Re Rina pics - tell me about it. I searched for ages, found one painting that I'm not happy with because she looks rather sad, and I wanted at least ONE thing with her smiling, and then this photograph where she's still not smiling but at least doesn't look actually woeful. But what's with no laughing blonde girls who can actually be her? It's sad. :/
Montmollin - Baron of La Jolie, and some other estates, of Westmark. Known for his dry wit and for turning things into epigrams. Helped the Regians & Erzcour with the whole conquering of Westmark attempt thing, because he believed that having a "beggar queen" was degrading Westmark. He did it all for patriotism, really. At least, I insist this. Didn't get along well with Erzcour because latter really WAS a treacherous bastard. I'm biased. Ahem.
He got on the wrong side of the others in the little conspiracy, because he was so pissed about the way they were treating Westmark essentially, and was totally pwned by Constantine because Montmollin was surprisingly, adorably, innocent while Connie was...you know, the ruthless bastard he manages so well to hide.
Montmollin went back to Westmark, the peasants had had an uprising and burned La Jolie, but they left a nice bottle of wine! which he shared with Florian, his son, prior to shooting himself in the head with a silver-handled pistol.
...the end.
I could go on about what _I_ think of him and his character, but it's not canon. I was just thinking about the similarities between him and Florian, and how they both see the world from different angles, but attack those angles in the same way. And how oddly, yet rather lovelily, naive Montmollin really IS - in gorgeous juxtaposition to Connie, who seems naive and yet is this, you know, cunning calculating bitch underneath. Love him. How is it that these books can be so simple, and yet you can dig so much out of one individual line?
I've always said Degas is the artist for girls between the ages of 9 and 14 - ballerinas and horses.
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Re Rina pics - tell me about it. I searched for ages, found one painting that I'm not happy with because she looks rather sad, and I wanted at least ONE thing with her smiling, and then this photograph where she's still not smiling but at least doesn't look actually woeful. But what's with no laughing blonde girls who can actually be her? It's sad. :/
Montmollin - Baron of La Jolie, and some other estates, of Westmark. Known for his dry wit and for turning things into epigrams. Helped the Regians & Erzcour with the whole conquering of Westmark attempt thing, because he believed that having a "beggar queen" was degrading Westmark. He did it all for patriotism, really. At least, I insist this. Didn't get along well with Erzcour because latter really WAS a treacherous bastard. I'm biased. Ahem.
He got on the wrong side of the others in the little conspiracy, because he was so pissed about the way they were treating Westmark essentially, and was totally pwned by Constantine because Montmollin was surprisingly, adorably, innocent while Connie was...you know, the ruthless bastard he manages so well to hide.
Montmollin went back to Westmark, the peasants had had an uprising and burned La Jolie, but they left a nice bottle of wine! which he shared with Florian, his son, prior to shooting himself in the head with a silver-handled pistol.
...the end.
I could go on about what _I_ think of him and his character, but it's not canon. I was just thinking about the similarities between him and Florian, and how they both see the world from different angles, but attack those angles in the same way. And how oddly, yet rather lovelily, naive Montmollin really IS - in gorgeous juxtaposition to Connie, who seems naive and yet is this, you know, cunning calculating bitch underneath. Love him. How is it that these books can be so simple, and yet you can dig so much out of one individual line?
I've always said Degas is the artist for girls between the ages of 9 and 14 - ballerinas and horses.