Character Opinions Meme (ish)

[john_amend_all]

Memed from thisbluespirit, a shippy variant of the annual character opinions meme:

Give me a character from a fandom I know and I'll tell you:

1. Three words I would use to describe this character:
2. All the people I ship romantically with this character:
3. My non-romantic OTP for this character:
4. My unpopular opinion about this character:
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
6. My het ship:
7. My fem/slash ship:
8. My OTP:
9. My OT3:
10. My cross over ship:

Some questions from previous iterations of this meme that I may also feel like answering:

11. Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon.
12. Do you love/hate/don’t feel strongly about this character?
13. What’s your favorite trait of this character?
14. What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
15. If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
16. Prior to reading this question, have you ever pictured this character naked?
17. When did you fall in love/hate with this character? If you don’t have any strong feelings toward them, why not?

Previous answers can be found under the Character Opinions Meme tag, covering Two, Jamie, Polly, Sam, Zoë, Vicki, Steel and Peri.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Since you gave me Georgie, have Adam Adamant!

[john_amend_all]

Not the optimal character for those particular questions, it has to be said :-)

1. Displaced Edwardian adventurer.
2. Um. Adam / Louise is more or less canon, except that Louise promptly betrayed him and ran off with a masked supervillain. The only time I've ventured into AA fic, I more or less implied Adam / Georgie, but despite that (and despite that heart in the credits) I'm not at all sure how it would work in practice.
3. And that leaves us with Simms the loyal valet.
4. I'm not sure how unpopular this opinion is, but I think Adam's dead right about how a house should be furnished.
5. I rather wish that when he'd formed his suspicions in Black Echo and warned Georgie to stay away, he'd told her why. He should have known by that point that keeping her in the dark just makes her even more lethally curious. Knowing what was going on might not have stopped her blundering in and alerting the Face to Adam's presence, but at least she might have thought twice about it.
6. This is more or less covered by questions 2 and 8.
7. Given in mind the small number of regulars in this show, and that most of the one-off male characters tend to be utter bounders and cads, it's either got to be Simms or the Face. Of the two, I think the Face is marginally more likely.
8. Even given all the caveats I mentioned in (2) above, the only realistic endgame in this fandom is Adam / Georgie.
9. You are making this very hard for me, meme. The only possible threesome I can see Adam involved in is one suggested by an Evil Temptress Of The Week, where the third person turns out to be an independently-investigating Georgie. And before there's any sort of hanky-panky, the whole thing is revealed as a fiendish trap. So neither One, nor True, nor a Threesome.
10. I rather liked the vague idea of Adam Adamant / Charlotte Pollard which arose from the last 15-characters meme. I also briefly wondered how Adam might react if he ran into Victoria Waterfield after she settled in 1968, but attempting to ship them feels like a recipe for disaster, one way or another.
11. He and Georgie finally tracked down the Face and put him very permanently out of action.
12. 'Love' comes closest.
13. His insistence that there are Standards to be kept to, and he's going to keep to them, whatever anybody else thinks.
14. Adam showing Georgie round his newly-built penthouse, to her utter bafflement at his taste in furniture.
15. His independent income.
16. Does it count if you can't see he's naked because of all the cake?
17. See (14).

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! :-)

(And, I don't know, I think Adam being Adam would think stuff about Louise was private and personal, and not to be told to Georgie, even if it might keep her away!)

[john_amend_all]

I wasn't thinking so much that he should tell her about Louise, but about his suspicions who else might be in the house.

[liadt]

Lissard off 'Knightmare' (well, it's such a common name(!).

Lissard

[john_amend_all]

1. Obsequious reptilian sycophant.
2. I don't think I do, though it's possible to read his relationship with Lord Fear as an extremely unrequited crush.
3. And given that Lord Fear is (almost) the only character he ever interacts with, I think he fits better here.
4. I don't think there are unpopular opinions about Lissard. Though one TVTropes editor took issue with my describing him as a 'lizardman', rather than an Atlantean.
5. It would have been nice to see him passing on some of Lord Fear's orders to subordinates; I should think, having spent all his time abasing himself before Lord Fear, he'd then try to throw his weight about with people below him in the pecking order.
6. Of the few other characters he's interacted with, there's Maldamé. I'm sure if she ever did depose Lord Fear, he'd promptly grovel at her feet instead, but the relationship would definitely not be a romantic one on either side.
7. Is it still slash if he's shapeshifted to resemble a woman? Because I think he had something going with Hordriss that one time.
8. I think his decidedly not-romantic pairing with Lord Fear is unbreakable.
9. Lissard being in an OT3 is even less likely than Adam Adamant being in an OT3. Though I suppose if Lord Fear were to marry Maldamé, Lissard could be an annoying grovelling doormat to both of them.
10. I think I can do no better than follow lost_spook's lead and place myself in the hands of the random generator.

    396) It Started with No Strings... - Kate Hardy
    Blame it on the champagne!
    At a London salsa club, consultant Sodoff Baldrick catches sight of the most handsome man he's ever seen. Relationships are off the cards for Baldrick, but one night with this perfect stranger can't hurt…
    For registrar Lissard, dancing and champagne are a remedy to what-would-have-been-his-wedding-night blues. Until he discovers an even better cure — his first-ever fling! It started with no strings, but when Baldrick walks into the hospital on Monday — as the new consultant! — things get a lot more complicated…

11. He hopes one day to bring Lord Fear breakfast in bed. Unfortunately for said ambition, Lord Fear never sleeps.
12. I think he's very good at filling his role in the programme, that role being Lord Fear's sounding-board. Would I want to meet him in person? Nope.
13. Probably his eagerness to please.
14. The time he comes up with a cunning plan all by himself to deal with Grimaldine, and having put it into motion proudly presents it to Lord Fear. Fear, seeing the glaringly obvious flaw in said plan, is Not Pleased.
15. I don't think I'd want any of them. (Being able to change one's appearance to resemble someone else would be useful, but that isn't one of his innate powers).
16. Nope.
17. I didn't see much of Lissard's episodes at the time of original broadcast, so my opinions of him (such as they are) were formed on more recent rewatches.

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[liadt]

Interesting and well thought out answers!

I could imagine Baldrick and Lissard bonding over being put upon sidekicks, but not that much...

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[john_amend_all]

I'm more worried about Baldrick as a consultant surgeon and what happens to the patients he operates on, tbh.

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[liadt]

If Baldrick doesn't chop a limb off he'll probably give you a superbug simply by entering the same room. Lissard can call Lord Fear for some magic for the BUPA patients I guess.

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[john_amend_all]

Maybe that's where the bones for the Skeletrons come from.

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[liadt]

Lol:)

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[canadanne.livejournal.com]

10 is hilarious because I often think the Fear/Lissard relationship is very reminiscent of Blackadder & Baldrick!

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[john_amend_all]

I think Lissard's got more delusions of being a suave, indispensible henchman though. Baldrick knows he's last in God's great chain.