Welcome back to Express Yourself! This bloghop was created by Jackie @ Bouquet of Books and Dani @ Entertaining Interests to get to know us all a little better.
This week they would like us to name a secondary character who you think deserves their own series/stand-alone (now you see what I did up there).
Everyone loves a good trickster. Neil Gaiman gave Anansi's son(s) a stand-alone novel after American Gods, and it was quite a treat. If I remember correctly, Hermes was a bit of a trickster, stealing Apollo's sheep just after birth (edit: It was Eros. Thanks, Dolorah!).
This season I finished N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, which basically changed my life. She actually allowed her trickster, Sieh, to have his own book in this trilogy, rounding out the series. I won't give away the ending, but it was everything, and fairly trickster-like.
Jemisin, however, also created a novella: The Awakened Kingdom, which continues the trilogy. The main character Shill and her friend Eino. It was just a novella, but I want a series, darn it! Shill was just so cute, being the first godling born in thousands of years. The heart of a child and power of a god...Can you imagine!
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I've enjoyed seeing so many of the superheroes get their own movie, although we're still waiting on Black Widow.
I'd likely choose the demi-god Cupid/Eros. Such a trickster her could be, but totally subject to the whims of his mother Venus.
It was Cupid! He was the trickster. (DUH! He kept saying, "But I'm just a baby." lol)
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