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More About Anthony Blake
Just some notes so you can get to know dear Anthony Blake! Since, after all, why wouldn't you want to get to know a guy like him, eh?
You would not believe how many times I went "but this is unrealistic/doesn't make sense" and "but this is offensive to women AND men!" and then remembered THAT'S THE POINT AND THIS IS WHY THERE NEEDS TO BE PARODIES GALORE. Seriously, fucking awful as this all is...it honestly does fit, at least in my opinion, for what type of guy Anita would be if she got her wish and really was one.
- Originally I named him Antonio Flores because I figured Anita's Mexican mother would translate to his Mexican father, and Anita's mother's maiden name was Flores (we know this from her referring to Grandmother Flores vs Grandma Blake)...but then I decided that Anthony is in fact 100% "whitebread" as he would say, and just THINKS that he looks like he could be "mixed" because of his black hair and dark eyes. He thus will often pretend that he is and bring it up to people in attempts to gain sympathy. I feel this is a much more accurate mirror of how LKH treats Anita's bi-racial status and why she chose it.
- The national average height for men in the USA is 5'10. Anthony is 5'11, and considers himself a giant because of it. Oddly, everyone else does too, and both he and others will remark upon how tall he is.
- He has all the hate for blond men, and will talk a lot about how they're always cast in hero roles against darker-haired adversaries, how most women will always choose them first, how they are inevitably arrogant because of this, etc.
- Anita likes her men on the short side, feminine in some way, and often on the short side. I considered just flipping this and having Anthony like tomboyish women that are tall with short hair, but then I thought about it, and I think that while part of Anita's preferences are just from the common harmless bishi fetish, I also think part of it comes from her misogyny. She wants/needs her men 'feminized' in some way so she can feel superior as the 'man' in the relationship. Anthony is, as if you couldn't guess, misogynistic as fuck (though the way he manifests this might be different than the way Anita does, since it's not coming from a place of internalization) so I decided he's the same and demands petite stature and uber-feminity and long locks. Not that men who like these things are inherently sexists, just that with Anthony it's coming from the same nasty place as Anita. He himself does have long hair too, though. (ETA: A commenter from his first post suggested that his ladies might be taller instead so that he can pat himself on the back because who else would be good enough to love freaks who are supermodel-height, which is an idea I also like! Maybe I'll make some like that, some petite.)
- Just as Anita has huuuge but perfect and perky tits, so too do all of Anthony's harem, as well as hot-wet-tight vaginas like Anita does. Anthony, however, has the same ginormous dick-a-saurus that Micah does, and the same angst about how no girls before his supernatural harem could handle it. He may use this as his reasoning for why he doesn't do humans.
- All other men are immediately treated as competition. Anthony sees things in the same girl/guy binary as Anita, and, like Anita, sees the male side as superior, so any man he dubs as 'girly' in any way is mercilessly lambasted by him. The second he has reason to think that any guy is 'manlier' than he is, of course, he'll go on about what a macho dickheaded testosterone-poisoned prick they are and how he's glad he's not like that and how they give men a bad name and are also probably homophobic sexists UNLIKE HIM!
- In addition to believing himself the epitome of perfect machismo, he also believes himself to be VERY liberal and enlightened and modern while also a "gentleman"...none of which he is, of course. This is meant to mirror how tolerant and enlightened Anita sees herself as (which she isn't) while also maintaining that she has such a "small-town virgin" pure and moral mentality (which she also doesn't). And of course we all know she thinks she's the epitome of perfect machismo too, but that goes without saying
- Anita tends to immediately class other women as one or more of a certain set of female stereotypes: bitch, slut, crazy, insane, jealous, evil, victim, etc. Anthony is certainly misogynistic enough to do the same, but unlike Anita, he's not doing it out of any sense of competition with them or distinguishing himself as Not Like Other Girls, so there isn't quite as hateful, hypocritical, and catty an edge. I think with him it's more based on if he thinks he has a chance of fucking them or not/if he finds them attractive or not, versus 'are they prettier than me/could they steal my men' like with Anita. I'm sure he gets on-guard as fuck around any reasonably good-looking or competent guy, though. Jealousy, thy name is Blake.
