Your question for the day

[kate_nepveu]

Are Trent the Uncatchable and Vash the Stampede cross-cultural manifestations of the same archetype—goofy-seeming pacifists who do improbable things and around whom improbable things happen? If so, what other manifestations are there?

Comments

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

I always lump Trent in with Miles Vorkosigan. They both look at seemingly hopeless situations in a sideways manner and come up with unimaginable solutions to them.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Althought Miles does fail the "pacifist" portion of the requirement.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That was why I wasn't counting Harry Dresden, either, though he does share the "The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault" nature.

[kate_nepveu]

"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault"

Nice--his phrase or yours?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

His: it's the first line of Blood Rites.

[kate_nepveu]

Alas, yes.

(Improvisional intelligence is a characteristic of both, but it's not that uncommon in fiction, really.)