Post by Luis on Dec 6, 2021 13:41:43 GMT -5
Hello everyone! Just finished reading ATWQ last night and I wanted to post about some character vibes that I've got during this adventure.
Not sure if you know the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss, there is a 'relationship' between the main character, Kvothe, and a mysterious and hard-to-catch woman, Denna (her most commonly used name). Denna disguises herself very often, including some name changes and phrases that reminds me really straight of Ellington Feint. I've got a feeling about some Ellington Feint phrases, and this is her last one:
"It's very important that you come back for me.""I think that every that you go away."
The mysterious atmosphere around both characters feel very similar to me, and I think that's why I liked Ellington so much. I'll include some Kvothe and Denna quotes and I'd like to know if you felt the same.
Her eyes were dark. Dark as chocolate, dark as coffee, dark as the polished wood of my father’s lute. They were set in a fair face, oval. Like a teardrop. Her easy smile could stop a man’s heart. Her lips were red. Not the garish painted red so many women believe makes them desirable. Her lips were always red, morning and night. As if minutes before you saw her, she had been eating sweet berries, or drinking heart’s blood. No matter where she stood, she was in the center of the room. Do not misunderstand. She was not loud, or vain. We stare at a fire because it flickers, because it glows. The light is what catches our eyes, but what makes a man lean close to a fire has nothing to do with its bright shape. What draws you to a fire is the warmth you feel when you come near. The same was true of Denna.
“It's easy to forget when you're around." She stopped walking for a moment and I had to stop too, as she'd linked her arm in mine. "That's not right. I mean to say that when you're around, it's easy to forget."
"Forget what?"
"Everything," she said, and for a moment her voice wasn't quite as playful. "All the bad parts in my life. Who I am. It's nice to be able to take a vacation from myself every once in a while. You help with that. You're my safe harbor in an endless, stormy sea.”
"Forget what?"
"Everything," she said, and for a moment her voice wasn't quite as playful. "All the bad parts in my life. Who I am. It's nice to be able to take a vacation from myself every once in a while. You help with that. You're my safe harbor in an endless, stormy sea.”
EDIT: I'll add this one about Ellington Feint, I know it's not romantically intended:
“Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that moment and for many moments afterward, my entire world revolved around her.”