- HE HAS TO BE THE MANLIEST MOST ACCOMPLISHED BADASS DUDE IN THE ROOM AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT
- He sees feminine women as weak, masculine women as gross (and, of course, any woman who is just competent and/or unimpressed with him is 'masculine')
- Gay is bad if it's two guys! Lesbianism is ok if it involves him! What? He's not homophobic, you're homophobic! And he has a submissive femme Asian boyfriend now too! (Anita gets a girl in the harem at the end of Bullet)
- Instead of Anita's "I'm a Good Girl, not a slut! I'd never have/enjoy sex like this if not for the ardeur/my beasts making me! And the guy is being forced to like it by the ardeur/his beast, so it's not like it's rape for him! But he's also really hot for me on his own because I'm so amazing and awesome too!" Anthony's Lad Doth Protest Too Much song and dance is "This poor ardeur-addled hot woman is throwing herself at me! She can't help herself! I am a gentleman and not a sex hound like other men, so I would never take advantage of this normally, but I have to because of the ardeur/my beasts! And she is a good woman who would never do this normally but she's overcome by lust and passion, which she ordinarily never would be except for me being so HOT! And the ardeur and beasts! She's only ever felt this way for me, of course, she isn't a slut, I'm just too awesome and amazing for any girl. And since the ardeur makes her like/want it, it's not rape!" Because like Anita, Anthony doesn't like "sluts" either. Much like a slut to Anita is any woman who does what Anita does (or just, you know, likes men at all), a slut to Anthony is any woman who does what Anita does with men who aren't Anthony/likes men who aren't Anthony.
- This morning I remembered the scene where not only is sexual slavery presented as a non-evil and necessary thing, Anita also thinks that men are just fine with it, since they're both sensible and yet also naturally sex-obsessed, while it's women who have silly hangups about it (which is presented as a BAD thing). I decided not to think about how this would translate with Anthony. I'M NOT GONNA AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! But now the thought is in your head. You're welcome.
- Since Anita is stuck in the 80s fashion-wise while also attempting bad high-school goth, Anthony is too. Lot of stuff that a teen boy would think looks edgy and badass, a lot of stuff that could have been seen on Miami Vice. Basically, it's a hideous, hideous merging. Of course, once per book he'll be "forced" to get dressed up in formal eveningwear or fetish gear and gripe about it being all unmanly and metrosexual while pretending not to love the fact that ladies are all ogling how dapper and stylish and/or sexy he looks
Regular Lovers/Harem
JC = Jeanne Claire
Nathaniel = Natalie
Jason = Jocelyn
Asher = Ashley
Richard = Rachel
Micah = Mica
Damian = Dagmar (unlike Damian, Dagmar is actually a Germanic name. Also means 'day maid' which is a reference to how Damian is a daywalker)
Haven = Eden
Crispin = Crispissa
Domino = Same
Cynric = Cyndi
Mephistopheles = Mephista
Nicky = Nikki
London = Paris
Requiem = Threnody
Wicked & Truth = Malitia & Verita
Yiyu = Li Lin (both names mean 'black jade' but with different words/characters; there are a lot of words for jade, it turns out!)
Fucked At Least Once
Byron = Bronte
Augustine = Augusta
Donovan = Devin
Rafael = Rafaela
Victor = Victoria
Rick = Ricki
Hunter = Honey,
Sebastian = Sabella
Ethan = Ethel
Alex = Lexi
fed on Gregory (Georgina) once too in an "emergency"
Other Characters
Andria = Andrei
Belle Morte = Beau Morte
Bernando Spotted-Horse = Bernice Speckled-Fawn
Bert Vaughn = Bertha
Bibiana = Vibianus (tigers are now patriarchal so Anthony can be their King!)
