#reg shoe
i reread feet of clay and got some serious Golem Feelings
#and like!! ok so angua sez the undead hate the unalive bc everyone has to feel superior to someone#but i feel like in reg’s case that’s not true?? it’s against his very Nature as a Revolutionary#if he hates or feels superior to anyone it’s gonna be upper class rich oppressors and so on#golems are the Exact Opposite of that#undead unalive not unperson u feel#so i think reg and dorfl are good buddies and dorfl gets to vent to reg about having Feelings and Autonomy#which not a lot of other watchmen really understand as well as reg?#even the undead ones bc werewolves and vampires even tho they’re scorned get Respect#zombies get glares and stares and whispers and zero respect#golems dont even get that#reg and dorfl form a No One Thinks We’re People bond
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i reread feet of clay and got some serious Golem Feelings
#and like!! ok so angua sez the undead hate the unalive bc everyone has to feel superior to someone#but i feel like in reg’s case that’s not true?? it’s against his very Nature as a Revolutionary#if he hates or feels superior to anyone it’s gonna be upper class rich oppressors and so on#golems are the Exact Opposite of that#undead unalive not unperson u feel#so i think reg and dorfl are good buddies and dorfl gets to vent to reg about having Feelings and Autonomy#which not a lot of other watchmen really understand as well as reg?#even the undead ones bc werewolves and vampires even tho they’re scorned get Respect#zombies get glares and stares and whispers and zero respect#golems dont even get that#reg and dorfl form a No One Thinks We’re People bond
your tags give me very strong feelings
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Host: so you’re all set on blankets?
Angua: we actually need extra pillows. I sleep with a pillow between my knees, and between my elbows, AND under my head AND under my feet -
Vimes: okay so, we’re gonna - we’re gonna do this now, huh?
Angua: I prescribe to the Sir Samuel Vimes sleeping method
Vimes: I need to build myself a fucking exosuit of pillows. And I’m not proud of it! I’m embarrassed about it. And it makes trips with my family a living hell.
Buggy: *cackles* a pillowy hell!
Angua: you go into a room you’re sharing with Mister Vimes there’s just none there
Reg: he’s absorbed them all
Vimes: yeah. I need them for strenght, and energy.
-how i think the roadtrip to Borogravia went in MR
“Well, at least we can agree on Truth, Freedom, and Justice, yes?”
There was a chorus of nods. Everyone wanted those. They didn’t cost anything.
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
25/5/2019 ~ Heads up high
Here’s to Reg Shoe.
Barricade boy became a zombie out of sheer revolutionary fervour and betrayal by the state. Buries himself each year in solidarity with the dead.
(My digital colouring leaves a lot to be desired for, but I learnt a lot doing this - and I’ve wanted to draw something for 25th May for a long time).
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“You’d like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn’t you, Comrade Sergeant?’ said Reg encouragingly.
‘I’d like a hard-boiled egg,’ said Vimes, shaking the match out.
There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.
‘In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher–’
‘Well, yes, we could,’ said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was.
‘But…well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
Countdown to the Glorious 25th, Day 6: Reg Shoe, well-meaning but largely ineffectual revolutionary, and future zombie.
Reg is an endearing character, and it was a lot of fun to see his origin story as a zombie in Night Watch. Tragic too, but in the great Terry Pratchett tradition of being funny and tragic all at once. I’ve actually drawn Reg before, back in Inktober 2019 when I was drawing members of the Watch, and it was fun to reverse engineer that character design from a zombie back into a living person.
(Also yes, I am just drawing him as a send-up of Enjolras from Les Miserables, that’s pretty much his whole deal in Night Watch and I wasn’t going to pass that up.)
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“You’re staring at Mister Vimes, Reg.”
“Am I?” Reg asks, eyes fixed on Vimes’ back as he speaks to some new recruits.
“Yes Reg,” Nobby says. “You’re staring, Reg. Why’re you staring?”
“He… just reminds me of someone, sometimes. The Commander.”
***
He’s twenty-five and he’s standing on top of the barricades, flag in his hands and pure defiance in his voice.
He’s twenty-five and he should be dead, is dying, blood gushing from more wounds than he can count but he’s still crawling forwards, still fighting, propelled by nothing but willpower and conviction because he will. Not. Give. Up.
He’s twenty-five – but is he, still? – and fresh air washes over his face, not quite ridding him of the taste of mud and dirt still filling his mouth.
