This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: The Troll Slayer: From YKTTW
Etrangere: What's with the attack of "he"? I liked the singular "they".
Fire Walk: Death Seeker trope: now with 67% less sexism!
Etrangere: Yay!
Burai: Removed ...
- Because of the fearless ferocity this faith granted them, the Viking Raiders were feared from the riverbanks of Russia (The term 'Slavic' actually comes from the fact that the Vikings often took them as slaves) to the streets of Byzantium, where they were employed as bodyguards by the emperor.**That etymology for "Slavic" seems iffy at best.
Incidentally, the Slav/slave thing is backwards. It's the word "slave" which was (eventually) derived from the Slavs, after so many of them were enslaved during the Middle Ages. Least, that's what my Arcade dictionary of word origins said.
gisho: Does anyone think a certain spolier character from Hallowed Hunt fits here? He wasn't exactly looking for a battle, although he needed one as part of it.
Jack T Robyn I belive John Rider, the antagonist from The Hitcher, also falls into this type.
Though he doesn't really die, would Louis from Interview with the Vampire fit in, as he longed for death but didn't have the spine to do it after his brother (in the book) /wife and child (movie) and was wandering about wangstily waiting for his murderer to show up until he met Lestat.
"Death-Seekerdom doesn't actually work that well as the basis for a real-world religion (thank goodness)." While that is very true, don't many of them suggest that it is better to put yourself in harm's way rather than allow harm to come to others- in other words, better to seek your own death rather than other people's?
