#30daytemchallenge

5. A character you hate

For a while I thought "you know, i don't actually hate anyone I think" but then, then I remembered Ning. Lung Tien Ning is, in my humble opinion, the most irritating character in the whole series. Thank god she's only in one book. I think what sets her apart from other characters I really don't like is how she waits to see who will win before picking sides. That must be it because a lot of things that are frustrating about her and also present in Iskierka but at least Iski picks a goddamn side.

Yeah, I really dislike Yongxing, I love to hate Rankin, but man, Ning gets to me on a whole new level.

19. Least favourite scene in the series

Oh this is hard, one scene I can think of of the bad is in book 5 when all the French dragons are being shot down. That scene was very sad and hurt my heart a little. So, I don't know if it counts as "least favorite" but it definitely sprang to mind for a scene that I don't love.

20. Your favourite Dragon breed

11. Something you would change in the series

Granby👏and👏Little👏kiss👏on👏screen👏

Also, I'd personally like to see Iskierka even more unhinged

16. Your favourite headcanon

oh boy now that's opening Pandora's Box isn't it? I have many many headcanons, all of which are beholden to my petty desires and flashes of fancy. Which is to say what is my favorite headcanon today may not be my favorite tomorrow. I think one I am particularly enjoying at the moment is that Regal Coppers lose their vibrant colors with age, while across the channel their counterparts the Grand Chevaliers shift from brown and grey to dusty pink and rose gold in their twilight years. Some Grand Chevaliers will even gain tints of lavender, lilac, or baby blue to their scales. So basically when the magnificent colors of a Regal begin to fade, the radiance of the Grand Chevalier is only just making itself seen.

27. What do you tell your friends when recommending Temeraire books to them?

Temeraire Tenzing Tharkay

15. Your favourite moment in Victory of Eagles

12. Your favourite moment in Empire of Ivory

Temeraire doubting that Lily & Dulcia could come up with a plan to rescue their crews and Lily & Dulcia rescuing their crews combined.

13. Favourite male dragon character

10. Favourite male human character

Tenzing Tharkay. Sometimes I wonder why I still read the books he doesn’t appear in.

11. Something you would change in the series

8. Your OTP

I don’t have one. There is only one place for an OTP in my heart and that is already eternally assigned. I do ship a lot of them, though. Laurence/Jane, Granby/Little, Laurence/Tharkay(/Granby)... whatever the canon/fandom comes up with.

9. Your favourite moment in Black Powder War

Yes, I know, I’m a little bit behind the schedule, so I’ll do two every day for some days to catch up. I have an excuse, too: I couldn’t think of a favourite scene for ToJ...

6. Your favourite moment in Throne of Jade

... because it’s my least favourite book in the series. The voyage to China takes FOREVER, and what happens in China... well, too much talking, not enough action/fun.

So my favourite scene is the Great Shopping Adventure, closely followed by the Hun-Hun attack.

7. If you were in Temeraire universe, you would be…

Perscitia’s Captain! Like her I rather watch fights from a safe distance. Unlike her I’m not a math genius, so I’d spend all my time admiring her ability for algebra and her casual cleverness and forcing other people to acknowledge her intelligence.

5. A character you hate

At the current point of the series there isn’t really a character I hate. Rankin’s just not worth the effort and I can at least understand Lien’s feelings.

But until Crucible of Gold there is Iskierka.

I was SO EXCITED about the Kazilik egg and then she hatched and immediately turned out to be a danger to everyone around her. Granby is one of my favourite characters and I wanted him to get a nice dragon. Instead he got a dragon who:

was thankfully mostly asleep throughout much of her out-of-shell time in BPW but nevertheless managed to be annoying (like almost burning others or the “This is my cow”-incident)

forced her captain to wear the most ridiculous outfits in EoI

disobeyed orders in battle whereby other dragons got wounded, also got herself AND her captain captured because she wanted to earn more glory and prize money (VoE)

shipped herself to Australia to get an egg from Temeraire, but continued to bother and insult him (ToS)