On Friday 13, I went from ‘I’d like to interview a couple of authors’ to ‘OMG I’M INTERVIEWING WILL KOSTAKIS TONIGHT!!!’
I like to close each interview with a silly question, which has tended towards ‘Who would win, X or Y?’ with X and Y being characters from different stories. Because of the controversy about Will coming out as gay on his blog, I decided to choose two queer characters in his honor.
In the way of these things, with too little time to prepare my mind was a blank, so I asked teh interwebs.
@DarkMatterzine Clarke from the 100
— Agent Loopdilou (@LoopdiLou) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine And Nomi from Sense8 — Agent Loopdilou (@LoopdiLou) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Willow. Captain Jack. Dumbledore. They are obvious and yet also more less the only ones I can come up with.
— James Hutson (@jameshutson) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Hulkling and Wiccan from Young Avengers. — Michael Healy (@MichaelHealy18) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine The police captain in Flash 🙂 And the tech guy in Arrow!!
— Agent Loopdilou (@LoopdiLou) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine austin & robbie grasshopper jungle — Bren MacDibble (@MacDibble) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Lord Juster!
— glenda larke (@glendalarke) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Bisexual swashbuckling buccaneer, from The Forsaken Lands trilogy … — glenda larke (@glendalarke) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Ringil from Richard Morgan’s series, A Land Fit For Heroes.
— AlanBaxter (@AlanBaxter) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine @AlanBaxter Another main character, Arceth, from that series is also queer. But they are very dark books. — Michelle Goldsmith (@Vilutheril) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine And Tony from Into Everywhere by @UnlikelyWorlds.
— Michelle Goldsmith (@Vilutheril) May 13, 2016
@DarkMatterzine Dayna Jurgens from The Stand — Robert Cox (@RuncibleCat) May 13, 2016
Amelia Liew (from facebook): Korra from Avatar: Legend of Korra as well as Daja Kisubo from The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce smile emoticon
@DarkMatterzine have you got Ember from @KadiFedoruk‘s Blindsprings? Their birth assignment is never revealed (which is awesome.)
— Alys Earl (@alysdragon) May 13, 2016
At the end of the day, Will didn’t know the characters I mentioned — Lito from Sense8 and Captain Jack from Doctor Who and Torchwood — but he had the best comeback. Watch this space for Will’s interview, coming soon!
