He can do whatever he wants...
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queensthiefBut I really don't see him doing some things.
Things Eugenides would never do:
~ Hunger strike for politics
~ Throwing largess to the masses
~ Hiding out in woods with a band of Merrie Men
~ Getting mellow as an old man, and taking to dressing gowns
Also, isn't if funny we call him Gen, though he specifically says he never wants to be called that again at the end of the Thief? Maybe it's just because mock-gutter Gen is so endearing...
I mean, over and above the fact that Eugenides is quite the little mouthful, and not much of a joy to type, either.
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Date: 6/23/07 12:11 am (UTC)I could totally see him doing this, but it would still be pretending. *amused*
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Date: 6/23/07 12:59 am (UTC)And everyone else calls him Gen, so I guess that's why we do it.
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Date: 6/23/07 01:20 am (UTC)And as for the name, in QoA, doesn't Eddis call him Gen? And I know in KoA his cousins do. I do believe it's said that only some people can call him Gen.
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Date: 6/23/07 01:45 am (UTC)The whole fourth book *crosses fingers* is him camping about with his merry men (and bear).
Lol @ "unwillingly recruited"
My unwillingly recruited Attolian Guards for Gen's Merry Men are:
Aris
Costis
Legolas (we always need an awesomely beautiful)
Pol (back from the dead)
Steinides (if Pol can't make it)
and on the journey back.... Sophos
Who else should join the Merry Men? And do they need any Merry Women?
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Date: 6/23/07 01:47 am (UTC)*blushes*
I say Gen because I don't want to risk misspelling Euginides. Same reason for typing just Att. and QoA and KoA.
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Date: 6/23/07 01:49 am (UTC)I forgot Dite. You can't have a campfire without a guitarist/lutest.
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Date: 6/23/07 03:14 am (UTC)*annnd back into the mist!*
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Date: 6/23/07 04:40 am (UTC)Heiro should come along, and maybe Agape too. Then they can either have catfights or get along famously (Cecily and Marian, anyone?)
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Date: 6/23/07 04:44 am (UTC)*giggles, because this is adorable in her head, and she's silly*
Um...I'll come back with an idea. Currently lacking in that department. Got sidetracked by dressinggown!Gen. XD
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Date: 6/23/07 11:42 am (UTC)Anyway, I think Gen would be right at home with Chrestomanci-style magnificent dressing gowns.
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Date: 6/23/07 04:12 pm (UTC)I want to see that, actually. Me--gaaan...
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Date: 6/23/07 04:14 pm (UTC)Heading up a band of guerrillas? Sure. Living in the roots of an ancient oak, causing fringe troubles for a mere Sheriff by such unsubtle means? Not really his style.
He is into being clean and well fed.
But maybe that's in line for the rescue of Sophos?
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Date: 6/23/07 04:17 pm (UTC)I can see why it might be obnoxious to have every random drinking neighbor call me by a pet name.
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Date: 6/23/07 04:19 pm (UTC)But that's not what I meant...I meant flannel waistcoats, type of thing.
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Date: 6/23/07 04:28 pm (UTC)You scalliwags...
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Date: 6/23/07 07:23 pm (UTC)Also in the QoA, it says something about only his close friends being aoud to call him Gen. I think it says that sometime when the magus is first in Eddis
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Date: 6/23/07 08:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, I guess there are some nicknames you just can't grow out of
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Date: 6/23/07 08:35 pm (UTC)*huge Robin McKinley fangirl*
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Date: 6/23/07 10:34 pm (UTC)Cecily. I reread that book after a few years and was surprised all over again. (Not totally...but only gradually remembering.) How can you not love that?
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Date: 6/23/07 10:41 pm (UTC)Aww. I love cute Gen.
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Date: 6/25/07 02:05 am (UTC)-not steal earrings
-stop being snarky
-not jump across atriums four stories above the ground "at a distance that would make your blood freeze"
-wear black
-give up
-divorce Attolia
-have an affair
-shave his head
This is giving me too many ideas...
~Feir Dearig
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Date: 6/25/07 06:39 am (UTC)-be boring
-be predictable
-spend most of his time happily puttering about in his garden during the day, and sleeping peacefully all night
I can see him and a band of Merrie Men taking to the woods of Sounis and driving its king and his cronies insane
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Date: 6/25/07 08:52 pm (UTC)*grins*
not when there's usually assasins in the garden, no...
~Feir
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Date: 6/26/07 02:29 pm (UTC)Maybe we could have both Legolas and Legarus (The awsomely Beautifuls) they could start a band with rocks with Dite.
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Date: 6/26/07 02:30 pm (UTC)Nicknames and names, Gen and Eddis
Date: 6/26/07 07:31 pm (UTC)Isn't he called "Gen" in a few select places in the text of KoA? Going on memory here, but I think the text says something like -Gen had returned to the throne- after the scene where he and Attolia dance.
If my memory correct, I thought that was supposed to be significant. He is usually Eugenides in KoA, but in that scene he had had enough and was deliberately staking his claim as something more than the bumbling, naive boy-consort. Ornon had worried that the Thief's essential character had been crushed since becoming King of Attolia, this was the first Ornon had seen of "Gen" the Thief since the wedding.
And now for something completely different -
STOP here is you have not read the SHORT STORY -
I finally read the short-story in the paperback KoA. What is the significance of Helen being fated to be "Eddis" and not "Eddia"? My gut feeling is that she will not be marrying Costis or anyone else. If she was fated to play any sort of feminine role in life (becoming a wife, having children...) then the gods would have let her be the feminine Eddia. They seem to have very deliberately selected a girl to play the role of the last Eddis. And I really don't think she will be able to sidestep her fate as the last Eddis by ceding her country to a husband.
But, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
- ELM -
Re: Nicknames and names, Gen and Eddis
Date: 6/27/07 03:47 pm (UTC)Re: Nicknames and names, Gen and Eddis
Date: 7/7/07 11:54 pm (UTC)Mariah
Re: Nicknames and names, Gen and Eddis
Date: 7/9/07 03:14 pm (UTC)