#collem west

[gamgamchew]

[blacksummerfes]

farewell my friend

[xserpx]

‘Colonel Glokta, I swear! We could do with some of that dash here, eh, West? Some of that vim! That vigour! Shame that he’s dead.’

West looked up. ‘He isn’t dead, your Highness.’

‘He isn’t?’

‘He was captured by the Gurkish, and then returned to the Union when the war ended. He . . . er . . . he joined the Inquisition.’

‘The Inquisition?’ The Prince looked horrified. ‘Why on earth would a man give up the soldiering life for that?’

West groped for words, but then thought better of it. ‘I cannot imagine, your Highness.’

— Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

Prince Ladisla waved his hand. ‘Of course, a great deal to do. You can tell me more of your stories tomorrow, eh, West? About Colonel Glokta and so forth. Damn shame he’s dead!’

[firstlawincorrectquotes]

West: Look. I know from the outside it looks like I have everything together—

Cathil: No, not really.

[xillionreblogs]

Ask Chat GPT to write a West/Glokta romantic thriller because I’m a person with questionable morality. Turns out the AI recognizes TFL to begin with, which surprised me, but Terez is now West’s fiancé and poor AI literally paused twenty seconds at “Collem, in turn, is drawn to Glokta’s…” before finally coming up with why the hell West will fall in love with Glokta lmao.

[xserpx]

I feel about West the way Jappo feels about women: 'Nyeh. Mixed feelings.' The Cathil subplot is the worst part of the trilogy, and the fact his anger never actually impacts his life in a major way is a waste of potential. I think West is kind of a thematic jack of all trades master of none: he's a man pulling himself up by his bootstraps, he's a domestic abusing misogynist, he's the only man with any sense around here, he's the sacrificial lamb, he's remembered as a hero but doesn't deserve to be. Personally I find his class status, domestic abuse, and the way he's remembered are the most interesting things about him (Nobody's Dog in TBI is his best chapter by a country mile) but the trilogy is much more interested in him just being the guy with more sense and him being the sacrificial lamb. He starts really strong but it's all downhill from there. I guess what I'm mostly saying is that the more people like West, the worse he is as a character, because the most interesting aspects of him require a certain level of hatred, but those other aspects cause him to be likeable, reducing the overall impact. I can't help thinking that if West was in the Heroes, which delves more into toxic masculinity, he would have been given far more depth and become much more morally complicated in the mind of the readers than he is. As it stands, he's just too well-liked to be interesting. I do consider myself a West fan overall, because like an optical illusion if I turn my head slightly, I see that different picture, and it's still good. But I much prefer the other one.

If you asked me how I felt about Colm West I think I’d say that I think he’s a fantastic subversion of the noble soldier archetype and carries an extra weight when he’s compared to all of the more visibly horrible people around him, making him one of the most interesting POVs in the original trilogy.

If you asked me again I’d say that there is no experience in this or any world that could make me as happy as the feeling of my knuckles cracking his chin.

[nocontextfirstlawtrilogy]

‘We must work together. This is not a competition, gentlemen.’ The two generals immediately competed with each other to be the one to agree most.

— Last Argument Of Kings, Joe Abercrombie

[xillionart]

Spring comes to Adua

(aka an abandoned illustration for this series that I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST UNTIL NOW)

[blacksummerfes]

headcanon

Glokta West and Ganmark playing strip poker

[felagund-fiollaigean]

The Dogman sometimes goes by his full name (The Dogman) and sometimes just his last name (Dogman) but never just his first name (The)

I think it's really interesting that glokta and west go by their surnames in their pov chapters, but logen and jezal and ferro by their first names. I think it may be because glokta and west are both very career-driven (for various reasons) so think of themselves in a more detached, professional capacity, whereas logen is actively trying to distance himself from the bloody nine/fingers persona and jezal is ... well, jezal. for ferro, her name is almost all she has. I'm not sure why exactly she would prefer ferro over maljin but maybe I'll figure that out in LAoK

[chloristoflora]

Collem West... He seemed a normal guy, a good guy, and then he did that to Ardee. His own sister. He strangled her. Just like their father abused her. I hate major West now.

I mean, everyone in this book has a dark side. But I like the dark sides of people like Glokta and Logen, because they don't pretend to be good. While West has a false façade of fairness around him...

[firstlawincorrectquotes]

West: I sort of did something and I need some advice, but I don't want a lot of judgment and criticism. 

Glokta: And you came to me?

[i-8-ur-soul]

[random-jot]

First Law AU where West stuck with the bois and became an honorary Northman, going by ‘Furious’

[skyofdarkmatter42]

But can we please talk about the satisfaction of a side character you kind of randomly fell in love with growing to get a bigger part in the story and the euphoria of "YES I LIKED THEM BACK WHEN OTHER PEOPLE FORGOT THEY EVEN EXISTED" (not in a I'm better than others way, just in a way of: yes, this is MY child, look at them go and become a bigger part of the narrative)

[felagund-fiollaigean]

Collem and Ardee West my very most beloved 😘😘😘