#Practical Severard

[epsilonics]

realized while reading sharp ends that severard is in his twenties during the first law trilogy... he should have been at the club...

[gamgamchew]

[xserpx]

I wonder if it's a remnant of Glokta's past life that stops him from seeing through Severard & Frost's deceptions. On one hand, they are also very skilled liars, but OTOH I feel like Glokta's arrogance in his own ability to sense bullshit means he doesn't believe that the people closest to him would be able to pull the wool over his eyes. It's ironic that Glokta detests Sult but doesn't extend that understanding of envy/mistrust/frustration/selfishness to his own underlings. Loyalty never pays*.

“Who saw the confession?” “Me, and my two Practicals, of course.” “You have absolute confidence in them?” “Absolute.”

Discussing Frost and Severard with Sult ...

“It was the least we could do,” said Severard, folding his arms and leaning against the wall next to the bleeding body of Juvens. “We did well from your friend Rews, very well. You’ve always seen us right, and we don’t forget that.” “Unhhh,” said Frost, nodding his head.

Those scenes hit differently when you know what Sult knows – that at this point Frost is probably already spying on Glokta for the Arch Lector. And Severard does the same for Valint and Balk …

One has to wonder where Glokta's trust is coming from. Frost and Severard are paid torturers, not old friends.

[thatfoxnamedfinley]

*folds hands on top of table* So...I started reading The First Law Trilogy.

I’m bout 175 pages in and I have many profound thoughts

I want to post cause I read D E A T H L Y slow and it takes me a long time to push through a book, so 175 pages in is quite an accomplishment for me (it’s taken me a week to read this far if that says anything)

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, IF YOU KNOW THEN YOU KNOW LETS GOOO

1.) To absolutely no one’s surprise my favorite character is Logen “Bloody Nine” Ninefingers. That’s easily the best POV for me so far. My mans is just *waves hand around* COMPLEX. After being introduced to him I just automatically placed him into a box of the archetype I thought he fit into. However, he’s full of surprises, as Bayaz says. You expect him to be one way (especially after you are introduced to his former crew and you see how some of them act/think), and he’s just not. You have to be realistic about these things. But I DO feel like his character is building towards him doing something HORRIBLE at the end of this book. Everyone he encounters is like O ShIt LoGEN is A BaD MAN HEs a RABiDd DOG hE hAs KILLEd MoERE PeopPLE THAN THE PLAGuE and he’s literally a sweet puppy so I’m waiting for shit to hit the fan when we REALLY see what he is capable of.

2.) Other favs are Bethod (I WANT THAT BACKSTORY HE HAS WITH LOGEN SO BAD. WTF HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM THAT BETHOD SHOWED LOGEN MERCY?????), Bayaz (he is an old sassy mage and he cracks me tf up), Quai (soft boi who can’t remember his studies at all), and, oddly, Practical Severard. Sand dan Glokta is a cool character and I do enjoy that POV as well (because I know all these storylines are building to something and Glokta is doing a lot of behind the scenes shit right now politically), but I like Severard. If he dies off screen I’ll be surprised. I like the little bits we’ve gotten about him. I like Dogman too even though we haven’t gotten a lot of him either (I quite enjoyed the little chapter with Logen’s old crew, Dogman seems to be the most loyal).

3.) Least fav right now is Jezal. BUT TO BE FAIR TO HIM I think he’s being written that way on purpose so we root for him later once he undergoes character development. I just got to the part where Ardee tells him off for being a spoiled brat with a silverspoon and she makes him feel so embarrassed (LOL) that he finally decides to dedicate himself to win the Contest.  So we’ll see how his story goes. 

4.) What I find the most fascinating is I’m still not even sure WTF is going on. Like...if you asked me what the plot was so far and where the story is going...I don’t think I could tell you. We’re just following characters around while things are set in motion. The North aka Bethod wants Angland. Logen can communicate with spirits and that’s rare. His crew thinks he’s dead. Glokta is limping around killing people in a dungeon for Arch Lector Sult and torturing assassins. Jezal literally sucks at fencing despite getting roasted every day. 

But the characters are so engaging and despite not knowing where tf the story is headed, I find myself really enjoying it and wanting to continue reading. Joe Abercrombie’s prose is excellent.

[chloristoflora]

They were snapped shut just in time. Shickel suddenly came alive, began thrashing on the floor. She snarled up at Glokta, straining at the chains. Her nose had already snapped back into place, the cut across her face had already closed. As though she was never hurt at all. So Yulwei spoke the truth. The chains rattled as she lunged forward with her teeth, and Glokta had to stumble back out of the way.

'It's persistent,' muttered Vitari, shoving her back against the wall with her boot. 'You'd have to give it that.'

'Fools!' hissed Shickel. 'You cannot resist what comes! God's right hand is falling upon this city, and nothing can save it! All your deaths are already written!' A particularly bright detonation flared across the sky, casting orange light onto the Practicals' masked faces. A moment later the thunder of it echoed around the room. Shickel began to laugh, a crazy, grating cackle. 'The Hundred Words are coming! No chains can bind them, no gates can keep them out! They are coming!'

'Perhaps.' Glokta shrugged. 'But they will come too late for you.'

'I am dead already! My body is nothing but dust! It belongs to the Prophet! Try as you might, you will learn nothing from me!'

Glokta smiled. He could almost feel the warmth of the flames, far below, on his face.

