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This meme looks like fun.
And god knows I can expound on inter-character relationships for hours.
So. Have at!
Name either a character or a relationship between characters (not necessarily romantic) from canons I know and/or Milliways and I will a.) give my rambling opinion of him/her/it and b.) tell you one thing I really like about him/her/it.
And god knows I can expound on inter-character relationships for hours.
So. Have at!
Name either a character or a relationship between characters (not necessarily romantic) from canons I know and/or Milliways and I will a.) give my rambling opinion of him/her/it and b.) tell you one thing I really like about him/her/it.
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And of course now, in Milliways, I am playing out the aftermath of his 'redeemination', as I like to call it. The hardest thing about him is that though he acknowledges the hurtful choices he made, he does not regret them. This is, of course, in large part due to the fact that these shitty choices resulted in the birth of Darien and the destruction of Rakoth Maugrim, and who could regret that? But Galadan is now largely about personal responsibility, and that is why he is not big on apologies, particularly for his evil deeds, because you cannot apologize for that. The scope of them is too much, too heavy, and all you can do, really, is not do anything like that again.
What I find interesting about him is how strange and difficult it is to get his respect, let alone his friendship. At the moment he has three people he genuinely cares about full-stop--Gabriel Tam, River Tam, and Mary Lennox. Mary Anne will probably be the fourth person added to this list, if anyone ever is. A lot of this is timing, really. All three of these people he manipulated in some way, when he was evil, but he would have liked them if he were capable of it. And after Paul and Cernan and the end of the trilogy--he could. And so he went to them and he pretty much confessed what he did--Mary first, because she had been actively harmed by him. This, I feel, is telling about his sense of honor, and how it works, and what honor means to him. He is incredibly pragmatic, so you know how much he cares about Mary based on the fact that a) he told her, and b) she ordered him around and he took it. And still liked her.
Ditto with Gabriel, in some ways. There are similarities between Galadan and all these people. I imagine he was much like Mary as a kid (for however long that was), and he can see some of his own faults in her, which is interesting. Gabriel is a lot like him as he is now, in terms of politico-speak and issues, and making amends (as well as being a leader of his people, and stuff) And River, as I have said to Gen very often, has many characteristics of the andain, which is one reason Galadan is capable of treating her as a functioning adult, even though she is clearly often buckets o' crazy.
And do not get me started on Galadan-Raguel. There is a lot going on there, and I enjoy playing it a lot. There are a lot of different layers of plotting and planning and strategy going on there, and I cannot wait to see how we keep on handling that. Maybe Galadan and Mary Anne can team up to kick some ass someday. I think that would be fun.
So what I like most about Galadan, I guess, is that you have this analytical, brilliant, ruthless pragmatism living side-by-side with this very absolute kind of love/affection, and there is a lot of conflict in that, and it is--that dichotomy is, I think, really what drives him.
Plus he's kind of leaning toward being a sociopath. Whee?