You know, I get why vampires refer to the wereanimals as animals, especially in condescending ways like calling them kittens, but Jake is a werewolf, and he was an Animal to Call himself. Why does he do that? Is it a crab bucket type thing, does he enjoy that 'well I'm a level up from THEIR tier at last' or what?
I think LKH just gets off on taking supposedly dangerous people and turning them into something fluffy and helpless, to be honest. Sometimes it's done figuratively as with her insisting on using the term "kitty" for werecats, and sometimes, as with Nicky, it's... rather more literal. ^_^;
THAT. IS. SO. AWESOME! I LOVE IT! I FUCKING LOVE IT! GO MARMEE! MOTHER KNOWS BEST!
It kinda is. :D The MOAD sat on the Council as the first among equals, oh yes. That's because all the other Council members were her, too. What, you thought any of them could in themselves be her equals? Ahahahahaha not bloody likely. :D
Anita sure remembers him because she feels "a little spurt of anger" over him never telling her he was a Harlequin member "because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him."
I have noticed that Mary Sues tend to have a lot of these weird moments of unrestrained anger at people acting in a way they don't like - and if the other characters have been reasonably characterised and you see where they are coming from, those really jars. See also Rahl, Richard, and Deegan, Dominick. :P
Anita unhelpfully adds "Or a sexual sadist."
Even aside from the fact that "evil" did indeed cover it and she just wanted to bring in the topic of (sigh) sexual sadism, there is something very annoying with the way she keeps using that term. It's just so... precise, too clinical. It's like that character in Fifty Shades of Grey talking about "vaginal orgasms." No one actually uses those terms in conversation. They use them in writing, when they can take care to clarify exactly what they're saying. A real person might say, perhaps, "or someone who got his kicks from hurting people" and expect that to get her point across. The only exception I can think of is if someone thought it was important to be clear that it was about sex, and this is the Anitaverse - of course it's freaking about sex, it's always about sex! :P
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I think LKH just gets off on taking supposedly dangerous people and turning them into something fluffy and helpless, to be honest. Sometimes it's done figuratively as with her insisting on using the term "kitty" for werecats, and sometimes, as with Nicky, it's... rather more literal. ^_^;
THAT. IS. SO. AWESOME! I LOVE IT! I FUCKING LOVE IT! GO MARMEE! MOTHER KNOWS BEST!
It kinda is. :D The MOAD sat on the Council as the first among equals, oh yes. That's because all the other Council members were her, too. What, you thought any of them could in themselves be her equals? Ahahahahaha not bloody likely. :D
Anita sure remembers him because she feels "a little spurt of anger" over him never telling her he was a Harlequin member "because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him."
I have noticed that Mary Sues tend to have a lot of these weird moments of unrestrained anger at people acting in a way they don't like - and if the other characters have been reasonably characterised and you see where they are coming from, those really jars. See also Rahl, Richard, and Deegan, Dominick. :P
Anita unhelpfully adds "Or a sexual sadist."
Even aside from the fact that "evil" did indeed cover it and she just wanted to bring in the topic of (sigh) sexual sadism, there is something very annoying with the way she keeps using that term. It's just so... precise, too clinical. It's like that character in Fifty Shades of Grey talking about "vaginal orgasms." No one actually uses those terms in conversation. They use them in writing, when they can take care to clarify exactly what they're saying. A real person might say, perhaps, "or someone who got his kicks from hurting people" and expect that to get her point across. The only exception I can think of is if someone thought it was important to be clear that it was about sex, and this is the Anitaverse - of course it's freaking about sex, it's always about sex! :P