#mr bent

[persephinae]

so anyway i was trying to google a picture of Mr Bent from "Making Money" and started reading the L-Space entry on him

👆 hey man wtf

guy was literally a clown

[pratchettquotes]

Mr. Bent sat down again. [...] He liked Mrs. Cake, but she was wrong. You could change how you were made. If you couldn't, there was no hope.

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

[moss-under-a-rock]

[leona-florianova]

*sad honk

[pratchettquotes]

"There are, some risible people like to suggest, an infinite number of universes, in order to allow everything that may happen a place to happen in. This is, of course, nonsense, which they entertain only because they believe words are the same as reality. Now, however, I can disprove the theory, since in such an infinity of worlds there would have to be one where I would applaud your recent actions and, let me assure you, sir, infinity is not that big!"

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

[pratchettquotes]

Bent looked surprised. "Really, Mr. Lipwig? I'll make no bones about saying that you seem to me to be the sort of man who makes a great Razz Arm Ma Tazz about giving money to charity." He made razzmatazz sound like some esoteric perversion.

"Well, I'm not. Do good by stealth, that is my watchword." It'll get found out soon enough, he added to himself, and then I'm not only a jolly good chap but a decently modest one, too.

I wonder...am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one?

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

[tenarutervayn]

Headcanon

Inspector A. E . Pessimal of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Mr Mavolio Bent, chief cashier of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork are friends. No-one who knows them is surprised by this. They are only surprised that they met this late.

They met for the very first time shortly after Making Money. The Dark Clerks had asked A. E. Pessimal to help them to sort out the mess the Lavish Family left behind. Naturally he did. He is resposible for forensic accountancy after all. He appreciated that Mr Bent had two sets of books and that the secret second one was one of most correct books he’d ever seen. (Even honest people made a fault here or there.)

During the investigation A. E. Pessimal made is very clear that he thought that Mr Bent was completely innocent and that without the second set of books, the sorting out and cleaning would have taken much much longer. 

Mr Bent was surprised to find out that he was the one who could make the numbers dance but that there was a man who could make them shake in fear. Who was as fast as he was. Who never made a fault.

They meet normally weekly. 

A. E. Pessimal likes to copy some of the more difficult equitations he finds during work and give them to Mr. Bent to solve. Mr. Bent fabricates a fake accountants book every year and leaves the tinniest faults in the columns. This is a birthday present - along with a typical clowny cake.

[discworldquotes]

Hell knows, Heaven suspects.

Mr Mavolio Bent in Terry Pratchett's Making Money