just followed you to your page after reblogging the rol post and three posts down i read that you compared nightingale to obi-wan in the tags and i literally SCREAMED a second time. yes. absolutely. YES. (obi-wan is one of my all-time fav blorbos next to nightingale)
Hello!!
Yeah, Obi-Wan has been The blorbo to me for 20 years, he's the standard by which all others are judged, and Nightingale was far from found wanting. Like, lonely remnant of a magical tradition that was destroyed by a war? Ridiculous posh accent and formal manners but absolutely brutally efficient in a fight? Dead friend trauma and apprentice drama and a character who's defined by his platonic relationships and A Sense of Duty? I am All Over that shit, those tropes are my own personal catnip, it's great. You clearly have excellent taste in blorbos :D
They've ended up inextricably linked in my brain ever since I started the audio book for Amongst Our Weapons while I was also rewatching the Obi-Wan show and the first thing I noticed was the remarkable accent similarities between Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's Nightingale voice and Ewan McGregor doing his best Alec Guiness. I've been laughing about that one ever since, Of Course the latest blorbo I've gotten obsessed with sounds like The Original.
Also, bonus, I like to make up OCs/DnD characters by bouncing similar folks off of each other and I've been having a lot of fun with sad wizard tropes from both of them. Here's the design I've got so far (still deciding on a name), since it seems like something you'd appreciate:
