Music & a meme

[narcasse]

Entirely at random because I felt like sharing. There’s something of a theme in there too. Seven tracks I’ve been listening to at the moment:
Gawazi - Omar Faruk Tekbilek
La Condesa - Dracula: el musical
Nosferatu - Dracula: the musical (concept album)
Civic Festhall - Planescape: Torment OST
Nightmarish Waltz - Silent Hill 4 OST
Erotica (remix) - Razed in Black vs Trasmutator
Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen


And a meme stolen from nekonexus:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudocanon.

Original characters are fair game too really.

Comments

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

Naoji.
Also, fact number 5 about Orpherius has given me a sudden craving for Jam. And now I have no idea why I wrote that, I think it's time I went to bed.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

1) Naoji not only has an alarmingly high tolerance for alcohol (he can put away an entire bottle of claret without so much as wobbling) but if and when he does he tends to develop the urge to write poetry.
2) His drunken haikus conform to all the prescribed forms of meter and style as well as seasonal attributes as appropriate.
3) He times his tea brewing with military precision and has been known to thrown entire pots out if they don’t meet what he considers an acceptable standard. He also despairs of Orpherus’ inability to time anything as well as Orpherus’ penchant to wander off aimlessly while his tea is brewing.
4) He’s fond of omelette, Chinese cured sausage and udon. He also likes to put Worchester sauce on just about anything.
5) He’s trilingual and claims to read Lovecraft to help improve his English. He’s been known to claim to feel ‘squamous’ some mornings.

Bonus fact:

6) He takes his martial duties very seriously and on any given day is quite prepared to cut down Ludwig’s political opponents in a bloody swathe or stab them violently but discreetly with hairpins. Most days it’s the former since he’s actually Ludwig’s husband for the most part.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I don’t mind second requests if people want since I’m in an absurdly tea-ful mood at the moment.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

1) Eduard is very aware of public perception and has been known to ham up playing the part of the quintessential rogue. If people can’t tell what is and isn’t real, he figures that’s their problem not his.
2) He drinks English Breakfast tea as a rule since he finds Assam (which Orpherus prefers) too thick and Darjeeling (Ludwig’s tea of choice) too thin. He’s also aware that that might be interpreted to mean something but he doesn’t try to guess.
3) He’s extraordinary fond of Bach and anything else that involves alarming amounts of counterpoint. He knows that performance-wise it’s easier for him to play anything by the Romantic composers but Baroque is his absolute passion.
4) He enjoys horror novels which he occasionally borrows from Naoji. Le Fanu’s Carmilla is a particular favourite, perhaps because it defies all the later vampire conventions.
5) He’s been known to hide as soon as Ludwig and Orpherus start the heated discussions. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate their flurry of references, only that he finds it a little silly and knows that neither of them would be happy with him if he just laughed at it.

Bonus fact:

6) He owns a Marseille tarot deck and knows much more about that sort of affair than he ever lets on. Surprisingly enough this isn’t due to ‘gypsy’ heritage but rather several notably dubious Braunschweig ancestors whose diaries and notes he’s combed over meticulously. Many of these records are in fact kept in the secure underground rooms beneath the pavilion at the end of the lake on the family estate.

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

I've had debate issues as well, I keep away from debates for the simple fact that most people these days just don't know what they are talking about. And this is a good online version of Carmilla.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Their debates are more coherent and do have an actual point but Eduard just gets fed up with the incessant referencing and the fact that he’s sometimes convinced that it’s all just thinly veiled flirting. Plus that wicked smile of Ludwig’s has about the same effect on him as it has on Naoji so Eduard feels that it’d be best if he left before he embarrassed himself in public over it.

He also read Carmilla in English rather than the original French.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

*points at your first paragraph* YES. >.> *sigh*

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

My particular issue half the time is Giga (http://www.4shared.com/file/16247501/aad37ade/Bach-Partita_No_2_in_d2C_Gigue.html) from Bach’s Partita in D minor because I tend to forget about doing anything like practice for ages and then come back to it and realise that my tone is awful.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

It’s one of the Grade 8 set pieces or at least it used to be and as a flute adaptation of the original. Though I did have a brief brush with a Fiddle Fiesta many years ago because I felt like taking the afternoon off school and it was entertaining enough to take a crash course in learning how to be something like 3rd desk. It still didn’t match the piano in my estimation but then of course I’m biased.

Goodness, yes. That’s one of the first things that always shocks me when I pick my flute up again. I always think that I must have forgotten everything only to discover that my fingers remember and so on. And I’m absolutely agreed on the matter of realisation and understanding of pieces. Its just one of those things that you don’t quite ‘get’ when you’re younger no matter what anybody says to you.

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[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

Naoji is a fun character to read about and I agree, I'd love him as my husband. XD

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

stab them violently but discreetly with hairpins
He would make a perfect husband, really, it doesn't get any better then that.

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

I would do the same, I'd be "oh dear, Naoji is in a mood again" and just bury my head in whatever book I happen to be reading. XD Also, icon love, who could say to those big eyes.