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back to battleschool, 1/?: Krisma
Jan. 14th, 2019 06:29 pmSo, Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card aside, I love this universe; it's a nexus of several of my childhood favorite genres: aliens. kids save the world. not feeling like you fit in. the idea of a higher purpose or cause to support. leadership psychology. I've never really left Ender and Bean behind. So, now I stick them onto all sorts of other stories, as well. As I martial my notes during this latest reread, I'm reposting/archiving a small pile of lines I drew between Ender and Steve Rogers back in 2016:
“That’s how you got to be friends? He protector of the little guys?” […]
"And [Bean] found out something interesting. Despite Wiggin’s altruism, despite his willingness to sacrifice, not one of his friends ever said that Wiggin came and talked over his problems. They all went to Wiggin, but who did Wiggin go to?"
or, gary stus and krisma:
“That’s how you got to be friends? He protector of the little guys?” […]
“Little guys?” said Shen. “He was the smallest in our launch group. Not like you, but way small. Younger, see.”
“He was youngest, but he became your protector?”
“No. Not like that. No, he kept it from going on, that’s all. He went to the group - it was Bernard, he was getting together the biggest guys, the tough guys -”
“The bullies.”
“Yeah, I guess. Only Ender, he goes to Bernard’s number one, his best friend. Alai. He gets Alai to be his friend, too.”
“So he stole away Bernard’s support?”
“No, man. No, it’s not like that. He made friends with Alai, and then got Alai to help him make friends with Bernard. […] I think, really, Bernard never forgave him, but he saw how things were.”
“How were things?”
“Ender’s good, man. You just - he doesn’t hate anybody. If you’re a good person, you’re going to like him. You want him to like you. If he likes you, then you’re OK, see? But if you’re scum, he just makes you mad. Just knowing he exists, see? So Ender, he tries to wake up the good part of you.”
“How do you wake up ‘good parts’?”
“I don’t know, man. You think I know? It just … you know Ender long enough, he just makes you want him to be proud of you. […] He’s just … he makes you want to … I’d die for him. That sounds like hero talk, neh? But it’s true. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him.”
“You’d fight for him.”
Shen got it at once. “That’s right. He’s a born commander.”
“Alai fight for him too?”
“A lot of us.”
(Ender’s Shadow, pgs 197-199)
"And [Bean] found out something interesting. Despite Wiggin’s altruism, despite his willingness to sacrifice, not one of his friends ever said that Wiggin came and talked over his problems. They all went to Wiggin, but who did Wiggin go to?"
(Ender’s Shadow, pgs 200-201)
“The best thing about Cap is he’s such a sympathetic character. He struggles so much [and] he doesn’t bleed on people.”
(Chris Evans for BuzzFeed News)
