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10 more things about Guy
Oct. 24th, 2007 11:05 pm1. As much as he dislikes it, Guy has a tendency towards obedience, no matter how great his ambitions and dreams of power, respect and position get. The Brothers of Saint John of Jerusalem, and certainly their military brothers, were big on discipline and order and it was the monastic way to be obedient to God and your superior. It's something he's never quite managed to shake off, even with the passing of time.
2. It does, however, go a long way to explaining why he serves the Sheriff. But only because the Sheriff got there first with his lure of familiar deference. If a certain, feisty maiden had arrived in his life a few years earlier, well, there would be no question whose orders he would be following now.
3. There is no mistaking that Guy has a problem with controlling his temper; a result of years of violence and being pushed and pushed until one day he exploded. He's had a problem with it ever since, no matter how much he tries to endure and tolerate the irritations, hurts and failures he experiences so often.
4. Even with an older brother, two older sisters and a half-sister, Guy was a boy who was often found on his own. Partly through choice and partly a result of never truly getting on with his brother, who blamed him, perhaps jealously, for weakening their mother's health so. Guy was the apple of his mother's eye, her favourite; a place that Hugo felt should be his own.
5. When Guy started to grow tall, he got tall quickly. Very quickly. Tall, gangly and ungainly, he was suddenly extraordinarily clumsy - being unused to long limbs and increased height. It might have been this new-gained clumsiness which made it so easy for his father to give him away when the time came, soon after his mother's death.
6. He never really got to know his father's second wife, but he adored his little half-sister, who loved that this big brother always had time for her when he visited. It made her fate all the worse and all the more unforgivable when it came to pass.
7. In time, Guy grew into his height. He filled out, got used to his extended reach and learnt to use it to his advantage in combat - most useful when on horseback or on the wide sprawl of a battlefield, surrounded by foe.
8. All that remains of little Matilda is a curl of burnished bronze, hidden within a piece of silver jewellery taken from a man in Antioch. That there is so little, is one of the reasons he hates the king.
9. That Guy survived was a cruel twist of fate and a cursed blessing from fickle Fortune. It was his loyal service and success in battle that spared his life; both efforts to please his father, for whom he was always less than second best. This too adds fuel to his loathing.
10. Ambition, it seems now, was a family trait. His ambition may seem similar at the surface to that of his father and brother, but at its heart is different kind of soul with different reasons. Power, wealth, land, respect. Not just for their own gain or in recompense for failure any longer; but, since meeting Marian, for the promise of what they could provide.
2. It does, however, go a long way to explaining why he serves the Sheriff. But only because the Sheriff got there first with his lure of familiar deference. If a certain, feisty maiden had arrived in his life a few years earlier, well, there would be no question whose orders he would be following now.
3. There is no mistaking that Guy has a problem with controlling his temper; a result of years of violence and being pushed and pushed until one day he exploded. He's had a problem with it ever since, no matter how much he tries to endure and tolerate the irritations, hurts and failures he experiences so often.
4. Even with an older brother, two older sisters and a half-sister, Guy was a boy who was often found on his own. Partly through choice and partly a result of never truly getting on with his brother, who blamed him, perhaps jealously, for weakening their mother's health so. Guy was the apple of his mother's eye, her favourite; a place that Hugo felt should be his own.
5. When Guy started to grow tall, he got tall quickly. Very quickly. Tall, gangly and ungainly, he was suddenly extraordinarily clumsy - being unused to long limbs and increased height. It might have been this new-gained clumsiness which made it so easy for his father to give him away when the time came, soon after his mother's death.
6. He never really got to know his father's second wife, but he adored his little half-sister, who loved that this big brother always had time for her when he visited. It made her fate all the worse and all the more unforgivable when it came to pass.
7. In time, Guy grew into his height. He filled out, got used to his extended reach and learnt to use it to his advantage in combat - most useful when on horseback or on the wide sprawl of a battlefield, surrounded by foe.
8. All that remains of little Matilda is a curl of burnished bronze, hidden within a piece of silver jewellery taken from a man in Antioch. That there is so little, is one of the reasons he hates the king.
9. That Guy survived was a cruel twist of fate and a cursed blessing from fickle Fortune. It was his loyal service and success in battle that spared his life; both efforts to please his father, for whom he was always less than second best. This too adds fuel to his loathing.
10. Ambition, it seems now, was a family trait. His ambition may seem similar at the surface to that of his father and brother, but at its heart is different kind of soul with different reasons. Power, wealth, land, respect. Not just for their own gain or in recompense for failure any longer; but, since meeting Marian, for the promise of what they could provide.