To be fair, there are a few fantasy heroes that I would consider good boyfriend material. The amazing thing is that he knows he’s a bad boyfriend, admitting that he is “the man who had lied to her, who had left her with child and never returned, and then caused that child to be stolen from her as well…” Yes, he fulfills some prophecies and saves the world, but why, considering this excellent resume, can’t he muster anything more impressive than a few late-night booty calls and some serious dead-beat dad jackassery? Because he’s an epic fantasy hero, that’s why! Without that little bit of knowledge, would she have put up with him at all?įitzChivalry Farseer (spoiler in this paragraph): By the end of Assassin’s Quest, one wonders what Molly ever saw in him in the first place. (I just read that last paragraph to Brian and he tells me that by the end of the series Rand has three girlfriends! I knew he was a goon, and I didn’t even get past the first book.)Īragorn: Tromping around the known world like a dirty hobo, constantly brooding on his inferiority complex, and the ring he’s focused on isn’t even for his lady love? She’s giving up immortality for this guy, and he can’t even buy her a proper dinner? Good thing Arwen can see into the future and finds out that even though he’s terrible as a boyfriend, he does pretty well at being a husband. Okay, fine, he’s just been through some epic stuff with one of the Forsaken, but still… Epic hero? Check. Instead he “stares at that braid as if it were a viper.” By the end of Eye of the World, he doesn’t even recognize her face. He doesn’t know how to make Egwene feel pretty, even though it’s clear that she really cares about her hair and all he’d have to say would be something like, “Hey, Egwene, I really like your your new ‘do.” Nope. But even with my tainted history, I can still be fairly certain that it would suck to go on a first date with Rand al’Thor – always talking about himself, never picking up on hints, alternating between needy and surly. I think in most fantasy circles, that makes me a heretic. Rand al’Thor: I should admit before we go too far, that I could not make myself read past Book One of the Wheel of Time series. The staggering thing, though, and my central point here, is that Brian actually looks good at romance compared to some of the central heroes of epic fantasy. “That wasn’t romantic?” It’s not hard to guess how many candle-lit dinners he planned during our years of courtship… “Wait,” he’ll protest after smacking my butt in public or letting me pick what movie to rent. It’s like some supernatural force replaced the romance center of his brain with a yawning void of infinite nothingness. Except, he doesn’t know anything about romance. Clearly, he’s the kind of guy who knows all about romance. He has seen Love, Actually dozens of times. I am so happy to be married to my husband.īrian, in case you don’t know, has a degree in poetry. I thought she might write something nice about me. *** My wife, Johanna, wrote the following post so I could keep cranking away on Book Two of Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne.
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