TV & Film:
3.) Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie in Escape from New York
He provided lightened a dark plot, created a sense of levity in the dangerous good guy on the inside, and generally classed-up the flick.
2.) Kristian Nairn as Hodor in Game of Thrones
Hodor proves a character does not need words if his actions have great impact.
1.) Pauly Perrette as Abby in NCIS
Abby is fun and wacky in a 'can't guess what she'll do or say next' way that provides a highly interesting side-point to the episodes.
My Books:
3.) Eris Alcmedi
Eris crouched over her artist and smacked Lance’s cheek with increasing force. Lance looked like he’d barely graduated high school. “Shake it off, bitch boy.” His eyelids fluttered. “There you go, show me those baby blues.” He moaned, then blinked and focused on her. “How many fingers am I holding up?” she asked as she flipped him off.
2.) Xerxadrea Veilleux
She
stamped her staff on the dais floor; it cracked like thunder and the orb atop
it began to glow with a white light. “Why have you come?”
“It
is my right to attend.” Menessos stopped perhaps ten feet from our contestant
line. “Do you yet begrudge me the past, Eldrenne? Will your bitterness never cease?”
They had history between
them. Curious.
“You
give me no cause for anything but bitterness, Menessos.” She spat his name.
“What
benefit could I seek in aggravating the wounds of decades past, Eldrenne?”
“Your
motives are ever your own. To guess at them is to relinquish myself to thoughts
just as depraved and selfish. I will not sully myself to venture there.”
“Your
words sting me, Xerxadrea.”
The
other Elders gasped in unison; he’d addressed her by name. WEC had only a
handful of Eldrennes and once they became Eldrenne, that
was their name in public.
“Good,”
she replied. “It may not be the stabbing vehement agony you deserve, but a
sting implies pain and if I have hurt you even a little, then I will relish
it.”
Menessos
took three steps forward, hand out, palms open in a show of nonaggression. “If
my pain pleases you, Xerxadrea, if you delight in hearing of it, then come down
from your dais, witch. Come down and make me bleed of your own hand, that you
may be happy once more.”
Before
I could even turn back to her, the Eldrenne glided past me to accept his offer. 1.) Demeter Alcmedi / Nana
Demeter stood before him with all the ferocity of a lioness in her eyes. “My granddaughter has been nearly killed how many times since she got involved with you and that vampire?”
Johnny’s chin dropped shamefully.
“Right now she’s stuck in a meditation downstairs. You”—she poked him in the chest—“were here. I bet she saw Menessos tonight, too. He resides an hour away.”
She shuffled a step forward. Johnny eased a step back.
“He is accustomed to the night, and more than normal stress.” She gained another few inches on him, and Johnny retreated again. “He can use magic. He could probably have fixed this . . . but you called me. I had to get my ass out of bed in the middle of the night and come home to fix this.”
Johnny could say nothing. She was right.
Demeter put her hands on her hips. “Hate him if you have to, Johnny. Hate him because he wants her and you feel threatened by that. But trust him, damn it. You three have to trust each other if any of you hope to survive this.”
