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Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)

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Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Tararoys   » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:51 pm

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Who are your favorite bit characters in HFQ?

My all-time favorite is Mahafee. It takes guts to sprint after a demon and attempt to stab it in the back, and even more guts to try to stand up to his superior officers. And that was one hell of a battlefield promotion.

I also feel somewhat sorry for Inquisitor Brayhylo. He is an inquisitor deliberately delivering people to a horrific death and therefore deserves to die, but he died without getting any of his people killed unnecessarily, and it gives me the shivers when he tells the Dohlaran captain "if I were an officer of the Dohlaran Navy and not an inquisitor sworn to obey the Grand Inquisitor in all things, I would ask myself if I truly wished to stain my hands with the blood of the helpless. And I would also look to my own men’s lives.”

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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Expert snuggler   » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:05 am

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Mahafee was a good bit of characterization. We may see more like him, people almost broken by circumstances but still clinging to one idea or one principle.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by LadyWhirlwind   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:26 pm

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All those who the courage to stand up to the Clynthan's orders.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Stormy   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:30 pm

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Two favorite bit characters that spring the most to mind is also Mahafee and Ahlvyn Khapahr, was very sad that he died, but have to admire what he managed to accomplish by doing so.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Henry Brown   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:05 pm

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I vote for Rubyn Mychysyn and Ahgustahn Tymahk. They are the sea-captain on the prisoner ship and the Colonel in the death camp who both shot an inquisitor in order to prevent a massacre of captives and to achieve an honorable surrender.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Stormy   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:19 pm

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Henry Brown wrote:I vote for Rubyn Mychysyn and Ahgustahn Tymahk. They are the sea-captain on the prisoner ship and the Colonel in the death camp who both shot an inquisitor in order to prevent a massacre of captives and to achieve an honorable surrender.


Liked those too. Even liked the other inquisitor on the other transport ship, can't remember his name, that told the Captain that there was no point getting more people killed, so he might as well surrender and it wasn't like he was going to be writing any reports on their lack of zeal if the Captain did surrender.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by DarkRiver   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:43 pm

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I think my favorite was Stefyny Mahlard because she was both surprising and showed a lot of depth that wasn't "expected". I think the other character was the inquisitor who helped her. Again I think because I wasn't expecting it.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Henry Brown   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:30 pm

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Stormy wrote:
Henry Brown wrote:I vote for Rubyn Mychysyn and Ahgustahn Tymahk. They are the sea-captain on the prisoner ship and the Colonel in the death camp who both shot an inquisitor in order to prevent a massacre of captives and to achieve an honorable surrender.


Liked those too. Even liked the other inquisitor on the other transport ship, can't remember his name, that told the Captain that there was no point getting more people killed, so he might as well surrender and it wasn't like he was going to be writing any reports on their lack of zeal if the Captain did surrender.


Although I think Mychysyn might prove important in a future book. He was the senior surviving officer from the prisoner convoy. And Clyntahn is not happy. If the inquisition makes an example of him in a future book, it could help undermine how Dohlar views and supports the Jihad.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by PeterZ   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:05 pm

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That's two votes for darling Stefyny.

DarkRiver wrote:I think my favorite was Stefyny Mahlard because she was both surprising and showed a lot of depth that wasn't "expected". I think the other character was the inquisitor who helped her. Again I think because I wasn't expecting it.
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Re: Favorite Bit Character in HFQ (spoilers)
Post by Henry Brown   » Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:28 pm

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PeterZ wrote:That's two votes for darling Stefyny.



Yeah, but she's a kid. I mean everybody loves a cute kid. She needs a handicap or something just to make the voting fair for all the other bit characters. ;)
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