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What did you imagine differently for Rosto? But yeah, Daine has 'smokey brown curls' according to every account I've read. Mind you, I've also noticed that Rosto and Numair are the only ones with brown eyes...

Yeah, I do have a reference picture. Here.

Rough? How so? I always imagined him with long hair and being very vain about his appearance....mind you, I only did as well as I could with the limited options that are available on Tektek and Gaia.

It isn't? I just tried it and it works...hmm...

You imagine him with the stubble of a beard and unruly hair? Huh. I always imagined him as clean-shaven with long white-blond hair kept neatly back in a ponytail.

That isn't cool....

Excellent idea. There are three, I thought. Castle in the Air is the other one. And it's out of order to read HMC first, then House of Many Ways? Didn't know that.

I'll see if I can get Merc to watch those with me sometime, then.

And if they cast James Marsters, whose character of Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the one that Tamora Pierce based Rosto on in multiple ways, as Rosto, I'm going to throw a fit. Or the dude who plays Chaucer in A Knight's Tale. That's just as bad....

You like A/J? Traitor. razz I hate A/J - I'm an A/G 'ship supporter. A/L is better than A/J in my book, because the latter never seemed to fit for me, and it was explosive and I don't think it would have worked out in the end - Jon wanted her to be something she wasn't, and George just wanted her to be herself and accepted her for who she was. Besides, George is awesome to begin with.

No, but people cast the movies all the time, and the most common picks are those two. All I can say is 'what were they thinking?!?'

Thank you! Jon is just SOOOOOOOOO not right for Alanna, and George is. I love George. George is awesome.

Roger WAS a good villain - he was probably one of the most enjoyable villains I've run across in Tamora Pierce's books. Admittedly, though, while I don't support the Alanna/Roger pairing, I'm not really averse to it anymore. I was actually writing a fic for a while where Alanna became a Shang (I never got past chapter five, I don't think) where I was going to put a little Alanna/Roger in the second one of the duo, but only because she wasn't aware of her Gift and didn't know that he was trying to use her in his plan, since it had been thwarted repeatedly at that point. There was some A/J friendship in there (no more than that) but the final pairing was A/G.

I liked Liam, though. He was one of my favorite characters, though I didn't really like him with Alanna as much as I liked her with George. He was just a really interesting character, really, and it was a pity that he had to die at the end of Lioness Rampant.

Also, for Kel - I'm a Kel/Dom supporter, but there's a really strange and kind of twisted pairing that I'm actually interested in that isn't used much. It's sort of a guilty pleasure, I guess. Are there any in particular that you like for Kel? I'll tell you what mine is if you answer meh question. biggrin

M'kay. Let me know when you're done.

It was, it was. They would have been really good friends, I'm sure, had he not been, at the very least. It might have been different, then.

Actually, I'm not done with it. I only got to chapter four of the first one, where Alanna is seven. I had to put it on hold because it wasn't getting any attention, and it was the sequel to that one, anyway, that had the A/R in it, and I only wrote two chapters of that after I wrote the prologue of the first one. But here's the first one all the same, if you still want to read it - Right of the Tigress.

Mind you, it was my second fic, and my first Tortall fic, so be warned; my writing wasn't as good as it is now at that point. If I didn't have writer's block, I might be able to get back to it and finish it over the summer. Maybe I need to reread Song of the Lioness again for it to go away....

I want to, but I've got an atrocious case of writer's block for it at the moment, and I have a hard time writing stuff that isn't Terrier at the moment. I have another chapter partially done, but it isn't very long (like a couple hundred words) and it isn't at a point where I could cut it off if I wanted to. Maybe I should reread SotL and then rewrite it. I dunno. But, I'll get back to it eventually, with some luck. Maybe after Embers (my AU mid-/post-Eldest fic that needs some work, too) or something. I'm glad that you liked it, though, even if it really isn't all that great style-wise...my early works really could use some work being rewritten at this point....but, alas, I really don't have the time for it, nor will I, I don't think....