I've Got Ankh-Morpork On My Mind

[tealin]

Sir Samuel Vimes and Wossname Mr. Carcer:



I was watching Stargate SG-1 the other day and had the epiphany: it's not Bruce Willis I see in my head when I try to concentrate on what Vimes looks like ... it's Richard Dean Anderson. Because he is, at least in that show ... Vimes – In – Spaaaaace!* Hence the resemblance. I'm not going to pretend I don't see it. There's a bit of wonkiness because I drew it at an angle (bad me) and the back of Vimes' head is cut off because that was the edge of the paper, but these are occupational hazards when you're a doodle at work.

*To be said like the 'Pigs in Space' intro on The Muppet Show.

9:16 pm
Goodness gracious I have an expensive cat.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Vimes is Commander of the City Watch (in Ankh-Morpork, Discworld, the Multiverse, Terry Pratchett's Fertile and Abundant Brain). In any other fantasy story this would make him the villain (because watchmen are there to harrass the hero) but he's not; Vimes is a moral character, but not in an obnoxious way, who's a tough-as-nails copper through and through. So he looks nasty, but that's just because of being thoroughly battered by his job.
Carcer, on the other hand, has this description (which was easier to find than a succinct one of Vimes):

He had a demon on both shoulders, urging one another on.
And yet ... he smiled all the time [...] he appeared to be convinced, utterly convinced, that he never did anything really wrong. He'd stand there amid the carnage, blood on his hands and stolen jewellery in his pocket, and with an expression of injured innocence declare, 'Me? What did I do?'

Darn

[(Anonymous)]

I had "duck" in HTML brackets at the end of my post, but they didn't make it through. Even one a dense as moi can see who is good/evil.

Re: Darn

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ah well, it gave me an excuse to dig out Night Watch and quote it. : )

Re: Darn

[(Anonymous)]

What timepiece does he wear in the daytime? Whenever I read "Carcer" I see "Cancer."