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2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lurkerwithout gave me the letter "K".
1. Shin Kazama (
Area 88) and Shin Kudo (
Macross Zero). Is the latter partial tribute to the former? Could be. They both have similar backgrounds, identical professions, and fight for causes that initially weren't their choice but turn out to be the right ones. And they both wind up paying very high prices for victory.
2. Katerina Soyuz [the elder] and Katerina Soyuz [the younger] (
Families of Altered Wars). Of course, explaining Ted Nomura's universe would take far too long for LJ's comfort. The elder Katerina is one of the central characters of
Luftwaffe 1946; she's the Soviet twin sister of the German Dora Oberlicht...fate forces the two to be combat archrivals, but then they meet at war's end and there is a measure of reconciliation. The younger one is more enigmatic and a relative minor character in
Tigers of Terra. Is the younger Katerina a clone of the elder? Only Ted knows...and he hasn't told me.
3) Kou Uraki (
Mobile Suit Gundam: 0083 Stardust Memory). I guess I consider Kou to be the most sympathetic of the
Gundam-pilot heroes. He isn't a superpowered Newtype. He isn't a wisecracking kid or a cold-blooded assassin. He's a soldier with just enough drive and ability and luck to put him in the Gundam's cockpit--and good enough to survive--but still is about as prone to getting his butt kicked as anybody. Which is why we root for him when he kicks some Zeon butt of his own.
4) Karin Kikuhara (
Stratos4). I have all the Bandai English-language DVDs of this series and it isn't enough, because there's more episodes out there. Karin is a strange girl. So strange that it's endearing. How strange is she? Rumors are, she's from another star system...and she acts in such a way that it seems plausible. And strange things happen to her as well...and to say anything more would spoil too much.
5) Kevin Usher (the
Honor Harrington series). When we first meet Kevin, he's a hired assassin, who kills off a major official in the People's Republic of Haven. That event and others spur the Haven/Manticore war that dominates the series. By the end of
Ashes of Victory, he's at the top of the totem pole in Haven--Director of the Federal Investigation Agency and right-hand man for head-of-state Eloise Pritchart. And the commander and good buddy of a man I would never want to meet in a million years, Victor Cachat. Kevin himself is that kind of man that you are never actually sure if he's a hero or a villain, because he's played both roles.
