Character of the Day. Khal Drogo from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series. He was a rich and very powerful Dothraki chieftain (or khal). Before the age of thirty, Drogo led the largest khalasar horde in the Dothraki Sea, with forty thousand warriors, and had never been defeated. He owned a palace in Vaes Dothrak and a nine-towered mansion in Pentos, given to him by the magisters of the city to appease him. He married Daenerys Targaryen, promising to invade Westeros for her sake, but he died before the invasion could begin. He is the son of Bharbo.
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Character of the Day. Daenerys Targaryen from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series. Also known as Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, and First of Her Name, she is the daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella.
The Targaryen dynasty was reduced to only her and her brother Viserys during the War of the Usurper. In the first book, Dany was sold to Khal Drogo (the leader of a khalasar or a clan-like nomadic group of Dothraki) by her very own brother, supposedly in exchange of 10,000 men from the Khal’s army that could help them conquer the Seven Kingdoms. She becomes the Khaleesi of the Dothraki at the age of thirteen, and carries the Khal’s child after her fourteenth name day.
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Character of the Day: Lisbeth Salander from The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Also known as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth is an imaginative and thorough private investigator from Milton Security, a high-tech security firm. Pale and anorexic-looking and all but mute, she radiates hostility. Her wardrobe is all-black and, liker her many piercings and tattos, reads less like a fashion statement than a warning. And for those who don’t heed it, there’s a Taser in her pocket. Only her eyes, all but lost in heavy black make-up, hint at the hurt and vulnerability inside (the ripples of her enigmatic past make their way to her present, contributing to what she has become in the first book). No one ever gets close enough to notice until she’s assigned to investigate journalist Mikael Blomkvist, and her life takes an unexpected turn.
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Character of the Day: Rue from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. She is the twelve-year-old tribute from District 11 who participated in the 74th annual Hunger Games. She is described as small, swift, and fast, and her ability to climb trees must have kept her alive in the beginning. She formed an alliance with Katniss Everdeen after warning the latter about a nest of tracker jackers hidden in a tree. Later in the games, she got killed when Marvel thrust a spear in her stomach.
It is said that when she was still alive, in their district, she used to worked in the orchards of District 11, singing her four note song when work was over. (art by patsie)
Character of the Day: The Corinthian from The Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. He is one of Dream’s/Morpheus’ masterpieces: the embodiment of “a nightmare created to be the darkness, and the fear of darkness in every human heart. A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront.”
When Morpheus escapes from imprisonment, the Corinthian goes AWOL from the dreamscape and walks the earth as a serial killer for forty years. He is shown as a young man with white hair and a pair of jagged skull-teeth in his eye sockets. He usually wears sunglasses to hide the mini-teeth, and he doesn’t seem to suffer from blindness even if he doesn’t have eyes. With this harrowing feature he eats the eyeballs of his victims, which are mostly young boys. His name is a seventeenth-century slang word for a licentious rake who does things like frequent brothels.
Character of the Day: Lucifer Morningstar from The Sandman and Lucifer graphic novels by Neil Gaiman and Mike Carey, respectively. We know him as the Lord of Hell, the Devil, formerly the beautiful angel Samael, lamplighter of the heavens. In The Sandman, he resigns as the ruler of the infernal realm because he is “too tired of fighting” and he wants to escape responsibilities; he leaves hell as a protectorate of Morpheus. He moves into the mortal world and runs the piano bar “Lux” in Los Angeles with his faithful ally and consort, Mazikeen. In Lucifer series, his old employer—God—seeks his help for one last time to do a job that angels can’t do on their own—be heaven’s cleanup man among mortals. Lucifer being Lucifer, his handiwork while doing the holy quest won’t really bring good consequences…that is, depending on your meaning of “good”.
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Character of the Day. Galinda/Glinda Upland (right) from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked series. She is Elphaba’s roommate at Shiz University, who eventually becomes the Witch of the North (in L.F.Baum’s original novel, she is the Witch of the South). She hates Elphaba at first, but they later become close friends. However, the two are separated for twenty years when Elphaba goes into hiding. Glinda is part of the high society in Gillikin, Oz’s northern province.
Character of the Day. Touchstone from Garthi Nix’s Old Kingdom Trilogy/Abhorsen Chronicles. Touchstone is actually a bastard prince (son of the Queen and a northern nobleman) incarcerated as a wooden figurehead in one of the ships in Holehallow, the Royal Tomb, for over two hundred years. Sabriel freed him from his bonds, but he claimed that he has amnesia when in truth he’s just guilty that he wasn’t able to protect the Queen during Kerrigor’s attack. He didn’t reveal his real identity until the latter part of the first book. His real name is Torrigan.
Character of the Day. Delirium from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series. Delirium is the youngest among the Endless, yet she is older than the rest of existence. She is often depicted as a little girl with heterochromia—one of her eyes is blue and the other is green; whatever Delirium sees through them, no one knows. Her hair changes constantly as well as her clothes. Her shadow never reflects her shape, and is tangible, like velvet. She is said to smell of sweat, late nights, sour wine, and old leather. Her realm is a chaotic, constantly changing mass of colors and strange objects and shapes, and contains a sundial with the inscription “Tempus Frangit” (“time breaks,” a Latin pun on the phrase “Tempus Fugit”, “time flies”.) Delirium travels with a “guardian” of sorts, a German Shepherd dog named Barnabas, on indefinite loan from her brother Destruction.
Delirium is once called Delight, but whatever caused her transformation is not known even by her brother Destiny.
CHARACTER OF THE DAY. Lirael from the last two books of the Old Kingdom trilogy (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr and Abhorsen) by Garth Nix. Lirael grew up thinking she was one of the Clayr, or the bloodline of the seers in the Old Kingdom. When she still hasn’t received the Sight several years after the appropriate year when she should have gained it, she began to think she was different; it even lead to depression and resulted to a suicide attempt. In order to assuage this sorrow, she was given the job as Assistant Librarian in the Great Library of the Clayr. Her exciting adventures started in the library and led her to the depths of the Old Kingdom where she discovers that she, indeed, is different: she is the Abhorsen-in-waiting.
CHARACTERS OF THE DAY. The “Them”, Adam Young’s gang from Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Adam Young is the Antichrist that was swapped with another kid at birth, resulting to a lot of misunderstandings and misadventures that eventually stopped the Armageddon. The gang consists of Pepper, Brian, and Wensleydale, all of them precocious and loyal to Adam in their own ways. The gang defeated the Four Horsemen/ Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse in the end.
CHARACTER OF THE DAY. Anthony J. Crowley from Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Crowley is the Serpent in Eden who tempted Eve to eat the Forbidden Fruit. He takes the form of a black-haired man who wears sunglasses (even if he doesn’t need to) and works on earth as a representative of Hell and counterpart to Aziraphale, who is a representative of Heaven. Crowley likes humanity, which for him is a major failing in a demon. According to the “Dramatis Personae” of the book, he is “an Angel who did not so much Fall as sauntered vaguely downwards”.
