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queensthiefSo... I've been wondering if Rachel Blakely might play a good Irene. She's a pretty talented actress. Tell me what you think.
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Date: 4/21/10 10:48 am (UTC)Based on concrete canon facts that have been collected on Eugenides Wiki...
Eugenides's age is never specified in the books, but based on a few facts his general age can be inferred. Eugenides was ten in the Thief! short-story printed in Disney Adventures magazine. In this story, Helen's brothers have just died; but her father is still alive, meaning Thief! takes place just a few short months before she becomes queen. It is specified in the Eddis short-story, published in The King of Attolia paperback, that Helen is five years older then Eugenides, (about fifteen years old in the story Thief!). That would make her fifteen or sixteen when she became queen. In The Queen of Attolia, it is mentioned that Helen has been queen for seven years. Therefore she is approximately twenty-two in the middle of The Queen of Attolia, and Eugenides is seventeen.
...Helen is most certainly 22 in the middle of QoA. Irene is described as "being a few years older". "A few" is at least three. Irene is, at the very least, 25 in the middle of QoA if not older.
*has to take deep breath*
Ugg...My head hurts...
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Date: 4/21/10 09:06 pm (UTC)Just to add a few more details:
According to the short story Eddis, Eddis is five years younger than Helen (he was four when she was nine). In TT, Gen talks about how he tore up his enrollment papers for the army about two years ago, and in QoA Eddis mentions how Gen did not wait to tear up his papers after his mother's death (she died when he was ten). Thus in TT Gen was probably about 12 and Eddis about 17. I would say that by the end of QoA Gen would be about 15 or 16, Helen about 20 or 21 and Attolia probably 23 or 24. Helen having ruled for 7 years does seem to contradict some of the other clues though...hmm...
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Date: 4/21/10 09:25 pm (UTC)If Eddis was 15 when she became queen, and had ruled for 7 yrs in QoA, she'd be 22. Gen is 5 yrs younger, so he'd be 17 in QoA, 15 or so in Thief.
God, this age talk never gets old, does it? :)
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Date: 4/22/10 12:38 am (UTC)Sorry, that comment just made me laugh out loud-raucously. ;P
It is too bad, she would be perfect.
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Date: 4/21/10 05:16 pm (UTC)Attolia
http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lenka.jpg
Sophos?
http://www.mundonarnia.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/18300_Zak-Morcillo112_Display.jpg
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Date: 4/22/10 06:10 am (UTC)And the picture for Attolia is of a music artist named Lenka.
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Date: 4/22/10 01:10 am (UTC)To be honest, Rachel Blakely looks almost exactly like my mental image of Hephestia, except her hair is a bit dark. And I picture Irene like a younger, darker haired, not-so-goddessish Hephestia. So... Also a thumbs up.
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Date: 4/26/10 02:41 am (UTC)I definitely see it!!
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