally just punches people really hard; before she died, her strife specibus was whipkind, locking her out of the option of stabbing. Bastion has a gun for a hand, which is generally sufficient in the situations where they might hypothetically need to stab somebody.

[quick_clean_pure]

does stabbing with needles count

[bjornwilde]

Sabine has me wondering if Mandalore has things like Arthurian romances. ; p

And as for the stabbing, that comes in season 03, though it's more slashing tbh.

[oldmancreed]

Tess prefers a gun. The last time she stabbed people was when there were zombies and it wasn't for politics.

Rose has never stabbed anyone. Thorn stabs people all the time. If you squint it's sort of for politics.

Kylo [spoiler].

Creed uh, do the claws count? He uses them a lot. It's never for politics that he gives a damn about.

[iprotectyou]

First question: now that he's in Milliways, Baze reads all the time. He likes bodice rippers, the cheesier the better, even though he doesn't understand all the euphamisms.

Second question: ahahaha, how about a few months before he died? It was for an assassin job, so not really political.

[ceitfianna]

Cassian tends to shoot instead of stab people for politics though he has been stabbed and stabbed. He's a sniper by preference.

Will S. has used a sword and knife for politics, but hasn't for a few years.

Sameth is in politics but when he's using a blade, it tends to be against the Dead which can be kind of political.

Quentin has used a sword and a knife kind of for politics, most of Toby's cases end up mixed up in politics.

Ivan usually uses a stunner or gun equivalent than a blade but politics is often involved.

Charles' weapon is usually his mind so no blades for him.

Moist never uses any weapons.

William has used guns but politics isn't really a part of it.

Tumnus doesn't use weapons.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford stabbed himself yesterday. Does that count?

[inlovewithwords]

Reading:
Eriond: No, not really. He doesn't usually have time, he's busy. Besides, he has a cheat on information absorbing/spoilers. He likes reading when he has time to do it!
Lois: Yeah, lots. Lots of news, some books.
Evelyn: Very little else, besides magic practice. She loves books. She loves reading, both for work and pleasure. Her favorite book is written by a dwarf from
R2-D2: probably does read when he has the chance to download new books. Just for fun, mostly, unless he's scanning manuals.
Anakin: He reads a lot of reports for work. He's not a big reader for pleasure.
Tavi: Reads so much. For work and pleasure both. For work, a lot of reports and the like. For pleasure, books and probably some academic papers. He loves history books, both in the sense of books-about-history and historical texts (the latter especially, he loves primary sources). Milliways has given him a massive taste for sci-fi/fantasy. He only half understands the tech in some, but he is a genre geek all the way. Lately he also reads to entertain the baby.

Eriond: has never stabbed anyone!
Lois: Doesn't stab people.
Evelyn: Has not yet started stabbing people. Sometimes it will be for politics, even! (Preventing world domination is kind of like politics sometimes, I guess?) Most of her violence--spells more than stabbing--are about surviving, but one could argue that is political. Mage and all.
R2-D2: More shocking than stabbing, really, but it does happen sometimes. Depends if you classify acts of war as politics for Clone Wars.
Anakin: See above for the "is war political" question. Other than that, uh, he stabs people all the time. Vader stabs people all the time. It is arguably political? I mean, enforcing fascist dictatorship and all. So... yeah. He kind of makes a living stabbing people for politics. Or just because. DAY LATER EDIT: In fact, when it isn't political Vader seems to prefer choking.
Tavi: Last stabbed somethings when he was last in the field killing Vord, probably a year ago. Last someone was Vord Queen, a little before then. But he stabs surprisingly few people for politics! Unless one counts defending himself against assassination attempts as stabbing for politics, in which case there are a few more (including two Canim in the Vord War). The last is probably from book five: Anag, a Cane, who survived. Tavi was careful not to hit anything delicate and had Max heal him right after. (He did also sort of prick this other Cane, Tarsh, who's an asshole, but he barely got nicked.) Prior to that, he killed Phrygiar Navaris for politics in book four (and at least one other person, although that time was more self-defense--honestly he's the target of stabbings for politics more than he stabs for politics), and killed at least one Aleran over politics and one Cane over both invasion and Canish internal politics in book three. I don't think any stabbing for politics happens in book two, and one could argue in book one he scratches Aldrick lightly for politics? But mostly the stabbing for politics is done by his family and friends and now his employees. Sextus went to some lengths to keep Tavi's hands more or less clean prior to taking the Crown, and now Tavi has people who stab for him.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut does read books, but she also burns books to prevent them from being read. That is what happened to a book full of murderous knowledge that for some reason she had preserved for several millennia through a literally apocalyptic age of war but turned to ash just to spite the player character. So. There's that.

As for stabbing? Stabbing is much too intimate for her. Only back of the neck, right between the vertebra, if it's necessary. But politics is one of her favorite games.

Fairy Fixit reads plenty of scholarly and technical writing for work. I have no idea of how much reading she does for pleasure, though probably she does read something about her scrimshaw and carving hobby, just to find out what other people are doing.

As for stabbing... well, if someone is close enough to be stabbed, its likely she is close enough to get smacked out of the air. Nope nope nope.

[moonandstar]

Reading:

Cassie isn't completely un-studious, but she's not really a books person either. She prefers more active ways of entertaining herself.

Garyn knows most bastard foundlings from the streets never get to learn to read, so he thanks the Imperial Cult for that much. He was made to read a number of books as a child and a young man, mostly about war, combat, chess, and the art of business.

Stabbing:

Cassie: That's classified. But yes.

Garyn: *laughs bitterly, then takes a long, LONG swill of mazte*