Cassandra = Cassius
Cherry = Charlie
Christine = Christopher
Claudia = Clay
Cristos & Thomas = Crista & Tammy
Dominic Dumare = Dominique
Dominga = Domingo
Donna, Peter, Becca = Daniel, kids are Pat (girl) and Bobby (boy)
Edward/ Theodore "Ted" Forrester = Eliza/ Bethany "Beth" Forrester
Envy = Invidio
Elizabeth = Elliot
Fernando = Florinda
Gabriel = Gabrielle
Gideon =Gillian
Good Angel = Same. I wanted to make it something less stupid, then remembered the stupidity is the whole point.
Gretchen/Gretel = Johan/Hansel
Gwen and Sylvie = Gawain and Sylvester
Itzpapalotl = Tezcatlipoca (an Aztec god connected to obsidian who can appear as a jaguar; called Tez for short by Anthony just as she was called Itzy by Anita)
Jake = Jane
Jamil and Shang-Da = Jamila and Xiang-Yue
Jessica Arnet = Jesse Arnet
Joseph = Josephina
Josh =Joan
Judith = Jude
Julianna = Julian
Kaspar = Kasia
Laila - Lael
Larry Kirkland = Laurie
Leukothea (Thea) = Proteus (Teus)
Lisandro = Lisandra
Lissette = Lazare
Magnus and Dorcas = Magda and Dorian
Manny Rodriguez (wife: Rosa) = Mercedes "Merche" Rodriguez (husband: Rosario)
Marcus = Marcia
Marmee Noir/Mommy Dearest = Papa Noir/Big Daddy
Melanie = Melanthios (Since lamia are all-female, he's a transformed snakeman like Melanie's harem, and just as Melanie sought to create male lamia to recreate the species, he's trying to find some way to make or find a female)
Meng Die = Meng Dao
Merlin = Morgan
Monica = Monroe
Moroven aka Nemhain = Mormo aka Neit
Musette and Angelito = Modeste and Angelique
Nikolaos = Same because that is a boy name anyway
Narcissus is a lesbian who is pregnant by her lover Ophelia/Chimera, who is an intersexual woman. She dresses like a man, albeit a very frilly fancy one. Think a sparkly tuxedo with absurdly ruffly shirt sleeves peeking out and all-black bondage-y versions of just about anything worn by Liberace or Elton John.
Olaf/Otto = Olga/Octavia
Oliver (Mr. Oliver) = Ms. Olivia
Orlando King (Chimera, Coronus, Boone) = Ophelia Queen (Chimera, Corona, Bess)
Padma = Same, it's a unisex name
Pallas and Bettina = Paolo and Bettino
Perdita = Perdido
Pride = Vanity
Raina = Ray
Ronnie = Ron
Sabin = Sabine
Sampson = Samara
Samuel = Samantha
Serafina = Serafim
Soledad = Solomon
Stephen and Gregory = Stephanie and Georgina
Tammy Reynolds = Tommy
Thomas Carswell (Captain) = Therese Carswell (Lady)
Valentine and Valentina can just swap names along with sex/gender
Vittorio = Vittoria
Vivian = Vivek
Zane = Zana
Dolph, Zerbrowski, and every other male cop could go one of three ways:
1) They're still male, and Anthony treats them as competition
2) They're women, and Anthony talks like Anita would about how hard it must be for them to be the only girls on the squad and how he totally doesn't think less of them for it or treat them differently like all those OTHER sexists, which all other men of course are...while constantly bringing up to the reader how incompetent they are, and mentioning they're girls repeatedly. He is probably also convinced they want to screw him.
3) They're women, and Anthony complains about reverse sexism and political correctness gone mad because how else could TWO women be on a police squad except for man-hating affirmative action, right? If this is the case, expect a lot of complaining from Anthony about how everyone thinks he must be a sexist asshole who can't do anything right just because he's a man and everything is now run by a bunch of feminazis...while being a sexist asshole who is totally incompetent, much like Anita is also a sexist and incompetent asshole who claims she's only seen that way because she's a girl and everything is run by sexist jerks! He is still likely convinced they want to screw him.
