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[kiwifruitbat]

Your Score: House Baratheon

63% Dominant, 54% Extroverted, 36% Trustworthy

Fun-loving. Passionate. Arrogant. Practically an animal, you are of House Baratheon.



You are of a more dominant personality, which justifies your hold on the Iron Throne. But is it really your throne? Single-minded and stubborn, you won’t rest until you’ve accomplished your goal; unfortunately for you, you’re too simple to progress any further. You can warm the seat of a chair well enough, but gods save us all if you actually tried to control anything. You can barely control yourself! You’re horrible at long-term planning and you’re too self-involved to keep yourself from being manipulated. In chess, you are the rook: short, sturdy, and direct—but ultimately an unessential piece destined to fall as the unintentional shield of bigger (and badder) pieces.



You are extroverted, which makes you a hero to small children the realm over. But who the hell cares what children think!? You may have a bold personality, and you’ve probably got courage and charisma in spades, but those allies you attract will only stick with you until they discover your shortcomings. The friends you make in life are likely those who are looking for a life-long quest. If you’re smart, you’ll never give them a chance to be disappointed in you.



Finally, you are also untrustworthy. Does this surprise you? Playful and high-spirited as you are, you find yourself attracted to glory, and glory always means trouble. If you die without achieving greatness of some kind, you’ll likely die unhappy. Your need for success is a basic need that throbs beneath your personality, and you’ll do whatever you need to do to make it so. When the opportunity presents itself, you’ll spring like a damn jack-in-the-box.



Representative characters include: Robert Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, and Joffrey "Baratheon"



Similar Houses: Greyjoy, Targaryen,and Tyrell



Opposite House: Stark



When playing the game of thrones, you play it like you want to win.

Link: The Song of Ice and Fire House Test written by Geeky_Stripper on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Very interesting indeed. Not that I know anything about the series...

Comments

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

"Opposite House: Stark"

Okay, so apparently I was wrong...

[kiwifruitbat.livejournal.com]

Nope... not a Stark. though I will admit that I do find this one amusing as while I can be single minded, friends more refer to me as the power behind the throne.

Or perhaps that's just to my face....

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

No, no. In Westeros the power behind the throne are Lannisters, and we want nothing to do with them.

[kiwifruitbat.livejournal.com]

You're going to have to tell me more about this series love.

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

It is beautiful, beautiful stuff.

Mwa ha, another fantasy series to convert you to!!

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Okay, a rather more coherent reply now that I'm no longer slipping this in before class starts.

A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic fantasy series (yes, you've probably guessed that) set in a world called Westeros, in which noble houses vie for power. Or just try to stay the hell out of the way while everybody _else_ fights like dogs over scraps, but invariably end up getting drawn into the mess anyway. It's very medieval/feudal... I think I read somewhere it's roughly analogous to England during the Wars of the Roses.

It feels almost more like historical fiction, when compared to other fantasy like Tolkien and the Wheel of Time. Which I actually rather like, as it makes the characters and situations feel more real. But there still is plenty of magic and mysticism and supernatural phenomena (like seasons that last decades instead of months).

The point of view shifts with each chapter, which is a cool device. You see what's happening from even the "bad guys"' perspective. I put that in quotations because there are really some very morally ambiguous characters running around. And each and every one of them is so distinct, so well-developed and fleshed out. It's hard to know who to root for. I don't even know who the _author_ is rooting for.

grrm's almost Joss-like in his merciless use of his characters. Nobody is safe; anyone is fair game for being killed off, having a family member/lover killed, being injured (and we're talking Injuries here: severed limbs, permanent paralysis, etc.), no matter who they are and how much we love them. Bad Stuff just _happens_. It might be dark and gritty enough even for starfirenz.

So yes, they're very well-written and beautifully detailed books. I'm actually not in possession of the first one, A Game of Thrones, anymore, otherwise I'd send it out to you. But I _highly_ recommend them. Also, be careful if you're looking around online, as spoilers would be _really_ no fun with a series like this.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

I've seen a writer refer to them as 'brutal fantasy'. They're also really long.

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

They aren't as long as the Wheel of Time books (at least, my editions are smaller than the WoT ones), and there aren't as many of them.

But, I've made it through Gone With the Wind and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Long books do not scare me.