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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Created on 2007-10-21 04:42:53 (#14076908), last updated 2008-02-28
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Basic Info| Name: | Commander Samuel Vimes |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 05-25 |
Bio[character name]: His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes (But "Commander Vimes" to most)
[series]: Discworld (The Night Watch series)
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[messenger]: Ainsleelover [Aim]
[e-mail]: arh11@geneseo.edu
Guards! Guards!
If there was anything that depressed [Vimes] more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving -- anything with meat on it would have done.
Men at Arms
Vimes smiled. Someone was trying to kill him, and that made him feel more alive than he had done for days.
And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Vimes wasn't exactly an atheist, because atheism was a non-survival trait on a world with several thousand gods. He just didn't like any of them very much...
Despite his deep distrust of magic, Vimes quite liked the wizards. They didn't cause trouble. At least, they didn't cause his kind of trouble. True, occasionally they fractured the time/space continuum or took the canoe of reality too close to the white waters of chaos, but they never broke the actual law.
Jingo
Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.
It wasn't just the pursuit that was so invigorating, with his velvet cloak left behind on a tree and his hat in a puddle somewhere, it was the knowledge that while he was doing this he wasn't eating very small sandwiches and making even smaller talk. It wasn't proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren't doing.
What a thing it is to have a copper's mind, Vimes thought... just because someone makes himself pleasant and likeable you start to be suspicious of him, for no other reason than the fact that anyone who goes out of their way to be nice to a copper has got something on their mind.
Night Watch
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
'Are we taking the law into our own hands again, sarge?' said Colon.
Vimes stared at the entrance to Cable Street, and was aware of the weight of the cigar case in his pocket.
'Yes, Fred,' he said. 'Only this time we're going to squeeze.'
Thud!
"Sam Vimes once arrested me for treason," said Vetinari calmly. "And Sam Vimes once arrested a dragon. Sam Vimes stopped a war between nations by arresting two high commands. He's an arresting fellow, Sam Vimes."
"What kind of human creates his own policeman?"
"One who fears the dark."
"And so he should," said the entity, with satisfaction.
"Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. I'm here to keep it in."
[series]: Discworld (The Night Watch series)
[player eljay]:
ally_rinally[messenger]: Ainsleelover [Aim]
[e-mail]: arh11@geneseo.edu
Guards! Guards!
If there was anything that depressed [Vimes] more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving -- anything with meat on it would have done.
Men at Arms
Vimes smiled. Someone was trying to kill him, and that made him feel more alive than he had done for days.
And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Vimes wasn't exactly an atheist, because atheism was a non-survival trait on a world with several thousand gods. He just didn't like any of them very much...
Despite his deep distrust of magic, Vimes quite liked the wizards. They didn't cause trouble. At least, they didn't cause his kind of trouble. True, occasionally they fractured the time/space continuum or took the canoe of reality too close to the white waters of chaos, but they never broke the actual law.
Jingo
Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.
It wasn't just the pursuit that was so invigorating, with his velvet cloak left behind on a tree and his hat in a puddle somewhere, it was the knowledge that while he was doing this he wasn't eating very small sandwiches and making even smaller talk. It wasn't proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren't doing.
What a thing it is to have a copper's mind, Vimes thought... just because someone makes himself pleasant and likeable you start to be suspicious of him, for no other reason than the fact that anyone who goes out of their way to be nice to a copper has got something on their mind.
Night Watch
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
'Are we taking the law into our own hands again, sarge?' said Colon.
Vimes stared at the entrance to Cable Street, and was aware of the weight of the cigar case in his pocket.
'Yes, Fred,' he said. 'Only this time we're going to squeeze.'
Thud!
"Sam Vimes once arrested me for treason," said Vetinari calmly. "And Sam Vimes once arrested a dragon. Sam Vimes stopped a war between nations by arresting two high commands. He's an arresting fellow, Sam Vimes."
"What kind of human creates his own policeman?"
"One who fears the dark."
"And so he should," said the entity, with satisfaction.
"Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. I'm here to keep it in."
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