'That sounds like a challenge.'

Before They Are Hanged, by Joe Abercombie (The First Law #2)

[nocontextfirstlawtrilogy]

“‘Excellent,’ said Gokta brightly. ‘Excellent,’ said Severard. ‘Etherer,’ said Practical Frost.”

— The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie

[random-jot]

Practical Frost and Practical Severard were ahead of their time in many ways #WearAMask

[kaphkas]

A family isn’t always a man, a woman, and their two kids. Sometimes a family is a crippled inquisitor, his idiot crossbow son, his traitorous albino son, and his angry butch daughter. 

[walksdowonders]

I was tagged by @lookslikeaquentinblakedrawing Thankies (:

Rules: name ten favorite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people.

Buick 8 Roadmaster (From a Buick 8)

Bill Tench (Mindhunter)

Patrick Sumner (The North Water)

Cassidy (Preacher)

Practical Severard (The First Law)

Hal Hauk (The Iron Druid Chronicles)

The Dude (The Big Lebowski)

B (Un día perfecto)

Nigel Tufnel (This Is Spinal Trap)

Crowley (Good Omens)

If you’d like to do it - @dysphorie-dot-png @wheresyoursavior @gasmaskbunny @cmft-jr-winchester @unafragola @tennant @thatrandomchild @thejesterjr @lonecrone @hip-hoppin-hobbits

[nothingwrongwiththerain]

Tagged by the most wonderfulerous @inayrus 

Rules: answer the questions and tag 20 any followers you’d like to get to know better 

Name: lets stick with Rain, shall we ?

Nickname: …..rain 

Zodiac Sign: gemini/cancer 

Hogwarts house: huffle that puff. Except when it suits me to slytherin bc legality is flexible for the chaotic neutral. 

Height: 5 foot 9 inches and a HALF 

Sexual Orientation: a very Asexual, Biromantic polyamorous individual right here behind the screen 

Ethnicity: ‘merica white gurl (sorry ab our 45th and final president) 

Favorite fruit: Raspberries 

Favorite season: FALL. sweater weather bitches. 

Favorite book series: Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud 

Favorite fictional character: I want to say something deep and interesting, but if you’ve ever read The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie and you can remember Practical Severard ? that kind of asshole. That kind of minor character blindly following orders who smiles while creating a trail of bodies and secretly likes his pets and gets killed for no good reason. You know the type. 

Favorite Scent: this by no means counts as fave-fave, but if you want a weird one, bin juice has a special place in my heart after working all summer with HOT TRASH at a Disney World 

Favorite color: this is pretentious af, but the deep dark blue of almost night sky before you can see stars 

Favorite animal: tigers are cool, but if I could ride a cockroach the size of Hummer into battle I would die happy 

Favorite band/artists: mmmmm I tend to listen to one song on repeat for hours? Sad Machine was covered on piano by a friend of mine and I’ve listened to that OVER AND OVER cause how fucking good. 

Coffee, Tea, or Hot chocolate: COFFEE. Preferably mocha! altho I had a chai hot chocolate once that haunts me 

Average hours of sleep: 6-7 hours, if sleep decides it wants to play nice 

Number of blankets: many. 

Dream trip: kidnap my qp’s and my far away friends and take ALL of them to Disney World <3 Watch the firework and hope nobody makes fun of me when I cry ab how magical it is. 

Last thing I googled: “doona cover” bc I couldn’t think of the word for duvet. Thank u the last 7 months in Australia for running my brain. 

How many blogs I follow: 259 

Number of followers: 175 

What I usually post about: Voooooooltron. Anything gay enough. Memes. Things that sparkle. Nerdy shit. idk. 

Do I get asks regularly: uhhhhhhh whats that again? 

I’m tagging:

@hashbrowncatsandketchup, @hotarubi-e, @fragriani, @newandold, @raphodraws, @transvaxildan

if any of y’all in the mood <3333

[currentobsession-lala]

This blog is called “currentobsession” for a reason :)

[cparrisart]

I'm really getting into the First Law Trilogy, so I decided to try and capture how I imagine some of the characters! I'm fully aware that my imagination is completely far-fetched and everybody should look about 10x uglier and grubbier than this. :P (I know that, logically, Black Dow should have a beard. Even so, I imagine him without one... oops.)

This was especially difficult because I have extremely specific visions of what some of these characters look like, and capturing exactly what's in your brain is impossible, dammit! So I referenced actors to help me along. In the end I don't think any of them are recognizable though, haha.

[sir-heartsalot-blog]

The First Law trilogy - Joe Abercrombie

[littlelovenest]

I want to read a "The Adventures of Practical Severard and Dolorous Edd" book!!!

[konmatfl]

“Who saw the confession?” “Me, and my two Practicals, of course.” “You have absolute confidence in them?” “Absolute.”

Discussing Frost and Severard with Sult ...

“It was the least we could do,” said Severard, folding his arms and leaning against the wall next to the bleeding body of Juvens. “We did well from your friend Rews, very well. You’ve always seen us right, and we don’t forget that.” “Unhhh,” said Frost, nodding his head.

Those scenes hit differently when you know what Sult knows – that at this point Frost is probably already spying on Glokta for the Arch Lector. And Severard does the same for Valint and Balk …

One has to wonder where Glokta's trust is coming from. Frost and Severard are paid torturers, not old friends.