"There must be something he wants. And whatever it is, by God, I'll find it and make a collar and chain of it with 'Douglas' in fine Gothic letters on the neck."
George Douglas has some A+ ideas in Game of Kings, no notes.
"average writer makes you understand 60% of what they write" factoid actualy just statistical error. average writer makes you understand 99% of what they write. dunnett georg, who references 11 medieval poems in 6 different languages per paragraph & makes you understand 1% of what she writes is an outlier adn should not have been counted
The combination of 'unnervingly flawless self-control' with 'occasional tendency to engage in reckless, dangerous, and borderline self-destructive or death-seeking behaviour' in a character is SUCH catnip to me