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[maderr]

And if you want to see other chars, I'm not opposed to adding them in, though I think that'd get overwhelming/boring at some point ^^;;



How old are you?

Koray: 20 or so?
Dieter: 43 (at end of Prisoner)
Sie & Ril: 26
Sable: Over 500
Shah: (um, the author cannot find her notes on this point. ages give me a headache in Harem. by the time of Sandstorm, I think he's late 30/ early40's? >_>;;; wish I could find my fucking notes)


What's your height?

Koray: Short? *scowl* (5'5")
Dieter: Taller than almost everyone else (6'1")
Sie & Ril: Shorter than Owner, taller than Pretty Kip (~5'8")
Sable: About 6'
Shah: Tall, but not remarkably. (5'10")

*the author would like to note she never fsking remembers and is too lazy to go look, so is hoping she remembers fairly well


What are you?

Koray: Necromancer
Dieter: Lord General of the Kingdom of Illusor
Sie & Ril: Dragons belonging to Torvald Cross
Sable: Demon Lord
Shah: King of Tavamara and the Great Desert


Do you have any bad habits?

Koray: No one is perfect
Dieter: No
Sie & Ril: Tori says we're perfect
Sable: No
Shah: I'm told I work too hard, have no respect for my Council, and indulge my harem overmuch.


Are you a virgin?

Koray: *silence*
Dieter: No
Sie & Ril: *roll eyes and smirk*
Sable: Definitely not
Shah: *laughs*


Who's your mate / spouse? If not, got anyone in mind?

Koray: *silence*
Dieter: Beraht
Sie & Ril: Tori is our Owner, we were bred with Gwendolyn and Cammie a few years ago, and Kip is our playmate.
Sable: Christian is my Consort
Shah: I am married to Fahima, youngest daughter of the honorable Lord Kader. She is accounted the Jewel of Tavamara, and rightly so.


Do you have any kids?

Koray: No
Dieter: No
Sie & Ril: Gwen hatched three eggs, Cammie hatched two.
Sable: No
Shah: Three - two sons and a daughter, all beautiful and wonderful, even if they have inherited my penchant for mischief.


What's your favourite food?

Koray: Bread with honey
Dieter: The peasant stews I ate growing up
Sie & Ril: Cookies!
Sable: I rarely bother to eat? We always eat Christian's favorites. Much more fun that way.
Shah: Lamb


What's your favourite ice cream flavour?

Koray: *confused* (he would probably go for vanilla)
Dieter: *confused* (hmm, mint I bet)
Sie & Ril: Cookie dough
Sable: Strawberry is Chrstian's favorite.
Shah: *confused* (he'd like lemon sorbet)


Have you killed anyone?

Koray: I deal with them after they're dead
Dieter: Yes
Sie & Ril: *growl*
Sable: Yes
Shah: Directly, no. I sign all the execution papers, however.


Have any secrets?

Koray: No
Dieter: Yes
Sie & Ril: Yes, we carry knowledge of the Clans.
Sable: Yes
Shah: Of course


Do you hate anyone?

Koray: Cruel people.
Dieter: Yes
Sie & Ril: *growl* Bad Owners. Pit Bosses. Blue Pack.
Sable: Anyone I might hate is dead
Shah: No


Do you love anyone?

Koray: *scowls and says nothing*
Author: *glares*
Koray: No! *looks guiltily at hands*
Author: *rolls eyes*
Dieter: *glares and remains silent*
Author: I will quite cheerfully kick you in the balls. Very hard. Then write something terrible happening to Beraht.
Dieter: My father. Beraht.
Sie & Ril: Tori. Kip. Each other.
Sable: Christian
Shah: My wife, my children, the men of my harem, my brother, and of course my people.


What is your job?

Koray: High Necromancer of the North
Dieter: Lord General of the Kingdom of Illusor, Martial Advisor to the King
Sie & Ril: *recite* To defend Owner and Clan and Kingdom at all costs, in the name of the Great King and Holy Dragon, and the Sacred Lady who made us, until the end of time, amen. Also to figure out where Tori hid our cookies.
Sable: CEO of Brennus Enterprises, owner of the Tantalus, Seraphim, and Seventh Circle Casinos.
Shah: King of Tavamara and the Great Desert


Boy or girl?

Koray: What sort of stupid question is that?
Dieter: Man
Sie & Ril: Male
Sable: Man. Never was inclined to possess a female
Shah: *laughs* Man, unless I have been misled all these years.


What do you do to relax?

Koray: Chat with the High Priest or go for walks with Sorin
Dieter: Read.
Sie & Ril: Play with Kip, sleep
Sable: Watch everyone in the casinos.
Shah: Spend time with my harem in my private chambers


What's something that you like?

Koray: A real bed
Dieter: Seeing my men improve
Sie & Ril: Tori
Sable: Toying with normals
Shah: Exchanging letters with my brother.


What did you want to be when you grew up?

Koray: I've been a necromancer since I was a child.
Dieter: A warrior my father could be proud of
Sie & Ril: Tori's.
Sable: I guess free of hell would be the closest approximation to that
Shah: A traveller


What's your favourite clothes/outfit?

Koray: My violet robes
Dieter: My cloak
Sie & Ril: no clothes
Sable: Business formal. Three piece suits intimidate so easily -- and Christian likes me in them.
Shah: I care not what I wear, but I'm rather partial to the traditional harem garb


What is your biggest regret in life?