And if you think, as I frequently did, that this is just ridiculous and nobody could be this awful...just remember that Anita already is.
You would not believe how many times I went "but this is unrealistic/doesn't make sense" and "but this is offensive to women AND men!" and then remembered THAT'S THE POINT AND THIS IS WHY THERE NEEDS TO BE PARODIES GALORE. Seriously, fucking awful as this all is...it honestly does fit, at least in my opinion, for what type of guy Anita would be if she got her wish and really was one.
- Originally I named him Antonio Flores because I figured Anita's Mexican mother would translate to his Mexican father, and Anita's mother's maiden name was Flores (we know this from her referring to Grandmother Flores vs Grandma Blake)...but then I decided that Anthony is in fact 100% "whitebread" as he would say, and just THINKS that he looks like he could be "mixed" because of his black hair and dark eyes. He thus will often pretend that he is and bring it up to people in attempts to gain sympathy. I feel this is a much more accurate mirror of how LKH treats Anita's bi-racial status and why she chose it.
- The national average height for men in the USA is 5'10. Anthony is 5'11, and considers himself a giant because of it. Oddly, everyone else does too, and both he and others will remark upon how tall he is.
- He has all the hate for blond men, and will talk a lot about how they're always cast in hero roles against darker-haired adversaries, how most women will always choose them first, how they are inevitably arrogant because of this, etc.
- Anita likes her men on the short side, feminine in some way, and often on the short side. I considered just flipping this and having Anthony like tomboyish women that are tall with short hair, but then I thought about it, and I think that while part of Anita's preferences are just from the common harmless bishi fetish, I also think part of it comes from her misogyny. She wants/needs her men 'feminized' in some way so she can feel superior as the 'man' in the relationship. Anthony is, as if you couldn't guess, misogynistic as fuck (though the way he manifests this might be different than the way Anita does, since it's not coming from a place of internalization) so I decided he's the same and demands petite stature and uber-feminity and long locks. Not that men who like these things are inherently sexists, just that with Anthony it's coming from the same nasty place as Anita. He himself does have long hair too, though. (ETA: A commenter from his first post suggested that his ladies might be taller instead so that he can pat himself on the back because who else would be good enough to love freaks who are supermodel-height, which is an idea I also like! Maybe I'll make some like that, some petite.)
- Just as Anita has huuuge but perfect and perky tits, so too do all of Anthony's harem, as well as hot-wet-tight vaginas like Anita does. Anthony, however, has the same ginormous dick-a-saurus that Micah does, and the same angst about how no girls before his supernatural harem could handle it. He may use this as his reasoning for why he doesn't do humans.
- All other men are immediately treated as competition. Anthony sees things in the same girl/guy binary as Anita, and, like Anita, sees the male side as superior, so any man he dubs as 'girly' in any way is mercilessly lambasted by him. The second he has reason to think that any guy is 'manlier' than he is, of course, he'll go on about what a macho dickheaded testosterone-poisoned prick they are and how he's glad he's not like that and how they give men a bad name and are also probably homophobic sexists UNLIKE HIM!
- In addition to believing himself the epitome of perfect machismo, he also believes himself to be VERY liberal and enlightened and modern while also a "gentleman"...none of which he is, of course. This is meant to mirror how tolerant and enlightened Anita sees herself as (which she isn't) while also maintaining that she has such a "small-town virgin" pure and moral mentality (which she also doesn't). And of course we all know she thinks she's the epitome of perfect machismo too, but that goes without saying
- Anita tends to immediately class other women as one or more of a certain set of female stereotypes: bitch, slut, crazy, insane, jealous, evil, victim, etc. Anthony is certainly misogynistic enough to do the same, but unlike Anita, he's not doing it out of any sense of competition with them or distinguishing himself as Not Like Other Girls, so there isn't quite as hateful, hypocritical, and catty an edge. I think with him it's more based on if he thinks he has a chance of fucking them or not/if he finds them attractive or not, versus 'are they prettier than me/could they steal my men' like with Anita. I'm sure he gets on-guard as fuck around any reasonably good-looking or competent guy, though. Jealousy, thy name is Blake.
