us Aussies even made a movie about what a douchebag he was.
No, I meant SINTARA, not "Sinatra". That was not a typo xD
Sintara is a female (concidentially, blue) dragon of The Rain Wild Chronicles of Robin Hobb. Sintara is... a pretty unbearable character. She is a deformed dragon (like most of the dragons in this saga) who has to rely on humans to survive, because she cannot fly and so she cannot hunt, and so has an assigned "dragon keeper", Thymara, that abandoned her life and her family to come and help her in her travel toward an ancient abandoned city that the dragons remember in their memories, but don't even know if it still even exists. It's basically a suicide mission and the only reason why the government allows it is to get rid of the dragons, because they cannot sustain them anymore (there are almost twenty large dragons, all deformed and that cannot hunt on their own). So, the government finds a number of people willing to go and... basically likely DIE to help these deformed dragons find this city that may be only ruins or may even exist no more. And despite it all Sintara is SO ungrateful. She is vain, arrogant, entitled, she believes to be the queen of the world and treats her keeper Thymara like a slave and never shows an inch of gratitude. Like, in Sintara's mind it is a concession and a magnanimity that she allows Thymara to serve her. She even refuses to tell Thymara her name, saying that Thymara is not worthy this "honor". She is the only dragon to refuse to give her name to her keeper. She keeps think back to the days when the dragons lived in that city and had human servants and instead of making an effort she just complains and bitches around. ...Once she almost kills her keeper by mistake and instead of recognizing her mistake she gets pissed because the emotional pain of the girl annoys her. And she is like "Stop crying. You are embarassing me". Such a majestic creature, eh? I swear... At moments you want to jump in the book and slap that fucking reptile. But the great thing is that EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER knows how bitchy and unberable Sintara is. The only way Sintara can keep people with her is by using her magic on their minds, even at moments even that fail, because at the end of the first book the wisest of these deformed dragons - coincidentially a golden male called Mercor - does step in busts all her plans. "You cannot always have it your way Sintara. I know what you own to your human, and so I'll force you to do so". ...And by reflex even Sintara gets less unberable. Because from her pov you can see what an unsatisfied creature she is, and by the pov of the other characters you see how much the others despise her, and how much she hurts them, especially her keeper. I did not finish the whole saga (it was not translated in Italian and now I need to find the books in English but I never got the time), but I keep caring about Sintara and I keep hoping that she did obtain a sort of redemption in the last books. Sintara is HORRIBLE, but I keep liking her way more than I ever liked Saphira. And if Saphira was a Sintara with a personal growth she would be just perfect... but nooo, let's pretend the bitchy blue reptilian bully is actually a lovable character. Bah.
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Date: 2020-04-23 02:11 pm (UTC)No, I meant SINTARA, not "Sinatra". That was not a typo xD
Sintara is a female (concidentially, blue) dragon of The Rain Wild Chronicles of Robin Hobb.
Sintara is... a pretty unbearable character. She is a deformed dragon (like most of the dragons in this saga) who has to rely on humans to survive, because she cannot fly and so she cannot hunt, and so has an assigned "dragon keeper", Thymara, that abandoned her life and her family to come and help her in her travel toward an ancient abandoned city that the dragons remember in their memories, but don't even know if it still even exists. It's basically a suicide mission and the only reason why the government allows it is to get rid of the dragons, because they cannot sustain them anymore (there are almost twenty large dragons, all deformed and that cannot hunt on their own).
So, the government finds a number of people willing to go and... basically likely DIE to help these deformed dragons find this city that may be only ruins or may even exist no more.
And despite it all Sintara is SO ungrateful. She is vain, arrogant, entitled, she believes to be the queen of the world and treats her keeper Thymara like a slave and never shows an inch of gratitude. Like, in Sintara's mind it is a concession and a magnanimity that she allows Thymara to serve her. She even refuses to tell Thymara her name, saying that Thymara is not worthy this "honor". She is the only dragon to refuse to give her name to her keeper.
She keeps think back to the days when the dragons lived in that city and had human servants and instead of making an effort she just complains and bitches around.
...Once she almost kills her keeper by mistake and instead of recognizing her mistake she gets pissed because the emotional pain of the girl annoys her. And she is like "Stop crying. You are embarassing me". Such a majestic creature, eh?
I swear... At moments you want to jump in the book and slap that fucking reptile.
But the great thing is that EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER knows how bitchy and unberable Sintara is. The only way Sintara can keep people with her is by using her magic on their minds, even at moments even that fail, because at the end of the first book the wisest of these deformed dragons - coincidentially a golden male called Mercor - does step in busts all her plans. "You cannot always have it your way Sintara. I know what you own to your human, and so I'll force you to do so".
...And by reflex even Sintara gets less unberable. Because from her pov you can see what an unsatisfied creature she is, and by the pov of the other characters you see how much the others despise her, and how much she hurts them, especially her keeper.
I did not finish the whole saga (it was not translated in Italian and now I need to find the books in English but I never got the time), but I keep caring about Sintara and I keep hoping that she did obtain a sort of redemption in the last books. Sintara is HORRIBLE, but I keep liking her way more than I ever liked Saphira. And if Saphira was a Sintara with a personal growth she would be just perfect... but nooo, let's pretend the bitchy blue reptilian bully is actually a lovable character. Bah.