Koray: That not all ghosts can be given peace. Some can only be banished.
Dieter: That I was drunk the night my father died.
Sie & Ril: None
Sable: That I had to kill so many before I finally broke free
Shah: A King is forced to make many uphappy decisions, and live with his choices. What's done is done.

Comments

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Oh Dieter, thou art so recalcitrant and full of Mystery.I had hoped that this would help me uncover a few mysteries, instead, it's making them worse. *headdesk*

Questions? Okay, why does Dieter love his dad so damn much? By all accounts, his dad was a ruthless bastard, who only wanted a son to give to the Kaiser. And what about his mum? Didn't he love her too? Meg, my love, you've indulged the other with their inquiries about the dragons and chris and Sable, do you suppose you could do the same with Dieter? His childhood, nd why he doesn't hate his father, and all the things that conspired to make him Dieter. Please? Pretty please? Or I'll draw him in a dress again

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Child, all you ever had to do was ask.

Dieter and his father is a complicated relationship.

First, Dieter's father wasn't entirely cruel the way you seem to think. He loved Bastard Kaiser to a fault, yes, and wanted to give the man his son, so there's no denying he's an Asshole of the first order..

But Dieter didn't see it that way, not really, not for a long, long time. He saw a man who pushed him to be perfect, whose swords were revered and coveted, who always stopped working on those swords to drill/assist his son. As a boy, he idolized his father, who was strong and hard working and knew the Kaiser and yet still spent so much time with his son. Only when he was older did Dieter realize completely what he was meant to be, but to his mind he would do anything to make his father proud and happy. It's probably the oddest, most confusing thing about Dieter -- but if things had gone the way they should have, he would probably be exactly what he was intended to be, and content to be that, b/c it made his father happy.

He considers his mother weak. She knew very well she was just a tool, something a young Dieter would not have understood, so from his perspective she was a sour, unhappy woman who spent more time complaining than trying to make his father happy and proud.

Dieter is Dieter. He was actually kinder as a child, but it was beaten out of him, more or less, once he joined the army. Realizing what he was intended to be sort of scared and intimidated him at first, but he buried it beneath the desire to please his father. After the murders, and the fact he was too drunk to prevent them (because if he'd been sober, it very well might ahve played out different. The one thing never explicitly stated is that Dieter can't drink. He's a totaly uber lightweight).

After all of that, he pretty much became the Dieter you know. Everything became too much for him to ever be anything else.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Don't know that I actually explained Dieter and his father well; it's extremely difficult to put down what I know in my head. The short answer, I guess, is that Dieter is selectively blind where his father is concerned. Despite everything, he really and truly loves his father.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Really Meg, you must stop indulging Av so, or soon enough the only guy she'll find attractive is some big Germanic man, strong-jawed and stubbled, with handsome, rugged features, rippling muscles and deep, piercing eyes, who'll want to possess her utterly and treat her roughly before he kisses her to soothe away the pain... uh, I forgot what I was talking about.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

*LAUGH*

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

You forgot the cheekbones like razors. And tragic past which I can soothe with my naturl kindness and compassion and whose rough demeanor I can redeem.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Beraht says back the fuck off OR ELSE.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Avalon says Beraht is WELCOME TO JOIN.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

*smacks forehead* Of course! How could I be so stupid? And let's not forget, there's all that military stamina, a-hur, hur.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

You two are ridiculous.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

*smoochy face*

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

My future husband shall be one of them

[maderr.livejournal.com]

You make me giggle.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly partial to the one in lederhosen myself.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Good with swords, good with hands, a-hur, hur.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Mm, callouses.

[forloveofsnape.livejournal.com]

You guys are soo funny. No offense, Megan, but I think I may have laughed more at the comments than the post.

Considering that I've been in love with Aragorn for the lsst 10 years (long before the movies, Though Viggo Mortensen didn't exactly lessen my love) I've been known to get weak kneed at part of the movies, prompting my ex to joke that he would have to grow his hair and take fencing lessons to hold my interest! :)

So I totaaly sympathize!

[anialove.livejournal.com]

She doesn't need a big Germanic man - she's got me. ^^

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

*grin* Too true, heart's dearest <3

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

That's...that's so sad. One last one though, did his dad love him?

[maderr.livejournal.com]

After a fashion. He didn't want Dieter to be unhappy in the course he'd mapped out for his son, but neither did he ever really give Dieter a choice in the matter. The Kaiser mattered first and foremost, everything and everyone else was a distant second. So, yes, he loved his son, but only in a manner of speaking.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

...Besides that being the saddest, most tragic thing EVER,I has question again. Who did Dieter lose his virginity with?

[maderr.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes*

You are obsessed.

His father took him to whorehouses. He lost it to a very pretty, patient woman who remembered a stern, serious, sort of sad looking young man her entire life -- but never connected him with the Scarlet General she once saw pass through town on one of his returns to the winter palace.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Again, SO SAD. Wait, was Meinrad(ha,ha, reread Prisoner, found Dieter's dad's name) going to give Dieter to Benno like some bodyguard/metaphorical sword/play toy/kept man/soldier/whore thing?

I am obsessed. Agreed.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Being obsessed, you should already know the answer to that - yes, Dieter was going to be Beno's. Fullstop. His perfect soldier/weapon/boytoy/etc. Meinrad's thinking that he was only a lowly swordsmith and would never really *fit* into Beno's world, but goddammit he could give Beno someone who would fit, and be perfect. Meinrad wasn't right in the head, I'm not sure I ever stress that enough.

What always amused me is the fact that Dieter is a rather aggressive top - but had life gone the way it had been planned, he would have been Benno's obedient (if not meek) bottom.