#linay

[indigo--montoya]

"I can fix him" no go away he's busy fixing me

[mrkrabssunbaenim]

[aeylis]

Lenore, my sister--I would save her I would pull her up the river Do to that town what they did to her and so remake her life --From “Plain Kate” by Erin Bow. Read it. Details here

[aeylis]

Closer details of the face (I liked the teardrop) from this painting of Linay

[darth-caillic]

It's karaoke night and Linay is up! Are they singing a solo or duet? Is the song different between the two? If it's a duet, who are they singing with? - 🖤

Linay and Diana are up on stage singing the Sherk soundtrack together without a care in the world. Especially I Need a Hero.

[indigo--montoya]

not Linay raising the dead when he's spoken with the shadowless, and how they come shambling, how they come hungry, how they come wrong as a bird in water 😭

[indigo--montoya]

*looks at Linay* poor little bastard man

*looks at Taggle* stinky little meow meow

[erinbowbooks]

I answered this question over on goodreads.  I suspect it was someone’s homework but it was interesting, so ...  Perhaps worth reposting here.  

in plain kate, how would you describe Linay? Is he an anti-villain or anti hero and how did Kate view him?

I'm not great at English-teacher kind of labels, but I am interested in villains who have actual human motivations. Real people don't set out (for example) to destroy a city just for kicks and mustache wax. They have reasons. They are wrong, of course, but they still have reasons. 

It's more interesting to me as a writer and reader if the villain's reasons are ones I can relate to. I am not drawn at all to villains like Sauron or Voldemort, who simply want power, or immortality, or to watch the world burn. I like instead villains who can be cast as heroes who have gone wrong. And so I like Linay. He is motivated by grief, love, and a desire to save his sister, with perhaps a side-helping of madness and revenge. Kate, who likewise feels grief, love, and the longing for family, connects to that in him. She also thinks he is terrifying and needs to be stopped. What interests me is that those two things are not a contradiction. (And don't get me started on Talis.)