- HE HAS TO BE THE MANLIEST MOST ACCOMPLISHED BADASS DUDE IN THE ROOM AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT
- He sees feminine women as weak, masculine women as gross (and, of course, any woman who is just competent and/or unimpressed with him is 'masculine')
- Gay is bad if it's two guys! Lesbianism is ok if it involves him! What? He's not homophobic, you're homophobic! And he has a submissive femme Asian boyfriend now too! (Anita gets a girl in the harem at the end of Bullet)
- Instead of Anita's "I'm a Good Girl, not a slut! I'd never have/enjoy sex like this if not for the ardeur/my beasts making me! And the guy is being forced to like it by the ardeur/his beast, so it's not like it's rape for him! But he's also really hot for me on his own because I'm so amazing and awesome too!" Anthony's Lad Doth Protest Too Much song and dance is "This poor ardeur-addled hot woman is throwing herself at me! She can't help herself! I am a gentleman and not a sex hound like other men, so I would never take advantage of this normally, but I have to because of the ardeur/my beasts! And she is a good woman who would never do this normally but she's overcome by lust and passion, which she ordinarily never would be except for me being so HOT! And the ardeur and beasts! She's only ever felt this way for me, of course, she isn't a slut, I'm just too awesome and amazing for any girl. And since the ardeur makes her like/want it, it's not rape!" Because like Anita, Anthony doesn't like "sluts" either. Much like a slut to Anita is any woman who does what Anita does (or just, you know, likes men at all), a slut to Anthony is any woman who does what Anita does with men who aren't Anthony/likes men who aren't Anthony.
- This morning I remembered the scene where not only is sexual slavery presented as a non-evil and necessary thing, Anita also thinks that men are just fine with it, since they're both sensible and yet also naturally sex-obsessed, while it's women who have silly hangups about it (which is presented as a BAD thing). I decided not to think about how this would translate with Anthony. I'M NOT GONNA AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! But now the thought is in your head. You're welcome.
- Since Anita is stuck in the 80s fashion-wise while also attempting bad high-school goth, Anthony is too. Lot of stuff that a teen boy would think looks edgy and badass, a lot of stuff that could have been seen on Miami Vice. Basically, it's a hideous, hideous merging. Of course, once per book he'll be "forced" to get dressed up in formal eveningwear or fetish gear and gripe about it being all unmanly and metrosexual while pretending not to love the fact that ladies are all ogling how dapper and stylish and/or sexy he looks
Regular Lovers/Harem
JC = Jeanne Claire
Nathaniel = Natalie
Jason = Jocelyn
Asher = Ashley
Richard = Rachel
Micah = Mica
Damian = Dagmar (unlike Damian, Dagmar is actually a Germanic name. Also means 'day maid' which is a reference to how Damian is a daywalker)
Haven = Eden
Crispin = Crispissa
Domino = Same
Cynric = Cyndi
Mephistopheles = Mephista
Nicky = Nikki
London = Paris
Requiem = Threnody
Wicked & Truth = Malitia & Verita
Yiyu = Li Lin (both names mean 'black jade' but with different words/characters; there are a lot of words for jade, it turns out!)
Fucked At Least Once
Byron = Bronte
Augustine = Augusta
Donovan = Devin
Rafael = Rafaela
Victor = Victoria
Rick = Ricki
Hunter = Honey,
Sebastian = Sabella
Ethan = Ethel
Alex = Lexi
fed on Gregory (Georgina) once too in an "emergency"
Other Characters
Andria = Andrei
Belle Morte = Beau Morte
Bernando Spotted-Horse = Bernice Speckled-Fawn
Bert Vaughn = Bertha
Bibiana = Vibianus (tigers are now patriarchal so Anthony can be their King!)
