Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

I'm finishing up a re-reading of His Dark Materials and I was almost about to ask the question bjornwilde asked yesterday!

Riffing off that coincidence: what's a story your character goes back to over and over? It could be a book they re-read, a movie they love to watch, a folk story or a personal story... What do they keep coming back to?

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[bjornwilde]

Sorry about that. =D

Sabine likely has some Mandalorian hero's myth she rereads a lot. As well as some melodrama or action holo-vid.

Sam listens to Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man".

Viv has a soft spot for Pinocchio, Spielberg's A.I., Wall-e, and Asimov's Robot series.

Rebels-era Ahsoka watches old holo-footage of her master, Anakin, to remind her why she fights and to remember the good times.

As for myself, I always end up returning to the Toby Daye books. I used to love rereading the Dragonriders of Pern as well, and keep meaning to check out the works McCaffrey's children have done with the world.

[holdingacat]

Cecil loves the movie 'Cat Baloo', starring Night Vale's own Lee Marvin. It is Mr. Marvin's 30th birthday today, did you know?

Happy Birthday, Mr. Marvin.

[bjornwilde]

"Cat Baloo" is such a great movie!

[holdingacat]

I really need to watch it - the preview on YouTube is hilarious.

[cute_bruiser]

For Molly it is, rather famously, the Harry Potter books. Little!Moll in particular tends to use fiction to understand the things that happen to her and her friends - for instance, she once asked Nico if the orphanage her sister had been living in was 'like Annie'. Fiction always has a structure and, although it might be scary, it usually has a happy ending - it's the sort of thing that children going through upheaval tend to cling to, and Molly is no different.

For me? John le Carre's Smiley's People and A Perfect Spy. There are two sections in each (the capture and 'turning' of an enemy spy, and the story of the protagonist's marriage told as if writing his autobiography for his young son) which I just keep coming back to. And, on a lighter note, Hot Fuzz. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen that movie.

[a1enzo]

Tron in Enzo's world is a little like Robin Hood, there are the real stories (which in Tron's case are genuinely historical), plus there's a body of legend interwoven with the history, and then on top of that sprites keep making up their own stories about him; interpretations range from the strictly historically accurate to the purely ridiculous, like how there's the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood and the furry musical version and Prince of Thieves and Men in Tights and Rocket Robin Hood and "Robin Hood Daffy"...

Since his system first connected to the Net, Enzo has been making a lifelong, and largely successful, effort to watch/read/listen to/otherwise experience every available version of Tron. I daresay he has particular favourite versions, but he's always excited to see a new take on it.