198
edits
Lailoken: Difference between revisions
From Jenny Everywhere Wiki
no edit summary
No edit summary Tag: visualeditor-wikitext |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Character | {{Character | ||
|title1= | |title1= Lailoken | ||
|image1= | |image1= | ||
|caption1= | |caption1= | ||
|aka= The Drag Wizard | |aka= Glendaf<br>The Drag Wizard<br>Professor Lailoken | ||
|born= | |born= | ||
|died= | |died= | ||
|species= | |species= [[Abstract]] | ||
|gender= Male | |gender= Male | ||
|residence= Variable | |residence= Variable | ||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
|children= | |children= | ||
|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | ||
|copyright= | |copyright= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Extradimensional Experiments (short story)|Extradimensional Experiments]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
|index= | |index= | ||
}}'''Glendalf''', | }}'''Lailoken''' was the [[Abstract]] of Knowledge, who often appeared in the guise of '''Glendalf''', alias '''the Drag Wizard''', a flamboyantly queer wizard and adventurer. In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] went on an adventure with him and a group of [[Orc]]s after falling afoul of a “reality accident” in a dimensionally-unstable [[library]]. Upon meeting him there, memories flooded to her of numerous previous adventures she had shared with him prior to the collapse of the [[Multiverse]] that had given birth to the Collapsed Cosmos. | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
| Line 41: | Line 41: | ||
=== Early life === | === Early life === | ||
Glendalf once dated another wizard, the headmaster [[Mumblecore]], but they broke up due to Mumblecore choosing the path of assimilationism while Glendalf preferred to remain an eccentric outcast. Glendalf was “condemned and then rehabilitated by successive waves of queer discourse, blissfully oblivious to all of it, keeping to himself and smoking various substances in his pipe”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | Glendalf once dated another wizard, the headmaster [[Mumblecore]], but they broke up due to Mumblecore choosing the path of assimilationism while Glendalf preferred to remain an eccentric outcast. Glendalf was “condemned and then rehabilitated by successive waves of queer discourse, blissfully oblivious to all of it, keeping to himself and smoking various substances in his pipe”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
=== Adventures with Jenny === | === Adventures with Jenny === | ||
In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], upon meeting Glendalf, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|the “collapsed” Jenny]] remembered him as a “veteran partner in adventuring” of hers. They reminisced about a number of adventures they'd shared in the good old days, including “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[Magician from Mars|the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[Overvoid]]”. Given the nature of the Collapsed Cosmos, was somewhat unclear if all of these memories featured the same incarnation of Jenny, or indeed the same version of Glendalf, but Glendalf was at any rate familiar with the existence of other incarnations of Jenny, including several who were wizards themselves. | In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], upon meeting Glendalf, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|the “collapsed” Jenny]] remembered him as a “veteran partner in adventuring” of hers. They reminisced about a number of adventures they'd shared in the good old days, including “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[Magician from Mars|the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[Overvoid]]”. Given the nature of the Collapsed Cosmos, was somewhat unclear if all of these memories featured the same incarnation of Jenny, or indeed the same version of Glendalf, but Glendalf was at any rate familiar with the existence of other incarnations of Jenny, including several who were wizards themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
=== With the League of Liberation === | === With the League of Liberation === | ||
At some point, in what may or may not have been the same continuity as the above adventures, Glendalf was part of the [[League of Liberation]] in the 1960s, together with Jenny, Octobriana, the Magician from Mars, [[Ace Harlem]], [[Butterfly]], [[Trashman]] and [[Madam Fatal]]. The League was part of a wider secret organisation known as the [[Sixth International]] and opposed the [[Sixth Column]], a villainous cult worshipping [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. Glendalf found Trashman in particular to be frustrating to work with because he was “desperately heterosexual” despite dressing in large amounts of leather. Like Jenny and Octobriana, howevr, Glendalf was very affected by Trashman's eventual tragic death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | At some point, in what may or may not have been the same continuity as the above adventures, Glendalf was part of the [[League of Liberation]] in the 1960s, together with Jenny, Octobriana, the Magician from Mars, [[Ace Harlem]], [[Butterfly]], [[Trashman]] and [[Madam Fatal]]. The League was part of a wider secret organisation known as the [[Sixth International]] and opposed the [[Sixth Column]], a villainous cult worshipping [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. Glendalf found Trashman in particular to be frustrating to work with because he was “desperately heterosexual” despite dressing in large amounts of leather. Like Jenny and Octobriana, howevr, Glendalf was very affected by Trashman's eventual tragic death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
| Line 58: | Line 60: | ||
They emerged in a [[Limbo realm]] where they found an abandoned but fully-stocked cabin; there, they elected to hunker down and recuperate. Octobriana enjoyed a good night's sleep and, in the morning, after Jenny helped soothe bother her, Glendalf's, and Octobriana's heartaches by playing her [[theriamen]], Glendalf slunk away to give the two some privacy as they caught up, with the excuse that he was going to do some further scouting of the Limbo dimension. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | They emerged in a [[Limbo realm]] where they found an abandoned but fully-stocked cabin; there, they elected to hunker down and recuperate. Octobriana enjoyed a good night's sleep and, in the morning, after Jenny helped soothe bother her, Glendalf's, and Octobriana's heartaches by playing her [[theriamen]], Glendalf slunk away to give the two some privacy as they caught up, with the excuse that he was going to do some further scouting of the Limbo dimension. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
=== Other activities === | |||
“Professor Lailoken” was active at the [[Neptunian Orbital University]] in [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|one universe]], posing as an ordinary human scholar. He acted as something of a mentor to [[Laura Drake#At the Neptunian Orbital University|Laura Drake]], discreetly encouraging her to make use of discarded university lab equipment for her own experiments. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Extradimensional Experiments (short story)|Extradimensional Experiments]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Glendalf is a transparent parody of {{w|Gandalf|Gandalf}}, the wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Hobbit'' and ''Lord of the Rings''; the setup of him appearing at the protagonist's door with a number of representatives of a nonhuman species mirrors the opening scene of ''The Hobbit'', where Gandalf arrives at Bilbo Baggins's door with a troop of [[Dwarf|Dwarves]]. | Glendalf is a transparent parody of {{w|Gandalf|Gandalf}}, the wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Hobbit'' and ''Lord of the Rings''; the setup of him appearing at the protagonist's door with a number of representatives of a nonhuman species mirrors the opening scene of ''The Hobbit'', where Gandalf arrives at Bilbo Baggins's door with a troop of [[Dwarf|Dwarves]]. | ||
{{Jenny Everywhere recurring cast}} | |||
[[Category:Individuals]] | [[Category:Individuals]] | ||
[[Category:Males]] | [[Category:Males]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Abstracts]] | ||
[[Category:Immortals]] | |||
[[Category:Companions of Jenny Everywhere]] | [[Category:Companions of Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
[[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | [[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | ||