Cassandra = Cassius
Cherry = Charlie
Christine = Christopher
Claudia = Clay
Cristos & Thomas = Crista & Tammy
Dominic Dumare = Dominique
Dominga = Domingo
Donna, Peter, Becca = Daniel, kids are Pat (girl) and Bobby (boy)
Edward/ Theodore "Ted" Forrester = Eliza/ Bethany "Beth" Forrester
Envy = Invidio
Elizabeth = Elliot
Fernando = Florinda
Gabriel = Gabrielle
Gideon =Gillian
Good Angel = Same. I wanted to make it something less stupid, then remembered the stupidity is the whole point.
Gretchen/Gretel = Johan/Hansel
Gwen and Sylvie = Gawain and Sylvester
Itzpapalotl = Tezcatlipoca (an Aztec god connected to obsidian who can appear as a jaguar; called Tez for short by Anthony just as she was called Itzy by Anita)
Jake = Jane
Jamil and Shang-Da = Jamila and Xiang-Yue
Jessica Arnet = Jesse Arnet
Joseph = Josephina
Josh =Joan
Judith = Jude
Julianna = Julian
Kaspar = Kasia
Laila - Lael
Larry Kirkland = Laurie
Leukothea (Thea) = Proteus (Teus)
Lisandro = Lisandra
Lissette = Lazare
Magnus and Dorcas = Magda and Dorian
Manny Rodriguez (wife: Rosa) = Mercedes "Merche" Rodriguez (husband: Rosario)
Marcus = Marcia
Marmee Noir/Mommy Dearest = Papa Noir/Big Daddy
Melanie = Melanthios (Since lamia are all-female, he's a transformed snakeman like Melanie's harem, and just as Melanie sought to create male lamia to recreate the species, he's trying to find some way to make or find a female)
Meng Die = Meng Dao
Merlin = Morgan
Monica = Monroe
Moroven aka Nemhain = Mormo aka Neit
Musette and Angelito = Modeste and Angelique
Nikolaos = Same because that is a boy name anyway
Narcissus is a lesbian who is pregnant by her lover Ophelia/Chimera, who is an intersexual woman. She dresses like a man, albeit a very frilly fancy one. Think a sparkly tuxedo with absurdly ruffly shirt sleeves peeking out and all-black bondage-y versions of just about anything worn by Liberace or Elton John.
Olaf/Otto = Olga/Octavia
Oliver (Mr. Oliver) = Ms. Olivia
Orlando King (Chimera, Coronus, Boone) = Ophelia Queen (Chimera, Corona, Bess)
Padma = Same, it's a unisex name
Pallas and Bettina = Paolo and Bettino
Perdita = Perdido
Pride = Vanity
Raina = Ray
Ronnie = Ron
Sabin = Sabine
Sampson = Samara
Samuel = Samantha
Serafina = Serafim
Soledad = Solomon
Stephen and Gregory = Stephanie and Georgina
Tammy Reynolds = Tommy
Thomas Carswell (Captain) = Therese Carswell (Lady)
Valentine and Valentina can just swap names along with sex/gender
Vittorio = Vittoria
Vivian = Vivek
Zane = Zana
Dolph, Zerbrowski, and every other male cop could go one of three ways:
1) They're still male, and Anthony treats them as competition
2) They're women, and Anthony talks like Anita would about how hard it must be for them to be the only girls on the squad and how he totally doesn't think less of them for it or treat them differently like all those OTHER sexists, which all other men of course are...while constantly bringing up to the reader how incompetent they are, and mentioning they're girls repeatedly. He is probably also convinced they want to screw him.
3) They're women, and Anthony complains about reverse sexism and political correctness gone mad because how else could TWO women be on a police squad except for man-hating affirmative action, right? If this is the case, expect a lot of complaining from Anthony about how everyone thinks he must be a sexist asshole who can't do anything right just because he's a man and everything is now run by a bunch of feminazis...while being a sexist asshole who is totally incompetent, much like Anita is also a sexist and incompetent asshole who claims she's only seen that way because she's a girl and everything is run by sexist jerks! He is still likely convinced they want to screw him.
And if you think, as I frequently did, that this is just ridiculous and nobody could be this awful...just remember that Anita already is.