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In Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber, Corwin describes Random physically as: "a wily-looking little man, with a sharp nose and a laughing mouth and a shock of straw-colored hair." He describes Random's character (before marriage and kingship) this way: "But I knew he was nobody's fool; he was resourceful, shrewd, strangely sentimental over the damnedest things; and on the other hand, his word wasn't worth the spit behind it, and he'd probably sell my corpse to the medical school of his choice if he could get much for it." Random was the youngest legitimate son of Oberon and the shortest. Was teased often as a lad, but more than made up for it in guile and nasty pranks. He was a professional musician before the Unicorn chose him to succeed Oberon. Then the foot-loose scoundrel became transformed into a responsible and fair-minded king, using his cleverness and charm for good.

Which Amberite are you?
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Sadly, a little too "on the nose", but sorta fun to mix and match traits...

Date: 2006-06-25 12:32 am (UTC)
gentlyepigrams: (martin - not your father's prince)
From: [personal profile] gentlyepigrams
No prizes for guessing who I am.

Date: 2006-06-25 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
I am apparently Benedict. I think the physical description questions skew the results a bit.

Date: 2006-06-25 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcroft.livejournal.com
So, we should just call you "Lefty"?

Date: 2006-06-25 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
I am left-handed...

Date: 2006-06-25 12:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
Being Benedict is so dull. All I do is mope, and periodically lose a limb despite my vaunted martial prowess.

Date: 2006-06-25 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcroft.livejournal.com
Not so! You can wangst about your dead servants, absent yourself from felicity (I never did like Keri Russell), get caught by Corwin's stupid trick, and totally fail to figure out about Dara.

Why, your days are just packed!

Plus you can spend time ducking blows from invisible ninja assassins while tending your Oriental Garden.

Date: 2006-06-25 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
The portrayal of Benedict in the RPG is a bit inconsistent with what actually happens in the books.

Also, don't forget that I have the ugliest colors, and arguably, face, in the family! (Barring Dworkin.)

Date: 2006-06-25 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcurry.livejournal.com
No, I am Benedict!

Though I am not left-handed.

I was so hoping for Caine too....

Date: 2006-06-25 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
Brian is Benedict, too.

It's pretty obvious which answers to pick if you want to be Caine, dude.

Date: 2006-06-25 01:08 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
But...that would be cheating!

Plus, it's even easier to just wait for someone else on my friends list to get Caine and then cut and paste the HTML.

Date: 2006-06-25 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcurry.livejournal.com
Geez, way to randomly log me out LJ!

Date: 2006-06-25 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com
...and how is cheating not in keeping with being Caine?

Date: 2006-06-25 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jpmodisette.livejournal.com
Dworkin here. I guess that's reasonable.

Date: 2006-06-25 01:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jpmodisette.livejournal.com
I would have said "bookish", but I guess you could look at it as "insane hunchback".

Date: 2006-06-25 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcroft.livejournal.com
I'm not convinced that there's textual evidence that Dworkin can read.

Date: 2006-06-25 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arenson9.livejournal.com
Um ... I got Florimel. I fear that it's a good fit.

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