What would Dorothy Dunnett do?

[ellenkushner]

Gakked from abrakadabrah

Which Lymond Character Are You?

Congratulations, you're Francis Crawford of Lymond, for a time the Master of Culter. You're the hero and the focal point of everything. You're the quintessential romantic hero: brooding, mysterious, witty, informed, gentle, sensitive and all the rest. You should, perhaps, consider doing the dishes once in a while and speak in your native tongue when possible. In other words, show off a bit less. It won't kill you.
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OK - I took it twice. I admit I tried to skew it the first time; but the second time I didn't, I swear! I'm still him. Or at least I think I am. I had an aborted romance with a fellow-Dunnett fan many years ago - aborted, in part, because he wanted me to see myself as Philippa so he could be . . . well, y'know . . . . As my then-flatmate repeated endlessly as she listened to my angst, I am the only Napoleon in this asylum! So, now, Take That! aborted romance dude.

Cheez. Now I must go back and take it again to see if I can convince it that I'm really Wat Scott.

But how did they know I never do the dishes?? That wasn't on the quiz!

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Good God. It works.

It also tells me that 1629 people have taken the quiz so far, and only nine have gotten my result. Who'd have thought?

And I didn't even have to cheat. Much. Although cheating would be appropriate under the circumstances, wouldn't it?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Of course you did, my dear.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

The quiz is clearly buggered. I come out as Lymond, too, and I'm obviously Kate Somerville. It would be more entertaining to be one of the more adventurous characters -- Lymond or Philippa or Sybilla -- but one Kate with sense ends up as another Kate with sense, if the quiz had any sense in its composition. If I were one of the adventurous characters, I wouldn't one of the ones with glamour; I'd be Archie, with the elephant.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I bet you told it you liked music. That seems to skew inordinately Lymond. (Have tried this quiz 7 ways from Sunday? Moi? Why would I waste my time doing such a foolish thing?)

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Okay, if I answer fairly honestly otherwise, but then claim that my favorite Lord of the Rings character is Tom Bombadil rather than Aragorn, I get to be Kate Somerville, because Tom Bombadil stays at home as she does.

Pfui on this quiz. The other thing it reveals is that all of us know these books in far greater obsessive detail than is quite healthy.

[pameladean]

Kate Somerville.

Huh.

P.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Rea-ealllly?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I would have been happy to be Kate or Philippa. Instead, like most of the world, I'm Lymond.

I'm not sure I would want to be Lymond.

Also, I disagree with their choice of picture. Then again, I have yet to think of an actor who I could really see playing the part.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . or Sybilla. I would also be pleased to be Sybilla.

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

I took this a while back and hacked the picture.

http://jodi-davis.livejournal.com/34299.html

I had a friend who was convinced Jerrot was the true hero of the piece. I had her killed.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Paul Bettany's good . . . but too tall and not pretty enough for my mental image.

Cillian Murphy is the closest I've come to an acceptable casting in my own mind, though still not quite right. At least he's the right shape, and has proven his ability to do a couple of the behavioral styles one would need to pull off Lymond. I don't know that he would look right blonde, though.

(Of course, the real question is, why do I bother pondering this? I don't think it's possible to film these books. Much of their identity rests in the way they are written -- which doesn't necessarily translate to film -- and the intricacies of plot are kind of heinous.)

Lymond Quiz

[(Anonymous)]

I was Lymond too!

Secretly I wish I'd turned out to be Gabriel. I think it be very tiring to be Lymond all the time--so much reputation to uphold--always needing to have the right quip, the right quotation, all those ladies to fight off, constantly having to come up with the right plan.

Whereas if I were Gabriel, I could just swan around, exploiting my sister and plotting against my enemies, all while pretending to be perfectly angelic. So much more restful!

Ysabeau

Re: Lymond Quiz

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

So true.

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

I'm Richard.

*weeps*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You guys are making me laugh so hard!!!!

Here's a little lagniappe:

http://www.quizilla.com/users/aceofkittens/quizzes/Which%20volume%20of%20Dorothy%20Dunnett's%20LYMOND%20CHRONICLES%20are%20you%3F/

As an actual quiz it's ridiculous and easy to rig - but the questions/choices themselves . . . guffaws ring out on Riverside Drive!

And I have to say that by carefully trying *not* to answer in a Lymondish way, I got it to decide that I was Janet Scott. Just once. (Everyone still adores, me, of course. Ca va sans -- oops!)

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the possible answers of that quiz. They're so funny...

[(Anonymous)]

I was The Disorderly Knights--which fits into my desire to be Gabriel nicely!

Ellen--you are totally right about the question/choices--loud cackling rang out over Chicago as I read them. I love the answer to who is your enemy--"The entire French court! Wait, uh... enemy? Well, same thing!"

I didn't find these books until a few years ago--where were they all my life?--and then I ran through them so quickly that by the end, I almost felt physically sick, as though I'd eaten too much chocolate! A surfeit of Lymond, could it be?! I have the cheap paperbacks from the 1960s, the ones with the bodice ripper covers. I always wondered what the hausfraus thought when they opened DK or PIF and found buggery, castration, incest, child-stealing, flaying and murder instead of plain old loooove. Whoo-hoo!

Ysabeau, who'd better get a livejournal account if she doesn't want to be anon for ever.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Kate Somerville???

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

This test molests squids. I came out as lymond. I??? It is to laugh. A proper test would have matched me with Danny Hislop, except he has too much courage. Maybe Onophrion Zitwitz, except he's an excellent cook. I know, the crabby old granny who smacked her attackers over the head with her jurdin--she was a Kerr, so she was even left-handed

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I adore watching Lymond geeks come out of the woodwork.

(Not that you were in the woodwork, what with the "Languish Locked in L" icon -- but you know what I mean.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I discovered Game of Kings at nineteen, was surprised when I was in Europe in '75 to see Ringed Castle just out; I was surprised there was a sequel. The next year i found out some friends were addicted to the series, but they said not, not, not to read the others until Checkmate came out because RC ended on such an awful cliffhanger, so I waited, borrowed them all summer of '76, and read them the last four in 36 straight hours one sweltering weekend. I finished at three a.m. and I was a governess at the time, and the gent didn't like me using their phone, so I had to wait a week until i could discuss them with my friends. WHAT a week that was!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I think TDK and PiF are the bad ones to read when the next isn't on hand, TDK because it leaves you hanging more than most, PiF because you may need the next book to keep from crying in a corner for a week.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh yes. That's what I was warned of, and I was glad I'd waited.

[paulakate.livejournal.com]

I am Lymond as well. This is absurdly wrong-headed, she said, admitting to sitting in corners and being self-absorbed.

pk

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Philippa Somerville.

I was wondering if I was going to be Lymond too, since so many people turned out as him--which, given my degree of fading-into-the-woodwork, would have been a bit contradictory--but it didn't happen.

I suspect I'm closer to Philippa, Kate or Sybilla anyway.

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

Oh, joy! God's in His/Her/Its Heaven, all's right with the world!

Guess who I am. Just GUESS.

[chomiji]

I was Kate, which wasn't too terrible a match. I really don't like the Quiz-mistress's Lymond pic, though ... .

It was lovely to see all these Lymond fans!

- Cho

P.S. Congrats on the nomination ... my 15-yr-old daughter and I both loved the book ...