Suhuy
Adapted from Erick Wujcik
A wily-looking little man, with a sharp nose and a laughing mouth and a shock of straw-coloured hair. He was dressed in something like a Renaissance costume or orange, red and brown. He wore long hose and a tight-fitting embroidered doublet. And I knew him. His name was Random.
Nine Princes In Amber
It's hard to talk about one without the other. Random would not have become King without Vialle, that blind maiden who he was forced to marry. He would probably not have found the greatness inside himself until he found her love. She brought out a fierce gentleness in Random, drawn out of the hurt of his inner self.
Think about Random's upbringing. His older brothers were these guys, Benedict, Bleys, the whole lot of angry shouting gods. How would you like to be little brother to these guys? Worse, what would it be like to be the shortest among them?
Random ended up with something of an attitude problem.
It got him in big trouble, that attitude.
In Rebma, he pushed a little too far. Ran off with Morganthe the Princess Royal. But couldn't, or wouldn't keep her. She ended up pregnant, and, after baby [Martin] was born, Morganthe committed suicide.
His escape was out into Shadow, to hang-gliders, late-night jazz clubs (he's got a second career as a drummer), later-night high-stakes poker, and good-looking women. As Random says, not necessarily in that order.
But when push came to shove, when he was called upon to be great, to love a woman, to risk his life for a friend, to trust a brother (perhaps hardest of all for an Amberite), Random rose to the occasion.
So, here is Random. Not the best in anything in particular; no rival for his brothers in guile, or power, or the intricacies of politics, random became King because ... because he is a better man.
Random is the eldest child of Paulette, Oberon's seventh wife. There were two younger brothers, who died separately on the Pattern.
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Tuesday, August 19, 1997 Suhuy |
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