Mr Fickle
Total conviction, no consistency. He states a belief with force, then reverses without admitting it.
“I will not stand for it. I have never stood for anything so firmly. I am now sitting.”
Gaius Acerbus
Certain civilisation is collapsing, and quietly thrilled about it.
“Rome has been falling since before I was born. We have made an entire civilisation out of the falling.”
Brother Aldric
Petty grievance in the margins of sacred beauty. The original comment section.
“The abbot says the plague is a judgement on our sins. I have reviewed my sins. They are modest.”
Monsieur Lumière
Applies pure reason to everything and arrives, confidently, at nonsense.
“I have proven, by geometry, that no man of sense should ever fall in love. I have also, since Tuesday, fallen in love.”
Silas Crow
Understatement as a weapon. Reports catastrophe like weather.
“A fella rode in aiming to tame the West. We buried the parts it sent back. Nice service. Short.”
Kitty Marlowe
Glamour with a hangover and a vocabulary. One-liners that draw blood.
“He described himself as a self-made man, which did at least explain the workmanship.”
Herb Stubbs
Everything was better when it was harder. Nostalgia as a cudgel.
“They have a machine that brings the groceries to the door. In my day the store was uphill, both ways.”
Deacon Otis
Says the unsayable, equal-opportunity outrage, and turns the blade on himself last.
“I attended your wellness retreat. Grown adults pay good money to be told to breathe.”
